In past F1 games, your choice of teams was mostly limited to backmarkers, like Caterham and Marussia.

The biggest change comes at the very beginning, though.

You still join a team and take part in a season of practices, qualifying sessions and races at tracks across the globe, all the while battling your teammate for the number one driver position and taking part in the occasional bit of in-season research and development. For 2014, Codemasters didn't exactly reinvent the wheel.

At the heart of any F1 game is its career mode.

We snagged a copy of the recently released title – probably the last major racing game to be offered on our trusty Xbox 360 (as well as the Playstation 3 and PC) – to see how the video game interpretation of the revolutionary 2014 F1 season translated. They are, for all intents and purposes, exceptionally talented spokespeople driving very loud billboards.įrankly, the only thing related to Formula One that has less personality than its drivers is the latest installment in Codemasters' racing video game series,į1 2014. Lewis Hamilton, Daniel Riccardo and every other star of the F1 circus.

Jenson Button, for example, is about as far removed from Hunt as one could get. Hunt's antics would never, ever fly in today's world of squeaky-clean F1 drivers, though.

Since he burst onto theį1 scene over 40 years ago, James Hunt's legacy as a world champion has been outshined by his reputation as a hard-drinking, pot-smoking, cocaine-snorting womanizer whose devil-may-care attitude continues to charm four decades later. Formula One drivers were real, genuine characters.

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