Review: F1 2020 (PlayStation 4)
F1 2020 allows you to create your F1 team for the very first time and race alongside the official teams and drivers. Alternatively, challenge your friends in a new split-screen mode with casual race options for more relaxed racing. Compete on 22 circuits, with current and classic content.
Pros:
- Amazing well-detailed graphics.
- 59.19gb download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Racing gameplay.
- Graphics-motion blur slider, Nit adjustment, and HDR support.
- Can rebind controls.
- Full steering wheel support and options.
- Tutorial tips as you play.
- Six difficulties modifiers-beginner, amateur, experienced, professional, elite, and custom.
- Character creator-name, suit, gloves, audio name, number, helmet.
- Autosave on/off.
- Telemetry settings- UDP mode, UDP port, and UDP format.
- Full camera setup and a FOV slider.
- Car livery editor-make your own and add sponsor logos or use a pre-made one.
- Badge editor-make your own or use a pre-made one.
- Solo modes- driver career, my team, grand Prix, championships, and time trial.
- The multiplayer-weekly events, leagues, split-screen, ranked, unranked, and LAN game.
- Showroom-F1 2020, classic or F1 2019 eras.
- TV show presentation.
- Theatre-watch replays.
- F1 esports section-enter an event, videos, challenger series, pro series, news.
- Driver career-pick an avatar then choose to do F2 racing with short/long/taster length seasons or jump straight into F1. Performance dictates your F1 career.
- F2-select a manufacturer and team.
- Flashback-roll back time.
- Accessibility option allowing you to drive off track easier, cars easier to pass.
- Can tweak settings etc on the loading screen.
- The photo mode- Can change time and weather with all settings you hope to see in a photo mode like a vignette, brightness, saturation, depth of field, f-stop, and more.
- Fast loading times.
- Press briefings-you interact with the press via multiple choice answers to questions, this has an effect on your team chemistry.
- Uses the Ds4 speaker for team comms.
Cons:
- Few times the game would black screen.
- Not every driver number is available.
- In-app purchases for cosmetics.
- Feels at times you getting unfairly punished in collisions.
- Small in-game text.
- A lot of jargon.
- Possible to press a button or direction by accident and just fill the screen with menus and prompts.
- A couple of zombie looking characters.
- Press sections still feel like an unnecessary filler.
