F1 2015

I bought this game in the sale, because i like it a lot on console. I launch the game, and my controller is not supported.
I was really confused and if you bought this and tried to use an Xbox One controller, you probably are too.
So heres how to fix it: Unplug Controller, Launch game, Use keyboard to select 2014 or 2015 (arrow keys and enter), Skip intro with enter, Press any button to go to the menu screen, Replug in controller. That should fix it

Now, the only reason i'm giving this a bad review is that, I shouldn't have to go through this effort every time i want to play the game, The fact they wouldn't fix it just because it isn't the newest one annoys me.

I run the Feral Interactive port of F1 2015 in Xubuntu (17.10) using the default mesa/amdgpu driver that is included in the linux kernel/ubuntu repository. This is my first F1 sim, so I cannot compare to prior Codemasters F1 games. I have logged 157 hours in this sim and thought it is well past time to give it a review. I am very much a beginner to F1 sim racing and I am coming at this review as a complete noob. Because F1 2017 has been out for a while, I doubt this review will be of use to anyone except for a fellow GNU/Linux user who has an interest in it for whatever reason.

I do my races in regular Championship season mode, medium AI, 60 minute practices, full qualifying, and 100% race lengths.

Review Hardware

Self-Built System
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
RAM: 16Gb DDR4 2400
GPU: AMD RX 460
Steering Wheel: Logitech G29

Installation

Installation was via steam and was a breeze

Performance

I find F1 2015 to be quite demanding in system resources on budget system hardware similar to mine. I can run the sim on medium quality settings with 16x anistropic filtering and disabled TAA/SMAA with FPS in the 50's. F1 2015 is more demanding on system resources than Dirty Rally and GRID Autosport. I do not have F1 2017, so I cannot compare to this sim.

The Good

For a first-time F1 sim racer, I find there is quite a lot to like in F1 2015. Visually, F1 2015 is quite a nice sim to experience. The colors are bright. The environments are detailed. The cars have a good look to them.

A feature I particularly enjoy is the dynamic weather system. It is pretty cool beginning a race in dry conditions, gradually moving to wet conditions, and ending the race in dry conditions again.

Tire wear is also a feature I really appreciate, which I find plays a significant role during races in F1 2015.

During races, I follow the crew chief’s race strategy; however, I have experienced situations where I feel like I can change the race strategy for a better race outcome, which is an immersive feeling that a race sim to offer sim racers.

F1 2015 includes a Pro Championship season that emphasizes realism for the sim racer. In Pro Championship mode, driving assists are turned off, race length is 100%, cockpit view is required, and disabled pitting help. I have not done a Pro Championship season yet; however, I look forward to this mode as I want as much realism as I am capable.

The Not So Good

For me, the single worst part of F1 2015 is the inability to review results of previous races. A race standings page appears just once never to be seen again. A work-around is to take a screen shot of the race standing; however, this is not as convenient as if this feature is built into F1 2015.

The second worst part of F1 2015 are when the AI gets alongside of me and takes me out with an angry maneuver that defies physics. The angry AI maneuver is most annoying when it occurs when I get a blue flag and let the lapping car along side of me and in the blink of an eye I am wrecked into the wall/grass. It is hilarious to watch, but not fun to experience. The fix to this problem is to improve my racing ability so that I don’t get lapped, and the most effective fix is to stay in first from beginning to the end of the race.

Summary

Good:
- Dynamic weather
- Tire wear
- Pro Championship mode
- Immersive racing experience

Not so Good
- Inability to review past races during the same season
- AI can unfairly be angry at times to the detriment of the player

F1 2015

The misunderstood entry to the series

Granted when this was first released it had lots of issues like crashing and general bugs ruining everything. That was fixed in their patches. Luckily for me I didnt have the game at that time.

I love Codemasters F1 series. Prior to owning F1 2015 I have played approx 410 hours across this series.

F1 2015 is the first "next gen" title in the series and while Codemasters made some crazy decisions to remove Career and the safety car, this game is still superb.

