The race is on, and with the Grand Prix season well underway, it's not long now

until you can play along yourself with the release of F1 2021, the latest edition of F1's

official game. I'm Ed Sture and joining me to reveal all about the new features that have been

announced, and Nathan Quinn and Val Haringi. Hi, Nathan, good to have you back. Of course,

you were here for our last podcast about what we wanted to see from F1-20201 and future

editions of the game, so in generally, you're happy with what we now know we're going to get?

It's interesting when you put it in that context, because of course, compared to all of the

things we wanted in F1 games, obviously F1 2021 is disappointing in that sense, but that was a,

that was very much a dream scenario we were fantasising about. No, I mean, F1 2021, having played

with the preview build a bit, it's definitely, and of course, having seen and knowing more details now about the breaking points, story mode and other things, I think it certainly, well, I think the great thing about the F1 games recently is they've all been gradual steps up and improvements on one another.

2017 was a bit best in 2016 and

2018 best in 17 and so on and so forth. And it does seem like F1 2021, no matter which way

you cut it, is going to be F12020 but another step forward. And breaking point, of course,

something totally new. And from what we've

seen, it does look, I think I actually mentioned in the previous podcast that, with regards to

story modes in games, you either do it well or don't bother. And breaking point, I think

it does look like it's going to be done quite well. So, you know, I'm very much excited for that. And the rest of the game is, as I said, 2020, but a step forward. So, yeah, I'm optimistic for F on 2021. Well, you've tantalised us with a bit of a mention of breaking point there, which we'll get on to in depth in a moment. But Val, obviously, I've just got to let you, as a Chelsea fan,

just have your brief moment to enjoy the Champions League final, because I don't think you're

going to want to talk about anything else until you've had at least five seconds to celebrate

that. Yeah, a brief moment has been going on for a good 48 hours now. It's going to continue

well into the week. It's just a wonderful. It's a wonderful feeling.

What video games? Who even cares? We don't even need anything else.

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