There aren’t a whole lot of cars in this mode, just a couple of dozen, but it’s a nice addition nonetheless. There is also a mode called Autovista where you can view the car inside and out, and listen to commentary from Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear. You can also take photographs of your cars in a very detailed photo editor.
There are a lot of options to install upgraded parts, paint your cars, change wheels, and add some aftermarket accessories. The selection is great too for those of us living in North America, since it includes more American cars, and less obscure Japanese ones.īesides racing, you may spend a lot of time customizing your cars.
You can find slow cars, fast cars, old cars, and even trucks and SUV’s. The selection isn’t just limited to exotic race cars either. The repetitiveness is balanced a bit by the huge selection of cars to drive. There are a decent amount of tracks to race on, and the Top Gear track is an excellent addition for any Top Gear fan, but it still could have used a few more tracks to make the game less repetitive. At this rate I should reach 100% by the year 2022. The game’s stats screen says I’ve driven 4500km in 37 hours, won 333 races, have 144 cars in my garage, and yet I’ve completed only 19.7% of the game. When you aren’t with friends though, you can play the career mode in which you start off with a small amount of money, buy a small car, win races, and spend the prize money to buy faster cars, and so on. I love getting together with friends, ordering out some food, and playing multiplayer games together. More games should include a split-screen mode. You can race in a single race, time trial, or multiplayer split screen. The last time I ever spent $80 on a game, but it was well worth it.īeing the fourth game in the Forza series, the developers have really refined the gameplay, graphics, sounds and features. It also controls nicely with the standard Xbox 360 controller too. The feedback and rumble of the wheel along with the great looking in-car view turn this game into a cheap, and fun driving simulator. I changed all of this to make the game play more realistic, and raced mostly with the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel.
That makes the game more accessible, and more fun for a lot more people. You can tweak different aspects of the gameplay to make the cars handle easier, brake easier, or take less damage. That means you’ll have to slow down for corners, go easy on the throttle and brakes, and be prepared for consequences if you hit anything. Unlike a lot of earlier driving games, in a simulation like this you’ll have to drive more like you are driving a real car. The Forza Motorsports games try to be driving simulators. I realize that Forza Motorsport 5 was just released for the Xbox One, but buying a new system to play a sequel with much less content than than it’s predecessor just didn’t appeal to me, so here’s Forza Motorsport 4 back from 2011.