The handling physics on this game are incredible compared to 2013 and 2014 which before 2016 came out were considered the benchmark. The cars handle in such a realistic way and can be very unforgiving with the turbo kicking out massive torque on corner exits. The game has made me a better racer and enhanced my smoothness and consistency due to its fantastic handling physics. I am even seeing this pay off in other games like Asseto Corsa and Project Cars.

Setting up my G920 for F1 2015 was easier than the last titles and once dialled in felt really really good.

The AI really fight in this installment, sometimes they can be borderline aggressive but it makes for some fantastic racing.

Pro Season mode is a great challenge.

In summary if you love codemasters F1 games and can live without the fact this has no career or safety car you will love this game. I cant wait to start playing F1 2016 now, these physics with a proper career? Yes Please!

Pro's

• Fantastic handling physics the best one of the entire series up to 2015. (havent played 2016 yet)
  
• Great looking graphics
  
• Awesome particle effects
  
• Sound is on point
  
• Taking care of your tyres and engine heat affects you more which is good
  
• Stable Online Play if you can find anyone
  
• Fantastic FFB and wheel use for my G920
  

Con's

• No career mode (why they took this out is crazy)
  
• No safety car (why they took this out is crazy)
  
• Dead Multiplayer
  
[*]Can sometimes glitch out (rare but annoying)

Trail-Dave

An honest review from a long-time Codies and F1 fan:

Let me start by saying I don't play multiplayer often so this review has nothing to do with that section of the game.

Having until now held back from purchasing this game due to the lack of career mode and the discussions of game-breaking bugs and crap AI, I can honestly say I was surprised at how not-broken this game really is.

- Is it clearly a rushed job in terms of menus and extra content (i.e. challenge modes) from previous titles? Yes.
- Is it a shame that there's only a 'championship season' mode rather than career? Yes, hugely!

However, this game is NOT broken. Sure, there are some optimisation issues that mean that I can't run it on ultra, whereas my machine specs might otherwise have allowed it. But it looks very pretty on 'high' settings--far better than any F1 game has looked by far. Furthermore, since the modes are kind of bare-bones, the most important aspect of the entire game has to be the car mechanics and the racing. The mechanics themselves, while not perfect, feel really nice. This is NOT an arcade F1 game: with assists off you're fighting your back end out of the corners and trying to manage fuel/tyres in a way never before achieved in an F1 game. There's improvement to be made, but it's heading in a really great direction for F1 2016. For those really into the technical stuff, adjusting brake-bias and other settings are far more important now when it comes to preventing tyre lock-ups that now actually will destroy individual tyres. The AI is pretty dumb at times, admittedly. But it isn't game breaking (perhaps it was fixed over time).

But if you're like me and you were an F1 fan itching for F1 2016, hesitating to buy this one or having completely written it off, with the discount it's a really good buy. It is no longer a broken game as many reviews will tell you and it's actually a lot of fun. It's not the F1 2015 we were all hoping for, without career mode. But they focused on the racing, the feel of the cars, and they've done that really well. To tide you over until 2016 is released in August, I would definitely recommend this. More casual racing fans ought to stay away and wait until 2016 which will undoubtedly be better and more polished.

Overall: 7/10

If it had career mode and some AI fixes it'd easily be a 9. As a result, buy it when on sale.

Pro's:
- Graphics; it gets more realistic every year and 2015 is no exception
- Stable game - I heard people had problems with error 41's or crashes to desktop: haven't had any.
- Realistic driving, pro season got me 4 laps behind - then again I suck without ABS so it should be this way. AI is fun to drive against (although too aggresive at times)

Con's:
- Bugs. A lot of them. I feel like being a beta tester, but then I'm not paid or am aware of the game being in beta state. Surely every game has its glitches post-release, but there's a difference between nuisances or game breakers. Gamebreakers are being patched alright, but they shouldn't have existed in such amounts. One or two can happen, five is way too much
- Online still hasn't been fixed, 3 weeks after release. One should think racing games such as these have a large multiplayer community...Can't find lobbies, especially the hardcore hopper. And whose idea was it to remove the custom lobbies?
- Omitting the career and coop mode. Does this have something to do with the ever-present profile corruption bug? Instead of fixing it, removing it?. Coop was a lot of fun, even with total strangers. It's hidden in the online mode (manually lobby with a friend, then pick the races), but the option has gone from the menu.
- Did I mention a lot of bugs?

