With its
lack of a career mode and the problems of the online races, this long awaited next - gen installment of the F1 franchise is disappointing.
This mode is similar to the career mode, but you can only play as one or the other, except without all of the in - depth
features of the career mode.
This mode is far better than the alternative of not having any
sort of career mode at all but does leave more to be desired in future games.
Even after playing through tons
of career mode races, I still found myself missing my mark by what felt like a couple of inches and falling back into last place because of it.
This mode is far better than the alternative of not having any sort
of career mode at all but does leave more to be desired in future games.
Possibly the most egregious
sin of career mode is the lack of detail that has gone into your progression as a team.
They're great drills, I've just never gotten into that sort of thing in any of these
types of career modes and instead elected to simulate most of the training.
During the early
phases of career mode and for championships I very rarely qualified within the top 30, and in those races I rarely finished within the top 20.
Possibly the most egregious
sin of career mode is the lack of detail that has gone into your progression as a team.
Riptide GP2 contains three modes in the
form of career mode, VR challenge, and local multiplayer.
The career mode is actually quite elaborate and I am still not 100 % sure on the
score of the career mode goes, but here is a little run down of how it works.
The career mode is actually quite elaborate and I am still not 100 % sure on the score
of the career mode goes, but here is a little run down of how it works.
The occasional little quality of life inclusions such as the player editor doesn't make up for the fact that the
limitations of the career mode aren't the only broken string on AO International Tennis» racquet.
If you are
bored of the career mode, you can try some of the custom races or time trials that offer plenty of replay value, especially if you are one of the dedicated fan who prefers to master each track.
The additional cinematics and character interactions at the start
of career mode really add to the realism of F1 2017 and help to introduce all the elements of this mode to new players.
This is a massively expanded
area of career mode, with 115 upgrades now available and the addition of having to manage engine and gearboxes.
The overall
blandness of the career mode, online connectivity issues, and sharp learning curve burned me out well before it probably should have and left me with a strong case of buyer's remorse.
If the devs want to extend the
length of the career mode, it would make a lot more sense to have some sort of fictitious minor - league promotion to get the basics down before moving on to TUF and then onto the UFC.
As a simulation, it doesn't hold a candle to some of the games offered on the PC, but it makes up for it with its
breadth of career mode features that help make it more than just a racing game, but a racing RPG of sorts.
These matches get increasingly more and more difficult but once you have gotten through a good
portion of the career mode the computer gets somewhat predictable and ends up making the career mode a bit shorter then it was meant to be.
But it still takes a lot from it and this is shown just in the
setup of the career mode, which does have a lot of similarities to GT4 in the career mode and in the arcade.
The game still isn't going to compete with the
likes of a career mode in Tiger Woods PGA Tour but there are some nice touches done to this game to make them a worthwhile addition.
The basic
expectations of a career mode are all met but that's pretty much all there is to it, and it brings into question whether Career will be compelling enough to hold interest beyond a few weeks of playing.