Formula one 2010 xbox 360

F1 2010 is one of the best racing games xbox 360, released on September 21, 2010 and published by Warner Bros.Codemasters makes an impressive debut in the Formula One racing game. F1 2010 is also available for Playstation 3 platform.

2010 Formula One

Formula one 2010 xbox 360 is a great simulation-style racing game.With an xbox360 wheel and the driving assists turned off it is a challenge just to reach each races goal.The graphics are fantastic, the cars look incredible, the tracks look incredible.Career mode is long and a lot of fun. You start off with one of the new teams that isn't very competitive, and the better you do the better chance you have at getting a contract offer from a better team. I got an offer to drive for Red Bull during my 2nd season.

Single Player Mode

The single player career mode is a lot of fun, every aspect of a real race is what you can experience in this game and the game can be as detailed as you want - you can even choose short races or full distance races and you can skip qualifying and just do the main race. It's very immersive and almost makes you feel like you're in a real race. If you're a fast driver it's possible to win a race in a slow car which would be impossible in real life. The game gave the impression that when you start with a slower team, you're given realistic objectives like "finish 15th" in a race. So I expected to have to struggle to get to 15th and it would be impossible to get above this position, however I found that I could get far above that and even win a race. You don't have to do anything special, just outbrake the AI drivers to overtake them.

Tuning

When in your garage you can go to your engineer who will tune your car for you. You would expect your engineer to give you the best possible setup for the track but this isn't the case. You get bog-standard tunes, you have to choose which setup you want from several preset tunes based on the track type (wet, high speed, handling, etc). You'll want a low downforce setup for tracks with long straights and a high downforce setup for tracks with few straights.

Annoyingly, you can only save 5 tunes per car even though there are 19 tracks in the game and you also have the option of racing any track in the rain so that's another 19 tunes you need. I also found that when I saved a setup, when I went to load a setup on another track, my previous setup didn't appear so I couldn't load it. You have to write down your settings so can create the same setup on another track.

Multiplayer

All you have to do is get more wins than anyone else to get to the top. Anyone can get wins if they play the game enough and pick and choose who they play against - this is not a good measure of skill. A TrueSkill rank leader board would have been better - so you only gain rank if you beat someone of a similar or higher skill than you.

Online Races

If you just want to race online, you don't need to waste time with the Single Player, all the cars are unlocked and there's no upgrades to buy so you can just race straight away. There is a maximum of 12 cars on a track instead of 24 as in single player. You don't get lag. The only thing I like about multiplayer is the fact that there are 12 cars instead of 8 and you have public lobbies.

If you're looking for a game that accurately represents the thrills of the F1 season and all the turns of each international track, then this is a good choice.