F1: World Championship Edition
F1: World Championship Edition, developed by Peakstar Software & The kremlin, published by Domark in 1995.
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Player's Review
"F1 is the ultimate challenge for a professional racing driver. This World Championship Edition actually allows you to drive for any of 8 real teams in all 16 Official Grand Prix races against real F1 drivers. If this isn't enough of a challenge, then there are 3 difficulty levels, changeable weather conditions, a choice of Championship or Knockout challenges, and to top it all a phenomenally fast split screen option where you can race head to head against a friend or even your Amiga!"
Follow up to 1993's F1 which was built on Lankhor's Vroom. I don't know how much if any of that game is retained for Championship Edition but Peakstar with help from Domarks inhouse developer The kremlin have made a game that somewhat looks like the previous game but looking more like the mega-drive game and that is not a good thing. The car looks dreadful compared to the previous game as if Tiertex did the conversion and is not nearly as well animated and no real crash effects. In some ways the whole game is a backwards step.
Overall presentation is a little better with more score screens and additional music but still missing elements from it's console counterpart leaving it looking like an unfinished product (maybe intentional so they only have to issue the game on one disk).Once in game, it doesnt seem to move quite as fast or slick as the previous game even on hard difficulty but it is easier to control the car. You still have to know where to slow down else you will fly off the track but the process of slowing down and speeding up again feels a lot less punishing. There is still plenty to crash into but they are seemingly easier to avoid now. The racers can be quite aggressive and block you on occasion and I'm not sure if they bother to pit now. Type ware and sometimes fuel ensures you will need to pit at least once and thankfully no more pit wall to crash into. Getting new tires and fuel is simpler now, no need to remember the keys.
The longplay shows all 16 tracks at Hard difficulty. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the game has 16 tracks that flow naturally instead of being broken into two sets of six in the previous game. After finishing the game, I show a race vs the computer in order to show split screen at work.
Overall, it's an alright game but like the previous game, the home computer version like the previous game is lacking some elements compared to the console game leaving it feel less immersive but at least we get a Podium finish this time at the end of the championship. Other new additions include weather and it seems to rain on nearly every track and we have two lap qualifications and five lap races now. One weird thing to note is that finishing a championship mode displays Practice result.. wut!
The game had a weird bug on the Japan race where if I got to far ahead after crossing the line, the game would crash. I had to slow down for a bit to get past it.
00:00:00 Titles
00:01:52 Brazilian GP (Interlagos)
00:11:00 Pacific GP (Aida)
00:18:15 San Marino GP (Imola)
00:27:15 Monaco (Monte Carlo)
00:33:35 Spanish GP (Barcelona)
00:42:42 Canadian GP (Montreal)
00:50:34 French GP (Magny Cours)
00:58:23 British GP (Silverstone)
01:07:03 German GP (Hockenheim)
01:18:10 Hungarian GP (Bodapest)
01:25:18 Belgian GP (Spa)
01:37:29 Italian GP (Monza)
01:47:14 Portuguese GP (Estoril)
01:55:12 Argentinean GP (Buenos Aires)
02:03:51 Japanese GP (Suzuka)
02:14:30 Australian GP (Adelaide)
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02:22:10 vs Computer (Hockenheim)
Follow up to 1993's F1 which was built on Lankhor's Vroom. I don't know how much if any of that game is retained for Championship Edition but Peakstar with help from Domarks inhouse developer The kremlin have made a game that somewhat looks like the previous game but looking more like the mega-drive game and that is not a good thing. The car looks dreadful compared to the previous game as if Tiertex did the conversion and is not nearly as well animated and no real crash effects. In some ways the whole game is a backwards step.
Overall presentation is a little better with more score screens and additional music but still missing elements from it's console counterpart leaving it looking like an unfinished product (maybe intentional so they only have to issue the game on one disk).Once in game, it doesnt seem to move quite as fast or slick as the previous game even on hard difficulty but it is easier to control the car. You still have to know where to slow down else you will fly off the track but the process of slowing down and speeding up again feels a lot less punishing. There is still plenty to crash into but they are seemingly easier to avoid now. The racers can be quite aggressive and block you on occasion and I'm not sure if they bother to pit now. Type ware and sometimes fuel ensures you will need to pit at least once and thankfully no more pit wall to crash into. Getting new tires and fuel is simpler now, no need to remember the keys.
The longplay shows all 16 tracks at Hard difficulty. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the game has 16 tracks that flow naturally instead of being broken into two sets of six in the previous game. After finishing the game, I show a race vs the computer in order to show split screen at work.
Overall, it's an alright game but like the previous game, the home computer version like the previous game is lacking some elements compared to the console game leaving it feel less immersive but at least we get a Podium finish this time at the end of the championship. Other new additions include weather and it seems to rain on nearly every track and we have two lap qualifications and five lap races now. One weird thing to note is that finishing a championship mode displays Practice result.. wut!
The game had a weird bug on the Japan race where if I got to far ahead after crossing the line, the game would crash. I had to slow down for a bit to get past it.
00:00:00 Titles
00:01:52 Brazilian GP (Interlagos)
00:11:00 Pacific GP (Aida)
00:18:15 San Marino GP (Imola)
00:27:15 Monaco (Monte Carlo)
00:33:35 Spanish GP (Barcelona)
00:42:42 Canadian GP (Montreal)
00:50:34 French GP (Magny Cours)
00:58:23 British GP (Silverstone)
01:07:03 German GP (Hockenheim)
01:18:10 Hungarian GP (Bodapest)
01:25:18 Belgian GP (Spa)
01:37:29 Italian GP (Monza)
01:47:14 Portuguese GP (Estoril)
01:55:12 Argentinean GP (Buenos Aires)
02:03:51 Japanese GP (Suzuka)
02:14:30 Australian GP (Adelaide)
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02:22:10 vs Computer (Hockenheim)
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