One of the most ambitious racing games in 7th gen.
Forza motorsport 4 features a fantastic amount of content in the car catalog end. You get the classic, the iconic, the weird and everyday cars, a massive garage with a lot of brands, with vehicles that go from shitty chevy sparks to LMP1 icons, all of them with a detailed interior and with (basic) damage systems. A few selected vehicles are featured in the forzavista mode, similar to that in later titles but with a presentation and voiceover by top gear. This is just fantastic and an absolute treat to car lovers. All cars (minus the unicorn ones. I used a modded copy that included all the unicorn cars and all dlc) are available for quick play in the main menu.
It is probably the best looking racing game in the 360 hardware. The graphics are simply mindblowing, to see that sort of detail running 60 fps on 2005 hardware, the art style of certain tracks (nurburgring, suzuka, bernese alps, rally di something) make them super comfy to cruise around, the almost t cartoonish style reminds me much of outrun 2.
UI and presentation are very sober. Dry even, the music is honestly pretty boring and feels like stock music after coming from GT and Horizon titles.
The career mode is interesting to play at first but gets way too repetitive, and does its best to show the worst parts of the game on the later stages.
First of all is the AI being all sorts of bad, where the rival cars won't put a fight (you'll outrun them by turn 2), but are super aggressive and won't try not to crash you. Braking early 100% means you'll get rammed out of the way. This makes it feel like the flashback feature is a cop out of those situations rather than just a crutch for beginner players.
The track selection isn't stellar either and despite there being a few very good fictional ones, the game really insists you on playing the painfully boring ones over and over, like who wants to play Indianapolis and infineon over and over. 2
10 lap races back to back on an ugly and lame track is not fun, at all. This is specially true in the last season where the game just refuses to give you the more fun ones and has you doing the oval tracks over and over.
This is a shame and leaves a very bad impression to an otherwise good game.
Forza motorsport 4 features a fantastic amount of content in the car catalog end. You get the classic, the iconic, the weird and everyday cars, a massive garage with a lot of brands, with vehicles that go from shitty chevy sparks to LMP1 icons, all of them with a detailed interior and with (basic) damage systems. A few selected vehicles are featured in the forzavista mode, similar to that in later titles but with a presentation and voiceover by top gear. This is just fantastic and an absolute treat to car lovers. All cars (minus the unicorn ones. I used a modded copy that included all the unicorn cars and all dlc) are available for quick play in the main menu.
It is probably the best looking racing game in the 360 hardware. The graphics are simply mindblowing, to see that sort of detail running 60 fps on 2005 hardware, the art style of certain tracks (nurburgring, suzuka, bernese alps, rally di something) make them super comfy to cruise around, the almost t cartoonish style reminds me much of outrun 2.
UI and presentation are very sober. Dry even, the music is honestly pretty boring and feels like stock music after coming from GT and Horizon titles.
The career mode is interesting to play at first but gets way too repetitive, and does its best to show the worst parts of the game on the later stages.
First of all is the AI being all sorts of bad, where the rival cars won't put a fight (you'll outrun them by turn 2), but are super aggressive and won't try not to crash you. Braking early 100% means you'll get rammed out of the way. This makes it feel like the flashback feature is a cop out of those situations rather than just a crutch for beginner players.
The track selection isn't stellar either and despite there being a few very good fictional ones, the game really insists you on playing the painfully boring ones over and over, like who wants to play Indianapolis and infineon over and over. 2
10 lap races back to back on an ugly and lame track is not fun, at all. This is specially true in the last season where the game just refuses to give you the more fun ones and has you doing the oval tracks over and over.
This is a shame and leaves a very bad impression to an otherwise good game.