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Over a single lap on the Monza circuit the game assigns you with a recommended difficulty setting, which you can change later should you desire. F1 2014 adds an evaluation test that kicks off when you first start the game. Newbies will at least have an easier time. Any changes to the way cars handle from F1 2013 are so subtle that those who mastered that game won't find anything to really challenge them here. The game still lacks a damage model of any note, which is especially disappointing considering what games like Project Cars and GRID Autosport are doing these days. It's just not that much of a leap forward from last year. Still, despite that initial learning curve and even with driving assists turned off, using the top-end cars can be fairly easy once you get a handle on their new eccentricities, for a greater challenge it's probably advisable to use the more erratic, lower-end cars.ДЇ1 2014 isn't generally a spectacular game to look at, but the weather effects are top notchДriving is responsive and fun, as close as anyone's ever got to portraying the power and speed of F1 racing.

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It takes a couple of races before you learn how to handle the new engines. There's more raw power out of the corners here, which can easily lead to over-compensating and spinning out your back wheels.

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F1 2014 wants to get you on the track as soon as possible, because that's where the game feels most at home.Д«ig hitters like the Mercedes and Ferrari stick close to the track, screeching with the power of their new turbo engines as you pull out of a tight corner, challenging those using manual gear changes to listen for just the right register to slip up a gear and roar into the lead. That said, if all you want is to get down to the racing you'll probably welcome the functional simplicity of it all.

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You get emails from your team and the company owners congratulating you on certain landmarks and so on, but I couldn't help thinking that Codemasters could have brought your driver into things a bit more, maybe adding some Football Manager-style media interactions or even just a few extra cutscenes. It's fun, and the ability to exit races mid-way while saving your progress is hugely welcome during those lengthy Grand Prix contests, but it still lacks both personality and player engagement. Choose your driver, pick your team and then get beaten by Lewis Hamilton every single time. Actually, there's even less to see than there was last year, but we'll get onto that in a bit.ДЄll the latest changes from the current F1 season are present and correctД¬areer mode chugs along largely unchanged, pretty much an exact copy of the previous four seasons. Cycling through the options, you're again met with a very familiar list. The feeling of 'been here seen that' starts as soon as you boot up, only to be presented with menus taken directly from last year's entry. Step off the track, however, and an uninspired feature list combines with lacklustre presentation to make F1 2014 feel like it's treading water, a stopgap for Codemasters as they concentrate on the next generation of hardware. On the tarmac the game does a solid job, refining the excellent work the studio has done to make players feel like they're really at the wheel of an F1 beast.

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F1 2014 is the culmination of Codemasters' impressive few years with the Formula One license, and the last game in the series to be developed with the previous console generation in mind.

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