{"id":851680,"date":"2025-12-14T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/f1-24-review-breaking-the-drs-train-a-little-but-not-a-huge-amount"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:06:17","slug":"f1-24-review-breaking-the-drs-train-a-little-but-not-a-huge-amount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/f1-24-review-breaking-the-drs-train-a-little-but-not-a-huge-amount\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 24 review: Breaking the DRS train a little, but not a huge amount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/f1-24-review-breaking-the-drs-train-a-little-but-not-a-huge-amount.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>As a racing series, F1&#8217;s in a bit of a weird place at the moment. PR-wise things are arguably going better than they ever have before, with plenty of new fans being pulled in to watch an on-track product that&#8217;s been, well&hellip; just okay-ish a lot of the time over the past few years. So, where does its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/ea-sports-f1-24\">latest official video game adaptation<\/a> sit? Well, in a similarly mid-pack sort of position.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna start off by saying that, if you&#8217;re coming into this year&#8217;s edition of this annual sports series expecting a huge paradigm shift &#8211; much like with its brethren <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/ea-sports-fc24\">EA FC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/nba-2k24\">NBA 2K<\/a> &#8211; you may well be left a bit disappointed. There&#8217;s plenty of furniture that&#8217;ll be familiar to veterans, from the Podium Pass and Pitcoins that serve as the F1 series versions of similar mechanics every AAA sports game has had to have for a while now, to on-track action that&#8217;s desperately trying to satisfy both casual and hardcore players.<\/p>\n<p>That said, we&#8217;re here to focus on what&#8217;s new or revamped, so let&#8217;s get down to that; starting with the mode that&#8217;s undergone the most comprehensive shift. A number of recent versions of Driver Career &#8211; which, as you might expect, allows you to inject yourself into F1 racing &#8211; have revolved around Braking Point, a very Drive to Survive-style story mode a bit like FIFA&#8217;s The Journey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/f1-24-review-breaking-the-drs-train-a-little-but-not-a-huge-amount\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/f1-24-review-breaking-the-drs-train-a-little-but-not-a-huge-amount\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a racing series, F1&#8217;s in a bit of a weird place at the moment. PR-wise things are arguably going better than they ever have before, with plenty of new fans being pulled in to watch an on-track product that&#8217;s been, well&hellip; just okay-ish a lot of the time over the past few years. So, where does its latest official video game adaptation sit? Well, in a similarly mid-pack sort of position. I&#8217;m gonna start off by saying that, if you&#8217;re coming into this year&#8217;s edition of this annual sports series expecting a huge paradigm shift &#8211; much like with its brethren EA FC and NBA 2K &#8211; you may well be left a bit disappointed. 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