CAR magazine tests the new Forza Motorsport racing game that's available on Xbox and PC, with pictures and review verdict
I’ll say this right now: I’ve played every single Forza-branded game in its history, starting with the original Forza Motorsport back in 2005 and including every open-world Horizon title.
Overall, the depth of the world around you and the cars you’re driving oddly depends on the weather. On a starkly sunny day, your car and the environment around you can feel quite flat, where even brightly coloured cars don’t really seem to pop on screen. That said, dust and damage come through with serious detail; if you’ve veered off track at Laguna Seca, for example, a thin layer of dust builds up on the windows that can be seen while racing in cockpit view.
But all of that claimed graphical prowess starts to show itself when the weather turns ugly or when the sun goes down on track. One of Forza Motorsport’s latest features is a properly dynamic weather system and day/night cycle, where races can shift from being at dusk to completely in the dark, or you can experience a full sunrise, for example. And the depth of contrast and colour that brings to the table makes up for the sometimes drab-looking broad daylight races.
The career mode is simple enough, consisting of various series of races with a theme in mind: Super Saloons, Premium Performance, Retro Hot Hatches… that sort of thing. You enter a series, buy a car and get to work. Wins get you money and XP, with cars only being a reward when you’ve finished an entire tour .
First of all, the game forces you into a practice period without any possibility of skipping it , which will be a bit of a Marmite decision for some. The aim is to get you to learn the track and get used to your car on it, and it helps to do so by challenging you to post your best times through certain sections of track that the game think are key to a good lap time . Before a practice and race you can also manage your fuel level and even specific tyre compounds.
But these all just feel like minor changes. Being on track and mid-race will be where Forza Motorsport feels its most familiar to returning players, and where the framework is largely the same as it has been for some time. Some of Forza’s quirks of old remain, like the fact we must still suffer arbitrary segments of time when we want to rewind or the disappointingly low-resolution, stretched and warped rear view mirrors when using the cockpit camera.
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