IWE Wrote:
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> And the downhill starts already?!
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> Formula One 2010 title for the PC, Xbox 306 and
> Playstation 3 will not contain:
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> - Laser Scanned Track Data
> - Safety Car
> - Formation Lap
> - A Feeder Series
> - Split Screen
Don't you think at this stage you're being a tad unfair?
Safety car - Grand Prix 1, 2, 3 + 4 managed just fine without one, I admit it would be nice but it's not a game-ruining problem by any stretch of the imagination.
Formation lap - who actually wants one? again, Grand Prix 4 never had one, and rFactor's is just a pain in the arse. Most people press space to skip.
A feeder series - sorry, I read it as "FORMULA ONE 2010", "FIA Motorsport career 2010". To even expect one is folly. It's things like this - concentrating on including too many features - which causes decent games to be ruined.
A split screen? Who actually wants to play split screen?? It's impossible to drive properly as everything is suddenly half size, and the FPS suffers from having to draw everything twice. This is Internet and Xbox Live era now, split screen is pretty much a defunct spectacle.
All we want is a decent, realistic semi-sim (we're not getting a sim) which has a good weather system (we're getting dry lines and conditions which are "undrivable" on the wrong tyres), a realistic physics and damage model (which they CLAIM they're giving us) and awesome graphics, which Codemasters are quite capable of giving us. The visuals on Dirt 2 were immense. OK, so it's not going to suit us as much as Geoff Crammond managed to do game after game, but in this day and age where money and revenue is everything and where we haven't had a decent F1 game for over a decade, you just have to take what you can get and work from there.
Word.