The Forza franchise has offered annoying microtransactions in past versions, but they’ve gone away for Forza Horizon 4. We had to delete our game files entirely to fix it. The only things that weren’t fun were a bug in which all in-game, but not in-menu sound, muted itself. It won’t wear you down or punish you for tiny mistakes like a true sim will, but it still rewards good technique, and you need to use your brakes instead of trying to powerslide through each turn. Hardcore sim racers will think it feels a bit like an arcade game, but casual arcade racers may think it feels like a sim. The game’s physics, which are largely lifted from the much more straight-laced Forza Motorsport series, are toned down a tad to make the game more approachable. You can drive a $10M 1968 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale in a riverbed and get rewarded for it. Have fun putting a huge engine, AWD, and racing tires in a Abarth 695 Biposto and challenging Paganis to street races. You can drive a ten million dollar 1968 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale in a riverbed - and be rewarded for it. This is a game where you can buy a castle, put rally tires on a Bugatti Chiron, and then do laps drifting in the dirt with your insane hypercar around your castle. Freedom from game limitations, freedom from the consequences of poorly piloting a motor vehicle, freedom from laws. That’s fine, because Forza Horizon is about freedom.

Everything you do in game progresses you, nothing sets you back, and everything is repeatable. Then you can get points for jumping off things, general hooning, stunt driving, knocking over signs with points written on them, breaking things, going fast, getting cars, tuning cars, finding cars in barns, and much more.

You get points for participating in road races, rally races, overland races, illegal street races, and special Top Gear-style showcase events, and then you get more points for winning them. You get points by doing virtually anything fun. The goal is to get enough points to qualify for the first season, which is Autumn. Then it’s out into the pre-season game, which is populated with bots and exists for you to find your footing. Playing the events is fun, customizing and collecting cars is fun, ad-hoc street racing with other people is fun, and just driving around enjoying the spectacular graphics and exciting setting is fun. It’s easy to race a car a few times, figure out where you tend to exceed its limitations, and then make a few quick fixes to suit your car better to you. Find one you like and spend some CR (Forzish for money) on it. Speaking of which, it’s easy to get lost in acquiring more cars - one you shouldn’t forget to tune your existing cars. It makes you want to get that Senna back.Īfter the intro you’re offered a choice of cars, which is mostly up to personal preference, although the Focus RS might be a wise option given how easily is can be tuned for road racing or rally. It’s a simple trick that sets up expectations for the game very nicely. You’re racing in the glorious McLaren Senna on a sunny day, but then the game cycles through season, giving you a taste of a rally car in the autumn mud, an overland truck in the winter snow, and then back to flying down a dry road in the Senna. In proper Forza style, the game kicks off with a moment of beautifully rendered glory that puts you in the car on the front of the package.

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