F1 2021 dev explains how Drive to Survive influenced new Braking Point mode CodemastersCodemasters Senior Creative Director Lee Mather has explained how Netflix\u2019s Drive to Survive docu-series played a major part in the development of F1 2021\u2019s exciting new story mode Braking Point. There\u2019s plenty to look forward to in the upcoming release of F1 2021. While new additions like the \u201cReal Season Start\u201d career tool or two-player online careers modes have been catching the attention of fans, the game\u2019s new narrative-driven story mode named Braking Point is definitely the headline addition in the series\u2019 next offering. Following the story of Aiden Jackson, players will work their way from Formula 2 into the big leagues of F1 during a three-season-long story, with seats at Racing Point \/ Aston Martin, AlphaTauri, Alfa Romeo, Haas, or Williams up for grabs. Of course, there will be plenty of twists and turns along the way, with rival Casper Akkerman, team boss Brian Doyle, and the returning Devon Butler all playing antagonist to our character through Braking Point. During an early presentation of F1 2021, Senior Creative Director Lee Mather stated that Braking Point took inspiration from Netflix\u2019s smash-hit F1 docuseries Drive to Survive. In an exclusive interview with the man himself, we asked Mather how much the show had influenced the development of the mode. F1 2021 chief on Braking Point mode Since the release of Drive to Survive on Netflix, Formula 1 has entered a period of significant growth. Statistics in France claim that interest in the sport has grown by 4%, while 2021\u2019s Bahrain Grand Prix opener was the most-watched F1 race in the United States since records began in 1995. It\u2019s clear that the series has opened the sport up to new audiences, and Mather and the Codemasters team used the show to help steer the narrative of Braking Point. \u201cIt\u2019s been pretty amazing. Drive to Survive, the broad success of how it\u2019s brought in people who traditionally weren\u2019t into Formula 1 because they\u2019re not into motorsport,\u201d Mather told us. \u201cWe started working on Braking Point before Drive to Survive became the monster hit that it did, so when the series came along, it was much easier to explain to the writers: \u2018Watch this and see how exciting the world of Formula 1 is, look at the characters, the emotions, the outbursts.’\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not as sanitized as people who don\u2019t follow the sport think. The drivers are full of passion and excitement. Drive to Survive made it so much easier for us to sell the idea to more people, and give the professional writers a clear picture of the sort of thing we had in mind \u2014 the kind of story we wanted to create, and the areas we could make good use of from Drive to Survive.\u201d Of course, this isn\u2019t Codemasters\u2019 first foray into narrative storytelling in the F1 series. In F1 2019, players took part in a shortened F2 season with rival Devon Butler, who would follow you throughout your career in F1 as a rival. Braking Point is the next evolution of that idea, which the developers feel is a \u201cbeautifully written story, full of exciting characters and drama.\u201d Fans of the series will have to wait a little longer to play through Aiden Jackson\u2019s story for themselves though, with F1 2021 set to release on July 16 on PS5, Xbox Series X\/S, PC, PS4, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
F1 2021 dev explains how Drive to Survive influenced new Braking Point mode CodemastersCodemasters Senior Creative Director Lee Mather has explained how Netflix\u2019s Drive to Survive docu-series played a major part in the development of F1 2021\u2019s exciting new story mode Braking Point. There\u2019s plenty to look forward to in the upcoming release of F1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}