F1 2020 Seventy Edition (PS4)

The game is very good, building on what they had in 2019, the addition of myteam is good but the limited livery options are not so good. Ai is improved and patches have made sure it stays relevant to the current season. Main criticism is the podium pass just feels like a quick cash grab and if it had a proper livery editor it would be worthless (probably why it doesn’t have one) the graphics can be ropey on occasion and once at monaco saw a pit crew member changing a tyre in the swimming pool section when the camera does a pass over before the race….. ai while improved can still be amazingly moronic and as a driver you will never get a dnf from a mechanical issue (sure not a big deal but spoils the realism when your teammate gets 5 dnf for a mechanical failure)

Loving the game so far. The game is a 5/5 but I’ve lowered it a star due to Amazon charging £55 for preorders then dropping the price by £10 the day after release.

Thank you my son will love this

So I’ve been watching F1 almost 40 years since 1981 (when it was actually really good compared to now…) and I have always had an F1 game on every console I’ve owned the most memorable for me being Super Monaco Grand Prix on the Sega Mega Drive I believe in 1989 and the absolutely brilliant Formula One Championship Edition on the Playstation 3 back in 2006, it’s been a 14 year wait and finally F1 2020 might just about scratch that itch I’ve had for ages now.To be honest I have tried almost all of Codemasters attempts at F1 since they started in 2010 but I’ve never really been happy with them for a few reasons the main one being that as I’m getting on a bit for a gamer now I just find them far too simulation based in style and frankly too bloody hard to play because I don’t have the reactions I had 20 years ago!But to their immense credit Codemasters have done something quite rare by actually listening to what gamers like myself have been asking for a long time and this years edition of the game finally includes a couple of great things that make it so much more accessible to a much wider range of players…. Casual Racing Mode which is far more forgiving than the standard sim style is a godsend for me with lots more automatic settings options and simple assists that help you get into just racing rather than worrying about a million settings for the car has at last delivered a simple and enjoyable almost arcade style F1 experience for people like me who just want a casual bit of F1 racing! Everything is still there and you can gradually turn off the assists or just switch over to standard mode whenever you like, it’s a really simple thing that the game needed and absolutely nothing is ruined for the expert players at all because they still have the game they want as well it’s now just so much more accessible to more people and that’s exactly how games should be. To top things off there is now also a 2 player split screen racing mode so at last I can race a pal at home on the big screen while having a beer, games always had this option when I was a lad and sadly in this online age it’s disappeared completely in recent years so it’s brilliant to see it brought back here…. Bravo indeed Codemasters!F1 2020 pretty much has everything a fan of the sport could want including of course the official F1 2020 season fully up to date, the F2 2019 season and to my absolute delight plenty of classic cars and a championship for them as well done in proper old school style racing on iconic circuits with all the correct rules of the time, fabulous stuff!Finally to go along with the standard 10 year career mode there is the much talked about My Team mode where you literally build a car and a whole organisation from the ground up becoming the 11th team on the grid, this in depth management style system coupled with the actual driving will be loved by many F1 fans for sure and again is very welcome edition indeed.From a graphics and audio point of view the game is mostly a very solid performer with just occasional screen tearing showing up and the odd bit of muffled sounding audio particularly from your race engineer plus some sporadic long loading times being the only notable problems I’ve come across, the game has crashed on me a couple of times also but patches seem to be coming thick and fast so I think these issues will be sorted pretty soon anyway.So, why only 4 stars after so many positive points??….. Dynamic Weather!!!!! This really does need correcting, in single races you can turn it off but as soon as your doing any championship or career mode it can’t be turned off and oh my god it just rains waaaay too much, I literally had torrential rain in 5 out of 12 race weekends in my first classic cars championship and it drove me insane!! Once or twice is fine but 5 times out of 12…??!! Come on guys sort this out it’s a potential game ruining issue, it might look great and provides an interesting challenge yes but not every other race for Christ’s sake!Apart from that one genuinely annoying problem I really do appreciate what Codemasters have done here and I would rate this as the second best F1 game I’ve ever played… Formula One Championship Edition 2006 still remains the best for me but only just now as F1 2020 is very very good indeed.4 Stars would be 5 if dynamic weather was sorted out properly.