![]() That’s not to say you couldn’t make your career progression at least somewhat grounded since you could stick exclusively to road car racing for the first four tiers before jumping over to Formula Ford. Within a fifth of the World Tour mode you can hop from Clio Cup, to rallying, buggy racing, truck racing and then monster trucks before, eventually – against all logic – ending up in faux-Formula 1. So the start and end points of the World Tour mode make sense, but how you inevitably end up racing F1 cars is far from plausible. That said the most of the licensed F1 cars are ones from Williams, so the penultimate championship is a grid made up entirely of Williams FW27s from the 2005 F1 season. When you start the game your engineer Rick (above) sets the scene before introducing the Clio Cup and Global GT Lights racing series before asking you to pick which one to take part in.įrom there you climb up a total of 32 tiers, the final two taking you to what is essentially Formula 1. It definitely tried to make you feel as if you were a racing driver and give a sense of progression, but what many describe as a story can be better described as linearity with occasional cutscenes. People often point to the third game as an example yet, while it might be the best overall game of the trilogy, it has by far the weakest attempt at a story. Nevertheless EA has experience with creating stories and integrating them into both racing and sports titles, so it can definitely help Codemasters to create a more detailed plot than was seen in F1 2019’s career mode.Ĭodemasters also has previous experience of narrative orientated racing games, even before F1 2019, as shown with the TOCA Race Driver series. It’s unlikely the stories in those games were ever the main draw for consumers but they were an undeniable part of the franchise’s identity for several years. The stories in those games were often characterised by over the top personalities, cheesy dialogue and an over abundance of visual effects and filters used in the cutscenes. There have been a number of racing games that have attempted to tell a compelling story and the most notable is EA’s Need for Speed series. Ultimately all three of you go on to land a seat in F1, replacing some of the real-life drivers in the process.įrom that point on there’s no more cutscenes or direct story as it morphs into a normal career mode, albeit with occasional press clippings of quotes from Weber and Butler that are sent to you via the in-game email. He is given a five second stop-go penalty and your aim is to finish the race ahead of him.įinally there’s a five lap race in Abu Dhabi where, regardless of how well you did in the earlier scenarios, you’re tied on points with Butler and have fewer race wins which means you have to cross the line ahead of him to win the Formula 2 drivers’ championship.Īt the end of each scenario you’re given one of two cutscenes depending on whether you finished ahead of Weber/Butler or not. The second puts you behind the wheel as you leave the pits with a new front wing after your rival Devon Butler crashed into you. You took part in three scenarios, the first where you had a car issue and were told by the team to let your team mate Lukas Weber through.Īpr 08 : What we want to see from the new F1 2021 game However F1 2021 won’t be Codemasters’ first foray into telling a story in one of its racing games, most recently F1 2019’s career mode had the beginnings of a narrative with its Formula 2 introduction. In their FIFA game series there was ‘The Journey’ story that ran as a trilogy from FIFA 17 to FIFA 19 and has since been sort of replaced with the Volta story in FIFA 20 and 21 that allows you to customise your character’s appearance. To some, the emphasis on creating an original plot for F1 2021 has EA’s stamp all over it since they purchased Codemasters earlier this year. The character of Devon Butler will return having previously appeared in F1 2019’s career mode as a rival driver that followed you from Formula 2 to Formula 1.Īiden Jackson and Casper Akkerman are the other two named characters although we don’t know yet exactly what their role in the story will be. Since F1 2021’s announcement trailer we haven’t received any other details about Codemasters’ upcoming game, although what was made clear is that the ‘Braking Point’ story is one of its biggest selling points.
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