Modelling of the vehicle physics, long held as some of the best in the business, is all present and correct.
Not everything is a straight-out race, with activities like the ‘PR Stunts’ and the awesome ‘Barn Finds’ to mix up the action. While not as extensive as the world in something like Test Drive Unlimited, the environment in Horizon is nevertheless beautifully recreated and full of a captivating variety of places to visit and things to do.ĭressed up in an unfortunate ‘Festival’ conceit which is clearly aimed at the hard-of-thinking, unimaginative generation who regard the description ‘hoon’ as a compliment, Horizon saves itself by providing a fantastic variety of vehicles to choose from, all graded in the traditional Forza fashion from the ‘D’ class vintage style up to the ‘R’-class racing machines, and then lets you loose in the virtual recreation of the state of Colorado to play with them. Good titles, but it’s different.A departure from the usual ‘Forza’ fare, Forza Horizon has adopted the ‘open world’ formula of the competitors like the Need for Speed series, and is much more fun for doing so. If we saw that on Microsoft’s side, it’s for much smaller games like Hellblade or Ori. We saw Sony exclusive franchises like Bloodborne, Spider-Man and Horizon Zero Dawn all spring up last generation. Like Halo and Gears, Microsoft is pulling heavily from its back catalog rather than revealing huge new ideas, at least so far. There are also rumors about a new Perfect Dark game, bringing that IP back from the dead, though I’m not sure who would be working on that. While we can’t confirm exactly what Microsoft is doing with all of its studios, the rumors we’ve heard about “new” games from existing developers are Forza Horizon’s developer making a new Fable game.
Or, similarly, what if Sony asked Naughty Dog to only make Uncharted games until the end of time, and The Last of Us series never was created as a result? And now Horizon Zero Dawn has become a flagship franchise for PlayStation as a result, and is already more of an iconic IP than Killzone ever was. On Sony’s side you may guess that I’m speaking about Guerrilla Games, which after years and years of Killzone titles, decided they wanted to make a crazy open world game about robot dinosaurs.
Finally, there’s letting developers do their own thing and experiment with new, big budget IPs.
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