Playing with friends has also always been an option, but now you can co-op with friends playing on Xbox One or Windows 10.
The default options are fairly limited, but you can now choose to use your own music! That’s right folks, Forza Horizon 3 will allow you to stream your own playlist from your Microsoft OneDrive account! In my opinion, this is a spectacular addition to an already fantastic offering. This is one of the features I really like! You have always been able to choose a radio station so your demolition derby has a soundtrack. There is just something really nice about a game developer who listens to what their gamers want. There is also a return of the Auction House and the Storefront, which was apparently brought back by popular demand. A BMW M3 looks good, but an M3 with huge flared wheel arches is metallic porn. There are tons of new rally parts, new rims, and body kit options, including body widening kits. The environments are among the best I’ve seen in a car game the way the shadows dance over shiny metal when racing through forests and the beautiful sky renderings. The cars look so amazing when tearing across the countryside, ploughing through fences and over carefully manicured lawns (I haven’t really mastered racing with a controller yet!). The driving experience is fantastic (not realistic). This is honestly gearhead heaven! These cars are all beautifully rendered. There are even some Australia-specific vehicles like the Holden Torana, the ’74 Holden Sandman and the final production pick-ups (or Utes, as the Australians call them) from both Holden (Chev, for those of us not living in Australia) and Ford. A whole lot more cars! Horizon 2 shipped with 200, Forza Horizon 3 has 350! The car list is even more diverse than the environments, ranging from the newly-debuted Lamborghini Centenario to specialized Baja buggies like the Penhall Cholla, and just about everything in between. It’s balls-out racing that looks great and sounds great! So getting back to Playground Games’ claim about Forza being big, I’m going to say yes, we can expect more of everything. I should not be able to hit 170mph on a sand dune in a Lamborghini! In its defence, I have been playing a lot of F1 2016, which is a spectacular racing simulator, and Forza is not. This may be one of the few gripes I have with this game is how illogical the physics is. You can tear through the muddy, twisty bush and go flying over the huge dunes in the Australian Outback. You can take your brand new Lamborghini down the beach and run all 4 wheels in the water, you will see the spray on your screen and the water drops will run upward as if being blown by the wind. It has twice the ecosystem types, which creates a whole bunch of new driving experiences. Not just that, it is also claiming to be twice as big as Horizon 2. This release is being touted as the most diverse, most social, and most customizable open-world racer in the business, which I think is quite a large claim. I haven’t had a chance to cover every square inch of the map yet, but I will, and my plan is to reach the mountains on the horizon, drive over them and ramp as far as I can into the sea!įorza has reached Australia, which I think is fitting as most people will behave like criminals when they get racing. In Forza 3 there is no such limitation (at least not that I have found yet). You could drive around the countryside and see everything, but you would still eventually hit a barrier or mountain range or something which you could not cross. What I mean is, in Forza 2, you could go ALMOST everywhere. I think anyone who plays racing games will agree, you get Forza, and then you get everything else, right? Even though, if I’m honest, the previous releases were “Open-World” and not REALLY Open-World. Playground Games have established themselves as the leaders in open-world racing games. Now before I continue gushing like a girl at her Matric Ball, let me get some of the official stuff out of the way. You may have seen the teaser for it on the Fortress of Solitude website and, like me, have been counting down the days till you can get your greasy little hands on a copy. The cover has a Ford F150 jumping a Lamborghini Centenario! I don’t care where you’re from, that is COOL! Then BAM! Playground Games releases Forza Horizon 3 and I get a shiny new box wrapped in plastic on my desk, screaming at me to fake illness and leave work immediately!Įverything about this game is cool. I may have mentioned before that I am a BIG fan of cars, racing and racing games.? Having recently played F1 2016, I thought I had hit Nerdvana, and I basically had nothing left to look forward to for the rest of the year.
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