Way back when Codemasters first acquired the Formula One license in 2009, it used the following tagline for its debut multiplatform effort F1 2010: “Be the driver. Live the life.” And it fulfilled that brief as best it could, for the time. You took part in press conferences, attended meetings, generally watching the Formula One world in first person. But after the race was over and you were done fiddling with the menus, the lights went out.
We’ve gone on all kinds of diversions with the series since then, delving into classic cars, R&D and team ownership. We’ve followed a quasi-cinematic story of a young driver making his way up through F2 and into the big leagues, in a series of playable vignettes sandwiched by cutscenes. But this year we’re going back to the original brief: F1 22 wants us to live the life of a superstar driver, on and off the track.
