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Had high hopes, but....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I pre-ordered this game having read all the reviews of EA's F1 2002 (which I don't own) talking about the great graphics and depths of tuning you can do to the cars. So I ordered this game hoping for a great F1 simulator. Unfortunately, this game is very "arcade" in every respect. In Career mode, you can only tune downforce, gear ratio, and suspension I think, and that's it. Not exactly real life F1. And what's strange, in the part of the game they call "arcade" you have more tuning options than in career mode.

Another complaint is with the graphics. I don't know what F1 2002 looks like, but the graphics in F1 Career Challenge really stink. Up close everything is clear, but from even a small distance, things get blurry and fuzzy. The braking markers are almost impossible to read at speed. I own Formula One 2001 (989 Sports), and Grand Prix Challenge, and both have far superior graphics.

Also, the laps are preset in career mode (i.e. 6 laps for the Australian Grand Prix), and as far as I can tell, you can't change it. Once again, far from being real life.

On the plus side, the career thing is cool, in that you have to get a superlicense, then you get offers from different teams. As you either exceed or don't meet the team's expectations racing (i.e. "We expect a 15th place finish" and you finish 7th), your "driver repuation" goes up or down. Nice touch...

Overall, I am disappointed though. If you want an ok arcade game (and there are better ones out there I think), this may be ok. But if you want a good F1 simulation, you'll probably be disappointed.

best game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has great graphics! I, for one, love F1. I know the tracks, and LOVE to race. I think some people know nothing about racing so they think it's dumb, but it's a great game. The race car drivers do crash into you, that is really how it is in F1.

get in the car!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wow...what a game. F1 Career Challenge is by far the best F1 game to date by EA Sports or any other manufacturer. It has every driver to get in a Formula 1 chassis since the beginning of the 1999 season. What is cool about this game is it lets you drive as yourself and compete aginst the actual F1 drivers and the cars they drove during those season from 1999-2002. For instance when Alex Zanardi and Ralf Schumacher were the drivers for Williams in 1999 their primary team colors were red, yellow, and white and their cars displayed that. Much different from the white and navy blue cars that Ralf and Juan Montoya drive today for Williams BMW.

The better you drive for your first Formula 1 team the better contract you will receive from other teams in the paddock to drive for their team. My first team I was chose was Sauber Petronas. I chose them, after qualifying for my Superlicense, over Prost Grand Prix and Benetton.

The graphics are unreal from the side view mirrors to the specifications of each drivers helmet to the buildings and surroundings unique to each F1 track. For all its glory there are a few negatives in this game as with most games. You can't really do much fine tuning to your car. You can increase and decrease the downforce and understeer/oversteer...but that is about it. I wish it had a little ability such as brake bias and tire selection to name a few. The computer drivers brake very slow into corners and sometimes they can be right in front of you before you even realize it. Kind of like david Coulthard this past weekend at the Nurburgring when he came up behind Fernando Alonso going into the last chicane and shunted out. The car drives very, very touchy so it may take you a few runs around each track to get used the handling and brakes and braking zones and when to turn in and hit an apez just right. The default settings seem to favor understeer so you may want to give a bit more downforce and a notch of oversteer to keep her on the track. Especially at courses like Monaco and Catalunya.

Well if you really want to experience Formula 1 like it was meant to be played in a video game this should be your choice. The game play in fantastic and the feeling you will have after you are finished driving will be just like you have been right inside the cockpit! Drive on!

ITS A GAME!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 22
Date: September 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

HELLO0000!!!EVERYONE HERE IS LIKE DYING TO BECOME A FORMULA 1 DRIVER, EVERYONES SOOOOOO INTERESTED IN BECOMING ONE, DESPERATE OR SOMETHING, TRYING TO SMART YOUR ASS THROUGH SET UPS AND AND WING ELEMENTS AND ALL THAT F1 STUFF. ITS A GAME WHAT DO YOU EXPECT, THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THESE LETS YOU DRIVE AN F1 CAR THE EASY WAY, WITH ALL THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS OH YEAH, YOU CAN BEAT SCHUMACHER WITH THAT, JA, AN F1 CAR ISNT THAT EASY TO DRIVE. HELLOOOO IE THATS WHY ITS KINDA LIKE ARCADY???? IT JUST GIVES YOU THE SENSE OF EXCITEMENT, NOT THE REAL PRESSURE, DO YOU REALLY THINK ITS THAT EASY TO PASS A GUY NAMED MICHAEL SCHUMACHER. THESE ""GAMES"" ARENT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THE REAL THING, THEYRE JUST GAMES TO MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE AN F1 DRIVER, DRIVING THESE REAL LIFE LIKE F1 CARS ON TV. YOU THINK YOU CAN HOLD YOUR POSITION ON TRACK, OH YEAH YOURE SO SCHUMACHER LIKE, DO IT IN 75 LAPS, WITH THE 3 STOP STRATEGY, AND THE AI INTELLIGENCE, MAN PUT IT TO THE MAX. OH NO DONT FORGET, DO LAPS CONSISTANT TO EXACLTY 1:19:650. ANYWAY, HOPE THIS GETS INTO YOUR HEAD. THERES 20 DRIVERS ON THAT GRID AND YOURE NOT 1 OF THEM, YOURE JUST A WANNABE LIKE MILLIONS OF OTHERS PLAYING A VIDEO AT HOME. STOP PRETENDING AND JUST PLAY THE GAME.

Not F1 2003 with career mode.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Things not in this game.

#1 no driving assists
#2 no basic handling method (so steering is super touchy)
#3 no straight season for just racing
#4 no difficulty settings

Otherwise the game looks good to go but looks to be cut throat hard.

It was a good idea

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It is a very good idea having racing over 4 seasons in f1 as yourself. I like the fact that they added details like getting your superlicense the radio communication from your team is good and the interactive pit stops are good.
The graphics though are very arcade-y which doesn't suit such a realistic background. You cannot race in quick race mode as Mika Salo in the Ferrari for example or as any other substitute driver.
Despite this the game is fun and probably worth buying, but no-where near as aesthetically pleasing as Sony's Formula 1 2002.

Only partially works

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As a dedicated F1 fan, I was looking forward to seeing my name on then podium, as the game promised. But, here's the big kicker, you have to pass a series of tests to be eligible to compete. And the game will NOT remember that you passed the next to last test (a series of S-turns in the rain) so you have to take it every time you open it. (It'll take foreover to pass ...) The last test is a pit stop test over which you have no real control and it will NOT let you pass (I wasted 4 hours on this). The quick race section is okay but the whole point of it - to mix it up with Schumi and the boys - is moot. The @#%#$@ gamers who designed it fixed it so that you won't pass the entry tests.

not good at all

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well what can I say....It's easy,it cheats it's horrible.Im still waiting for a good F1 game.

The WORST F1 game by Ea

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: August 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

That kid who said this game is good. get the hell of the internet. The graphics are very poor. the F1 cars crash into you. Ea is the crappest games company ever. they never did anything bad on Burnout 3 whch WILL be released in september. F1 Challenge '99-'02 is an excellent game. when i have it. i will stick to that. Just avoid

Robert Scott Brimer is dumb.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: August 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

F1 2002 italiano di F1 Deutschland. Ea have made it. Robert Scott Brimer is dumb and not a racer He said Formula one 2001 is good and that is rubbish.

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