F1 2013, my previous, was a lot better than this game; the only positive I can find is that the cars are handling better, Codemasters should make F1 2016 (2017?) a better game, if not I suspect the Codemasters series will lose its fanbase, and rightly so. I hope they'll be like Williams (2013-2014): after a suckass game, make a great one.

It's bugged, it lacks depth, and it's no improvement over its predecessors. In fact, without a career mode, you could argue it's a step back. How can DIRT be so good, even in early access, and yet F1 2015 be so bad in its supposedly 'finished' state? Just a terribly lacklustre effort. Does anyone on the Codemasters team have even the slightest interest in F1? Does Codemasters actually want to make a good F1 game, or are they happy churning out the same steaming pile every year? There are some really good sims out there on the market that thoroughly put this game to shame.

A game filled with promises from the developers, only to turn out to be the same old song and dance for the sixth time in a row.

Somehow codemasters manage to improve one aspect of their game every year, and that's it. They find new ways to remove immersion, reduce feeling & distance you away from a solid experience.

I've heavily defended this series and the developers every year since the inception of the F1 series at Codies. But this is embarrassing.

The Pros:

The cars are much more controllable and the handling feels much better than the last iteration.

The UI is a big improvement.

The Cons:

The AI is awful,
The Force Feedback is numb,
The game is filled with graphics bugs and frame drops (frame drops unacceptable in a racing game),
The anti aliasing turns on some kind of weird hazey glow around everything,
The tyres don't feel like they're in contact with the road, they float about,
Menus are still navigated with arrow keys, a clear sign of a direct port from console to PC,
Removal of safety car,
Removal of career mode,
Terrible animations and awful character models.

There are many more cons to pros in the game. Overall if you've played any of the other F1 games, you've played this game. Hundreds of hours into the series & nothing improves.

Codemasters! We make one step forward and dozens backwards at the same time!
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They make me feel bad and ashamed about working in the same industry!

QUOTE "Skidmeister":
F1 Race Stars is a better Formula 1 game than this......
I have been a fan of Codmasters F1 and Dirt series games since the first release. I preordered this game with the information that I read over the internet from reviewers and from the Codies website. I also used my previous experience with Codmasters F1 games as a basis on what type of quality to expect from a game like this one. I have previously purchased Dirt, Dirt 2, Dirt 3, F1 2010 thru 2014 from Steam and for the most part was happy with my purchase. I am also a fan of other racing titles that are more sim than game such as IRacing, Project cars. I have enjoyed playing Race 07, Asetto Corsa except the game server on Asetto Coursa is a joke. I spent many hours in Papyrus titles like GPL and their Nascar series , and also on Geoff Crammonds World Circuit thru his GP4. I have seen both the good and bad of all these titles at their best and worst. I did not set my expectations for F1 2015 any higher than what I had seen them previously release.

Common sense would dictate that a company that has been making F1 games for the PC since their September release in 2010 would have a good handle on what it takes to get a game ready to market. Common sense need not apply here. It seems with the release of F1 2015 Codmasters has indeed returned to it's roots......console gaming. This title was written with that customer in mind. The control menus are a joke with no punchline. I was never able to get both my CSW V2 wheel and Richmotech real race gear pedals to work at the same time. It is a game that really does not have a target audience and does not know where to fit in. With a shameful lack of content considering what was in previous releases, there is no safety car, interviews, career mode, co-op mode, or classic F1 cars. The sheer scarcity of options and modes means this is yet another year where the "Official F1 tie-in" never even gets to the starting grid. The amount of modes left out of this title is borderline criminal and scandalous. It feels like less than half a game was released at a premium price no less. They "throw in" the 2014 season as a bonus, because it's obvious they intend to BONE US with this title and the absense of so much of what should be seen as standard for F1. This publisher is so hell bent on hitting it's yearly release schedule that it pulled this one out of the oven half baked.

