PS5’s ray tracing is only switched on outside of gameplay, and the framerate can suffer.
Of all the many ways this game improves on last year’s F1 2020 – which was superb in itself – the one that really stands out here is the new, fully fleshedout story mode. It’s called Braking Point (groan) and features CG cutscenes in the style of Codemasters’ vintage classic TOCA Race Driver 2. The result briefly turns this racing simulation into a videogame again, and that’s very cool.