Friday, 30 May 2008

Codemasters Interview on Official F1 Website
Game News | Codemasters Formula One 2009 (F1 The Game) | By Paul on 30 May 2008 17:28

The Official Formula 1 Website have an interview with Codemasters’ Rod Cousens about their upcoming game, Codemasters Formula One 2009 (F1 The Game).

Q: Some F1 games of the past have been rather hard for the beginner to get to grips with - perhaps understandable, given how hard it is to drive a Formula One car. How will you cater for both ends of the spectrum - the novice player at one end and the hardened petrol-head at the other?

RC: Yes, simulation versus arcade. Codemasters’ history in TOCA Race Driver has been very heavily weighted towards simulation, appealing to the real hardcore fan - be they V8 supporters in Australia, DTM fans in Germany etc, we have always recognised international traits. But if you want to take the game to an even wider audience, particularly the United States (for us the largest gaming market in the world), then you have to appeal to a mass audience and so we blend the simulation with an awful lot of arcade elements too.