April 24th, 2009

Best F1 Game

Over a decade ago, I thought Accolade's Grand Prix was the best F1 game in the whole world, and there won't ever be something better. Fortunately, things started moving pretty fast in a few years, and now most young gamers who would see the racing games available in early 1990s won't be able to understand how could ever anyone enjoy such a junk. Gold today, junk in a few years...that's how the gaming industry seems to move, but the spot for best F1 game remains free, especially since I didn't see any serious Formula 1 sim lately.

If I am wrong and there's some awesome F1 game that I've missed recently, be sure to drop a comment and let me know about it! PC games only, please, thank you, let's move on, shall we?

The story is that Codemasters, the company behind so many great racing games, like the Colin McRae franchise, Race Driver: Grid or the notorious TOCA Touring Car series, is going to hit us one more time. No, they won't have Britney Spears featured in any game, at least as far as I can tell you, but they're going to try and fill the best F1 game position, throwing two games in the battle.

The two games were officially announced by Codemasters, and we know that the first one will be out later this year for the PSP and Wii, with the second coming in 2010 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. While the 2010 F1 game will be using the Grid engine, the 2009 one is more of a mystery, for now.

While Race Driver: Grid was (and still is) a great game, I am sure that Codemasters can come up with something better. To me, there's a pretty big gap in the PC gaming market left by Need for Speed's latest epic failures...