Tin Salamunic: Playing through Forza Horizon is an enchanting experience. Whatever your perceptions of the game are, I guarantee that nothing has prepared you for what this racer has to offer. Playground Games is a newly assembled dream team of talents that crafted some of the finest racing titles in recent memory, and their latest creation is a sensational spin-off to a legendary series. Several franchises have tried to tap into the open-world racing genre, but none have come even close to what Forza Horizon has accomplished. The bewitchingly beautiful graphics combined with Forza’s signature gameplay make for an experience no car lover should miss.
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.
9.5/10 LIKE A BOSSSSS!
I love this game but i hate those bonuse windows every five seconds..
Really great review, as if I wasn't excited enough already.
Played the demo and I prefer the slight departure from its sim roots. The demo sold me and I'm giving up Forza 4 for this. I'm interested to see how the new NFS does in comparison. Now all I need is Grid 2...
Reviews are looking good, this genre was starting to suffer in reviews over the last couple of years. Peeps seem to be pumped industry wide.
"Forza 4 and the reflections and lighting are near photorealistic"
" Forza Horizon is a true technological feat and there were times when I felt I was playing on a high-end computer"
"There’s tremendous diversity in race objectives"
From the moment you hit the accelerator, you’ll know that this is a Forza game. From its flawlessly precise controls to the immaculate attention to detail"
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