Daily Joypad recently went hands-on with Forza Horizon and produced a video featuring one of the game's many Showcase races...
Forza Horizon has been around for 10 years today, but due to the franchise's constant "End Of Life" policies, it's hard to celebrate.
Literally the only XBox exclusive that I still regularly play. I'm glad I had bought FH3 (PC) when I did, but this really sucks for other people who never picked it up. I still love the Australian Outback setting most of all.
BLG writes: "When the Forza Horizon games franchise launched in 2012, it was an enjoyable spin-off of the highly successful simulation racer. A decade later, the Horizon series has overtaken Forza Motorsport series as one of, if not the, premiere driving video games of all time."
Don't think there's literally a "worst" Forza game man. Microsoft just makes these too damn good.
lol.. pedantic much? ^ PG and the Forza IP are owned by Microsoft.
FH5 may be a technical marvel but it's been a buggy mess since launch and PG seem intent to add new content without ever bothering to fix anything. Many of which were bugs that were also in FH4.
FH3
FH1
FH4
FH5
FH2 (still good but the structure was messed up - too much emphasis on grinding "roadtrips" which was tedious)
FH3 is my favourite by a long shot. I got surprisingly bored of FH5 quick enough unfortunately so that's down the bottom of my list
Tbh I found FH3 to actually be my favourite and the one I played the most.
The one I got bored of very quickly was 4. Wasn't a fan of the seasons and driving round England was boring cause its where I live. Got very old quick.
I still think 2 (Xbox One version) is my personal best. Driving an Italian supercars on an Italian highway just feel so "right"!!!!! "2" make me understand why Italian make those supercars.
I don't know why so many do not like 4. I like the seasonal change & dramatic weather change. 5 seems to dial the weather change way way down that the weather seldom change (Is the real Mexico really has such a perfect weather all the time?).
KeenGamer: "The advanced sky capturing gives the Forza Horizon franchise a natural and realistic feeling. Yet, it's a long process from capturing to complete in-game sky. It's a technology that was introduced during the development of Forza Horizon 3, which provided more beauty and were widely praised by players."
Forza 4 looks really great now that Series updates have been applied. In Forza 5 Microsoft uses photo technology throughout the entire game. The volcano setting in Mexico looks amazing!
Incredible looking game, and it's not even powered by the next iteration of the ForzaTech engine which is still developed by Turn10.
Time to flex that 12TF.
Ok, so here's what I gather from this video. Bear in mind this is the first gameplay video I have seen of Forza Horizon.
1. The damage model has either been toned down or is turned off. Other then the spoiler falling off the car shows no cosmetic damage whatsoever in comparison to other Forza games.
2. The race track that this takes place on looks impressive as far as environment goes but this is off screen so that's really saying something.
3. The car looks ok and the lighting looks improved but again being off screen it's hard to tell.
4. The race itself, being able to race against a plane, sounds neat on paper but I just don't think it works well in reality. A bit far fetched to say the least.
Damn, this looks amazing! I'm glad they are spreading their wings with this style of racing game. October 23rd cant get here soon enough. I guess I'll have to spring for the Season Pass as well, Forza games always have a ton of content and the Pass is the best and cheapest way to get it all.
Too bad Gran Turismo wont go towards this direction :/
the beginning of the race reminded me of Dirt 2
The best just keeps on getting better.