New Forza Motorsport next-gen footage fails to capture the excitement of racing

Turn 10 has given us what might be the deepest look at Forza Motorsport gameplay yet, but it looks a bit tame.

[crazyCoconuts]

I know someone that's not getting a review copy...

[InUrFoxHole]

🤣 🤣 I died when I read this

[Firebird360]

Not everything needs to be loud in your face mt dew doritos extreme sports 2005.

[xHeavYx]

Right? Especially a racing game where you drive sports cars almost 200 mil... Oh wait.

[neutralgamer1992]

There is a market for these games. Especially on gamepass this franchise will have a dedicated player base. GT on PlayStation and forza on Xbox has been excellent for their respective brands

Also I think we are to the point where graphics can only go so far. Coming from PS2 to PS3/360 was a jump and since than wow factor has been less and less. Digital foundry do their thing and few fanboys get some bragging rights than that we know we are are getting

[babadivad]

Yeah, graphics are good enough where casuals can't tell the difference. Especially if they don't have a good TV. My brother and his son literally can't tell the difference between the X and S version of a game.

Not even the PS4 to 5 version. Only people really plugged in can see the difference.

[Stanjara]

True... If someone plays spiderman...
I can't tell is it the original, or remaster, or Morales or a trailer for 2.

I can tell if someone is watching spider verse.
Great movies btw.
I was surprised.
Live action moves suck ass.

[UltimateRacer]

I’m honestly surprised at how uninteresting and bland this new FM looks, granted it’s only preview builds but damn they have a lot of work to do because if it releases as is then you have to question T10 and how they wasted those 6 years of development.

[spicelicka]

I don't see how it looks less or more interesting than other sims. You can't really make a racing simulator look that interesting, compared to something like horizon.

[z2g]

strongly disagree. I'm as amped as ever for this game and after reading tons of previews, I'm confident the game is also going to review well too.

[Ristul]

Another Forza, yay 😴

[z2g]

that 7 year release window too short for you?

[Ristul]

Forza Motorsport 3 (2009)
Forza Motorsport 4 (2011)
Forza Horizon (2012)
Forza Motorsport 5 (2013)
Forza Horizon 2 (2014)
Forza Motorsport 6 (2015)
Forza Horizon 3 (2016)
Forza Motorsport 7 (2017)
Forza Horizon 4 (2018)
Forza Street (2019–2022)
Forza Horizon 5 (2021)
Forza Motorsport (8) (2023)

Facts are fun, no? Notice I said Forza, nothing else.

[jwillj2k4]

7 year release window?? Lol yea okay

[Julion0715]

Another clown in an article with a game that They have no interest in yay fixed*

[Reaper22_]

Not surprised by that. People are still in their feelings about Starfield being a good game so they get a early start on downplaying Forza. It doesn't matter because it's still the best in the genre. Fact!

[InUrFoxHole]

Truth

[Hypertension140]

@Reaper22_

Harcore racing sim fans may disagree with you.

[Destiny1080]

i don't know what that was, but it wasn't racing, that's for sure

''track is clear to the left, get on it'' tells me all i need to know, a racer for beginner's

[SyntheticForm]

It's an orientation race *meant* for beginners to get them better suited and accustomed to what the game is - a racing game. Holy hell, bro. This doesn't necessarily mean it's for beginners and no one else.

Can we make honesty a thing again?

[Northpoint]

For me, the lighting effects couldn't beat GT7. Those glaring headlights and sun reflections from GT7 really give you an eye beating of realism.

[ToneBlanco]

Drive Club comparisons on YouTube still putting these racing games to shame. Sony please remaster that

[Yi-Long]

Agreed, plus it’s not just those graphics which really set Driveclub apart, but for me it was the absolutely outstanding track-design, so they went for fictional tracks in existing locations and just made them 1; Fun & exciting to drive on, time and time and time again, and 2; they were made to look as gorgeous as possible, both in terms of design (location, bends, vistas, dips, roadside objects, bridges, whatever, but obviously also in combination with just brilliant dynamic weather and lighting effects.

I see these videos of Forza tracks, and I’m sure on a technical level it’ s all very special and impressive, but all I see is pretty boring tracks (flat, environmental, circuits) we’ve often already driven on countless times across dozens of games, and it’s just not very exciting (to me).

I much rather have fictional tracks based on real locations, but designed to simply be as cool, beautiful and exciting and fun to drive around, instead of “oh, this curbstone on this real-life track is 100% accurate in height”. Cool, you did your homework, but the track itself is pretty bland and boring, so seems to me like a bit of a waste of effort …

This isn’t just about Forza Motorsport btw. I feel the same way about other games, like GT7, implementing tracks we’ve seen numerous times before (both within the series as well as in other games), and to me, I feel racing game design should always make sure the tracks chosen/designed are just fun and interesting and beautiful to race on, so I want gorgeous mountains/hills, and seasides, and forests, and villages, etc etc, instead of just a plain boring flat circuit in the middle of nowhere.

Some real-life tracks are obviously gorgeous btw, so I do love those (Spa Belgium, obviously), but quite a few are just very much ‘meh’, so when devs show off such tracks, it’s just met with shrugs.

[EvertonFC]

My 1st platinum DriveClub, why Sony why 😔

[Good-Smurf]

Their attempt to make FM reboot even more accessible like their games hasn't been accessible enough in the past.
(Forza 4 have kinect air steering and auto pedals)
makes their game felt like very safe product.
Treating all audiences like idiots.
It's how they make it accessible that pisses off people.
They could have went with a more balanced approach but nope they got to hand holding players like little kids.

[aaronaton]

Graphically its way behind GT7, and with a lack of VR mode + the game being developed by the 'pink hair brigade'... the gameplay is a mile off too.

[Terry_B]

Next gen? So it is for an upcoming console generation?

[Agent75]

It really does look like so many games before it. The only thing you can do with this genre is go the Ridge Racer route with made up tracks and cars. Sick to death of the same tracks and cars with the likes of Forza and Turismo. Arcade Racers have died. Ridge Racer, Shox, Project Gotham etc.

[Fonsecap]

I'm not a Xbox fan I don't even have one, I have a ps5 and pc instead, but seems like now is trend to bash ms games and exclusives... Press says that Starfield is bad and Forza is tame, ok Redfall my god was awful but imo Starfield is not bad, it's not great either and sincerely Forza looks awesome and if the driving mechanics are good it may be the best driving game on consoles...

[RupeeHoarder]

The games are just mediocre. It’s a continuation of their lack of ability to manage their studios and maintain quality control. Redfall was a complete bust, Starfield won’t be a GOTY candidate and was hyped to all hell. Forza is the last hope for 2023. I don’t doubt this teams ability to make a great racing game but I think 3 years into this generation, people are becoming skeptics and tired of overpromises and under delivering.

[Fonsecap]

I'm skeptic and tyres of this game generation, no doubt about that and I 100%agree with you on the over promises and under delivering but gamers made publishers to act like that, because they always fall for he hype, specially the less informed ones, there's only so few gamers who are informed and believe me those over promises and all that aggressive marketing is not directed to us informed few, are for those who are not and always buy the cod's the FIFA's the Madden's and so on every year...

[OptimusDK]

Lol what a joke