In The Latest F1 Game, Saying The Wrong Thing Could Ruin Your Career

Dealing with the media will be a big part of Codemasters' annual instalment of its F1 game, with the way you answer questions potentially having an impact on your in-game career
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The majority of racing games tend to focus exclusively on the cars. Y’know - driving the cars, racing the cars, tuning the cars, etc. But Formula 1 is about more than that, as some of the theatre of the sport is played out in the media.

Codemasters is set to make the most of that in the upcoming F1 2018. As you progress through the career mode, you’ll be faced with questions from ‘Claire the reporter’ about things like how your race went, what your expectations are, or how the car feels. Do you praise your engineers for their hard work, or take the opportunity to big yourself up? If thanks haven’t gone well, do you blame the team, or own up to your own mistakes?

In The Latest F1 Game, Saying The Wrong Thing Could Ruin Your Career

The answers you give will have an impact on how your career goes. Some teams will love it if you say what you feel, others will prefer a more straight-laced team player. Be too harsh on your team, however, and morale will decrease, car upgrades will take longer to appear and will potentially become less effective.

The answers you can give will become tailored to you over time as well, so you’ll really have a chance to develop your in-game character. If done well it’ll create a delicate balancing act. You could be doing everything right on the circuit to get a drive with, say, Ferrari, but if the team doesn’t like the way you conduct yourself off-track, you won’t be getting offered a contract.

In The Latest F1 Game, Saying The Wrong Thing Could Ruin Your Career

You’ll also be able to be a bit more proactive by approaching rival teams about drives and choosing who you see as your main rival in the championship.

It’s exciting to see some RPG-like elements being added to a racing game and should give the career mode some good replay value. You could effectively play through it as a different ‘character’ each time. You could even ignore everything and be the strong silent type, although Kimi Raikkonen already has that approach covered.

F1 2018 launches on PC, PS4 and Xbox One on 24 August.

Comments

Anonymous

Do we also get this option when answering?

07/07/2018 - 10:33 |
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CannedRex24

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I also hope for “I just took a shit” and an option to raid a fridge for ice cream if you don’t want to answer a question

07/07/2018 - 11:20 |
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Robert Gracie

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I think the game needs to have a “Kimi Raikkonen” mode in it where its single word responses!

07/07/2018 - 14:31 |
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Thomas Jackson 1

Fallout 5 confirmed

07/07/2018 - 10:36 |
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UnknownCat13

If they really want to sell the game more, then they should make it battle royale. Get all of the ‘hoppy hoppy shotgun’ crowd in on it.

07/07/2018 - 10:40 |
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Ali Mahfooz

So a racing game that’s also an RPG…???

07/07/2018 - 10:40 |
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Anonymous

That’s actually brilliant!

07/07/2018 - 10:54 |
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CannedRex24

Waaaaait a minute

I had this in F1 2011!

I used to always answer in the most Kimi Raikkonen way!

07/07/2018 - 10:59 |
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Bring a Caterham To MARS

Eagerly waiting for FailRace‘s gameplay.
Claire: “You rolled five times within one race, that’s never happened before!!! How do you explain this?”
Alex: “Well, my goal was seven, really, but I’m confident I’ll get there in Singapore”

07/07/2018 - 11:08 |
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Sir Wafel (WhyBeAre of CT) (Multipla Squad) (propane)

In reply to by Bring a Caterh…

If only somebody could make a mod like that…

07/07/2018 - 12:31 |
30 | 0

Failrace race goals be like:
-roll yourself atleast 6 times
-roll atleast 4 rivals

07/08/2018 - 02:24 |
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Vincent Lin

Oh…
I was expecting some politics of some kind…

07/07/2018 - 11:11 |
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Björn 1

I already have saved money to buy it when it comes out

07/07/2018 - 11:50 |
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AnthonyDraws 1

Codemasters Y U NO SWITCH (I do hav Xbox)

07/07/2018 - 13:23 |
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The Nintendo Switch is way too weak to run the game at a passable framerate, detail and resolution. I mean, it can’t even run Skyrim at more than 30 fps, and that game was released almost 7 years ago.

07/07/2018 - 13:46 |
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