.:: Official F1 2009 (CodeMasters) Thread - Wii & PSP ::.

CREATED BY: CodeMasters
AVAILABLE ON: PlayStation Portable & Nintendo Wii

RELEASE DATES:
UK: November 20th, 2009
NA: November 17th, 2009
PAL: November 19th, 2009
JP: December 18th, 2009
INT: November 17th, 2009

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FEATURES
- Single Exhibiton Races [Race-only, Full weekend (Practice, Qualifying & Race)]
- Full Seasons
- World Championship Career Mode [Three Seasons Long - Play as a current driver or create one from scratch]
- Challenge Mode [Single, Co-Op Mode]
- No Commentary
- Introduction of KERS
- More evenly-balanced grid in comparison to real life
- Wireless Multiplayer for PSP

CHOICE OF CONTROLS (Wii)
- Wii Remote
- F1-specific Wii Wheel
- Wii Remote & Nunchuck
- CIassic Controller
- Wii Wheel
- Logitech Wii Steering Wheel

MINI-GAMES
- Checkpoint
- Gate Mode
- Touge
- Burning Lap
- Slipstream
- Eliminator
- Cornering

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After two years without an F1 game, CodeMasters comes to the rescue with F1 2009. You can find all the information you need here as it becomes available.

So what are you looking forward to? Playing as Lewis Hamilton? Crashing into Lewis Hamilton? Or just the pleasure of having a Formula One game again? Discuss everything to do with the game here :)

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GameSpot Coverage
Wii | PSP

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Other Sources

Official F1 2009 Website

CodeMasters F1 2009/2010 Forum Board

F1 2009: Raising Expectations

IGN Preview

Trailers

F1 2009 Teaser Trailer

F1 2009 First Trailer

F1 2009 - Monza

F1 2009 - Singapore

F1 2009 - Japan

F1 2009 - Brazil

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Game Awards
EASY
Made The Cut - Reach Q3 in Qualifying
Flying Lap - Achieve your first Time Trial Medal
Speed Demon - Drive faster than 230MPH (370KM/H)
Challenger - Complete a Challenge with a C Rank or above
Toe To Toe - Win a Head To Head Challenge
Tuned To Perfection - Take Pole Position in Qualifying with a tuned vehicle
April Shower - Win a Race in the wet
Manual Master - Finish a Race using only manual gears
Get Noticed - Achieve the fastest lap in a Grand Prix
Unassisted - Finish a Race with all driving aids turned off

MEDIUM
Grand Prix Win - Win your first Grand Prix
Pole Position - Achieve your first Pole Position
Stirling Performance - Lap every car in a race in wet conditions
Learning To Fly - Post a flying lap to win a Time Trial Medal with all driving aids disabled
Grade A Performance - Earn an A Rank in Challenge Mode
Endurance - Complete a 100% distance Race
Unplugged - Win a race with all driving aids disabled
Banger Racing - Repair damage to your car in the pits and go on to win the Race
High Roller - Win the Monte Carlo Grand Prix with vehicle damage enabled
Prancer - Complete a lap of Monza with an average speed greater than 150MPH (241KM/H)

HARD
The Greatest of All Time - Win eight World Championships
Clean Sweep - Win every Grand Prix
Leader of the Pack - Achieve Pole on every circuit
Driving Legend - Beat the real World Lap Record on any circuit
Go the Distance - Drive 1000 Miles (1610KM)
Timed to Perfection - Achieve all Gold Time Trial Trophies
Legendary Charge! - Win a Race starting from 20th on the grid
Must Dash! - Earn 14 Pole Positions in a single season
Shoe Maker - Earn 149 Championship points or more in a single season
Champion - Beat Lewis Hamilton in the Challenge Mode Head To Head Race

Fantastic!  I always thought it was stupid how the last game to come out featured the 2006 liveries and driver lineups, and that since then we've had two great seasons and two new champions, sucking new fans into the sport, and no new game to appease the fans!

I can't wait to see what they can do with current gen technology now that we're a couple of years into it!  I'd like to see a career mode where you are put in a back end team (like Force India), and are given targetiven a points target over the course of the season.  If you meet target, or exceed it, you could be awarded with test drives for bigger teams, in which if you achieve a higher than a certain average lap time, you get the drive!

I would also like to see online updates for the game to keep driver rosters and team liveries as up to date as possible!

Great news, cheers for the update Redders!

Aye yeah, it will be nice to play an F1 game again after not having any for many years (since it went Sony exclusive, I think 2003 was the last one I played as I got rid of my PS2 shortly after and have not got a PSP or PS3). I just want Grand Prix to come back on PC and finally get a 360 version (Grand Prix 4 was canned for Xbox 1 which is a sad sight).

Cheers for the updates Rdders.

I'd set the game up to accept car updates. So in the release version, have the 2008 season. A month or two into the new season release a 2009 car pack. And then each week after the race use results and data to release a race by race preformance update.  

I've always wanted a F1 game starting in 1950 and ending with the latest season and updates each year for maybe 10 bucks with the latest year. Hello holographic disks. 

No worries guys. I must stress the March 2009 release date is unconfirmed, and in fact is a stupid date of release. The new cars won't have even done a race by then, so expect that date to change when a real source can give us it.Redders1989

To be honest though, EA put F1 2000 out before the season started and had the car colours wrong for Minardi :(

I do like the idea of having old seasons in first but I think Codemasters will deffinatly promote this more before release as its a big budget game to get the Formula 1 IP so they will want to make sure it sells a truck load before releasing it.

