F1 Championship Season 2000 Explained

F1 Championship Season 2000 is a racing video game based on the 2000 Formula One season, and was released by EA Sports for PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Color, and Mac OS X.

The game features the 11 teams and 22 drivers which competed in the 2000 season (with the exception of Luciano Burti), a scenario mode, and 17 tracks. Cigarette and alcohol sponsors are replaced:

• Jordan's Benson & Hedges sponsorship is replaced by "Buzzin Hornets".
• Ferrari's Marlboro is replaced by an advertisement for Ferrari's 2nd world title.
• British American Racing's Lucky Strike is replaced by "Look Alike" with the logo blocked out.
• McLaren's West is replaced by "Mika" And "David".
• Prost's Gauloises is replaced with a bar code.
• Jaguar Racing's Beck's is replaced with "Best's".
• Benetton's Mild Seven is replaced by "Benetton".

Reception

The PC, PlayStation, and PlayStation 2 versions received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Chris Charla of NextGen was generally positive to the latter console version, praising the realistic driving model, detailed car models and damage, and AI, but criticized an assist mode as "poor" and called the graphics and some other visual effects as "unremarkable". In Japan, where said console version was ported for release on 1 March 2001, Famitsu gave it a score of 28 out of 40. Michael Lafferty of GameZone gave the PlayStation version seven out ot ten, and considered the title to be more restrictive in its fan-base than other racing games.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lafferty . Michael . 29 January 2001 . F1 Championship Season 2000 (PSX) . GameZone . https://web.archive.org/web/20050216072046/http://psx.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r16405.htm . 16 February 2005 . dead . 16 January 2019.