I run a high end system and love to see titles push that hardware for what its worth. My current rig features a core !7-5960, 64 gb ddr4, (2) Titan X video cards in SLI, 2 ASUS G-sync 27" monitors at a res of 5890 x 1080 bezel corrected @144 hz. Aparently I would have had better results on a console system with this title. It crashed the first few times I ran a benchmark test so bad I needed to reload my video drivers and recalibrate the monitors as this game had them stuck in limbo after multiple crashes. This game crashes more than Maldonado and Grosjean combined. The graphics looked bad even when I got them to display, but they were constantly blinking and flashing, seemingly fishing for a proper state of display this catastrophy of a game could not deliver. It looked like it was snowing in Singapore and it nearly caused me to have suffer a seizure from the constant screen blinking. Because I never was ablle to get my wheel and pedals working at the same time, even though they worked fine in all their previous titles, I can not comment on the physics. The track textures have a filtery feeling that left me nausiated as well. This game is so awkwardly stylized it's more like a bad cartoon Anime, than a racing title.

I would have to say that afer a few hours of utter frustration spent trying to fix all the problems that run rampant with simple setup of this game, that the quit menu works great and that's about all. Also thats what I suggest, quit buying these half baked mess and let Codemasters know it no excuses as it is not their first rodeo, but could be their last. The best thing to do with this game is delete it permantly from your drive. There are plenty of good titles that offer proper racing that works to deal with this junk. Return it and get a refund while you can.

In a side note to STEAM, shame on you too. I have been a customer for over 8 years and have never even tried to return a title. I tried multiple times to get a refund on this as I was never able to complete even one lap, but was told that beacause I had more than 2 hours of trying to fix this worthless piece of junk, that they would not refund my money. Instead opting to join their co-conspirator Codmasters in ripping of a loyal customer for short term profit. Shame on you STEAM and Codmasters, I have purchased many of your products and recommended them to my friends, alas my policy is changed on that too. I will NEVER pre purchase a title again with this return policy. I had always believed that STEAM treated their customers fairly and with respect, but I see this was yet another lesson learned from this terible gaming experience.

Your money would be much better spent on the 2012 or 2013 Codemasters F1 games than this abortion of a game. I would recommend Project Cars or IRacing to anyone looking for a Racing Sim.
Had either of those titles offered all the cars or tracks from the current F1 season I would have never bothered with this lackluster castrophy in the first place. Save your money and buy something else.

Game is straight broken. I remember when codemasters used to release a game, and I got excited. Well it seems like those days are long gone. Game is buggy, crashes, multiplayer is broken, and honestly does not look "next gen" as they keep saying. Multiplayer goes something like this. 1. attempt to connect to friend. Get disconnected 2. try again. get disconnected. 3. Try 4 more times. 4. get into game, and start qualifying. 5. watch the ai take control through the pits, and bomb you into the wall in turn one. 5. drive around until you can pit. 6. pit, and start to race. 7. finish the race in first on your screen, but end up in 3rd on the podium because the game does not sync correctly in multiplayer. 8. Go to steam and request a refund. 9. write a review, and hope that this game gets removed from steam. Honestly the game is not even ready for early access. codemasters should be ashamed of themselves.

Having purchased F1 games from the year dot and played all of them from Geoff Crammonds Revs right up to the recent Codemasters run (2010 to 2014) I was thrilled to see the new one come out much earlier and with a brand new engine.

How disappointed I was when I finally got to play it. Where to start with the issues...

Handling: It's impossible. Even for an experienced racer like me, it's utterly impossible. The car randomly vears off the track at sudden intervals that make little to no sense (on power, not on power, sometimes mid corner, sometimes late corner, sometimes on entry) its impossible to predict or correct in many instances without adding more grass to the tyres. I get it, you want it to be realistic, but lets face it, unless you are Pastor Maldonado, this is far from realistic.
Forget setting up controls either, it seems Codemasters decided we didnt need those options... And my wheel just simply refuses to be detected other than as a gamepad (!!!).

The menus are ridiculous too, its really really hard to navigate. It makes little to no sense and doesnt even match the previous versions of the game, so its like trying to learn something new all over again, it just adds to the sense of frustration while playing it. If that wasn't bad enough, when you start a game, the usual ESC button used in every other menu, doesnt do anything (!!!) instead I had to smash many keys until a menu came up (its P by the way).

