12/28/2023 0 Comments F1 2013 vs f1 2014Buzzin’ Hornets, Look Alike, GO!!!!!!!, the first names of McLaren’s drivers, the barcode replacing Marlboro – they had their own charm to them. Slight tangent, but I personally loved the clever, non-tobacco renditions of famous tobacco-liveried cars, and this coming from someone who believes that the sport is better without their money and thinks the fans who want it back are stuck in the stone age. On console games, Miller, Molson, Campari, and later Foster’s, weren’t allowed to be portrayed, along with the long-standing tobacco bans, or else games like Formula 1 ’97 would lose their Kids to Adults rating. The real-life F1 photos in the game menus were all taken from the British, French, and German Grands Prix, where there were no tobacco or alcohol sponsorships allowed on the cars. This is not a texture mod, this is how Circuit Gilles Villeneuve looked in the original GP2: 1996!Īnd even then – with all the Molson Dry and Miller beer and Campari hard liquor signposts around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, they still had to run the non-tobacco liveries for every team in the game. PC games were not always subject to classification from the ESRB, even two years after it was founded – the game came out in 1996, two years after the 1994 season it portrays. The only known officially licensed F1 game to feature alcohol advertising in the form of trackside signage was Grand Prix 2 for the PC. The “just because they show Martini logos in an F1 game doesn’t mean I’m going to start drinking” argument, tone-deaf enough as it is, still isn’t convincing anyone to change the rules.īut let’s focus on the ban on “vice sponsorships” in racing games, which have been around since the days of the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, in the peak of the years where tobacco sponsorship money fueled most of the teams on the grid. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers, they use the loophole that the names come not from the beer brands themselves, but from the names of the families who own them. And sure, while baseball games can use the names Busch Stadium or Miller Park to describe the names of the stadiums of the St. Coors Light is the official beer sponsor of the National Football League, but they’re not appearing in Madden NFL games any time soon. No Heineken ads in FIFA games despite the fact that they are prominent, offical sponsors of major competitions including the World Cup and the UEFA Champions League. There are no Bud Light advertisements in UFC video games despite them being a major sponsor of the promotion. Only one world champion driver, no home teams and no alcohol ads allowed? Clearly they just don’t “get” F1 in France. And I don’t just mean the ban on real-life alcohol advertising in sporting events in Muslim countries like Bahrain, or in Abu Dhabi, or in that other fringe F1 market that Bernie Ecclestone keeps trying to force onto the calendar….France. The general feeling that I’m getting from reading the responses to upset F1 fans about the cutting of Martini, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker from F1 2014 is that people are outraged, they’re outraged about advertising restrictions in video games that have been in place for over 20 years, and won’t be changing any time soon. While I acknowledge that there was the possibility of using the dry livery that ran in Bahrain, a country that prohibits the sale or advertisement of alchohol, as seen here:Īnd while I acknowledge that other cars in other games have been able to run similar non-alcohol liveries with the Martini red coloring kept intact, or even use the Martini Racing name explicitly, as seen in Sega Rally circa 1995: How dare they! Needless, politically-correct whitewashing has infiltrated Formula 1 games! Shame on Codemasters for not sticking it to the man and putting them in anyway! Who cares that the game would have to move up from a PEGI-3 classification up to a PEGI-16 (or the ESRB equivalent: Everyone 6+ up to Mature 17+) and therefore restricted the sale of the game to younger fans and shut out a good portion of their demographic! There’s no justice like angry internet mob justice. They’ve even cut Smirnoff Vodka from the livery of the Force India VJM07! And McLaren still has their pre-season livery instead of rotating through all their non-title sponsors like they do in real life – which includes Johnnie Walker, who’s sponsored the team since 2006! Can't believe they weren't allowed have the Martini livery in the game □
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