Grand Prix II

The Good
As one of the reviews from magazines featured here states, and the disclaimer goes to them and so does the credit of doing the aforementioned review, "alles ist beinahe perfekt", which is German for everything is almost perfect. And this is what I think too. The level of simulation for a game which was launched in 1996 is astonishing, the car failures, the possibilities of set-up that the car has, the information after any race, etc.

The option to have different graphic modes to choose is a plus, because back when I was three years old ('96) not everybody could afford computers as easily as now and GP2 was relatively demanding in its SVGA mode, so a traditional VGA mode was included.

The Bad
The fact that the game came out two years later than the season it did represent is a contra for the game, but it does not take away its greatness, rather it reflects a trend among F1 games of the era consisting in releasing them after the season they simulated, but in this case, it took a bit too much. F1 '95 was available for PS and PC in the same 1996 year, but there was no F1 1996 for any platform except N64.

The Bottom Line
Even 26 years after being released, it keeps being awesome. Also, the game is still very active with all the mod community. Having mods as far as 2021.