The graphics aren't even very good either, despite running a very high end PC with 16gb of ram and 970 graphics card. It looked worse than last year...

Then there is the season part. Taken away completely and replaced by a single season system where you drive as one of the current drivers. Why can't I use my own damn name and race across many seasons like in previous years games?

It feels like they've taken away all the flexibility of the old games, replaced the engine with something worse and made the menu system infuriating.

I haven't even mentioned constant frame dips and stuttering during actually trying to stay on the track.

This should be renamed "ice truck simulator 2015" but then perhaps that title would actually be fun instead of feeling like I've had my testicles squashed in a vice while having vinegar poured in my face (something I'd rather have than play this game in its current state).

I expected so much more.
When Codemasters said: "We took Mercedes' stance with regard to taking a gap year like they did in 2013 to make 2014 amazing, we did the same in 2014 to make 2015 out of this world". But they haven't. They've taken a step back.
There are constant crashes. There's still no parade lap. There's no more safety cars. Worse yet - there's no career mode for drivers who wish to live the F1 dream.
They've recommended a GTX 970 as a GPU - which I have, yet the game looks smudgy at best. Sure it runs fluidly in 60 FPS, but cut scenes and replays are at 30 FPS.
The bugs like missing championship points in the full season after the game crashes is pathetic. I had a 40 point lead in the championship after the game crashes, and started Round 10 with all the drivers on 0 points.
But the MOST irritating thing - you can't do 25% races with full practice sessions or full qualifying. I have 300+ games to play on Steam, I don't have time to do a full race. Let me race at 25% and enjoy your game, and let me do 3 quali runs like I used to do. Is that too much to ask? You're losing my faith, Codies. I bought this game in the same hour it went on pre-order on Steam, even before you announced that it was for sale on Facebook.
They've really let us down.

I have never felt the need to provide a game review before but this game is special. Crashes constantly. Button assignments change randomly. Stuck in menus endlessly. This is the worst case of a completely non-functional release I have ever seen. Throttle revs but the car won't move. Did somebody leave the parking brake on?

Completely unpayable!

EDIT 12/07/2015:

So today I was excited to begin a full championship season with Williams.

I selected the Championship mode, selected Legend difficulty.
Like every other F1 game, I wanted to do a 25% race, with full qualifying.
Well in F1 2015 you can't. If you want full qualifying, you have to do a 100% race.
WHY? Why can I choose my qualy length in a single race, but not in a championship mode?
Eventually I concede to doing one-shot qualy, not the end of the world.

I land in the pits in Australia - the frame rate has gone to shit. I exited the pit lane to a 10FPS mess.
I ran a race around Silverstone on high settings at excellent frame rates yesterday, what is going on?
I turned the graphics settings to low and restarted, frame rate was back to 60 FPS, but it looked horrid. Increased to medium settings - back to 10 FPS.

I am done.
I am requesting my refund. As you can see from my initial review below, I was willing to give the game a chance.
This is unacceptable, I will not be buying a Codemasters game again.

I will be playing the F1 mod on Assetto Corsa if anyone needs me.

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After the disapointment of F1 2014, I expected much better this time around. CM had a lot of extra time to get this right, given how little focus was given to F1 2014

I am running the game on an i5 4690k, R9 280x and from and SDD, haven't had any performance issues or crashes yet.

The FFB on my G27 is average, not much feeling in low speed corners, but after 20 laps of Silverstone I am OK with it. Physics are what I expected from a CM F1 game more or less.

The graphics are very disappointing, PC looks worse than the gameplay videos on youtube for PS4 and XB1. There is a weird blur on everything, nothing looks sharp.

Sound is poor, isnt well mixed.

I am going to keep the game, there is a solid base to be built on, hopefully CM patch it quick.

This seems to be a rushed PC port. I am giving thumbs down until these issues have been resolved.
Can't say I would recommend the game, but my experience is definitely not as bad as others.

The quit button works fine!
The uninstall button works fine!
The refund button works fine!


UPDATE 10/23/15:
I played this for another hour, they got their shit togehter but still upset that we can't play a championship co-op like the ones before. And I had to buy a new controller because mine was "compatible".

