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F1 2012 Preview: Title Challenge

Four years into Codemasters’ tenure on the F1 beat, and it’s become easy to take these games for granted – and just as easy to forget that even before the sport’s three-year-long hiatus, the games it produced were all tainted with a certain mediocrity. Both F1 2010 and F1 2011 halted that decline in some fashion, but now, for the third instalment in the HD series, Codemasters’ Birmingham studio has to dig deep to deliver a new game that can justify its existence. F1 2012, the team believes, presents a much bigger leap forward than that seen between the previous two games. It helps, of course, that it’s going to be replicating what’s been one of the more bizarre and quite often outright thrilling seasons that the sport has ever seen. F1’s not been short of classic championships these past few years, and Codemasters was lucky enough to pick up the sport just as it was breaking out of its noughties slumber, but 2012 has rarely been anything short of spectacular. Read more…