F1 2002 Preview - preview/review
(hx) 01:12 AM CEST - Apr,09 2002
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Chaps at Games
Domain has written their
own preview of F1 2002, EA Sports' upcoming F1 sim. While the
preview is based on playing a pre-alpha version, the full retail version is scheduled for
a May 2002 release. Here is an excerpt from the preview:F1 2001's cars possessed rock-solid handling but had trigger-happy tendencies and needed a light touch to keep them on the track. The 2002 cars, though, actually slide, and controllably so. Pitching the car too hard while braking into the downhill Senna-Esses at Interlagos in F1 2001 would result in the back-end viciously snapping out of line. But now the oversteer starts as a gradual slide, and provided you're on warm tyres, the increased feedback from the Force-Feedback and the subtle new tyre squealing sound effects (a case of ISI taking a page out of the Grand Prix 3 handbook) give you time to get it all under control. Holding a-10 degree drift on the throttle through Magnys Cours' long and ultra-fast Estoril corner is a joy to behold, and a lap of the glorious Spa circuit now verges upon pure driving nirvana.
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