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Formula One… the supreme racing class. Many great drivers now and in the past battled it out in Formula One and became legends. Now you can try to become a F1-legend yourself, because here is F1 GP Circuits from Idea Software!
F1 GP Circuits is a top-view racer, which means that the action is viewed from above. The game contains the F1 teams from the beginning of the nineties, but because Idea Soft probably didn’t have the money to buy the Formula One rights, they were forced into making up their own team-names, which are pretty close to the names of the real world teams (mostly one letter was changed). There are four teams who desperately want you in their team, and they are Mc Loren, Ferreri, William and Leyhouse (I wonder which teams they are based on…). After you made a choice it’s time to show what you’re made off. There are nine tracks to race on and each race starts with a qualifying lap, which determines your starting position, and a race consisting of five laps. Your new employer is pretty hard, because he forces you to finish the race in tenth position or higher or else you can look out for another job!
The graphics in F1 GP Circuits are awful, and that’s an understatement! The menu’s are very crappy and the in-game graphics are ghastly! The cars are very simple and the tracks are everything but detailed and although the map shows a track with bends, hairpins and chicanes, the track you will be racing on is just a straight line with some minor bends, which can be driven at full speed at all times!
The sound effects in the game are also very bad with one of the worst engine sounds I’ve ever heard in a racing game. A funny thing is that the engine sounds like it keeps accelerating, but when you look at your speedometer you see that you are on maximum speed already. The crash-sounds are also pathetic, giving you the impression that your entire car is falling apart whenever you hit something.
There’s nothing in this game in the playability department. As I said before, every track is just one straight line and the only steering you have to perform is when you try to evade other cars. And that’s very difficult, because the computer drivers seem to have one goal and that’s to KILL you! Whichever way you want to pass them, they will steer towards you, trying to hit you, so the only way to pass them is to go through them! It’s almost impossible to overtake without hitting a car!
So after one or two laps your car is in need of some surgery and it’s time for a pitstop. This is done in “Pitstop 2”-fashion, for the ones that remember this great classic game. However in F1 GP Circuits this is designed in such a crappy way that it’s a matter of hitting the parts you want to repair and when that’s done you have to click on them again before you can continue the race!
After five laps of racing you’ll shake your head in dismal and you are glad when you finished outside the top 10 to get kicked out of the team, if you have the patience to finish the race at all…
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The graphics in F1 GP Circuits must be close to the worst I’ve seen in any racing-game! They are ghastly designed and lack any form of detail whatsoever.
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The intro-tune sets the mood pretty well, sound-wise. It’s crap, just like the in-game sounds.
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Tracks consist of one straight line with minor bends to left and right, computer cars are homicidal and pitstops are disastrously designed! You just go full speed all the way trying to hit the computer cars as little as possible. That’s the whole game!
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| There are very few racing games which are worse than this awful peace of software. It was a crime to rob people of their money back in the days when this got released and it should be avoided by everyone, period! |
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