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for Sony Playstation 2& F1 2000 Review on DVD
Game Details :- Price: £39.99
- Players: 1-2
DVD Details :
- Cert:
- Cat.no: CDR 33053
- Running time: 255 minutes
- Year: 2000
- Pressing: 2001
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Chapters: infinite?
- Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: None
- Fullscreen: 4:3
- 16:9-Enhanced: No
- Macrovision: Yes
- Disc Format: DVD 9
- Price: £19.99
Formula 1 2001is not a game that requires a great deal of explanation so I’ll skip thepleasantries.
The game options are to go for a Test Drive (Practice), play a Quick Race,or a Single Race (same as “quick” but with qualifying and practice laps as anoption), World Championship, Time Attack (probably best for practicing withas the ghost car shows how well/badly you did on your best lap) and theSpectator Mode, which allows you a choice of racetrack cameras or onboard onesin respect of each contestant.
The game looks fine enough and the grind of your motor gives you the feelingof movement, but with a jagged look to the cars from time to time we’ve stillnot reached the limits of what the PS2 can do for games like this by a longchalk.
If there’s a place where the game does hit a major snag it’s in the commentary.Occasionally Murray Walker – now retired – and Martin Brundlesay things that are relevant to you, such as when you come off the track,but do it once too often and they say the same thing again and again with anincreasing lack of conviction such is the nature of repetition. Each driverand team may be named correctly, but they have only been recorded as speechthe once and the dropping of names into a conversation sounds about as naturalas Stephen Hawking’s computer.
Driving a car takes a while to get used to and I love smashing into a walland seeing the line “Car has wheel failure”. Of course it has – thebloody thing’s come off!
Coupled with the game in the rather splendorous press pack that I receivedis a DVD that’s also included within 500,000 copies of the game as well asbeing available separately for £19.99.
F1 2000 World Championship Review is a look back at all 17 of last year’sGrand Prix races around all the same tracks that are available within the game.Running for over four hours in length, it would be one thing to just stickthe footage on a disc and let people watch it from start to finish, but ColumbiaTriStar have done much more than that.
Look at the screenshot on the right. Taken from the menu to the Foster’sBritish Grand Prix, it’s just the first of many screens that breaks eachchapter down into its many components – and each chapter is incrediblybrief as it is which shows how many there are, thus making the total relativelyunquantifiable.
Each chapter has up to five user-selectable camera options. Watch the main racewith “Super”, take a roadside view with “Track”, “OBC” stands for On-BoardCamera, positioned on each car, the occasional “Pits” cam shows you the crewas they get to work on the cars that come in and a screen of “Data”, specificto the respective moment in time is also available. Quite an outstanding effort.
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