Hands-On: Forza Horizon 4 wants you to play online, but without the pain

You can still rewind

This is an online world, but you can still rewind. I suspect this will be handled differently in races, but in the open world it’s no problem. Because you and the other players aren’t physically interacting with each other, you can rewind when you make a mistake, just as you can in solo mode. This has been a core feature in Forza since early on in the series, and removing it would be about as bad as taking the hadoken out of Street Fighter.

I played it!

I sat down and ran through the demo on the floor at Microsoft’s showcase just before the E3 show, a series of races that took me through each of the four seasons in different vehicles. In the short demo it was tough to get a feel for how thoroughly the seasonal changes will change the gameplay, but I was immediately taken with the U.K. as the setting. There had been rumors that the series was going to Japan for this game, and the rumors had circled more than once. I was disappointed at the reveal, but the truth is that the U.K. looks great, and it feels good to race in. It immediately feels more alive than the already-great Australia setting of Forza Horizon 3. Fog rolls down over the lake. Sheep – yes, there are animals this time around – move out of the way when you go off-road. Colorful flowers pop in the spring, replaced by vibrant leaves in the fall. It’s a wildly colorful game. It also feels immediately more vertical than Australia, which makes everything feel bigger and deeper.

Not shown in the demo are some of the other cool things Playground is doing with the game. If you dug the blueprint races, you’ll love making your own race routes this time around. The festival this year will have us buying houses that will impart certain benefits as well as giving you a place to take some pictures of all your dope rides.

Forza Horizon 4 isn’t going to convert those that have previously bounced off the series, I don’t think. As a fan of the series, though, I’m eagerly awaiting the game’s October 2 release date.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2018/06/19/forza-horizon-4-hands-on/