EA Sports F1: any news

Hi I read somewhere EA Sports will be doing a F1 game. Is this true and what sort of release date are they talking about ? -- regards =========================================== Singapore

Yes and I heard that they were going to buy the rights to Jeff Crammond's GP3...huh...rumours... :) Matthew.

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> Hi > I read somewhere EA Sports will be doing > a F1 game. > Is this true and what sort of release date are they > talking about ? > -- > regards > =========================================== > Singapore

I hope not:-) Cause EA is the worst company to "make" online racing something enjoyable... Ever tried SBK Superbike ? NFS3 ? YIKES !!! Eric http://www.simracingmag.com

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> Hi > I read somewhere EA Sports will be doing > a F1 game. > Is this true and what sort of release date are they > talking about ? > -- > regards > =========================================== > Singapore

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Do you think SBK is that bad? It seems fine to me except for the poor "ai" diversity. Of course I agree that EA does appear to have a bad sim track record Thom j.

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> I hope not:-) Cause EA is the worst company to "make" > online racing something enjoyable... > Ever tried SBK Superbike ? NFS3 ? YIKES !!! > Eric > http://www.simracingmag.com > > Hi > > I read somewhere EA Sports will be doing > > a F1 game. > > Is this true and what sort of release date are they > > talking about ? > > -- > > regards > > =========================================== > > Singapore

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Now there's a scary thought ;-)...I for one hope that Microprose again gets the nod. Knowing their track record, it would ensure gp3 not being released until 2001at the earliest, which would suit me fine because I'm havin' too much fun with gpl to look at anything else for the immediate future. It will be interesting to see if Crammond can better gpl's incredible d/m and physics, although going by his last two efforts i wouldn't put it past him. Cheers Phil

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> Matthew. > > Hi > > I read somewhere EA Sports will be doing > > a F1 game. > > Is this true and what sort of release date are they > > talking about ? > > -- > > regards > > =========================================== > > Singapore

> > Yes and I heard that they were going to buy the rights to Jeff Crammond's > > GP3...huh...rumours... :) > Now there's a scary thought ;-)...I for one hope that Microprose again gets > the nod. Knowing their track record, it would ensure gp3 not being released > until 2001at the earliest, ... And it would ensure that not a single patch will ever be released. And that's not because there isn't a need for one. -- Torgeir Foss Oslo, Norway

The same thing happens with 'Prose games. They put them out waaay early then wait ages to release a good enough patch to make it worthwhile (if ever). At least if EA was publishing the game, provided Geoff Crammond gets to finish it himself, they would have the rights to current F1 licenses and the game would feature '99 or '00 cars instead of historical '96 or worse cars.