As in many a management game, it’s all on you to handle sponsors, driver happiness, research and development, travel, budgets and more – not to mention running the actual race weekends.Īfter a few in-game weeks of sheer panic, though, this is all actually more likely to pull you further into its clutches than to scare you away. Sure, the game walks you through everything when you begin, but this is done all at once – and there’s a lot to take in. It does mean, though, that you’ll need a degree of commitment to make playing Motorsport Manager worthwhile – something that isn’t helped by the relatively steep learning curve. While this can get overwhelming, it’s also thoroughly realistic, with very little hand-holding, despite the accessible feel of the interface and dialogue. Not that you’ll have much time to worry about little things like that, mind: like any good management game, Motorsport Manager makes you feel responsible for things. Motorsport Manager review: Get your bossy boots on It’s not a major distraction, particularly as the architecture and layouts of the circuits tend to match their real-world equivalents very closely – Doha, for example, is a thinly veiled Abu Dhabi fake – but it would’ve been an excellent final touch. The only shame? This is an unofficial game, so the circuits and cars themselves are similar interpretations of well known teams and locations. Rendering is excellent, with cars zipping around naturally – without a sense of things feeling overwhelming, even with time sped up threefold. That said, even in top-down Motorsport Manager feels truly immersive. If you’ve got the power to go full-scale, with crowds and full detail enabled, though, it’s definitely worth it. On an i7 MacBook Pro, we had to switch to top-down to avoid lag and jitter. You can play either in top-down or isometric view, with the latter sapping quite a bit of graphics power. It uses a heavy tilt-shift focus effect which won’t be to every taste, but it’s an incredibly detail-focussed interpretation of a Formula 1 race. Yes, there’s plenty to stay on top of (this isn’t one you’ll easily play with the TV on), but it’s all layed out very naturally.īetter, still, the racing simulation itself is absolutely divine. In races, for example, the simulation is delivered as an excellent combination of TV-style coverage – with a track map and driver positions – and in-depth data, including driver status, weather forecast and the like. From menus to tracks to graphics, the interface is clean and fluid, while the race simulations themselves are wonderful to look at.Įverything here feels like it’s been fully thought out. Straight off the grid, Motorsport Manager is an absolutely stunner. Motorsport Manager review: Racing simulation, beautifully realised
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