F1 2001 IS VERY DISSAPOINTING (F1 2001 (PS))

Member Name: jamespugh

Product:	F1 2001 (PS)
Date:	04/01/02 (94 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Fair grahics

Disadvantages: Poor sound, Bugs

This could have been the best F1 game ever, but it got scared of GT3 on the PS2 and went running...


There has been a vast array of formula one games already on the PS2, this game being tipped to be the best of the crop (Didn’t have much to go up against anyway)

Many who review game on this site just seem to state what the game is and it’s features. That’s not what I am giving you, this is my pure, raw experience of the games, it’s MY opinion.

Yes the game is the best of the bunch and bought it the day of it’s launch, but it’s far from perfect, it just doesn’t seem polished.

I have both many good points and many bad points to put across, a pity that there are these bad points, because I would have declared it the best F1 game of all time, but the ‘Sheen’ has been scratched off.

The graphics are fair in comparison to how old the PS1 actually is now, its actually the best looking PS1 F1 game.

***GOOD POINTS***

It has the official licence, all the teams, tracks and drivers.

It has, unusually the current seasons teams and drivers, meaning that it’s bang up to date.

The Graphics are good (What you would expect from a PS1 game), there is a little pop up, cars and tracks look realistic enough.


It has differing weather effects, sun, cloud, rain etc. that do change during the race.

The handling of the F1 cars is spot on; they all seem perfects and all turn/ brake/accelerate realistically.

There is damage and crashes happen realistically

This is a good or even a bad point, this game has commentary by Martin Brundle and Murry Walker, this game has these two exclusively to commentate.

***BAD POINTS***

Weather very rarely changes and when it does you can change the tyres anyway.

Other cars don’t seem to pit stop unless they are damaged they just run
on thin air.

Once you have damaged your car it’s game over, there is no limping back to the pits.

There are no tyre punctures, like it states on the back of the box.

These are no way of making the race a relative amount. Meaning that, as in other F1 games the race can be scaled down to, for example 20% and the tyres and fuel would ware accordingly. There is no such function, just a race shorter in which your tyres don’t wear and you fuel doesn’t wear out, so what the point of the pits then?

There are no failures, again as it states on the back of the box and there is even an option to turn failures off and on.

The game does have commentary but I have to say that it’s the worst on any F1 sim. The race is often silent, until the PS1 goes “Swish, Swoosh, Swish” and Murry says, “And Irvine” (High, excited tone) “leaves the pits (low, bored tone).

The sound on the intro is very disappointingly poor, it's very muffled.

***CONCLUSION***

This game in my view was a bit of a disappointment. I say this with a view of the brilliance that it could have been, but it's just too full of bugs.

This game doesn't seem finished, and that’s a real pity

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