F1 World Grand Prix

This Formula 1 sim is based on the 1999 World Championship season, featuring real teams and drivers. The cars are the ultimate in authenticity, each one being a faithful replica of the real car used in the 1999 season, both visually and in terms of handling. Technical details have been reproduced so accurately that if you can drive like an F1 champion, you can achieve the same lap times over the same circuits.

The tracks have been fully replicated for great all-round views when driving. TV Director mode gives you control over the cameras when you follow a car. With a two-player split-screen option, and Quick Race, Single Race and Championship modes, there's more than a season's worth of racing adrenaline to be had from F1 World Grand Prix.

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uk.playstation.com

Open-cockpit racing on the world's most glamorous racetracks, from Australia to Monaco.

Players expecting to bounce their furry drivers off dinosaurs should be warned: This ain't no kiddie car game. F-1 World Grand Prix is an exacting race sim that puts you through the 180-mph paces on the most storied racetracks ever to grace a console game. Thorough familiarity with your chariot and careful strategizing for each race are vital if you don't want to spend your motoring career skidding through the infields of the world's most glamorous tracks.WGP's full Formula One license sports 22 drivers on 11 official teams, authentic cars and faithful recreations of 17 internationally celebrated tracks. Some of the most legendary names in motor sports are here, including Ferrari, McLaren and Italy's Monza track, as well as ace drivers Michael Schumacher, David Coulthard and Damon Hill. No team or driver is perfect: even the top-rated Williams team suffers from a mediocre pit crew.Paradigm Entertainment built its reputation with military flight sims before co-developing Pilotwings 64 with Nintendo and teaming up with Video System on last fall's AeroFighters Assault, a jet-fighter sim built around an alien-invasion story line. With WGP, Paradigm and Video System have clearly mastered the fine art of balancing down-and-dirty realism with arcade action. Nintendo liked the results so much that it's handling the distribution chores for the game.The authenticity begins in the paddock, where you'll optimize your car for the track, race length and weather conditions. Increasing your fuel supply reduces the need for pit stops, for example, but results in more sluggish acceleration. In sharp contrast to many racing games, you'll immediately notice that braking is a key tactic in WGP. When you're gutsy enough to choose a manual transmission, you'll learn - probably the hard way -- that these precision cars have low tolerance for ill-timed shifts.Out on the track at 100-plus MPH, the game shakes, rattles and zooms with a jaw-dropping realism. The developers maintain a high frame rate by simplifying some background textures, but the cars themselves are impressively detailed. Savvy drivers will glean key information from tiny details like the sparks thrown out when a car accelerates or down shifts.WGP offers three difficulty levels: Rookie, Professional and Champion, which is very challenging. At the advanced levels, rival AI increases dramatically and the control becomes much more realistic. Players unfamiliar with F-1 racing might be initially surprised at how precise the steering is. Oversteer a tad and you'll spin out or slow dramatically, even when your steering is set at a fairly loose 14 degrees.WGP comes a choice of audio tracks, but we preferred to turn them off and listen to the beautiful roar of a V-10 going from 50 to 150 in seconds. The pit radio doesn't tell you much that you didn't already know.WGP trumps year's F-1 Pole Position by adding a 2-Player mode with a impressively fast frame rate. The same driver options you have in the single-player modes - skill level, manual or automatic transmission, and CPU-assisted braking and accelerating - allows you to handicap players.Other modes include Exhibition, which starts you in a 22-driver field; and Time Trial, which pits you and your machine against an otherwise empty track. The game's centerpiece, though, is Grand Prix mode, which follows all the teams and drivers through the grueling 1997 racing season. Following official Formula One rules, you'll make two practice runs, a qualifying run and a warm-up before the actual race, which can be as brief as four laps. You can also choose to turn damage off and make pit stops mandatory. For the last word in authenticity, go for the full 77 laps of the Grand Prix of Hungary!The globe-trotting Grand Prix mode takes place in 17 courses on four continents, beginning in Australia's palm-fringed Albert Park and ending at Spain's season-capping Grand Prix of Europe. In between you'll have to master the narrow chutes of Brazil's Interlagos, the long straightaways of Canada's Montreal, the tortuous hairpins of Luxembourg's Nurburgring and the treacherous shoulders of Japan's over-and-under Suzuka. Most challenging of all, perhaps, is Monaco's legendary Monte Carlo, a white-knuckle juggernaut that bucks and dives through the twisting streets of the seaside resort.Challenge mode skips the preliminaries and drops you into the middle of a nail-biting scenario from the 1997 season. In Offense scenarios, your goal is to leapfrog the field as quickly as possible. You'll have to master your left, right and rear-view mirrors in Defense scenarios, in which your goal is to block cars trying to sneak past you. Most demanding of all are Trouble scenarios, in which you'll have to overcome engine problems, rain-slick tracks and other conditions that will make lesser drivers faint. If you do well on the 15 Challenges, you'll open up a hidden Ultimate Challenge.With its myriad options and astounding attention to detail, F-1 World Grand Prix is one racing sim that grabs the solid-gold trophy.

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www.nintendo.com – Nintendo 64

F-1 Grand Prix straps you into the driver's seat as you experience the high octane rush of an actual Formula One Season. Compete in the F1A Formula One World Championship with your choice of 22 drivers. You'll race through 17 of the most challenging Formula One circuits.

• Five game modes, including Grand Prix, Exhibition, Time Trial, Challenge, and Two-Player.

• Realistic racing effects include real-time tire wear, skid marks, exhaust flames, rain, and changing weather.

• Rumble Pak™ compatible!

Featuring an unparalleled level of realism and attention to detail, F-1 World Grand Prix is the most incredible driving experience outside of the real thing. Pick your driver, set-up your car and then take off racing through the 1997 Formula 1 racing season.

Experience all of Formula 1, from Friday and Saturday practice, to Saturday qualifying, to the Sunday race. Each of the 17 tracks is faithfully duplicated and you can race them in the actual order of the season. Want to set-up the car to your own driving preferences? It's a snap with the paddock computer presentation before each race - use the default car set-up values or adjust your fuel level, tire types, front and rear wing down force settings, suspension hardness, transmission gear ratios, and steering. Settings can be saved for trial runs until you get it just right. And if race conditions warrant a change, pull into the pits and make those adjustments that may make the difference between winning or losing.

Five different modes of play are included:

• Grand Prix - drive the actual 1997 race season as one of the drivers competing against the other 21 AI controlled cars.

• Exhibition - Select any track, choose any driver, pick the number of laps you want to race.

• Time Trial - Race your best against a "ghost" car that replays your own previous fastest lap.

• Two-player - Race one-on-one against your friends. You even get to select from a vertical split screen (side by side) or a horizontal split screen (over and under).

• Challenge - Replay key moments from each race in the 1997 season. Watch the story unfold, and then take your place in the story. Are you up to the challenge?

Put it all together for the best racing sensation on the Nintendo 64!

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Paradigm Website