Well my copy arrived yesterday from shopto – firstly what a service from them – never used them before but arrived two day before released and almost a tenner cheaper than in the shops!

Anyway onto the game – first impressions are it is quality!! Very hard in places (but then again I am pretty rubbish at driving games anyway full stop). But I played a good solid 3 hours on it last night – time just flys by after you have completed practice, then qualifying and then the main race. I was a little disappointed that the qualifying isn’t split up into Q1 and Q2 etc, just one long qualifying session but still good.

The setting up of the car – jesus you can go into detail on that, but to be honest I haven’t a clue so just let my “engineer” do it. I have to say it is very frustrating at times, the amount of swearing that must have come from the room where I was playing this last night must have been quite often . I need to have a mess about with the damage settings as I think mine is set to mild as I absolutely careered into the back of Kubica and no damage to either car, yet I did get a 10 second time penalty. There later on at a bend he spun me off!!!

At the moment I have it set to everything on bar the assisted braking (as with this on you may as well just steer and hold down accelerate), but there are levels for everyone in there from beginners to absolute pro’s – I officially love it so far and am determined to master it – Also the fact the press actually shout your name for an interview is a nice touch!