Having contacted Codemasters they informed me that a patch is being designed that will hopefully fix all these major issues. My follow up enquiry was to ask exactly when the patch would be ready; unfortunately they replied:
Impossible to say with accuracy at this point I'm afraid, we're currently still investigating a number of reported issues.
Therefore, for the foreseeable future F1 2011 is a good looking, but slightly aloof single player game that brilliantly allows players to customise an F1 season to their individual tastes. This should be directly applicable to the co-op campaign as the majority of solo game is the same, except the co-op is broken. Any future patches may fix the co-op issues raising it from a ‘car crash’ 1 out of 5, to the ’third place podium’ 3.5.
Verdict
Co-Op Score
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The Co-Op Experience: Join up with a friend to play through a season as a co-op team.
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