'F1 22' feels fast and familiar | Gaming Roundup

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'F1 22' impressions

At its core, "F1 22," the latest installment in the F1 series from EA Sports, is a lot like "F1 2021." Whether that's a good thing or not will largely depend on your own gaming preferences. There are some notable, pretty cool differences in the new game, but it's still a tough, sim-y, good-looking, fast-feeling racer that definitely does not hold your hand.

The most exciting new addition to "F1 22" is probably the new VR mode, which in my experience worked really well. I booted up the VR mode via Steam on an Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 and found it to run pretty flawlessly. Too often I've found VR versions of non-VR-specific games to be clunky and slow, but that wasn't the case here. Everything loaded quickly and expectedly, and while it's probably not breaking any new ground graphically (it looked about the same as the Project Cars VR versions) it still more than did the job and it's very cool to have the option to hop in the cockpit of a Formula One racer and zip around a track.