F1 2020

There are some minor improvements over last years title, but once the shine wears off, you’ll ultimately be left disappointed. While the cars and lighting look better, the environments look noticeably worse. The character models are the same as last year and vary from bad to mediocre. However, the car handeling and driver AI is improved. The new thing this year is the My Team mode in which you can manage your own F1 team. This mode would be a great new addition to the career mode, but it’s build solely around the premise of having you spend real money on in game credits for various cosmetic items and emotes. These items are not needed, but after every race you’ll be confronted with the very intrusive Podium Pass screen which basically acts as an in game ad for microtransactions. Which I find truly obnoxious in a full priced game, especially in an offline mode. Meanwhile the game suffers from graphical and sound bugs, game freezes, extremely long loading screens, bad online connection, textures not loading, wrong car liveries and an incorrect implementation of the F1 rules, which is really strange for an officially licensed game. Instead of bringing the series truly forward and accurately represent the pinnacle of motorsport, there seems to only be a focus on selling you as much in-game currency as possible, obviously aimed at a younger audience by implementing the Fortnite like Podium Pass. Basically it’s a buggy F1 2019 with dancing fictional F1 drivers in make believe cars with terribly designed liveries.. and lots of microtransactions. The handeling and AI make it just passable. Stick with F1 2019 or buy it at a very steep discount. (It’s important to notice that the Podium Pass and microtransaction store only went live after the critic reviews.)