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EA's F1 Championship Season 2000

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The one player mode in this game is great. It has beautiful graphics and unmatched F1 sounds (you can actually hear the wind when passing signs). No opions on building your own driver/car, but I love the Bimmer the way it is anyway, and it would make it difficult to perform as a team if it offered custom cars. I love the fact that up to 4 people can play at a time (22 people in a time trial mode), but I haven't found a way to race friends, and the regular grid which was a slight disapointment. I'm not so sure the wrecks are very realistic, I have been pretty rough on my car and only destroyed it beyond repair once, but the pit stops are beautiful, and the paint gets scrached from debris throughout the race. I would definatly recomend this game for the F1 enthusiast, but due to the level of difficulty, it may not be for everyone. Thanks for reading. Anubis 328

Do not buy!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: January 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I cannot believe the reviews of this game! For one, the PSX version of the game is so much better in terms of game play. I must admit that the PS2 graphics are stunning but c'mon! There is more to a game than just good looks.

For one, taking the BMW-Williams, the car does not have the real top speed of the real F1 car. And when qualifying, you are not able to advance the time. Am I expected to sit infront of the game for an actual hour??? Also, you are unable to watch the competition's lap time. Then, EA removes the level of modification allowed on the car. In the PSX version, you can control the amount of steering lock. That is now removed. For me to negotiate a sweeper, I have to induce lift throttle oversteer. And that, my friends, is a bunch o' BS! This game is not a similation. It is now a not so fun and boring arcade game! I regret buying this game and in the process of trying to sell it! I will stick to playing the PSX version on my PS2 console!

fun but difficult

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This has been my first experience with a PS2 racing game. My husband and I are big F1 fans are were looking forward to reliving some of the past season's highlights with this game. The graphics are awesome and the sounds are great, too. This is definitely not a game where you can spend a few minutes and figure it out. This game takes time. You pick your car, you figure out what the different set-ups (downforce, tires, gearbox etc) do and you hit the track. On the first rounds all you try to do is keep your guy on the asphalt! I have played racing games with steering wheels before and found those easier to maneuvre than this one with the regular PS2 controller. A PS2 compatible wheel will be my next purchase I guess. The warmup sessions and qualifying are good to practice the driving. I found it very difficult to concentrate on all the information on the screen in the beginning, and the complete race set-up definitely needs some practice. Overall it is a very elaborate and fun game, but take your time to figure out all the different things!

Neither Simulation nor Arcade

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is an average F1 game, at best. The problem for those of us looking for an F1 sim is that the game plays like an arcade. However, for those looking for an arcade game, this game may be a little too much "sim." It's like EA couldn't figure out what they wanted from this game.

A large positive are the very cool pit stop & stop-and-go penalty visuals. On the stop-and-go penalties, you can actually see the pit crew checking the car for damage w/o touching it (per FIA rules). Very cool. However, it would be nice if there is some variability to the duration of each pit stop, which would be more realistic. Also it would be nice if the game displayed a timer to show how long each pitstop takes.

However, there are many, many unrealistic characteristics in this game. First and foremost is the fact that the lap times in this game are usually ~7-12 SECONDS faster that what was possible during the 2000 season.

The braking, acceleration, and direction controls could be improved substantially if EA took advantage of the analog controls on the PS2 controller... unfortuantely braking and acceleration are basically either on (full brake/throttle) or off (no brake/throttle).

Also, you can't really play the game with full damage ability because the other cars compeletely lack any intelligence, so they continually run into you. Even the backmarkers run into you! In addition, it seems like your car will immediately have damage, but the computer driver will have no problems, and will keep going. Speaking of the computer drivers, on some corners, they practically come to a stop, while they take others at speeds which are physically impossible.

Some other problems: no yellow flags and/or safety car; weather isn't variable during a race; no commentary during qualifying or race (it would be great to have the SpeedVision commentators in this game, a la Madden football); can't compare sector times with other cars (in general qualifying needs substantial improvement); no pit conversations, frame rates drop quite a bit when there are many cars on track, etc, etc, etc.

