Talk:EA Sports F1

Begin
OK, I've belatedly begun this article. Each individual game in the series is linkified, but each of those article redirects back to this article, so I will probably shortly remove those links.

Todo
 * Get a logo for the series or one of the games for the info box.
 * Check the game names, I only ever played F1 Challenge. They're either F1 1999 or Formula 1 1999, etc.





Grammar, Spelling, Style, Accuracy, Citations, Speculations etc.
This article could do with a severe tidy up. It doesn't read like an encyclopedia entry at all and some of the sentences don't make any sense at all due to poor grammar and/or spelling. I've made a start on it, but in some places it's difficult to see what the author was trying to say. M0thr4 14:23, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Citations?
There isn't a single citation in this article to support what's being said. There are whole paragraphs that either need to be deleted or supported with evidence. M0thr4 14:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Lots of cleanup needed
Actually, I very nearly suggested that this needed a full rewrite. I don't know enough about this particular game series to really overhaul the article myself (I've got F1CS-2000, but that's about it) but some problems include:


 * Lack of citations as mentioned above.
 * Unencyclopedic tone ("kind of small", "the latter perhaps with an extra edge" etc)
 * Too much POV and editorialising.
 * Far too many external links - Wikipedia is not a link repository, and we don't have to link to all (or anything like) the active sites.
 * "Communities" should not be a separate section - they go under "External links", and if they don't justify a place there, they shouldn't be in at all.
 * (One thing I have done is to remove a silly "NO LEECHED WORK ALLOWED" banner, which was absurdly unsuited to Wikipedia.)
 * Outdatedness - "as of September 2005", for example.
 * Too little coverage of games other than F1 Challenge '99-'02.

If nobody else does the work, I will try to have a go myself at some point, but it would be best if an editor more familiar with the games than me did so. Loganberry (Talk) 05:02, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

F1 Challenge '99-'02. Edit war, spam and vandalism. (2015)
Hello, good afternoon there. I'm here for request a protection for the "EA Sports F1 Series" article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Sports_F1_series).

On the last days, there was an edit war. This is because there is a user that doesn't stop spamming on the page, by dint of using Wikipedia as a sponsorship page for his Facebook page, for get people to download his multiple mod F1 Challenge 1988-2014. The afromentioned mod is composed by an amount of leeched stuff from their original authors (there are no 2012, 2013 and 2014 mods made from scratch, 1988 mod uses Dudi stuff, 1989 uses David Marques, Cheery, BMCM3 and MonteSky stuff, 1995 and 1996 uses CrashKing stuff, etc.) Since September, I'm restauring the article deleting spam daily. He even distorted on one ocassion a link referenced of the article I'm talking about.

(One more thing, you reverted one time his changes. Thank you for that.

Please, protect the page if you can. Banning the user solves nothing, because he utilises a dynamic IP.

Kind regards, --84.125.220.68 (talk) 19:24, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Can't edit the article so here's my version with corrected grammar
Because as it stands, it sounds like it was written by some random Eastern European guy who spends his days on F1 game forums. Feel free to tweak it to better standards, but the broken English on the current version is hardly acceptable.

The EA Sports F1 games was a series of racing simulators based on Formula One motorsport. Six games were released between 2000 and 2003. They were published by Electronic Arts although unlike many other sports covered under the EA Sports banner, were not developed in-house. They were instead developed by Image Space Incorporated on the PC, a company who would later go on to make RFactor using an updated version of the engine produced for this series, and Visual Science, who handled the console versions.

After losing the official F1 license from Formula One Administration Ltd. to a multi-year exclusive licensing contract between FOA and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (publishers of the competing Formula One series on PlayStation/PlayStation 2) in late 2002 that became active starting from the 2003 season thus barring any developer, EA included, to make a game centered around these later seasons, the decision was made to produce one final game using the four seasons that EA Sports had previously licensed.

Because of the progressing potential of the game engine, several assets were re-imagined in order to make them more realistic than ever before as well as making the game more adaptable for less powerful PCs. The car models and associated textures were rebuilt from scratch, whilst the physics engine was significantly improved over prior releases to provide a simulation that was critically lauded. In order to provide a more authentic simulation, every track received minor changes for each season covered, including sponsor boards (barring tobacco and alcohol advertising) as well as external visual changes.

The modding capabilities of F1C, as it is occasionally referred to by its dedicated modding community, are extensive and since the game's release in 2003, has gone on to cover many different seasons of Formula One racing, as well as being able to simulate racing series outside of Formula One such as Le Mans Prototypes and NASCAR, among many others. This is due in part to the use of simple text files for several important game asset parameters such as the physics, cars, drivers, and tracks which has allowed the game to flourish on various online communities long since its release. 83.100.154.248 (talk) 16:35, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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Merger proposal
I propose to merge EA Sports F1 into F1 (video game series). After EA acquired Codemasters, they re-hold the f1 title, so theoretically two series are actually the same one. Unnamelessness (talk) 16:37, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I go ahead first. Feel free to revert if anyone has issues. Unnamelessness (talk) 06:37, 16 April 2021 (UTC)