Codemasters and Bandai Namco Entertainment Australia have released their ‘Features’ gameplay trailer for F1 2015, their annual video game release based on the FIA Formula One World Championship.
This trailer seeks to showcase the game’s all-new Championship Season, which they are calling the ‘central game mode’ of F1 2015. They claim that this will “deliver the most immersive F1 experience yet”, due to a new ‘broadcast presentation’ style which recreates the race day atmosphere of a Grand Prix.
Lee Mather | Principal Games Designer at Codemasters
Our new Championship Season and Pro Season modes deliver a much more engaging and fluid FORMULA ONE championship experience than ever before.
The race weekend is more than just the in-car and on track experience. Observing your driver working with his team during practice and qualifying and listening to the new commentary that sets the scene for the race and season standings is now present for the gamer. Then seeing the busy grid before a race, with all the flavour and character of it, into the race itself, the new television style cameras and replays, and finally the iconic podium celebrations all add to that race experience. The immersion is further enhanced with the voice recognition technology available for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles, allowing players to engage with their race engineer through in-game voice commands with Kinect for Xbox One and the PlayStation Camera or compatible headsets and microphones for PlayStation 4.
For those gamers who want the ultimate challenge, then the new Pro Season mode, which ramps up all the settings to the most realistic possible, is really for them. Full 100% race distances, full practice and qualifying sessions, the most competitive A.I. settings, no flashbacks with which to correct mistakes, all locked into cockpit view with minimal HUD assistance…Pro Season will truly separate the weekend drivers from the experts!
F1 2015 will be available starting July 10th 2015. It will be available on the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One video game consoles. After not being available on Microsoft and Sony’s latest generation of video game consoles in 2014, there are no plans to support the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 with this instalment.
