Now it’s all one menu screen and looks much more uninspired. Also now missing is the trailer used for menus, where you would check computer for emails or look at the calendar on the wall to see what races are coming up. It wasn’t the most in-depth feature but it had potential to be something great, especially since a driver’s relationship with the media is an important part of Formula 1 in this day and age. The Career mode no longer has the press conferences after qualifying and the races. Codemasters has seemingly focused on other areas and let this mode become more barebones than before. The Career mode itself is a disappointment. Getting just a couple of bronze medals lets you drive the moving traffic cone known as the Marussia but getting mostly gold lets you be Kimi ‘leave me alone I know what I’m doing’ Raikkonen’s teammate at Lotus. Earning medals in The Young Driver Test gives you offers for teams. Each test rewards a medal based on your performance, with the best times netting the player a gold medal, which is a step closer to driving for a team in Career mode. This test is basically a series of challenges that gets you used to the basic mechanics of an F1 car, from simple acceleration and braking to the use of the KERS and DRS systems. Like last year’s game, F1 2013 starts with The Young Driver Test at the Yas Marina track in Abu Dhabi. It wouldn’t be the official game if it didn’t.
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It features all of the cars, drivers and tracks from this year’s series. Does F1 2013 do enough to take the series forward?į1 2013 is the latest entry in Codemasters’ line of games based on the world of Formula 1. Like FIFA and Madden before it, Codemasters’ F1 series has also faced this negative commentary since they got the license in 2009. It’s hard to make massive tweaks when the sport itself doesn’t change. Yearly sports games always face criticism for not changing enough.