Formula One 04
2004 video game
Formula One 04 is a 2004 racing video game developed by Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It is a sequel to Formula One 2003 and was based on the 2004 Formula One World Championship.
Gameplay
The game features all ten teams and twenty drivers competing in the 2004 Formula One World Championship (except for mid-season changes), as well as the eighteen circuits and Grands Prix that formed the championship, including the new Bahrain International Circuit and Shanghai International Circuit.
It is the first Formula One game developed by Studio Liverpool to contain a 'Career Mode', which allows players to work their way through the Formula One teams over the course of a fixed number of seasons (albeit a repeat version of the 2004 Formula One World Championship each time). Players start out testing in a generic Formula One car, and if they are doing well enough in the test they are offered a contract by a small team such as Minardi. Players then work their way up the grid throughout their 'career' through a mixture of good tests and impressive race performances. This game also had Net Play available.
This is the only F1 game in the series to be changed in terms of gameplay after the original release. In the original version, there was a bug which during the timing of AI pitstops all the field crawled at pit lane speed, then they sped up once a few of the AI cars had made their stop, and it was common to be following a car which suddenly came to a halt and the player would end up hitting their rear and ending their race. Studio Liverpool responded to the fans' concerns about this issue and fixed this bug upon the release of the Platinum version.
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