F1 2002 (Gameboy Advance)

by Magic Pockets

Product Features

• Also Available On: GameCube, PC Games, Playstation 2

Product Details

• ASIN: B00005BRJH
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 1 inches ; 0.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,222 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The annual Formula One World Championship comes to the GameBoy Advance. Each year’s event intoxicates a worldwide audience of billions, with its cocktail of speed, excitement, glamour and rivalry. Represented in the home version are the leading motor manufacturers and brands from around the globe, including Ferrari, McLaren, Sauber, Jordan, British American Racing, Renault, Jaguar Racing, Arrows, Minardi and Toyota.

This version contains an accurate reproduction of every track, driver, team and pit crew from the official F1 2002 competition. Choose between driving a full season or a single race. You can also drive in training and test sessions.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best F1 Racer for the GBA Thus Far, April 16, 2003

By 

Wesley Young (Norman, OK USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: F1 2002 (Gameboy Advance) (Video Game)

This is a very solid title, and I have almost zero complaint with it. The graphics are fast, clean, smooth, and clear. The sound (considering the modest GBA speaker) is excellent: The engines sound very real, and are very loud (Stereo headphones make this even better). It has wet tracks, with falling rain, dry races, 17 circuits (all real-life), 11 Teams, 22 drivers (all real) and 4 modes of play (Quick Race, 2002 Season, Custom Season, and Multiplayer.) Battery backup in the game keeps track of Season standings, and fastest lap times.

You can use an automatic transmission, or a more challenging manual transmission. It also has a basic and expert mode of racing. Basic gives the opponents a bit less speed on the track, and also gives you a red ! mark at the top of the screen when you approach a turn too fast. The expert mode ups the difficulty by not only making the opponents faster, but by taking away the ! sign for turns, thus making it importnant to know the layout of each track.

Control is smooth and easy as well.

You have a choice of either 3, 5, or 10 laps. Ten laps is for those who want a long-feeling race, with a feel of realism to it. For a video game (as opposed to a PC game) 10 laps actually takes quite a period of time. I've never actually played a video game that has races as long as this! (The PC version of this game has the FULL laps of the real courses available, meaning races can literally take hours. For a handheld, 10 laps is very impressive!)

The only cons I can think of would be that the mode 7 graphics used to render the tracks - while excellent overall - tend to render each track as flat as a board. Real tracks have up and downhill sections, and bumpy sections as well. The only thing simulated here is some bumpiness that you can see.

The other negative would be a lack of more track-side objects. Grandstands, trees, and buildings ARE there, but very sparsely placed, and frequently repetitive. Some tracks, which are thickly forested in real life, have maybe 12 trees total in this game. This hardly detracts from the real fun, however, and is merely a technical complaint.

Overall, if you want a F1 title with modest realism, and superb play value, this is it - especially with the current price mark of it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, September 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: F1 2002 (Gameboy Advance) (Video Game)

A very fun racing game. You'll get hypnotized by it. But you have to get a bit used to the driving at the begging. It won't take long.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Win, September 13, 2003

By 

Nick Schipani (Staten Island, Ny Usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: F1 2002 (Gameboy Advance) (Video Game)

I reccomend this game as a 2nd purchase. (Mario is a 1st for us all.) Its great music groundbreaking graphics and the ea games seal put together as 1 is a great game. BUT IT HAS A HUGE PROBLAMO! Its maps..... You can be flying in to a turn and POP it will fly up in front of you and youll spin out. And the maps are amall so its had to see chicanes. 4 1/2 of 5.
Im Hooked.