F1 Manager 2024 Review

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I’ll admit that I generally prefer to have direct control in racing games, but the F1 Manager series has made me equally excited to work behind the scenes. Watching a risky overtake pay off from the pit wall can be similarly thrilling to burning that rubber yourself, and a focus on team development and overall strategy between races can be refreshing. While F1 Manager 2024 is your typical annual update in many respects, content to make incremental improvements over massive changes, several of those tweaks leave developer Frontier's latest management sim more compelling than ever.

This year's biggest addition is the new 'Create a Team' feature, which offers a pleasantly surprising range of customization options. For example, different engine manufacturers add necessary strategy, asking you to pick your priorities between aspects like durability or fuel efficiency. Liveries and team outfits can also be customized in detail, with a nice assortment of preset designs that are useful for the less artistically gifted like myself. But one of the most interesting decisions is how you can set your team's backstory, which determines your overall goals. You could choose to be the small team with solid expertise but low funding, or the hungry newcomers determined to win at all costs, or plenty more. These options realistically impact your overall chances, and if you'd rather start entirely on your own terms instead, you can thankfully ignore them, too.

F1 Manager 2023 proves that Frontier isn’t one and done; it’s a championship contender. Race Replay is an absolute show stealer, and there’s nothing better than solving the strategic puzzle laid out for you in a single go. F1 Manager 2023 is as enjoyable to listen to at normal speed as it is to play, and although you can rush at 16x speed for an entire season in an afternoon if you want, it’s far more relaxing to treat it like an actual race and just chill out and watch. F1 Manager 2023 is a deep sports management experience that