| rdfs:comment | - F1 Race Stars is a video game by Codemasters. It was designed as a karting game that is based on the Formula One motorsport, with the circuits newly designed to include loops, jumps and shortcuts. Along with being a spin-off of the regular Formula One video games, it is also Codemasters' first kart-racing game. It allows the players to choose cartoonish versions of drivers such as Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Charles Pic, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönen, Mark Webber, Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher. It was described by Codemasters to have been designed to emphasise entertainment rather than simulation.
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| abstract | - F1 Race Stars is a video game by Codemasters. It was designed as a karting game that is based on the Formula One motorsport, with the circuits newly designed to include loops, jumps and shortcuts. Along with being a spin-off of the regular Formula One video games, it is also Codemasters' first kart-racing game. It allows the players to choose cartoonish versions of drivers such as Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Charles Pic, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönen, Mark Webber, Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher. It was described by Codemasters to have been designed to emphasise entertainment rather than simulation. The game was first announced at the San Diego Comic-Con International on July 14, 2012, and was released in Europe and North America in November 2012 for PS3, Xbox 360 and Windows, whose versions are all based on the 2012 Formula One season. It was released on just the PS3 and Xbox 360 in Japan on March 7, 2013. On June 27, 2013, the game was released as F1 Race Stars: Powered Up Edition for the Wii U in Japan physically. It was later released in the Nintendo eShop for North America and Europe on January 16, 2014, and iOS devices on May 22, 2014, which the latter is based on the 2013 season. An Android version is also in the works.
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