F1 Race Stars English Review

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Driving school in Finland has a mandatory test drifting. And When you go at -30 degrees Celsius with 100km per hour, one hand on the wheel, the other on the phone and the road is covered with a white layer Could Be That snow, but it's actually ice, you understand the why. And this WAS the real time, with Some driver in a little town beyond the Polar Circle 300km, so it's NO NEED to ask Kimi Raikkonen has politica Why or Why Mika Hakkinen good results did too. No, I was never a fan of Schumacher, so I had the chance for a virtual revenge with F1 Race Stars Some rockets.

But do not get fooled for a new sim, Even if all the big names from the 2012 F1 race has. Sebastian Vettel, Jason Button, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen or Mark Webber is present, but Reduced to cartoony version was in karts and Their world has nothing to do with the actual rules, physics or fair play.

 

 

Codemasters decided is better to fight on the field arcade with "the likes" of Mario Kart, Sonic LittleBigPlanet Karting town, but besides the start, F1 Race Stars really does not glitter.

The 12 courses include important names (Monaco, Monza, Great Britain, Abu Dhabi etc.), similar to the real ones Partially (especially The Impossible hair pins on the Monaco Hills), but Also with crazy differences - rails, planes, rollercoasters, medieval palaces, temples Brasilian jungle with sumo wrestlers or Japanese.

Even if it's not a bad idea to ride along the Autobahn or do normal traffic impossible jumps over the abyss, once you Went through each track, There's not much left to discover. There's little variation brought` by the Mirror Mode, where are the courses is sideways and You might occasionally miss a turn, but the challenge (or the annoyance) Comes from the power ups and the AI ​​behavior.

 

 

Rockets rain and soda discharge

With so many famous names on the track and the only rule being to win, you get the advantage Needed Something to on your lane. Each driver has a special virtual Ability to rest and you Might Want at Least 5 or 6 to choose your favorite.

You get 24 stars plus invented two teams - the female drivers Chekker Jessica Sandie Power Ruby, plus the mixed couple Formed by Josh Merit and Kira Hoshihara. Not much else besides There's braking at the right time and right at throwing a baloon trap your opponents ass.

 

 

The most common traps Baloons has the colored (red or yellow) That catch you and stop your Advancement, thus Causing a loss of important seconds. Depending on your love in the race you CAN get other different Powers - the safety car to slow everybody else and lets you covers Some distance, speed boosts, transforming into a crazy soda bottle to drive past everybody or Even teleport That CAN win you the race if Used at the right time.

Some tracks, like the one Great Britain, Will racers all have rain and move slower, but the personal cloud There is to race your opponent with balloons or confetti on your screen That throw to break visibility. Other tracks include obstacles (other cars, tractors, sumo wrestlers, and swamp grass, sand or leaves, Any type of surface outside the marked track Will turn you into a snail.

Any obstacle or enemy year hit from your car breaks Means a little, so Will SOONER or later you have to go into the pit to repair. Will You lose a position or two When going through or Even Get That area used like Because the adversary in front of you, Even if outside the normal course, WAS Considered a winner. Some other times I lost the bonus, other times I did not, so There's no apparent cause of the problem here.

IF you feel like it, the tracks include special keys to unlock shortcuts and secrets, but There's not much to win here. The shortcuts you mostly lose time and positions, but at Least There's one thing Useful: Crowded you avoid the AI ​​usually turns WHERE ITS unleashes power ups.

 

 

Blow it up!

Since it's not sim game, F1 Race Stars tries to ensnare the players through the AI ​​activity, at Least in the Carrier mode. You barely enter the game and you get hit by a balloon, THEN torn to pieces, THEN everyone else passes you aided by dubious bonuses. From this point of view to exaggerate with the AI ​​tensions arose in Crowded Areas THESE abilities, so Sometimes you Just Can not run or avoid the unwanted Some lightning or hit.

The game has more types of races, from normal ones to variations like Elimination (never get last), refuel (pick fuel from the track, but in good measure - too much slows you down, no fuel leaves you like a clown in the road ), Slalom (pass through different colored gates, the more points if you go through the same colored ones) or District Snatch (the best times for the Un certain part of the track).

 

 

No matter the type of race, the ultimate goal is to win. Using various power ups and Will Since earn points Every race has more events, the total Might put you in the first love, Even if you did not win all the events. There's Also For the KERS turns Used to profit from the system Stored energy in the battery behind the car.

There's no strategy Need for much, just to activated traps at the right moment or passive ones leave behind so That Can not avoid the opponents Them. Obviously, the controller is a must to take the turns right and I did not bother with the PC peripherals Even for too long.

 

 

Online revenge

Carrier besides trophies, F1 Race Stars Also includes individual races, the Opportunity to Improve your time for all tracks and online multiplayer year to enter the race with humans, not only the AI. You CAN choose three other friends and the team effort against the aggressive AI is good.

The online races go up to 12 players and the HIGHEST difficulty level (3000cc, as The Game states) is fun for Some laps. Still, Since FEW There is not very surprising tracks and, at the same corner you get with human players too: it's all ups and Reduced to power as many as Possible Using to get ahead.

 

 

The graphics is not of much use either. The design is fun for a while with the lively colors and the cartoony drivers, along with the athletic moves and the posing on the podium. But you soon get bored of the moves and the lines and the mocking laughter limited; you're not motivated to go on, but to put aside the controller.

The commercials have too Also Obvious (product placement), a Way to Make Money Even Before one copy has Produced a dime. Let's say Pirelli is normal in a racing game, but DHL Santander, SingTel, Qatar National Bank of Abu Dhabi or like the proverbial elephant has in the China store.

 

 

Even if the idea is nice on paper, Codemasters shouldnt've thought twice Before turning F1 into a karting game. And if The Cars Were the ideas more innovative and more out of the box, no one Would've been the WISER. Currently, F1 Race Stars is just a common game, with common tracks, Overly Aggressive AI and forced commercials.