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There’s clearly been a lot of effort put into Braking Point and it’s always good to see developers take risks and try something different to shake up what can easily become a stale annual sports game formula. Real-world F1 influencers comment on the unfolding storyGameplay consists of short racing scenarios that challenge you to, for example, reach a target position within a set number of laps or prevent a rival from passing you, with key story beats playing out through some admittedly impressive motion-captured cutscenes. As the player, you swap between controlling Jackson and Akkerman as the story of their fractured, hostile relationship plays out over fictionalised versions of the 20 F1 seasons. The answer is the series’ first ever story mode, ‘Braking Point’ – the headline new feature that sits front and centre at the heart of this year’s game.īraking Point tells the tumultuous tale of two team mates – plucky British rookie and F2 champion Aidan Jackson and grizzled Dutch journeyman Casper Akkerman. So with all this peripheral content stripped out, what does F1 2021 offer up in its place?

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All the additional offline championships have gone too.

So too have the shorter alternative configurations of Silverstone, Suzuka, COTA and Bahrain. If you enjoyed racing the classic cars in years by, get ready to be disappointed – that’s all gone from this new game. It’s easy to sympathise with Codemasters facing a constantly changing calendar under the shadow of a pandemic – especially as constructing track models is no quick task – but releasing the official F1 game of the 2021 season with several circuits missing at launch and a promise to add them later is a rather inelegant solution which will leave may players dissatisfied.Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-freeĪnd while the sport prepares for the debut of its new Sprint Qualifying at next weekend’s British Grand Prix, you won’t find the controversial new format emulated in the game either.Īidan Jackson, one of the stars of F1 2021’s ‘Braking Point’ storyA lot of supplementary content from previous games has also been removed from this newest version. However the Albert Park circuit – as with Catalunya and Yas Marina – retains its pre-2021 layout and has not been updated to its revised format. The cancelled Chinese, Canadian, Singapore and Australian Grands Prix are included in the game. Sadly, we won’t be able to play the Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul in this year’s game, no matter whether the race itself eventually takes place this October.

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There are a few conspicuous omissions from the circuits roster Imola, Portimao and the new Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah will all be absent on release, with Codemasters working to add them through free updates later in the year.

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While F1 2021 naturally features all ten teams and 20 drivers competing in this year’s championship – as well as last year’s Formula 2 field – the game won’t be launching with all the circuits that the sport is currently scheduled to visit on this season’s ever-changing calendar.

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Absorbed by gaming behemoth EA, Codemasters’ newest F1 game is not only their first under the EA Sports banner, but the first on the newest generation of consoles.īut does F1 2021 make the move onto new hardware more skilfully than F1 2015 managed to the last time the series made a similar leap?īefore diving into what’s new about this year’s game, there are some unfortunate issues which need to be addressed. Now, Codemasters and its official F1 franchise – much like the very sport they emulate – is in a year of transition. With the introduction of MyTeam mode making F1 2020 the most content-rich title to date, the game earned the praise of players and even mainstream gaming media alike.

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