Forza Motorsport Review - Heavy Metal Mercy | TechRaptor

Six years since the last entry, and in the wake of Forza Horizon taking the world by storm, Turn 10 has returned to reboot the Motorsport series, but is it a clean lap, or a crash out?

[dRanzer]

That to low for this game of quality

[purple101]

Yeh they do it for clicks. This is a 8/10 all day long.

[Kakashi Hatake]

What's new? It's the same thing each time. Same for GT. Don't understand the high scores for any racing game these days when they're basically copy paste at this point. Sports games are held to a standard, why not racers.

[S2Killinit]

No racing game has amazed me as much as GT7 in VR. That is true next gen racing imo.

@Kakashi (kudos on name btw)
Well this one is literally a re-release of a old game.

[thesoftware730]

Purple
"8/10 all day long"
Have you played it, to make such a definitive statement?

@S2
"No racing game has amazed me as much as GT7 in VR. That is true next gen racing imo."
Yeah, but it costs about $1,200-$1,300 to play it that way.

[S2Killinit]

@theSoftware730
No it doesn't. Otherwise Forza costs $600 with taxes to play it in any way.

Strange way to look at a game.

[darthv72]

@S2, okay, so maybe 730 math was off. Let's break it down.

GT7 cost to play in VR2 (minimum) $400 (PS5 Digital), $550 (VR2), $70 (game) = $1020 (+tax)
GT7 cost to play in VR2 (maximum) $500 (PS5 Disc), $550 (VR2), $70 (game), $100* (wheel) = $1220 (+tax)
*Please note the wheel is optional and only added to the maximum as an example. It could be added to the minimum way to play as well and prices do vary from wheel to wheel.

FM8 cost to play (minimum) $300 (SS), $17 (1mo game pass) or $70 (game) = $317 or $370 (+tax)
FM8 cost to play (maximum) $500 (SX), $17 (1mo game pass) or $70 (game), $100+ (wheel) = $617 or $670 (+tax)
*Please note the wheel is optional and only added to the maximum as an example. It could be added to the minimum way to play as well and prices do vary from wheel to wheel.

I forgot to add in the cost of a TV on the FM8 side seeing as the VR2 is its own self contained screen. So the price of TV vary from brand and size. Lets say the average price is $300 so that will change the minimum and maximum prices to $600-700+ for SS and $900-1000+ for SX respectively.

[wesnytsfs]

@S2Killinit, you should try the good vr racing games on PC. GT7 was not very good graphically or otherwise compared to the PC racing VR scene.

[fr0sty]

Darth, don't forget the cost of the microtransactions which GT7 lacks... and you can't compare playing a racing game in VR with playing one on a flat screen... it is a totally different experience that doesn't just increase immersion, it actually makes you a better driver, as you can see in full 3D with depth perception down the track to more accurately judge incoming turns, etc.

You also aren't accurately representing the TV... PSVR2 has a HDR OLED screen, good luck finding a 120hz HDR OLED TV for $300... lol.

More accurately, to play Forza at the fidelity of PSVR2, you need a $500 console, a roughly $1000 OLED HDR TV (which still might not be able to do 120hz), $70+ for the game (unless you plan on only playing it for a month), plus the amount needed for microtransactions to actually unlock the full game... and you still don't get the 3D audio, haptic feedback, or the groundbreaking 3D VR experience. $1600+ for the Forza experience, $1120 for PSVR2 with GT7.

[TheExecutioner]

I guess Sony paid the dev to make this game look bad on xbox with low scoring

[S2Killinit]

Yeah and its N4G’s fault as well.

[Vx_]

I'm a PS/PC gamer, but I can also appreciate good games even though I'm not a racing game fan, from what I have seen this game is at least 8/10, you can smell BS reviews like this one from miles away,

[Sonic1881]

What's funny is that you want see that certain group commenting in this article because of the review score 😂

[Rgbsquad]

Troll reviewers will be troll reviewers

[shadowT]

most reviews have a good 80 score

[ChasterMies]

Most review scores are inflated. I not only welcome the low scores I encourage these “news” sites to give them. A perfectly decent game should be a 6/10.

