Genre
RacingPublisher
CodemastersSteering wheel compatible
YesDeveloper
CodemastersUK Release Date
24/08/2018Our Review
The good
- A refined version of last year’s title
- Improved career mode
- Graphically superb
- Intuative handling model
The bad
- Not enough new content to set the game apart within a franchise
- A few rendering issues
- Annoying interviewer – Lee McKenzie she is not
- Same practice modes from previous years.
Summary
F1 2018 is an excellent representation of Formula One and its annual update again improves on what was before it, while accurately delivering an unsurpassed experience into a licensed series. If you already own F1 2017, it might not be an essential purchase, however despite the limited development time of an annual cycle, Codemasters continue to deliver a quality product. Future iterations may require bigger steps in terms of improvement, no doubt the critical fanbase will keep them on their toes.
Articles
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NewsA video has surfaced online (courtesy of Thirty IR) showing F1 2018 running at Ultra settings in 8K resolution and at 60 frames per second. As you can imagine you’d need a pretty beefy PC (to say the least) to run a game at such high fidelity. This has been possible using not one, but […]
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