I will give this another few months and get back to this.

Every year I go through this with Codemaster I buy the game and its not what i wanted or expected and not in a good way, the way they advertise this game makes it look better than it actually is.

Again it feels like a poor console port over which sucks I was hoping for a more stable release I knew there would be some issue's it Codemaster so its to be expected but this is really bad.

This game really needed another couple of month's of work before they released it.

Pros:
New engine has improved it
The graphics and optimisation are great I have a GTX 760 OC. I'm getting 60+ FPS with the settings on ultra.
Bit easier to navigate around menus
Sounds are good

Cons:
Barely hear crew chief talking with it set to max
No FOV changer
No safety car - Get with times codemaster stop been lazy add saftey car
lot's of small random bugs like vanishing wheels
Crazy Ai like a bunch of ramming kids but you get the penalty
G27 still hard to setup but better than 2014
Feels unfinished



Im very close to refunding this game but I will wait for a few patch's and update this in the future.
Rating out of 10: 4/10
Review date: 10/07/15
Updated: 12/07/2015

Dear Codemasters,

What the hell? I have been a loyal fan of your racing games since 2007, but what is it with the F1 series? All the opporunity and all the promise and in every release problem after problem after problem. The most stable of the series was probably 2012 (though no FP1 and FP2 and the wet-to-dry transition problems still hurt). F1 2015 - released 2 months earlier than has been typical, and it's not ready for distribution. Let's make a simple and, I think, fair comparison:

- DiRT Rally - came with some bugs, but that was the point right? I mean, it was touted as an Early Release title for which the community feedback has been integral to QAing the game as such that you have been able to appropriately focus your development efforts, and it's worked - immaculately. And... For those of us who got in early, we paid what, 60% of the cost of a full release?

- F1 2015 - where to begin. Evidently from a development perspective, QA cycles have been all but completely omitted it seems. Some of the graphical elements are certainly more polished, and the handling model is refined, but otherwise, this bad-boy is completely smattered with issues. I am running an i7 5820 w/ 64 GB DDR4 and 2 GTX 970s in SLI and I am getting significant amounts of "blur" at assorted points throughout gameplay - not only while driving - it really doesn't look great. I tried "Reset To Track" and my car jumped around in reverse, smoked a wall and came to rest backwards on the track - that was an effect I was able to reproduce. The AI continuously drive up from behind me and smoke me like I'm not even there, sending me off track, damaging my car, and even penalising me. In just two hours of gameplay I had a crash when running benchmark mode, a random crash in the middle of a lap, 2 instances where when I started the game it was unresponsive to keyboard inputs for minutes, timing screens which flicker, setup screens which overlay one another making it virtually impossible to read the two conflicting layers of text, and a desaturated (almost to the point of being entirely greyscale) camera view once I used a flashback. All the points about "I can't make my own character", I personally couldn't care (well, aside from missing the helmet which I have used since F1 2010!), but the base playability MUST be there for full release, and in this case it isn't. Oh, and what's up with giving us PC'ers the option to try to use the voice commands if the functionality was never intended for the platform - it almost seems "mean" - queue up that fat Nelson kid from The Simpsons.

It's unfortunate that "the pinacle of motorsport" is not represented appropriately, but I guess with the "state of F1" being what it is, what else can be expected?

DiRT, DiRT 2, DiRT Rally, GRID - all amazing unforgettable titles, but F1 - the series has not been executed to the extent it should have been once yet. That's $360 I have been stupid enough to spend on not a single product which actually worked through and through. At this point I am officially turned off as I expect 50% - 60% of the community is, or will be over the coming days, based on the forums so far.

It's a sad day...





**UPDATED**
More issues:
Multiplayer - constant screen flickering - not changes to the settings from when I play in Championship or Pro Season modes.
Engineer - I cannot hear a word my engineer says even with the car and environment turned down to 50 and the Speech to 100.
Quit Game - Every time I go to quit game, Steam looks as though it's DLing a patch or something, prior to me getting an Error 41.
Multiplayer - obviously not a glitch / bug, but Codies, did you really make the decision to include a Custom Multiplayer season where AI racers were not included? Like, I want to do the full season (co-op or adversarial) with a friend, but I can only race him... Yeah, there's no AI - how fun is that? And otherwise I have to find another 18 people to fill the grid and be online for Practice, Qually, and Race distances...

