Differently from Race Driver Grid and Colin McRae Dirt, Formula One 2009 will be a simulator, according to what’s stated in the Codemasters official forum. The game had been announced previously, but there were no details on the playing style.

“GRID and DiRT are aimed at an arcade audience and they do that very well. F1 has different requirements and will get a completely different treatment from our in-house team, including full on sim options, physics, rules and regs etc. We will also have arcade requirements catered for as well”, says Gavin Raeburn, the executive producer of Codemasters on their official forum.

The British software house is now able to develop a Formula 1 game after they acquired the licence, taking it away from Sony. For now there have been no release dates or details on which platforms the game will be released for.