[Crows90]

They should switch to a scale /5...this gets rid of score inflating.

[PhillyDonJawn]

Now that's something we can agree on Crows.

[RaidenBlack]

There's always the one

[BrainSyphoned]

Always one, till the places MS didn't send codes to get the game, then it's the many.

[S2Killinit]

Lol true that.

[andy85]

Yikes now that one's nonsense. Always one

[Profchaos]

And here's the ckickbait review the games fair reviews should range from around 7.5 to 9 the perfect 10 scores and low 5.5 scores clearly show 1 of 2 things strong bias or the reviewer sucks at or dislikes racing games

[Valkyrye]

Crash and burned

[Ninver]

Let's be honest here, we all knew one was coming.

[BestBusdriver]

5.5 is to low but 8 is to generous... It s a step down if you compare it to forza 7. And it s not like xbox has a dozen AA exclusives lined up so it s half baked

[monkey602]

Yeah there are lot of issues with the game and it's getting a generous pass from most places.
Slapping 8 on it and calling it a day seems lazy or disingenuous at best.

I havent played it myself so I can't really comment to it's quality but there's a lot of really damaging footage out there. For example

https://x.com/RobinsonfinnH...

[repsahj]

Even the graphics on that tweet proves my point not just the ai.

[thesoftware730]

What exactly besides car count and maps a step-down?

"Forza Motorsport is, by a significant margin, the best feeling game in the Motorsport franchise to date." -IGN

"Forza Motorsport is off the lift and back in our lives. It looks great, feels great, sounds great, and it’s brought with it the most impressive multiplayer we’ve seen in the series so far. "- IGN

[RupeeHoarder]

The AI is atrocious in single player apparently. "Looks great, feels great and sounds great" doesn't touch upon how coming in second place every race is just stupid or getting slammed into for no reason is completely unnecessary in this type of game.

[anast]

Has the AI been improved or not?

[repsahj]

check @monkey602 post about the AI compared to another racer (i think it's GT7).

[ToneBlanco]

Did y'all READ the review or just look at the score?

[thesoftware730]

No, because most educated gamers know already that this game is not a 5.5 game.

And when you know the history of the dev/franchise, read other, less click-bait reviews, and watch actual gameplay, you don't give nonsense like this any extra clicks.

[Exthun]

Click bait, typical

[Kratos_Kart2007]

oh Lord...click bait...LOL

Its an 8 minimum

[BillyCrystals]

Forza flopped

[Agent75]

Same old. What else can you do with racers? My biggest grip is same old tracks. With the next Xbox, Forza will keep banging the same drum. Same with Turismo.

[GoodGuy09]

Yikes

[Tedakin]

Usually this review comes from a site I've never heard of. I've heard of Techrapter. Now way Forza is in Redfall territory. I hate that gaming journalists have to rely on clicks on stay in business, and negativity generates the most. Watch Spider-Man 2 will get a 5 from some moronic site too.

[PhillyDonJawn]

Click bait. I'm more of a horizon guy myself but this is a joke review score.

[EvertonFC]

Tbh if you read the article he praised alot of stuff in the review but seems to dock too many points for key scratching damage, boring circuits and some other little things.
Not sure why they didn't just give a 7 or something rather than a 5.5

[CrimsonWing69]

lol, yea ok... you may want to brush up on your critiquing skills or play enough racing games to become more of a subject matter expert.

Anyone who knows anything about driving games knows this is way off the mark. Not getting clicks from me, pal.

[anast]

The game is more like a 6-7. Not the GT/ killer they hoped for though.

[XBManiac]

Ok that the game is like an updated version of Forza Motorsport 7, but with less cars and circuits... And, also, it does not have esports options and wheel support is sup par. Maybe it is hard to digest that simulation options like position of the driver or camera options, as well as performance on PC is an aberration. Some can say that a driving game needs VR options, because we are in 2023. Or it can be a bad thing that many cars are sup par or low quality in comparison with some bunch. But the main problem is that this game could have been a launch day title with the same aspect and options, but three years before. Maybe this is the problem with this game and that's the reason of so low rates. Maybe... or maybe it is other aspects like they mention.