Best Formula 1 game is...? Help!

Need help:

I\'m looking into buying an F1 game for the PS2. I\'ve read reviews for "Grand Prix Challenge" (apparently a newer release) and that one sounds good. What about the EA titles?

I just bought a Force Feedback wheel and I want a great open-wheel racing game to go with it!

Please help!

ps...can anyone confirm a new IRL game for this year?  I can\'t find anything on it, although I\'ve heard rumors about it.

I BEG you ; do NOT buy EA\'s F1 2002 ! You\'d be better off spending the money it costs to the poor. It looks pretty nice
in screenshots, but oh boy does it have the cr@ppiest
framerate ever. I\'m talking 20 fps at most which also frequently
drops. The fact it comes on cd-rom underlines EA\'s sorry @ss
F1 franchise. I bought it second hand.... begh.. even that
doesn\'t make it any better. :crap:

Well I bought F1 2002 (EA, PC and for onlly $8.99!) and it does suffer from nasty framerate problems.  (I have a 128 mb graphics card with 500 ram)  It\'s impossible to show all the cars without slowdown.

Yes there will be a new IRL game http://www.psx2central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27998

Looks great except it doesnt have an Online mode.

seven has Grand Prix challenge maybe you should pm him.

The best F1 game out there probably is Grand Prix 4 for the PC

This is the best F1 game on any console Sony\'s game.
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26057&highlight=anyone+else+playing+this

Codemasters are developing that IRL game but let me remind you of Toca Race Driver and Colin McRae Rally 3.

[Kurt Angle]

I don\'t think there are any good F1 games for the ps2 yet IMO.

[Cerberus]

Be wise to take a hint from an avid F1 nut, and equally avid racing sim nut. If it has the letters EA & F1 in front of it, and then 2000/2001/2002......and so on, stay clear of it, ito be honest, I wouldn\'t touch it with a 10 foot barge pole. The physics of the cars are terrible, in fact, the only thing as bad as the physics, is the dismally awful AI.

*hint*

Get yourself a copy of Geoff Crammonds GP3 (an old game now, but still a hell of a lot more realistic than anything EA has to offer, or the PS2 for that matter), or it\'s successor......... GP4.

He, I never came around to buying Grand Prix Challenge. Not enough money and even then, I wouldn\'t be sure if to get Sony\'s F1 (by Psygnosis/SCE Liverpool) or Grand Prix Challenge. Graphically and playability should be a breeze with GPC - it suffers from no framerate drops and has amazing graphics - although from what I heard it does suffer a lot from shimmering and flicker. I wasn\'t able to varify that, but you should at least chekc it out. Sony\'s recent attempt with their F1 sounds good, although I wouldn\'t know how it stack up against GPC.

The only thing GPC beats FO2002 in is the GFX.