While it’s not unexpected to see some similarity to last year’s game, there’s such a feeling of familiarity here that it’s often hard to work out which title you’re actually playing.įrom menu design, to animations, to textures – it’s all from last year’s version, right down to the Career mode which still includes the same generic e-mails from your team’s boss. With F1 2015 promised to be an early-season release with dynamic updates, its little surprise that development focus has shifted away from this year’s entry. The cynic among you will already be pointing to the much-touted next-gen debut as the reason for this lack of change, and you would almost certainly be right. Sadly, outside of some fundamental tweaks, this is, in essence, F1 2013 plus a roster update – which itself was only a minor revision of F1 2012. So, with such titanic changes in the sport, it stands to reason that F1 2014 should also have undergone an overhaul to mirror this real-life upheaval. For Formula 1, the answer has been the biggest shake-up in a generation, with new power units, new rules, and new drivers spicing up the action both on and off the track. It’s true of not only sports games, but the sports themselves – after all, no one wants to invest time into something that stays the same every year. One of the hardest things to achieve in a yearly franchise is a hook to keep people coming back.

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