I would kill for another PGR game. RIP Bizarre

i can imagine an F1/kart cross over that would be perfect for me...whether it would suit everyone else or is anything like codemasters intend is a different matter.
personally, though i like F1 games and they tend to appeal to me more than other racers, i quickly 'tyre' of them, mainly because i think F1 driving is more about not making mistakes than having fun, where not memorising every braking point and having perfect fine control on the throttle will see you spin out and it's race over basically.
quick recovery from spins, a bit of 'rubber-banding', and 'power ups' in the form of additional KERS/DRS etc could help keep races close and exciting. throw in a 'tyre wear/health' meter, which is depleted by aggressive driving (ie power sliding round corners when you go in too fast) and bumping around with other drivers, and measures the performance of your car, and you have an element of driving skill included in the game.  do you drive 'clean', keeping your health and speed in tact and try to run the whole race like that? or go super aggressive, bumping people about, powersliding round hairpins, burning up your tyres etc, hoping for a 'quick pit' powerup so you can whizz through the f-zero style pit lane...and you can have the traditional kart type attributes for the cars: high top speed, good turning (turn at higher speeds without skidding), strong for bumping, low tyre wear, etc...

Codemasters are surely parodying themselves with this?

They need to keep releasing F1 games or they'll lose the licence. But the yearly update format isn't selling well.
So after a brainstorming session that must have lasted about 5 minutes, they've decided to do a karting game. I'd be astonished if this offers anything new.

I am prejudiced though. If its Codemasters and not point-to-point rallying, I'm not interested.

There's one coming out in September. There doesn't seem to be much interest though and I'd imagine they'll struggle to sell the same game again. Saying that, releasing pretty much the same game can't be costing them much.

monkey, you're hired! Let's have a Dizzy reboot for the hell of it.

A yearly F1 release is just taking the piss (and that's from someone that loyally buys Fifa every year).

The problem is they made a shit, bugged F1 game the first that paid far to much attention to things no F1 fan would want. Then didn't fix it for the next game. Then wondered why we stopped buying them.

It was 80% of a good game. But the sport is very detailed and the people that are big fans want an accurate representation of it. Codemasters are yet to deliver that. Hence I've stopeed buying it.

360 Demo

I had it in my head that this wasn't out until next year, it's surely going to disappear in the Christmas rush.

Probably one to pick up cheap. Ill try the demo, but I've bought all the games I need until next year.

I have MK7 so there is no point even contemplating other karting games.

I thought it was surprisingly slow and a bit dull to play. It's not really my cup of tea anyway.

No, the one that I tried just didn't do enough for me to carry on. I don't love F1, have kids or play split screen multi-player though, so it was always a tough sell.

I'm going to keep my eye on this, it looks fun.  But with the new Sonic karter on its way it has some compo. The last Sonic Kart was brilliant.

Tried demo. Deleted. If this, Showdown and the dull F1 game is all Codemasters can offer for 2012, they're in trouble!