This is a series about celebrating cars, with a handling model that makes each one a pleasure to race. The feedback makes driving feel tactile and instinctive. Playing with an Xbox controller, I get an immediate sense of the weight and power of each vehicle, and can feel its limitations as I turn into corners. Over 350 cars are included at launch, with more planned as DLC. Certain cars are better suited to certain types of terrain, but you can take a hypercar onto the beach, wrestle with its skittish, nearly uncontrollable handling, and still emerge unscathed. It feels realistic, but never to the point of hampering your fun. It's not a simulator, like iRacing, but nor is it a pure arcade racer, like Burnout Paradise. Horizon's challenges are enjoyable because its cars are so satisfying to drive.
I've played and loved every Forza Horizon game, and, in terms of size, scope and variety, this is the best of them. And, ultimately, it doesn't hamper my enjoyment. This is just a strange new wrinkle in a series that, for me, has always struggled to reconcile unappealing fiction with unrivalled action. The festival conceit is a great way to link multiple classes of vehicles racing across many different terrains, all under the umbrella of a unified celebration of competition, collaboration and skill. There's city streets, beaches, forests, fields, and a large patch of the Outback. In Forza Horizon 3 you take over a condensed but varied slice of Australia. The titular Horizon is a festival, where enthusiasts come to race, pull stunts and enjoy the open road. It's a huge, varied playground full of things to do in cars.
Alternatively, I could simply drift around a big field, smashing down crops and hedgerows to max out my skill chain.įorza Horizon 3 isn't just a racing game. If none of that takes my fancy, I could drive as fast as possible through a speed trap, set a distance record off a stunt jump, go looking for a classic car hidden in an abandoned barn, smash bonus boards for XP, or challenge any of the AI racers populating my open world to an ad-hoc head-to-head race. These give you a car and a goal: beating a skill point target in a Ford RS200, or speeding across country roads in a LaFerrari. Or, I could do something less daunting, such as attempt a Bucket List challenge.
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