F1 2012
As well as the new young driver test mode, F1 2012 features a new "Champions Mode", in which the six World Champions competing in the 2012 season — Kimi Räikkönen, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Sebastian…
F1 2012 is a racing developed by Codemasters Birmingham, released 17 September 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What F1 2012 is
F1 2012 is a racing game developed by Codemasters Birmingham and released in 2012. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ego Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
F1 2012 is a video game developed by Codemasters based on the 2012 Formula One season. The game was released in September. It uses the EGO Engine. This was also the first game by Codemasters released under their "Codemasters Racing" label, which was used until 2016.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 49 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Formula 1 series
F1 2012 is the 89th of 123 entries we hold in the Formula 1 series. It arrived 12 months after F1 2011. The next entry was F1 Race Stars in 2012. Its critic score of 77 is almost exactly the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Grand Prix 3 at 100.
How it was received
F1 2012 holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4Ghz or AMD Athlon X2 5400+, 2 GB RAM and AMD HD2600 or NVIDIA Geforce 8600. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 15GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
F1 2012 launched on 17 September 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Borderlands 2, FTL: Faster Than Light and Mark of the Ninja. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Borderlands 2, FTL: Faster Than Light, Mark of the Ninja.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for F1 2012 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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