Originally posted by Race Idiot
If its the version made by EA dont buy it. All their simulation (I use this term loosely) racing games handle like crap. Wait for the version released by sony.
I actually bought the Liverpool Studios/Sony Formula One 2002 game yesterday (40% for the game, 60% for the DVD of the 2001 season).
The game's okay - I run the GT Force wheel, and the cars are very driveable without traction control and ABS. It looks a bit more polished than last year's version, but the cars actually feel connected to the steering wheel, so the control's FAR better than that floaty rubbish EA serve up. AI seems pretty good, still aggressive but not the rammers they were last year.
A nice touch with the game is the ability to make in-car adjustments - stuff like traction control, brake balance, recalling the last pit communication, can all be called up via using combinations of buttons on the wheel. They've tailored button set-ups for this for the DS2, GT Force, Driving Force, Speedster 2 and Momo wheels, so they've been pretty thorough.
Set-up options on the car are probably a good balance between basic and realistic - certainly no fiddling through obscure stuff you don't understand like Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix series.
To conclude - if you don't have a decent PC to run Grand Prix 3 or 4, this is the F1 game you'd be buying - plus you get the DVD.
I'll play this for a while, but I'll probably go back and run my 555 Subaru cars in GP3.