

The only difference of note is the fact that the normal career (role-playing a custom driver) mode is more bloated than a lactose intolerant man at a milk convention.

There is a normal career mode that lets you role play a custom made driver like last year, a pro career mode with every difficulty level in the game set to extreme, and a championship season mode that forces you to take on the role of a real F1 driver instead of making your own avatar.īeyond those differences the three career modes are so similar that I wonder why they bothered to separate them. Fans of the couch based split-screen will likely remain pissed off since it is still not in the game, but they may enjoy one of the three career modes. In terms of game modes there hasn’t been much change. Being aggressive often results in a front wing that slowly deteriorates or tires that hang from broken suspension arms. When you do screw up, the damage animations of these cars are also very impressive. They’ll also fight back if you’re messing around or get out of line. You can push the F1 cars harder than ever before and they can stick to the corners as only a drivable jet could. It’s hard to come up with a word that properly explains why they’re so great since we’re dealing with a feeling here, but I would say that “harder” would be the best word.

The cars, which to be honest have always felt pretty good, feel even better this year due to the updated physics. The real change, and what makes F1 2016 so amazing, is the attention to detail that was given to the game’s physics and the track/car modelling. These changes might seem cool, and usually are, but their effect on the overall game is minimal.

These videos pop up smartly when a specific situation (usually the one the video explains) happens during gameplay. They’ve also added tutorial videos during the career mode to instruct new players on the different functions of the car or game. What has been added in F1 2016 are things like a manual start to each race, the addition of the formation lap (which the game makes optional and I rarely saw used) and the online Multiplayer Championship mode that lets 22 players compete against each other over the course of a season.
