F1 05
Formula One 05 for the PlayStation 2 was released in Europe on July 1, 2005, and in Australia later that year. It featured the 'Career Mode' concept from Formula One 04, which allows players to work their way…
F1 05 is a racing developed by SCE Studio Liverpool, released 1 July 2005 on PlayStation 2.
What F1 05 is
F1 05 is a racing game developed by SCE Studio Liverpool and released in 2005. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Formula One 05 for the PlayStation 2 was released in Europe on July 1, 2005, and in Australia later that year. It featured the 'Career Mode' concept from Formula One 04, which allows players to work their way through the Formula One teams over the course of five years (albeit a repeat version of the 2005 season each time). This game also supports EyeToy: Cameo, allowing players to place their own face on a driver when creating their profile, but unlike F1 04, though they cannot choose their own helmet. The cover athletes are Jenson Button, David Coulthard and Narain Karthikeyan. Players start out testing for a smaller teams (Minardi, Jordan and Red Bull Racing (Like in F1 04, a generic car…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Formula 1 series
F1 05 is the 84th of 123 entries we hold in the Formula 1 series. It arrived 11 months after Formula One 04. The next entry was F1 06 in 2006. Its critic score of 70 is 7 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Grand Prix 3 at 100.
How it was received
F1 05 holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What it launched against
F1 05 launched on 1 July 2005, within three weeks of Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari and Ys: The Oath in Felghana. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari, Ys: The Oath in Felghana.
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