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The Sega Dreamcast
already has two Indy racing games, Sega's
CART Flag to Flag and Ubi Soft's Monaco
Grand Prix. Both games were failures,
with bad graphics, and sound, the games
was just not fun. Well maybe Monaco Grand
Prix did, but Flag to Flag was pretty
good. CART Flag to Flag used official
CART drivers from the 1998 season,
including Alex Zanardi, Paul Tracy, Greg
Moore, and about 25 other drivers. CART
Flag to Flag also used official tracks,
and sponsors, and was more like a
simulation game. But the game didn't have
much action. If you hit another car's
tires, nothing happened. Unlike Monaco
Grand Prix, where there was tons of real
life looking crashes. The game was more
fun than CART Flag to Flag, but the
graphics weren't very good, the sound was
awful and it was hard to control the cars
in simulation mode. The game didn't use
real Formula 1 drivers, or sponsors. The
tracks were the only real thing. Both
games were overall boring.
But Video Systems
Formula 1 World Grand Prix is totally
different. It has all the F1 licensing
with the official drivers, sponsers,
teams, etc from the 1998. The game has
promised TV like replays, smooth 60
frames per second graphics, and much
more. Video System has said that F1 World
Grand Prix will be the most accurate
motor sport game ever seen on a console.
F1 World Grand Prix is
a very realistic Formula 1 simulation.
With realistic F1 car phyics, and the
realistic bumping and crashes. One of the
cool thing is the The game also has
actual terrain, for example if the car
goes over a bump, the car will loose a
bit of control. The game uses all the
real F1 rules, so you can get penalized
for hitting another car or for just
screwing around on the track. Another
cool thing is you'll have a chance to
modify the cars before the race.
Video Systems have
gone through a lot of trouble to make
this game as real as possible. They
actually watched every F1 race in the
1998, and went through weather records to
find out what type of weather it was
during a certain race. F1 World Grand
Prix will have a 6 modes to choose from:
Grand Prix, Exhibition, Challenge, Time
Trial, Single Race, and Two Player. Grand
Prix is the main mode in the racing in a
full season. Exhibiton is sort of like a
practice mode. Challenge mode allows you
to compare your race times with the
actual times of the 1998 season. Time
Trial, Single Race, and Two-Player speak
for them selves as you can notice.
F1 World Grand Prix
promises to be a very good Formula 1
simulation game. I think they could've
added some stuff like powersliding found
in Monaco GP 2 and the 1999 season
drivers and teams. But I think I'm going
to hold it of for a secret game Ubi Soft
and Video System is working on. This
secret game is set to release in Japan in
March. But I know a lot of people have
been waiting for this game after the
failure of CART Flag to Flag and Monaco
Grand Prix 2. So, its still a quality
game, and it is worth buying.
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Formula
1 World
Grand Prix
Publisher:
Sega
Developer:
Video Systems
# of players: 2
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