![]() In My Team, depending on your choice of power unit provider and pre-season development path, you won’t have to start rooted to the bottom of the grid. Choose to tackle the Formula 2 grid as a driver and progress to F1 or take on the Formula 1 grid with your own outfit in My Team. If Braking Point really isn’t your thing, fear not as the usual driver and My Team career modes return in the same format. Braking Point is worth your time even if you don’t usually enjoy this sort of game mode.īoth My Career and My Team modes return alongside Braking Point in F1 2021 It’s a solid first effort but one that could always be added upon in next year’s game. It’s likely a one-and-done experience though, as without a branching narrative it lacks replay value. While it definitely leans more towards a Hollywood-style story based in the world of F1, it occupies a great couple of hours and the narrative itself is better than it has any right to be for a sports game career mode. Team principals are nowhere to be found outside of the occasional email, so team manager Brian Doyle is the team authority figure you’ll be dealing with as he tries to keep a lid on the growing discontent. ![]() Tensions rise between the team-mates as competing egos and on-track differences of opinion threaten to cost the team vital championship points and derail the season of both drivers. Each scene is acted out very well and the motion capture and facial recognition technology Codemasters has used really does bring an added element of immersion to the story. The mode uses some gorgeous cut scenes to progress the narrative as your on-track results affect relationships with other drivers and team members in the paddock.Īntagonist Devon Butler returns in 2021 as well and is a thorn in your side throughout the mode. In each scenario, you’ll have to achieve a certain target to progress the storyline onto the next chapter. With the dream of driving for Ferrari (a non-customisable goal), you take control of Jackson during his rookie season and play out various scenarios from the season rather than drive every round. Your team-mate, experienced driver Casper Akkerman, partners you at whichever of the teams you pick to race for. You play as rookie Aiden Jackson as he embarks on his Formula 1 career after making the step up from F2. ![]() ![]() The headline mode for this year’s game, Braking Point looks to combine the typical F1 game career mode with a dramatised storyline straight out of the Netflix Drive to Survive mould. With new features, improved graphics and the promise of free downloadable content later this year, does F1 2021 rank as the best Codemasters effort yet?Īiden Jackson arrives in F1 alongside experienced driver Casper Akkerman ![]()
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