Indeed, you’ll need to drive for quite a few hours before stepping into any of the game’s fastest rides in career mode. Turn 10 also seems to have looked to its series’ own history for inspiration, forcing players to once again begin the game by racing events that are limited to much slower classes of cars. Rest assured, there’s still no trouble discerning Forza Motorsport as a serious sim-style racer rather than a casual arcade game. It’s a trick clearly cribbed from the Horizon games, but Turn 10 wisely keeps the focus on rewarding technical prowess rather than goofier antics like near misses in traffic or insane drifts. This RPG-style progression is most evident on the track, where points are awarded for things like racing a technically challenging circuit segment close to perfection. In order to transform your little Hyundai Veloster from practical hatchback into a true speed demon you’ll need to spend time racing it rather than just dropping a bunch of credits to instantly upgrade it to maximum class level. That doesn’t mean their base stats improve, but rather that you gradually unlock performance parts that you can purchase with car points earned while racing. To that end, individual cars are levelled up with experience points as you race with them. It’s no longer about collecting hundreds of cars, but instead choosing cars within specific classes and then really getting to know them. That probably sounds a little creepy, but Turn 10 has gone out of its way to make us feel a bond with our wheels. ![]() The most meaningful change comes in the relationships we develop with the cars we drive. Photo by Microsoft Game Studios / Microsoft Game Studios ![]() It still has the sorts of things you’d expect of a sim racer, including precision vehicle handling, gorgeous car models and tracks, outstanding real-time weather effects (you’ll feel the effect of wind shear as the wind changes direction over the course of a race), and, of course, Turn 10’s finely tuned AI “drivatars,” which exhibit realistic, almost human-like driving behaviours.īut it has less in the way of flashy between-race pomp and flair, replacing much of the franchise’s so-called “car porn” with some real meat in how we progress through the career mode.įorza Motorsport screenshot. Dubbed simply Forza Motorsport (rather than Forza Motorsport 8), it’s clearly a brand reboot.
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