Friday, February 24, 2012

Review for F1 2011 PS Vita, Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Nintendo 3DS

Compete in the last season of F1, Vettel snatched the title in this release for PS Vita. Can he overcome the intractable Ferrari Red Bull? Will Fernando Alonso his third World Championship Driver of Formula 1? These and other questions are resolved at the end of each season, but if you want to be the star of the year and change its course, Codemasters offers you this expensive sport in a more affordable virtual F1 2011, the latest installment of its simulator officially licensed by Formula 1. The game launched last year in home systems and even portable-3DS-although the latter with a result not as good as in the major consoles and PC. PS Vita had some doubts, as it was to see if the Sumo Digital version charge of bringing the show would get the engine to the small screen with fidelity and system control.



For the time developers, who have a long history of projects in portable speed, have been a straightforward adaptation that holds much of the interest of older consoles, but on the other hand, offers no big news and you do not even great use of the functions of PS Vita. It is indeed one of the launch titles in the least role has the touch screen or motion sensors. Do not believe something negative: that comfort is worth more bizarre experiments, but do not deny that we would have liked to see some optional feature that sacase more from Vita, even if just for the navigation menus, accustomed to games like Wipeout 2048, just start we set out to touch the screen to choose game mode to no avail. However, Sumo Digital has not completely forgotten the platform that works, then you can change the camera with the screen and set the touchpad to function as accelerate, brake or change gears, which is perhaps the most interesting. At least we like that in games of speed you can replace the continuous push button speed by lightly touching the back. Innovation minimal, but practical.


F1 2011 delivers all that you expect from a game with the license, including a championship in a season, with tests to hone your racing car, qualifying sessions to get it on the grill above the important day, and racing with the drivers and teams from last season. Other options include the time trial, free racing, a grand prize or challenges, a series of tests of any kind as to overcome checkpoints, duels against other drivers or overtake many cars in a bad position. Even if you just want multiplayer, F1 2011 includes adhoc network and up to four players. Given that its main rival Modnation Racers-at least more similar, although the theme and gameplay is very different, no online multiplayer to a possible update not yet confirmed, it may be a key element for the game, Codemasters. Choose one of the 19 tracks of the tournament, any rider, competing in a network with time or builders-one duels fight two against two, we can implement strategies to emerge victorious team, and prove that you own on your car.

If you want a complete experience, you have the career mode, which puts you in the shoes of a rookie who wants to join the circus of Formula 1 and it should contact teams, first the less important of course, for testing and obtain, if possible, get into the sport for three seasons in which we ascend in prestige and improving team. For the fan of Formula 1 this is the way to a more complete player and demanding. Unfortunately, this is an abridged version of the home consoles seen since gone intervening sequences or set of interviews that gave a more human depth to the competition. Now our only way to interact is responding to emails from your computer to accept the proposals of the tests or read comments from other pilots and others. It remains the main mode, but has lost some grace.

During the race, we can see the work of Sumo Digital for attempting to move graphics in high definition systems for small PS vita. It is a decent but not dazzling. The cars do not look bad but the reflection we see the stage at the hearing misleads a bit subjective, are low-quality, and tours usually guilty of being a little gray, need a more credible light. However, the titles of Formula 1 are based on real tracks are not a waste of beauty, saving Monaco case, so let's say F1 2011 in PS Vita meets the ballot in the graphs to be a first generation game console, but we hope that future editions will take a good look at this section. Are graphs do not stand too much and is easy to see cuts in front of PlayStation 3 in the wreckage, for example, or the effect of rain, which almost seems drawn from PSP-not the reflection of asphalt that is current, but in the of the falling drops. In contrast, good resolution allows us to see, even very far away, our competitors, and runs at a steady speed. In short, far from squeezing your new laptop, but at an acceptable level.


The control sticks are comfortable even for the accuracy required by a simulator that provides the fun is not the same, they have the same route or a pad or sensitivity course, a flyer, so that we could lose some realism. F1 2011 at PS Vita does not commit any fault, it's just that gender is more difficult to move, or to be credible. Still, do not expect to meet an arcade, you still have to stop in advance if you do not want to leave the path and say goodbye to a bunch of points in the standings, but it is true that the gameplay itself has changed slightly from home. Really, it all depends on how you want to play, because activating visual aids or management, is a game accessible to everyone, whereas if you decide to complete the configuration will be quite profound.

Brake and addresses predictive anti-skid system, traction control, automatic transmission... with these facilities enabled, it is hard not to get away first, and the AI is quite questionable in comparison with the best versions, a small disappointment for simulator. The aggressiveness of the drivers is very low, and you simply play well to win the championships. Fortunately, the aforementioned multiplayer will always make you find players for you.

The sound is usually not the forte of the laptop, so unless you connect a headset, rather than hearing the roar of your Ferrari will have a slight hum vaguely reminiscent of a Formula 1. It's not bad, each meteor has its own noise and probably use the same sound libraries in the home console, but the PS Vita speakers can not do miracles. The game telling details in real time what happens, but usually not that be a great help, it does encourage them to tell you who's head or if you're running at a good pace.


F1 2011 for PS Vita is entertaining, although it could be more polished in the technical aspects and have more incentives for players who already have another version, or make better use of the console - what about PlayStation 3 crossover game or drivers exchange data created in this platform as well as your own records? Some modes are clearly designed to items of medium or long term, but the challenges are valid for the short session of a notebook. You have many options to play alone and does not neglect the online multiplayer, which is always important in the genre. Their main problem is that there is another same game called F1 2011 on platforms where it looks and plays better, but as launch title is rounder than its direct competition and is the only serious simulator available right now in PS Vita. Grab him if you like speed and you lack any alternative domestic system.

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