Three Moves Ahead 140: Three Turns Ahead

Three Moves Ahead

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Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2011

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jenn Cutter comes back for a discussion of F1 2011 with Rob and Troy. Learn about exciting rules changes, the difference between a racing game and a motorsports game, and some of Codemasters crucial fumbles that keep F1 2011 from being a clear-cut improvement over its predecessor. Also, tire strategy means F1 2011 is a strategy game, and is therefore a totally valid topic, and not pure self-indulgence from Rob.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.
0:04.1	Joining me tonight for a special racing episode is Recent F1 Convert, Troy Goodfellow.
0:09.1	Yes. We should probably explain the topic in a bit and why we're doing it, but here I am. Recent F1
0:14.9	Convert. Yes. And welcome back once again, our friend, Racing aficionado, and writer Jen Cutter.
0:21.5	Hello, it's good to be back, guys.
0:23.8	Yeah, so as I promised slash threatened many months ago, I did want to occasionally take
0:29.8	3MA on a detour into other specialty topics that are near and dear to my heart and happily
0:34.9	have become near and dear to Troy's.
0:38.0	And now that F1, 2011 has been out for several weeks and we've had some time to reflect on it,
0:43.3	the time seems right to take a week's break from strategy games to discuss another worthy niche,
0:47.8	the motorsports game.
0:49.3	We're going to be discussing F1211 in particular, but I think with Codemasters F1 series, it's worth considering
0:55.9	what makes these games distinct from racing games, and to use Tom Chick's term, car PGs, like,
1:02.0	say, Forza. Before we delve into that, though, I wanted to start with you, Jen. So what did you
1:07.5	think of F12010, and where did you think F1 2011 needed to go?
1:12.9	I actually thought 2010 was a pretty solid package.
1:16.6	I've played a lot of the other F1 games, not the EA series, but Codemasters did a version on PSP for 2009.
1:23.4	That was brutal.
1:25.2	Granted, there were severe limitations on the PSP. And then there was the
1:29.5	Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, one of the Liverpool studios, did in addition of 2006 or something
1:36.8	that got ported to PS3. And that was really interesting for other reasons. But anyway, I liked
1:41.4	2010, and I'm not sure the 2011 is as much of a step forward as it could have been. Yeah, that's kind of been my reaction to, actually. Like, F12010 was one of those games that the more time I spent with it, the more highly I thought of it. And before 2011 came out, I was really excited because, you know, from where I said, having logged, God, like, you know, 50, 60 hours into F12010,
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