Eurogamer's preview of Forza Motorsport (2023), which offers a warm welcome.
"A car's journey, from the showroom floor to the winner's circle, is the culmination of a thousand little decisions," we are told, at the beginning of Forza Motorsport."All carefully chosen by great builders who know what it takes to push a car past its perceived limitations." Fair enough.
The obvious answer is: Stuffiness. The Forza Motorsport games have, since 2012, suffered something of an image problem. The problem being Forza Horizon, their sister series, developed by Playground Games - a studio whose title doubles as a perfect description of the product that it pours out. The Horizon series loves cars, but what it loves about them is their relation to the world, the way they cruise through it, offering up fresh sights as though the windshield were a widescreen TV.
It's an odd tone to take, somewhere between devotion and bonhomie, with earnestness humming through its chassis. But it beats the synthetic friendliness of Forza Horizon any day, with its gee-whiz festival staff and its air of stale enthusiasm. It's a relief, frankly, that Forza Motorsport comes fitted with its own kind of ABS: an anti-schlock braking system that stops us getting tired out and keeps our eyes on the road, with occasional gazes at the visions beyond.
As for the driving, it's a cinch. All you need to do, as a lady informs us in the tutorial, is"break before the turn, coast through it, then accelerate as you exit." What could be easier? After a few minutes of throaty, thunderous speed, you remember that the reputation of the Horizon games, that of bottomless generosity, was only ever a natural extension of the ethos that always held sway in their Motorsport forebears.
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