Singapore's night race is as novel and dynamic as the real thing, while Abu Dhabi's preposterous Yas Marina is a true marvel. Other staples such as Monza, Spa and Silverstone also impress, but it's some of the newer circuits where F1 2010 gets to flex its visual muscle.
Monaco's a genre benchmark that F1 2010 rises to confidently, and it's as good to look at as it is fun to drive, with the framerate only dipping when all 24 cars are jostling on the same stretch of tarmac.įrom Singapore to Silverstone, the tracks have been brilliantly realised. Rendering the often lifeless autodromes of the F1 circus can be a thankless task, but there's precision and personality in the depiction of all 19 tracks – and some of the season's idiosyncratic events have been captured handsomely. It's a shame, though, that they're not subject to the superlative damage model of Codemasters' other games hasn't made the jump, as a 180mph encounter with a concrete wall never amounts in anything more than a wheel shearing off and a lost nose cone. The cars are, as they well should be, objects to be lusted after, and all 12 models are brilliant facsimiles of the real thing. What F1 2010 has inherited from its racing stable-mates is some startling visuals courtesy of the EGO engine. Tracks must be studied in detail, and quite often there's a lot to learn too – it's not just about the angle and camber of each corner, it's also about that violent bump that awaits at the exit, that run-off area that rapidly encroaches the track or that kerb that can be flat-lined to skim another few precious tenths off a lap-time. It's an exacting art, then, and not something that's in-tune with the quick fix sensibilities of some other racers. For those first few laps there'll be more trips to the gravel trap than Kamui Kobayashi manages in the course of a season, and the flashback feature is likely to be leant on often. Going wheel to wheel is fun and fair in F1 2010. Driving these things is every bit as joyous as it should be, and the cars manage to nail the perfect blend of being predictable yet terrifying bulls-eying apexes is an easy enough exercise thanks to the pounds of downforce generated by the car's wings, but braking and acceleration can prove delightfully skittish as they threaten to spear themselves into the nearest wall – and any worries that the arcade bent of DiRT and GRID would make its way to F1 2010 are extinguished in one run. Codemasters' F1 2010 fills a yearning chasm, and it jumps its first hurdle brilliantly this is as visceral a take on the art of threading 600bhp through less than half a tonnes' worth of steel, carbon fibre and rubber as a console's ever seen.
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