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Little off topic, but what does everyone think of the new F1 Race Stars game? Having always loved Mario Kart, it seems quite endearing, but I don't have Xbox360, PS3 and I'm not buying it on the PC.

Good bit of silly fun for ten minutes. I quite liked it. Hard to justify a purchase though while Halo 4 and F1 2012 are still yet to join my collection though. Proabably one for the January sales. Everyone loves Mario Kart in short bursts. Bit disapointed there are so few tracks though.
 
F1 stars is quite fun, and only £17 on PS network, very similar to Mario Kart, not similar to F1 2012 though, not similar at all.
 
why have I not listed anything here yet??? <yikes>

top10:

1. All Sonic Games (dur)
2. All Mass Effect games
3. Team F1 (F1 team simulator.. Retro)
4. Skyrim
5. Goldeneye 007
6. Zelda: OoT
7. Mario Kart
8. Forza
9. Codemasters F1 games
10. Championship/Football Manager

Shen mui, Left 4 Dead and Half life all deserve a mention
at the moment Im really into Forza 4
 
[video=youtube;F6nDP9QghBw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6nDP9QghBw[/video]

It's too bad I'm such a Nintendo head; there hasn't been an F1 game for Nintendo since 2009 :(
 
More info here.

It's a confusing article though, it reckons there'll be five classic cars from the eighties and nineties, the mentions the first batch including the '88 Lotus 100T, FW07, W-J F12, and "some Ferrari's", then six classic Williams' and Ferrari's from the nineties, the FW14B, FW18, F399. That's not 6, and makes no suggestion of which the other 90's cars would be.

Also, retro Jerez, Brand's Hatch, Estoril and Imola in the game will be awesome. Also, 90's style yellow graphics are going to be a massive nostalgia trip, and Murray Walker narrating introductions to each car.

Another thing, apparently you can't mix decades (so it has to be 80's vs 80's etc), but can take a 2013 car onto classic circuits. However, surely that means online races in classic mode will consist of an awful lot of the same cars.

There's also going to be 80's drivers: Mansell, Andretti, Berger, + 7 others.
and 90's drivers: Coulthard, Irvine, Prost and Villeneuve + more.

I'm going to guess a lot of the other drivers will be team-mates though, otherwise there's likely to be a lot of drivers without their own cars. I'm guessing Hill will be included as they've got his car, and if they've got Irvine, one must assume a certain Schumacher might be included, especially as Codemaster's will already have a driver model from 2012.
 
Has anyone played The Last of Us yet? (It's a ps3 exclusive)
It's literally one of the best games that i've ever played in my life, 14 hours it took me to complete the story mode and about 99% of that was pretty much a perfect game with the best story i've ever seen in a game. If you don't have a ps3 I really recommend watching a playthrough on YT.