F1 2015

There's the usual customisation options, so you can tweak the difficulty to how you prefer. You get the usual assist options like ABS, Traction Control, Racing Line, Rewinds and Autobrake. The window for Rewinding is much longer so is more useful than the previous game. I found it annoying that the replay camera always defaulted to a dynamic view which made it awkward to find the best point to rewind to.

When the game boots up, it gives you a choice to play the 2014 or 2015 season, but I always chose the latter.

The game tells you that XBOX 360 pads aren't supported which isn’t true. 360 pads do work, but it doesn't recognise the shoulder triggers for Xbox One controllers.

Career mode is gone, meaning you can't create your own driver like in previous games. This has been replaced by Championship mode where you pick a real driver to play as, and can customise the difficulty. There’s a separate entry for Pro Seasons mode, which is a set difficulty; the best AI, full race lengths, fixed camera.

There’s a Time Trial mode where you can pick any circuit, any car, and race against your best times or online leaderboard. I found it annoying that going back to the mode doesn’t default to your last selection, which means you have to scroll through the tracks and cars again.

The previous games suffered from random stuttering but I didn’t encounter this in this iteration. They also occasionally launched in windowed mode and reset your graphical settings, but I didn’t have that problem either. It was very pleasing that they finally have resolved these issues.

The actual racing seems the same as I remember it, and since it is a Formula 1 game, you will be driving over familiar tracks. The removal of the main career mode will annoy many people and it therefore feels a small step back.