As you fire up the game for the first time and start your career mode, you'll be faced with a series of different challenges as a young F2 driver hoping to move up to the big show. This, as the name suggests, is the feeder series into F1-the sport's version of baseball's farm teams or college football and basketball. The most immediately noticeable change is the inclusion of Formula 2. Happily, F1 2019 is no turkey, adding enough that's new to make the game a worthwhile upgrade for the F1 fan. F1 2018 was an extremely great racing game-and a wonderful interactive textbook focused on the evolution of Formula 1 cars from the early 1970s through today (as good a sequel to LJK Setright's excellent The Grand Prix Car, 1954-1966 as we're ever likely to see, but in video game form). I don't envy the job of Lee Mather and his team at Codemasters.

Which is my inelegant way of saying that Codemasters' newest Formula 1 racing game, F1 2019, is here. Price: $69.99 (Legends Edition), $59.99 (Anniversary Edition)Ĭoming up with something new to say about the annual update to a franchised sports game is probably almost as hard as being one of the developers who has to come up with something new to put in the game. Release Date: J(Legends Edition), J(Anniversary Edition) Platform: Windows, PS4 (tested), and Xbox One