I've been driving with a Thrustmaster T300RS to test this game and here are my experiences so far:

- Graphics:
Graphics are just an update. Nothing to great to mention IMHO. It's still way off other titles regarding racing simulations.

- Gameplay:
No coop, no career. Menu got better.

- Sound:
Nothing worth mentioning either. Cars sound okay, good thing is that you can hear tyre squeal.

- Physics
The car behaves good in general. Reactions are fast and accurate, BUT why, Codemasters, can't you ever manage a decent Force Feedback?! I mean seriously, they've been working on F1 titles for the last 6 years and I have never been pleased with the FFB (only skipped F1 2014 so far)! It's weak and simply not accurate at all. Take racing simulations from other devs as an example and start getting to work, it's simply embarrassing!
Wheelspin is pretty aggressive, which is good, but I can't really control it, which is caused by my bad pedals, too, I'm afraid. But you can compromise a little with setup and wheel settings.

- Setup:
I could never trust Codemasters' setups in F1 titles and the same goers for F1 2015. The settings just don't influence the handling in the way they should. You simply can't create an individual setup for your personal driving style, which has been a problem since the series started in 2010.
In addition to that, you can't change the braking balance in the setup and the description of weigth distribution says, that if you change it to the front you assist understeer. Codemasters, that is simply NOT TRUE, since it supports OVERSTEER if there is less weigth on the rear! This is almost as ludicrous as the settings for rear anti-roll bars in your past titles, where stiffening them caused better traction!

- AI:
AI got pretty aggressive, which is good. But the bad thing is that it got pretty "derby". It's alright if AI drivers do mistakes, but I won't accept an AI which spins me off track while driving straight, especially if I voluntarily let the drivers past.

- Car damage:
Touching the wall "not-so-gently" while driving straight with 250+ km/h and having neither front wing damage nor suspension damage...Need I say more? Here you go: Touching the rear of an AI-Car while breaking, no damage to my car. Ridiculous.

- Bugs:
Breaks are broken, according to status screen, as soon as I exit the pits.
Tyres get cold immediately after releasing the throttle. That's way too fast!
Again just ONE training session. But, according to rumours, BEFORE the day one patch there have been three...Seems that codemasters cancelled them afterwards.
Crashes when performing an ingame Benchmark-test and when exiting the game.

Sorry, Codies, but you won't get any more money from me. I have better things to spend that 50 bucks on, seriously....

No Career Mode, No Split Screen, No Online Co-oP Career, the list goes on of features present in the last games that didn't make it to 2015. Game runs fine, looks good but doesn't offer the gameplay modes that we have come to expect from this franchise. A step backwards.

In 4hrs of play time so far, this game has crash more often that my 8hrs in Batman AK. Needs to patch the several issues raised in the forums. Fundamentally the racing is fun, AI on legend will test your abilities (and frustration since they love to hit you in the back), but several issues make this a love, hate thing at the moment. I would suggest buying if you're in desperate need of an F1 game, if not hold off your purchase till it's fixed (if ever) and/or a price drop.

Pros:
=AI much more competitive that previous game, sometimes overly so.
=Graphically looks good and runs at a stable and good fps (Avg ~110 for me) on 1440p, 980Ti.

Cons:
=Damage model severly underwhelming (Go full speed into a wall and you will be shocked at what happen, in a bad way)
=Stuck at 2nd gear after exiting the pits, unable to up or downshift until the end of the white line at the side
=No race weekend weather info in championship mode (Spent practise optimising dry setup only to be greeted with a wet qualy. Game crashed during qualy, load back and it suddenly became a dry qualy)
=No career mode and safety car
=AI loves to crash into you from the back.
=Can't find any online lobbies to play


*Updated on 11 Jul to include more cons.

So far I have been left with a bitter taste in my mouth and cannot recommend this game... yet.

