F1 Race Stars
Get ready to experience Formula One cars, teams and circuits like never before with F1 Race Stars from Codemasters Racing, the home of the series of HD official Formula One games. F1 Race Stars is a…
F1 Race Stars is an arcade developed by Codemasters Birmingham, released 13 November 2012 on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What F1 Race Stars is
F1 Race Stars is an arcade game developed by Codemasters Birmingham and released in 2012. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ego Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Get ready to experience Formula One cars, teams and circuits like never before with F1 Race Stars from Codemasters Racing, the home of the series of HD official Formula One games. F1 Race Stars is a fast-to-the-fun arcade racing game featuring the official cars, teams and circuits as they've never been seen before. Drivers including Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel have been transformed into personality-packed heroes bursting with charm and character and stunning Formula One locations have become exhilarating racing theme parks designed for speed and wheel-to-wheel competition.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 64 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Formula 1 series
F1 Race Stars is the 90th of 123 entries we hold in the Formula 1 series. The next entry was F1 2013: Classic Edition in 2013. Its critic score of 70 is 7 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Grand Prix 3 at 100.
How it was received
F1 Race Stars holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon X2 5400+, 2 GB RAM and AMD HD2600 or NVIDIA Geforce 8600. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
F1 Race Stars launched on 13 November 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III and Halo 4. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for F1 Race Stars yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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