Reviews

1989 - D&H Games (UK)
by Adam Parker and Shaun G. McClure

My question when I first saw this game was: Would I have loved it if I had own a copy back in the days?
Well, I think so, not as much as 'Formula One', not by any chance, but still would enjoyed it.

The game has a lot of options, a lot more than 'F1', making this a very complete Formula One management game. The racing screen... well, it is rather good, as good as 'F1', in a way even better, more complete, but the feel of a real race, it lacks it a bit, well a lot. The sprites are funny but not real enough, colour gets confusing sometimes, and it seems a bit dated graphicaly speaking.
Another problem is the calculating bits, and with all games from D&H or Cult games, parts of the game they seem to have been written in BASIC, not the racing screen, which is fast enough, but the management parts which tend to repel a lot of players. And I still do not understand the reason why werent the games 100% written in code machine if they had able programmers to do it.
Anyway the game is very playable and very enjoying if you like this type of games like I do.

This is probably one of the most underwhelming games I have ever played and probably one of the worst D&H release. They should have just stuck with football managers, none of them were very exciting but at least they were better than this by a mile.