That'd be about right considering F1 2006's release date back in '06KimisApprentice

Well, do you mean F1 Championship Edition for the PS3? Because in the UK, F1 2006 (for the PS2) came out in July.

Also to Mr5Nascar, have you got a source for it?

It seems to vary world wide, as F1 is not that big in USA so it will not get rushed to be released there.

I hope we get it soon but well made.

It is on this website. I looked up formula one 2009 for the 360 and it said october on gamespot.Mr5Nascar

CM have not said anything but "2009"

[QUOTE="Mr5Nascar"]It is on this website. I looked up formula one 2009 for the 360 and it said october on gamespot.MS7XWDC

CM have not said anything but "2009"

Updated top post with the CodeMasters forum board link. Speaking of which, hello MS7XWDC (for those not aware, this user is a frequent face on the Codies board), nice to have you here :). I saw someone post on there saying there was some "revelations" from Codies last week, you know anything about those?

Hi, and thx for the welcome !

yes, 2 things came out:

We are not recycling tracks from GRID. They are all being built from scratch with our new, updated Ego tech in mind (which is much better than you've seen in DiRT and GRID) and will be fully researched, photographed, scanned, videoed etc. to ensure accuracy.

We're planning on having full length races right down to very short races for those that want it. Tyre wear and pit stops etc will be scaled accordingly so that they all still make sense. The integration of this and the lap length is still being investigated.

Hmmm, They've managed it before without too much hassle, But i guess they'll want data from the teams on how the tyres wear and such.

Anything been said about involvment of safety cars and red flags? Or damage models?

Hmmm, They've managed it before without too much hassle, But i guess they'll want data from the teams on how the tyres wear and such.

Anything been said about involvment of safety cars and red flags? Or damage models?

kipi19

so far nothing on the SC. that and red flags are being discussed on the forum, but nothing from CM.

i think the damage will be like GRID visually [track debris etc] but i think it will effect the car performance more [in a SIM like way]

From what MS7XWC writes (quotes) it seems there is hope for a real good sim after all. I never cared too much for SC though.

CM: "Our game will not be moddable. The data structures we use are very complex to make the most of current hardware and we'd have to release a whole range of editors, exporters and converters + you'd have to buy a range of expensive art tools to work with them. We will be releasing an F1 game every year so you should get all the latest data you need at the highest possible quality."MS7XWDC

CM: "We will not make out game modifiable. The way we store our data, makes it all but impossible to mod, and we don't want to release public versions of our tool. We will be releasing an F1 game every year so you should get all the latest data you need at the highest possible price."

But really, CM? Modding is what makes all the top racing games, top racing games. rFactor, F1C 99-02, NR2003, GTR, etc...

more track scan images:

[QUOTE="MS7XWDC"]CM: "Our game will not be moddable. The data structures we use are very complex to make the most of current hardware and we'd have to release a whole range of editors, exporters and converters + you'd have to buy a range of expensive art tools to work with them. We will be releasing an F1 game every year so you should get all the latest data you need at the highest possible quality."XSamFisherX

CM: "We will not make out game modifiable. The way we store our data, makes it all but impossible to mod, and we don't want to release public versions of our tool. We will be releasing an F1 game every year so you should get all the latest data you need at the highest possible price."

But really, CM? Modding is what makes all the top racing games, top racing games. rFactor, F1C 99-02, NR2003, GTR, etc...

I can't wait for this game to come out. I've had F1 06 for nearly 3 years and I'm bored of playing Montoya and Ralf Schumi. I want to drive Vettel, Kubica and Hamilton. Zeller--

Not to mention the fact BMW very rarely ever score points. Hell, they got 36 in the real 2006 season, scoring one or 2 points in most of the races that season to boot. Beemers were made to underperform heavily in the game...

They should maybe do what they do in Fifa where the field changes performance in perspective to how they performed in the real race earlier in the year, or based on their current formdan_dez

Codemasters is heading into 2009 with a strong new UK management team, and an
even stronger line-up of new products. Michael French speaks to UK GM Jeremy
Wigmore and marketing VP Alex Bertie about their plans for the year ahead…

The company is famed for its racing games – and you've a number of them due this
year. How will you differentiate between them?

AB: Most important is that we have racing games with very distinct identities.
FUEL is an open world racer. DIRT is a rally game full of authenticity which
also captures the driving life****

JW: The one thing that everyone knows about Codemasters is the development
quality of its racing games. That's never been in doubt, and I think that will
win out for each game.

And of course there is Formula One. What can you tell us about it?

AB: Our game is an opportunity to bring F1 back on multiple platforms to a
broader marketplace. Our vision for F1 is about making it exciting again as a
video game property. We can't talk about how we will do that yet, but we have
big plans that will not just be one huge game later this year, but a phased
approach over a number of years. There's a great alignment of ethos there that a
UK studio is working on the game of a sport whose current champ is a young
ambitious British driver.

http://www.mcvuk.com/interviews/438/INTERVIEW-Codemasters

CM on Multiplayer: There's always a push for more, more, more people online (sounds great on paper), and indeed we have up to 24 catered for with our F1 game, but we've found 8 is the magic number for DiRT 2.MS7XWDC

Yeah keep em comming :D:D

I Can't wait ! :D

Moi?

I have rFactor :lol:

Rumour: F1 Game delayed until 2010 [except for PSP version]