Overall, a pretty poor effort by EA. Unfortunately, this is the only game in town (er... country). Hopefully EA will fix these problems with the next release, or perhaps Sony will import Formula One 2001 to the US.

Racing the way it was meant to be on PS2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

EA has managed to bring all of the excitement of Formula 1 to the playstation 2 in an awesome package- the graphics show incredible detail and doesn't suffer from the jaggies that show up in NASCAR when there's a lot of action on the screen. The controls are very responsive, and all of the teams/drivers are there. I wish there were even more customizability of the car options than the somewhat simple options that are there even in advanced mode... but that said, there's enough in this game for the arcade racing fan to people looking for a realistic sim. There's some tough computer AI which mimics the real life counterpart drivers when you crank up the difficulty, although it is missing some of the features of the PC version, but these can be forgiven as F1 is arguably the best racing title available on the PS2 (until GT3 is released).

Meets, but doesn't exceed expectations

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. It met all of my expectations. But coming from EA Sports, it doesn't exceed them. The commentarist's voice is the same as FIFA 2001, which is kinda weird, but really doesn't matter. What I found surprising was the lack of commentary during the actual race. No commentary takes place when you take the lead, or crash, etc. That kinda left me with an empty feeling. The game's odd way of saving games isn't convenient if you choose to play different championships at one time. Another upset was the fact that you can't create your own team or car. After owning Madden 2001, I am quite spoiled with all of the neat customization features offered by EA Sports' title launch game. But FIFA 2001 doesn't match up to Madden's customization features, and F1 doesn't either. The gameplay however is outstanding. This is a driver's game. It doesn't offer lots of eye candy (it does have excellent graphics though). If you like Formula racing, you'll love this game. EA's reputation was somewhat hurt with Nascar 2001, but this game makes up for it. Very enjoyable, and very addicting.

F1 Championship PS2

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have to agree with nismofreak. I am a die hard F1 fan, I have every F1 game made for playstation. The one for PSX to me plays better. You can see other drivers qualify and also see their split times. In this all that happens is the qualifying times show up. The grafics are outstanding but thats it. The engine noise is annoying, gear selection is poor. They also really need blow by blow commentary. this is what Psygnosis has in their F1 that makes it more fun. "Rent first then but."

Best racing game available

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The wait was worth it. F1 2000 is everything I hoped it would be and more. It is very realistic, down to the sounds that the cars make, even the temperment of the drivers is accurate. The game is easy in standard mode, but almost impossible to win unless you extend the races to at least 8 laps. Car setup is very real, novice drivers will learn alot about race car setup and telemetry. So far the best racing game on the market, will be better when the force feedback steering wheel is out. I tried the V3 but it is still not right.

Accurate, Best F1 Game yet, Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The best Formula 1 game I've ever played. EA did an excellent job getting the game out so soon. I'm sure graphics and gameplay will keep getting better; however this game was still excellent. The tracks are extremely accurate, even many of the sponsors are included (minus Tobacco Co's of course).

The graphics / sounds / etc. are very good compared to previous similar games as would be expected on PS2.

Game play is very real, I've gotten first on every track except Monacco, mine (and probably everyone else's) Achilles Heal. The best part about the game play is all the options that allow you to make the game more and more real.

My big screen TV makes 4 player mode AWESOME, its so much fun.

Definately a recomended by for any Formula 1 fans, or just plain ol' racing fans (better than all the Nascar and Indy games where you go in circles!)

Best F1 game, but not the best racing game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love racing games, and this is the best F1 game you can buy. It will deliver many hours of fun F1 racing for all racing fans as myself. EA Sports will never let you down with a poor quality game. I expect EA will improve the racing experience in future versions of the game, because in my opinion, the GT3, has taken the experience and fun of racing games to another level. So, my advise is, if you have the GT3...buy this game also, but if you have the money for one game, take first the GT3.

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