Pros:
The graphics and optimisation. I have a FX-8320 and a GTX 970. I'm getting 60+ FPS with the whole grid on ultra.
The handling model. I have a G27 and I am happy with the FFB and the physics have vastly improved, especially compared to F1 2014.

Cons:
No safety car. I don't know Codemasters reasoning for this but I personally feel it takes away from the game.
This game crashes more than Maldonado. Ran a benchmark, crashed. Tried online, crashed. Started pro season mode, crashed. You get the idea.
Littered with bugs. For now there is only one that I find truly game breaking. When I play Pro season mode, (for those who dont know, it is supposed to turn off all HUD and assists and locks you into cockpit cam) I still have all the assists on and since the menu is greyed out I can't manually turn them off.

I would advise anybody interested in this game, to be patient and wait for future fixes and then consider a purchase.

May update this in the future. 10/07/15
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24 hours of game time later I feel it is time to update my review.

First off, since my first review they released a 2nd patch on the day of release, which is pathetic that it was even needed in the first place as it wasnt even a large one. Thankfully though it seems to have fixed the game crashing so Pastor can now sit safe and keep his reputation.

The more I have driven in this game the more and more I'm enjoying racing the AI and the handling model. The Championship season, Quick race and Time trial modes are the ONLY parts of the game I would consider ready to be released. Pro season and Multiplayer however were and STILL ARE NOT READY.

For the first time in the series you can actually race the AI wheel-to-wheel, and unlike Project Cars there aggresion is about right. The AI are very spacially aware so if you were to dive up there inside they won't turn in on you. They are also very racey themselves as they wont back out 100 metres before a braking zone as before, and will try to outbrake you if you leave the door open. For reference I have the AI on the hardest setting.

However I would consider Championship season mode ready,although it does have a few features missing. You can no longer underfuel the car in this game and since you can no longer run rich fuel mix for longer than half a lap before your engine overheats, I end up with around 5 laps of fuel left at the end of a 100% race. You can no longer fully customize your strategy before the race, you can only choose between preselected strategies given to you by your teams strategist and with 100% races, generally speaking you're given 2 options but if you qualify within the top 10 it's normally 1. My final complaint with Championship season mode is the inability to customize the weekend length. There are 3 choices and cant be tweaked. Short weekend- 15 mins practice, one-shot qualifying, 25% race. Normal weekend- 30 mins practice, one qualifying round, 50% race. Long weekend- 1 hour practice, full 3 rounds of qualifying, 100% race.

Quick race works as it should with you being able to actually tweak it to your liking and there's not much else to say. Time Trial has been improved upon now as at most circuits/corners the game is strict with you leaving track limits, but my new favourite feature is you can copy setups from people at the top of the leaderboards. I highly recommend doing this unless you want to be left alone and know what you're doing. My only problem with Time Trial is that at some corners you can still exceed track limits and not have your lap invalidated. Is it really that hard code"masters" to just invalidate laptimes if you exceed track limits with all 4 wheels regardless of time lost/gained?

I feel the need to mention at this point that the F1 2014 season is also included in this game as I'm rather neutral to its integration. Albeit a nice bonus, I bought this game for the 2015 season and would rather have had them focus more time on the current season than the previous one.

The problem with Pro season mode mentioned in my first review is still there and upon further review I think there was no real need for Codemasters to even add this mode as you can change your HUD, assist and camera angle in Championship season mode to the exact same settings.

Now the real big-hitter that is Multiplayer. Blandly put, the multiplayer is a mess, there's no two ways about it. From unpredictable ghosting, to desynchonised lobbies, to driving through pit crews, to just straight up random teleporting, multiplayer is completely and utterly broken. With a supposed brand-new netcode, which showcases Codemasters "master" coding, multiplayer has been crippled before even mentioning there new matchmaking system known as "hoppers". The main problem with the new system is the player base gets spread out so much between the different game types that it takes so much longer to find the game even in the first week since release.

After having played the game for a longer time period now, I would only recommend this game to people if you are only/mainly interested in the singleplayer experience. If Multiplayer was the main attraction stay clear as if it was a sprintmode lap 1 trainwreck of a pileup.

Further updates pending upon release of further patches or DLC. 14/07/15