Clicking on the steering wheel will show off the start process, complete with gauges, displays and the engine revs. You can even get inside the car to get a run down of the dash and interior, which looks just as detailed as the exterior. My personal favourite is pressing X to ‘explode’ the car, opening every door, bonnet, boot and wing available. While it may seem a fair bit of effort just to look at a car, I can assure you, it’s completely worth it. To unlock a car for Autovista, you need to select it and complete a challenge. Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame also gives his dry humoured run down of each. There is still the same Auction House for selling cars and Store Front for selling graphics and vehicle setups – sadly not much has changed here from Forza 3.Īutovista 25 amazingly detailed cars are on display for you to investigate. This team system is something we’ve seen many games try, but rarely done well. You may be used to comparing your best times with Xbox Live friends, or the top leaderboards, but now you can compare with club members as well. This means someone entering the game for the first time could try a heavily customised, specked out ride. A really nice feature is that you can share your cars with the group. Forza 4 lets you do that by creating Clubs. Naturally Motorsport communities online want to form group and race competitively with others in the game. Naturally you can join or create an almost infinite number of race modes with players across the globe.Īn important new addition in Forza 4 is the ability to use Clubs. This section will blow up on release day. It’s been a little difficult to test during the pre-release phase as there’s only a select few with early access. Autocross races can contain objectives like knocking over a specified number of Pins, or driving slalom between Barrels around the track.Ĭommunity If there wasn’t already enough places for you to sink time into, racing online is a massive part of Forza.
These game modes make for a nice break from hours of standard circuit racing. Rival challenges come in many forms including hot laps, drifting, time attack, track days, top gear and Autocross. Rival events is another mode that places your times against the best in the world. If you want value for money, this game will satisfy your cravings, there’s no 10 hour FPS here, hours required are measured in 3 figures. With some many track and race variants, there are hundreds of events to race.
The number of races in Forza 4 is simply astonishing. The thought process involved in creating this is pretty impressive, there’s even made up tracks still have locations on the map. This contextualisation works remarkably well compared with selecting from a list.
Track locations are now visualised with the track selection panning over a map of the world. Unfortunately despite your previous experience, your career will still start using slow class F cars. The game prompted me to import the data, naturally I did which resulted in early unlocks of cars and a badge (Level 50, VIP).
Forza motorsport 4 review series#
The home screen is made up of 5 sections, Play Career, Community, Autovista, Free Play and Marketplace, in the demo, you only had access to 2 of these, so below we’ll take a look at each one.Ĭareer Finally a game that recognises your commitment to the series ! After firing up Forza 4, it identified the saved game from Forza 3 sitting on the same hard drive. but that just ended ! So strap yourself in for the review. I’ve been lucky enough to have been playing the game for the past week under embargo. but now in 2011 it’s time for the 4th edition. The Forza Motorsport series began way back in 2005.