However, some of the events are just 25% races with no gimmick to them, apart from one in which you start on dry tyres and end the race on the full wets. Of the 17 races you take part in throughout Braking Point, many of them play similarly to the scenarios in scenario mode, such as having to catch up to your team-mate by a certain lap or complete the race despite having an issue with your car’s gearbox.

If the idea of a story mode doesn’t appeal to you though then you could view Braking Point as a reimagining of the long-abandoned scenario mode, last seen in F1 2014, with a story attached to it. In total, the story should take around eight hours to complete from start to finish, gameplay and cutscenes combined.īraking Point is very clearly aimed at newcomers to the F1 games or people who play them more casually as anyone who played F1 2020 on ultimate AI difficulty will have no trouble going through Braking Point on the hardest of its three difficulty levels. The five options are Alpha Tauri, Alfa Romeo, Haas, Williams and finally Racing Point/Aston Martin.

Its appeal stems, almost solely, from being set inside the world of Formula 1 and the presentation is impressive.īraking Point starts in the final round of the 2019 Formula 2 season and then you join a Formula 1 team to race for in both 20. The story itself, without giving away any spoilers, is fairly straightforward and predictable. If you’ve played a story mode in any other recent sports game, such as FIFA, Madden NFL or NBA 2K, you’ll know sort of what to expect from Braking Point.

The CG cutscenes are the one area of the game that will be visually impressive to anyone who played the previous F1 game and there’s nothing major to critique about the voice acting or dialogue in the cutscenes. Perhaps that’s why Braking Point has been pushed as hard as it has been since it is a wholly new game mode and a significant step up from F1 2019’s brief attempt at adding fictional characters into the world of Formula 1. That’s not to say there aren’t any changes, the all-new Braking Point story mode is just one heavily marketed additions, but it’s not a completely new experience regardless of what platform you play F1 2021 on. F1 2021 is the seventh Formula 1 game to be run on the 4.0 version of Codemasters’ in-house Ego game engine and that means that – despite being available on the next generation consoles – F1 2021 is still very similar to the previous F1 games.

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