Codemasters Receives Exclusive Formula One Rights 48
bigmouth_strikes writes "A few weeks ago it was announced that British game developers Codemasters have received the exclusive right to develop and publish video games using the "Formula One" brand name. This was after Sony and Formula One Management didn't renew their contract that have made the Playstation platform the only choice for gamers wanting "official" games since 2003. The earlier Sony exclusive right and decision to only release for the Playstation platform has led to active fan-created content for various racing simulation engines, such as rFactor for the PC. The official Formula One website has a brief interview/promo piece with Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens about their hopes and intentions for the game and platforms — which will include Xbox 360 and Wii. The company is targeting an initial release in 2009."
ah well (Score:2)
Re:ah well (Score:5, Funny)
Formula -i^2
Formula floor(sqrt(2))
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Formula cos(360)
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PC (Score:2)
Formula One lends itself to precisely the type of things that PCs are great at - high resolution graphics, precise control, and accurate physical modelling.
I am yet to play an F1 game on console that didn't feel like an arcade game.
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But like most things rFactor, offline racing is so-so. Offline racing isn't something modders usually concentrate on for mods, although rFactor itself CAN work well offline. That's one thing I don't think anything outside GP4 has brought to the table in recent years--good offline racing.
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PS - Anthropic principle = misstatement of cause and effect
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Codemasters getting the F1 license is a disaster if you're a sim junk
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2) Have you actually played Sony's F1 games? They weren't any better. The PS3 one was very pretty, but the handling was just diabolical.
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1) The mere suggestion that my friend was using driving aids would get you punched rather hard by him. Even back when we were using keyboards to control Crammond's games, he turned them all OFF! He never uses driving aids.
2) No, I've never played Sony's F1 games, because they never released them in the US market when they had exclusivity. I've heard they were fairly dire though. Not sure how this is relevant to a discussion on PC F1 games though.
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Re: the second point, it's relevant because even an F1 game with current Codies handling will be a massive improvement on what we've had recently. No, I don't expect it to satisfy the rFactor addicts, but Sony Liverpool really should have stuck to the excellent job they do on the wipEout series.
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Crammond's games (and pretty much every single racing game I've played) use poetic licence, t
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Rights (Score:2, Interesting)
Certainly nice for those independent game developers anyway, especially Live for Speed, which has an officially sanctioned version of BMW Sa
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Three examples I can think of are GT5 having Ferrari's 07 car, and both rFactor and Live For Speed both having BMW's.
EA signed Lewis Hamilton to a deal a while back, so I assume an F1 game with at least McLaren would be in the works--nothing has been announced as of yet however.
As far as tracks go, I think the F1 license covers all use of tracks used by the F1 Championship. However, the tracks are also free to be in other games. Various games over the years have ha
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Micro Machines rule!
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It tanked. Spectacularly.
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they gave Formula One [wikipedia.org] rights to the people of Micro Machines [wikipedia.org]?
They gave the Formula One rights to the people who published those countless "x Simulator" budget games during the 1980s that were *absolutely* nothing like simulations?!
Ironically, having thought that they did, I looked it up and it turns out Codemasters never released a "Formula 1 Simulator"... but that's probably got less to do with licensing than because their budget rivals, Mastertronic did it first [msxarchive.nl]. (Did Mastertronic pay a licensing fee for their £1.99 computer game? My guess is... did they *
f1 world grand prix (Score:2)
Great game. Still looking for a used copy of it to play on my old machine, as it happens
I hate "the official" games (Score:5, Insightful)
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no thanks (Score:2)
What are the Formula One people smoking? (Score:2)
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