Forza Horizon 4 gets off to a slow start - but stick with it
As Forza Horizon 4 is the most online-focused game in this series to date, we'll be publishing our full review next week to give us an opportunity to play the game on more populated servers (early access begins this Friday, 28th September) and to experience a live season change. These early impressions are based on several days' play with a review copy of the game.
If you're looking for a clue to how different Forza Horizon 4 is from its three superb predecessors, the note in italics just up there should give you a clue. Although they've all been highly connected games, we haven't gone so far as to delay the review of a previous Forza Horizon; a private multiplayer session and a working knowledge of popular Forza community features such as the auction house and the Rivals leaderboard system have sufficed. The games' heart has resided in racing solo around their gorgeous open worlds, revelling in the expansive festival career modes.
It's no longer that simple. Forza Horizon 4 is the most ambitious game yet from a developer, Playground Games, that has so far taken a very careful, iterative approach to a formula that was brilliantly realised at the first try and - arguably - perfected at the third, 2016's joyful Ozzie odyssey, Forza Horizon 3.
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