Is Forza Horizon going down the drain just a month after its release? The game is currently on sale for an incredibly low price which is not typical for games that are new and succeeding. Read our thoughts on the game and why it may be failing already.
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.
Microsoft released way too many Forza's this gen, Forza 4 sold a lot less than Forza 3 yet still they tried to milk the series and are just damaging it. Spin-off or not, they are making the Forza brand tired and unappealing to consumers with yearly titles now
I'm still enjoying it.
@Calvin - Wouldn't let me click reply to your comment for some reason but I meant to say terrible idea* for one. For two, I'm definitely not a "PS3 fanboy". I primarily play Xbox 360 and PC. For 3, yes, these are "Black Friday" deals. But even that being the case most successful games don't go for anything less than $29.99 on sale, not $14.99.
Remember, this IS an opinion piece. But I do believe the significant price drop, Black Friday or not, reflects on the success of the game itself. It's not unheard of for a game to go on sale for $10 to $20 off but $45 off? That's a huge drop.
Still the best racing franchise this gen, low sales doesn't change that.