Dave Roberts talks to Codemasters' CEO about planning for the future.
Two events have dominated Codemasters’ year to date.
In April, the seriously big Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA bought a 50 per cent share in the company, becoming the publisher’s co-owner with VC company, Balderton Capital. At the time, CEO Rod Cousens said “the future had never looked brighter”.
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "The racing genre has always felt like a perfect fit on handhelds, thanks to offering bite-sized sessions and being able to hide technical flaws behind blistering speeds and enclosed environments. It provides a large amount of variety too, from immersive sims to light-hearted kart racers (and my personal favourite, drift-heavy arcade racers!), meaning there’s usually something for everyone to enjoy.
Anticipation was high that the Vita would follow in the PSP’s footsteps as a handheld offering an unrivalled selection of racers, from muddy WRC titles to the clean racing lines of Gran Turismo. Beyond the initial months things didn’t quite pan out like this, but there’s still a nice spread of games available to cater to anyone’s tastes – and thanks to the addition of backwards-compatibility with PSP and PS1, the Vita ends up with possibly the largest selection of any console in the last 10 years, even if it's not all running natively on the hardware."
TeamVVV writes: "We put F1 2015 up against F1 2011 in our very latest side by side comparison video.
F1 2011 is running on the Xbox 360 and F1 2015 is the Playstation 4 version. We take a couple of laps at the floodlit Singapore, one of the jewels in the Formula 1 crown, and we are using the now dominant Mercedes.
F1 2013 is the pinnacle of the series. They newer ones are arcady and watered down
i had no idea that codemasters did a F1 game so that explains why it was so ahead of its time.
Team VVV writes: "To follow up on our recent F1 2011 vs F1 2015 video, we decide to go one step further and put four iterations of Codemasters' F1 titles side by side for comparison purposes and for a little fun too.
We have F1 2010 running at the top left for the Xbox 360, F1 2011 at the top right also for the Xbox 360, the bottom left is last year's F1 2014 for the Playstation 3 and of course F1 2015 running on the Playstation 4 completes the foursome in the bottom right video."
There is career mode and all the teams, tracks and drivers so yeh this gets my money cos im big f1 fan
There is no career mode. You get to play as one driver for one season as often as you like. I think its called championship mode.
Mate this is a proper F1 game, all the teams, drivers, tracks, rules etc. so get the real thing over the amazing porject cars for a true f1 experance.
Well if publishers start taking the wii serious i mean F12009 sold well and thats without using Broadcast game engine yes Codemasters turned it down IGN preview tells u this it also says graphics take a big hit because of this so if Codemasters actually did graphics twice that of GT4 on ps2 it would have sold much more but F12009 sold more than alot of high end racing games on ps3 ect so are Codemasters actually going to give us wii gamers a proper racer F12009 has controls boxed all it needs is Broadcast Engine with graphics twice that of GT4 ps2,8 pixel pipelines,3 times texture memory,4 times disc memory,2 times clock speed on GPU,Supports all Graphical effects of ps3,Has TEV/S3TC ect,With all that racing games should be equal in graphics to Forza 2 easy in 480p.