F1 2012 Video Review

There is something really wrong with this game. Not talking about the bugs.The graphics suck. Putting in replay mode(wich is awfull as well) the car doesnt seem to make part of the track. When you go out of track, the outside "ufo" camera stops and they force a cockpit view (wich you dont want) to hide the bad physics or bad graphics.

I feel im racing inside a cartoon. Better playing the old  Atari's 1988 Hard Drivin. (so happy i have iracing) 

Sounds like the whole aura of Formula 1 has been chucked out and in place they have thrown a whole bunch of stuff for the person who doesn't give two hoots about F1 (arcadey). I haven't played it so I cant judge this one too much, but I do have the past installments, which were close but no cigar - I don't think this one can even see the cigar! Just not sure the developers are going down the right track here.

An excellent review even though this game series has a new game every year.

Why did the 45 second Explore 9 commercial stream just find but the review bogged down within  5 seconds?

They got rid of those infuriating media interviews you had to endure every 5 minutes in F1 2011 :)

It's alright. The graphics and driving model seem awesome, but the modes and presentation are abysmal.

My perfect F1 game is when I start a season, pick a real driver and then start with the first practice session, continuing to realistic qualifying and from there to the race with warm up lap. Full length, scoreboards and then to the next race. Just 1 full season after which I start from clean slate (not like playing 2013 season is remotely realistic)

Champions, Season Challenges etc. are ok diversions, but when the game lacks the most basic mode I can't help but feel really dissapointed. Codemasters should go for the essence of F1, not trying to cater to people who have never seen a Formula car with completely ridiclous modes and streamlining everything to minimum. Rules lack depth, hot laps are terrible and the arbitary challenges are stupid.

Haha. Nearly all of the game play clips cut just before the player crashes into another car or going off the track.

I can't wait to get this.

How good would it have been if Champions mode included the like of Ayrton Senna, Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark, Alberto Ascari etc

Where is the Pitbabes and the realistic crash?

When did Danny start doing reviews?

Reviewer don't say, but again I guess it's not this year that we can save race replays to see them later...

I don't know if Consoles could handle this, but surely PCs, powerful and usually with big enough Hard Drives spaces (if not cheap External HD are available) surely can...

 5 races in, no "bugs" experienced yet...... 360 version. Love it!

I have bought the game and I can tell this review is sooooooo bad !!! I mean it's like the reviewer has played like 5 minutes or so...Of course graphics and gameplay are incredible and I would love to play a completed polished game but this is not the case. So I suggest you: DON'T BUY THIS GAME !!! It's ful of big bugs that make the game very disappointing. I won't write here in detail about all the bugs and problems. If you want to know check this for exemple ????http://community.codemasters.com/t5/F1-2012-General-Discussion/Regarding-Codemasters-quot-Allow-me-to-explain-quot/m-p/84542/highlight/false#M20448   and there are A LOT of people complaining and begging for a patch. I love F1 but this game is a joke from codemasters. 35 euros stolen. I go back to F1 2011 and Guild Wars 2. See ya all

A great game i can't wait to grab it !

Looks like a great game, but all the English accents make it seem boring. What is this, masterpiece theatre?

Never payed an F1 game but this one has my interest. I'll be givng it a try.

Too bad the damage is so bad :|

rain weather graphics look kickass!

F1 SINGAPORE is in 8 hours...anyone watching it? :D

Awesome review danny. Now on to the game. THIS LOOKS GLORIOUS. Not just the amazing realistic graphics and sound, but the gameplay looks fantastic too. However the large bulk of people enjoying this game will be F1 fans.

I just bought the game!!! I haven't tried it yet because Gran Turismo has been installing for 1 hour on my ps3, but will try it tomorrow.!

@ 3:43 , it sounds like Danny O'Dwyer himself. I was thinking, "WHOA! I can record my own voice into the game?"

The graphics look really good. Too bad I'm not interested in formula racing.

f1 2012 is really.... good

In the age of Need for Speed 'Most Wanted' and 'The Run' where mindless racing seems to be the norm, F1 2011/12  delivers an authentic racing experience unlike any other game out on the market. Kudos to the Codemasters for setting yet another benchmark in racing. 

I was going to buy an F1 game but since it just made a return to gaming, I wanted to wait until Codemasters ironed out issues. I haven't played an F1 racing game for almost 15yrs and most of the popular drivers I knew are now retired. Looks like I'll need a new driving wheel.

Decent racer, but again it's spoiled by silly bugs (this time in the weather system), and it only really seems to work on short races (25% or lower). Why don't reviewers ever mention the bugs in a game these days?

8.5.com

Danny is a quick story teller. Go Danny GO!

I've played a lot of racing and f1 games in my time and i'm just a bit bored with these games now. I played 2010 and it was ok despite the occasional glitch, poor out of car sections and the fact that you couldn't actually control your car fully in the pits.

But instead of adding all these new modes and missions, why don't they add somthing that the true f1 fan would appreciate? Like maybe a classic f1 mode where they have old f1 cars and old circuits. At least that would be some new content and more cars and variety in the game.

this like the previous games feels terrible with a proper force feedback wheel.  No telemetry exporting option into MoTEc and the physics is daft.  This is a game purely for "casuals".  Rather stick with rFactor or GTR with the F1 mod.

another game, another 8.5...!

Another year, another F1 game..!

I wonder if the tire clashes actually work this time around. 2010's version, acted more like closed wheel cars, then open wheeled ones. You're not supposed to be able to bump into other car's Tires with your own without one of the cars going airborne. Seems that they never model that effect in these games. Cars always bounce off each other like they have invisible fenders....

So, did they fix that aspect? Because F1 racing isn't F1 racing if that's not modeled in.