F1 2011

Having been a fan of the F1 2010 game - despite its niggling problems, I was delighted that F1 2011 had finally arrived.

Without a doubt the biggest addition to the game - and the main reason I was waiting with such anticipation for this game - was the much talked about Co-Op championship mode. My brother and I spent many hours playing the TOCA 2 touring car game simply because it was the best 2 player team championship we could find and we were massively excited by this feature.

BE WARNED. There is a serious bug in the Co-Op championship which renders the AI drivers pretty much useless. We played the first round of the season with AI on Legend (top setting) and all assists off etc with no problems - over 100% race distance we were knocking on the door of the top 10 in Lotus-Renaults, pretty much where you'd expect to be. But at round 2 in Malaysia the AI were suddenly 8-10 seconds off our pace.

The Codemasters forums are full of posts from people confirming that same problem - it looks like we were lucky that we even got through Australia before the AI decided to slow right down.

Career mode, as far as I can see, is fine - but if you are considering buying this for the Co-Op Championship aspect please please please wait until Codemasters announce a patch has been released to fix the issue - at the moment it kills the game. If they fix this problem the game will get 5 stars, but until then I feel like I've only got half what I paid for hence 3 stars (would have been 2.5 if that was possible, but since it's not 2 seemed too mean....)

Mmm, where to start, I put the 2010 version of this game in the PS3 last Christmas, and sat in awe at the fabulous realistic graphics, and have enjoyed playing for the last 12 months despite it's flaws, this Christmas I was eagerly awaiting the new version with the addition of the safety car and was devastated when I put it in the console.

The graphics are not good! Very much like an amateur cartoon, driving in the rain is no longer realistic visually, there's little or no spray from the cars in front, very little rain on the visor, almost as easy to see as it is in the dry.

Another thing is you can no longer move ballast to get better balance in the car, I found(particularly the Ferrari cars)are light on the back end causing unexplained spins in corners, so moving ballast back helped with the overall balance and grip on the 2010 game, a feature now missing in the new game.

A waste of money, mine's gone and i'll stick to 2010 thank you very much(i'll hire the game before purchasing next time!)

I'd rather have realism and good graphics where I can actually see the braking points over split screen any day, I wouldn't buy if I were you.

Had the 2010 F1 game, lots of fun. Had been intending to buy the 2011 F1 for some time, am so pleased that I have got it now, lots of great updates, with the DRS and FERS makes for a realistic as possible game.