Forza Horizon Demo Impressions

[Flawless]

Some reviews:


Eurogamer - 9

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Where Horizon doesn't quite match its parent is in multiplayer. Playground's made a considerable effort, even including some fun games of tag set in open arenas (warehouses, a golf course) alongside the race lobbies. But the finesse and discipline of circuit racing will always be better suited to competition than Horizon's more seat-of-the-pants driving style, not to mention its wild crash physics. What's more disappointing is the half-baked exploration of open-world multiplayer ideas. The only multiplayer option that exploits the full map is a free roam mode featuring no traffic and some amusing but poorly communicated co-op challenges; it's not quite a case of making your own fun, but you will have to work to extract it. Next to Burnout Paradise's rolling multiplayer, or Test Drive randomly phasing other players into your game, it's a timid attempt.

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Forza Horizon is built on the best parts of the Motorsport games but delivers a strikingly different experience to them, and in many ways a better one. It has its own personality. It exchanges infinite laps and bottomless grind for an actual structure and a sense of adventure, while mastering its roads requires less practiced skill than it does courage and intuition. It's still not quite cool, but its luscious sensory rush overcomes any resistance: the sweeping scenery, the tactile handling, the throaty exhausts, the insistent thrills of the throbbing Rob da Bank soundtrack. Forza Horizon is a big, exciting game that finally brings car enthusiasts together with the realistic open roads they crave.

IGN - 9.0

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Upgrades remain but tuning is out, which will likely disappoint some. Mechanical damage is out too.

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If you love Forza 4, this is the perfect companion. If you love cars, this is essential. The school of thought may be that it’s hard to push racing games this late in a generation, but Playground Games hasn’t just moved the needle here. It’s buried it. Ladies and gentlemen, the open road beckons. And racing developers of the world? Playground Games has just put you on notice.

Giant Bomb - 5/5

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Plenty of racing games have tried to split the difference between simulation and "arcade" racing in the past, but there aren't many that do it as well as Forza Horizon.

Gamespot - 8.5

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The Good Sprawling open world is a blast to explore Stunning vistas highlighted by a full day-night cycle Flexible difficulty welcomes a wide range of drivers Plenty to do outside organized events Terrific competitive multiplayer. The Bad Awkward storytelling Disappointing online free-roaming.

Destructoid - 9

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Playground Games took a humungous, beautiful world, packed it full of entertaining challenges and events, added in tons of personality and style, and built it all around the proven Forza tech, giving racing game fans an exceptional automotive experience that they didn't even know they wanted. For as much as I love Forza Motorsport, it's going to be hard to go back after this.

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[mrprice33]

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[deezy24]

I can see myself getting easily bored with this game where as Forza 4 kept me playing well beyond level 50. I won't even come close to putting in the hours in this Horizon game. Played the demo and while it's cool it reminds me of games I already have and/or played "DiRT 3, Midnight Club, Burnout, NFS series....you name it." It just doesn't seem that the advantage of ALL the race cars are going to make a difference. They're all fast and it just comes down to your favorite car and your skill versus what the car is. If you think about it in the game then the cars are essentially the same. Sounds absurd but they all go about the same speed in a comparable class. I don't know......we'll see I can see myself buying the game when it goes for less that $30 and I won't be getting into all the DLC content and $$$ you'll end up paying on car upgrades and releases.

[Pete1210]

Quote: Originally Posted by deezy24

Played the demo and while it's cool it reminds me of games I already have and/or played...I can see myself buying the game when it goes for less that $30

That's about how I feel. I can just pop in TDU2 until this goes on sale.

[fabiobr]

Some users complained about the 4000 ms points for the season pass. That is the price for six monthly Car packs, not just one. I also read somewhere that the season pass have 17% discont compared to purchasing the monthly DLC. By a simple calc I guess the montly DLCs will cost 800 ms points, probably for 10 cars. 80 ms points per cars is what most racing games charge, fair to me.

For the demo I liked it very much. Surely will be a game that people will enjoy and remember for much time. The localisation into brazilian portugues is something amazing. I have yet to seen a better one. Thats a sign of respect, and not the only one. Seems the atention to details is very high. October 23 is close.