WGP’s full Formula One license sports 22 drivers on 11 official teams, authentic cars and faithful recreations of 17 internationally celebrated tracks. Some of the most legendary names in motor sports are here, including Ferrari, McLaren and Italy’s Monza track, as well as ace drivers Michael Schumacher, David Coulthard and Damon Hill. No team or driver is perfect: even the top-rated Williams team suffers from a mediocre pit crew.
Paradigm Entertainment built its reputation with military flight sims before co-developing Pilotwings 64 with Nintendo and teaming up with Video System on last fall's AeroFighters Assault, a jet-fighter sim built around an alien-invasion story line. With WGP, Paradigm and Video System have clearly mastered the fine art of balancing down-and-dirty realism with arcade action. Nintendo liked the results so much that it’s handling the distribution chores for the game.