F1 2010 – Reality Check Gallery

Codemasters’ F1 2010 title for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 is still more than two months away from being released, and many fans are passing by the waiting time, trying to prove how realistic the title will be.

Below is a series of comparison shots made by Sato-Kamikaze and kruvas in the Codemasters forum, showing footage from the F1 2010 trailers side by side with real life shots. Due to the fact that gameplay footage of F1 2010 is still limited, the angle of some of the shots isn’t always correct, Codemasters’ attention to detail when it comes to track can be seen clearly though.

Following their maiden Formula One title that was released only for the Playstation Portable and the Nintendo Wii, Codemasters will be bringing the 2010 Formula One season to the PC, the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. F1 2010 has been confirmed to be released in September 2010.

Via Codemasters Forum


  • Sato-Kamikaze

    Cool to be on virtualR.net =P because  I go to your web site a lot of time and I think you make a great work, keep it up =)

  • f1racing

    well, some missing trees here and there, but wait. Do we expect from any game producer to really count all trees, all windows on buildings etc, etc….who cares if there is few trees missing like it is noted on last picture…looks real enough to me.

  • f1racing

    and I don’t want to offend someone…Sato-Kamikaze made a great effort to make those comparations

  • RedSun

    Track, no looking good, TV-Cam EXTREME HORRIBLE!

  • GTEvo

    Best and realistics looking Ambinete so far in an F1 Game!

    Cant wait
    Holger

  • tejo.hr

    Worst comparison made ever. :)
    PS. Does reality anyone reminds of rFactor? :P

  • Floptickle

    Would have been better if the gameshots were in dry weather, but pretty good.

    Not really sure whats up with the start/finish shot with red circles?

  • what login name

    http://www.virtualr.net/wp-content/gallery/2427/25939696.jpg  cant get anymore real than that DX 10 or 11 ?

  • Trebor901

    looks perfectly acceptable to me, if you’re gonna get anal about the amount of tree’s not being right etc or an extra crane or camera crane in the distance then you might aswell go and race for real. It still makes me angry when i see people expecting so much from a GAME! and no it wont be a full sim because a full sim isnt what sells well.

  • SVTuner

    they’ve done it wrong :p that crane wont be there on race day , it’s been removed 2 weeks ago…

    i live 50 miles from spa and 50miles from zolder , so i know and visit both tracks regullarly.

  • Sato-Kamikaze

    Oh… can you do better ? =)

  • Y E S

    Tracks looks amazig, very photorealistic , but Please,
    MAKE US SOME REAL TVCAMS AND REAL F1 2010 OFFICIAL F1 DISPLAY with Revmeter.
    It makes a big importance for an imersive experience.

  • F1Racer

    It can be done better, but not right now.  Considering the limited resources there is available right now from F1-2010 I think it’s as good a comparision as you can get.   Taking that into consideration, tejo.hr really shouldn’t be whinging about it like he paid for it.

  • F1Racer

    You won’t be getting real F1 TV graphics display in F1-2010.  It’s been explained why before and asking for it on a forum isn’t gonna change it.
    They need another licence to use the F1 TV graphics and obviously they have decided to do their own than spend the money on something pretty trivial.  
    Theres a plugin for rFactor and I dont use it because a) it takes up too much real estate on the screen and b) if you drive in cockpit or even t-cam view, it is not something a real driver would ever see anyway, so if it’s realism you want…..

  • Explosive Face

    I don’t think the official HUD is needed. Previous F1 games by Sony had it, but those games were from the point of a TV viewer (with commentery and occasional radio chat). This game is from the perspective of the driver, so they went with a traditional racing game HUD instead.

    As F1Racer said, for some reason Formula One wants developers to pay extra to include other licensed things in the game, like the official TV HUD, previous season’s cars, etc.

  • Explosive Face

    They decided to centre the TV Cam so it would be easier to race from. And the tracks are stellar, did you look at them for more than 2 seconds?

  • Olivier Prenten

    Well I was just expecting a kind of live chronometer with split information just to see if I’m improving my laptime sector after sector! I just hope somebody will create a plugin! ;)

  • Big Ron

    Oh dear, a bit too much rain screens there. I can´t see those rain screens anymore. I think, it looks very unrealistic. But anyway, I don´t think, it will be worth a try for simulation fans…because it is Codemasters…made to be playable.

  • Grimes

    Just wait for the iRacing version of Spa!-

  • addyduss

    at least in Codemaster’s game Vitaliy Petrov is good in race haha) (he is 1st in most of shots).

  • zDToddy

    there is something wrong about those screenshots…

    Oh ya, fricking arcade HUDs.

  • RedSun

    I hate this cams, its not realistic but all codemasters game is arcade. F1 2010 will be TOTAL ARCADE! Its not for me, i love simulators and i wait for new title by Simbin and rFactor 2.

  • f1racing

    well, if you read just few posts down you’ll know why is that.

    1. FOM asks aditional payments for TV hud, etc..
    2. Game is supposed to simulate life of a driver (well, in racing games you are a driver right??) and not life of spectator in front of TV with some beer, popcorn or something like that.

  • f1racing

    because it is Codemasters

    well, I don’t agree with that…it is true that their games are far from beeing realistic, but they have improved with Dirt 2. And I think this will be fun GAME to play. Isn’t it meant for GAME to be FUN???? Nobody play games which are not fun. And second thing, we will never know if cars are behaving realistic or not. Whatching race in front of TV is not the same thing as driving real thing. And also driving car in GAME is not same thing like driving real thing what ever wheel, seat or any other thing you have because you never feel G-Force, bumps, etc.

    And if you are asking youreself why I always capslock the word GAME….well, we are talking about GAME here….right???

  • michele

    great

  • Xabi

    pre-alpha version has got better graphics than the reality. am i right?:D

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