Forza Horizon 4: Standard Edition – Xbox One

グランツーリスモ7よりもはるかに良いと思う。

The game is great, but there are many shortcomings.

Firstly, it completely fails to explain how the online mode actually works, and it also fails to let you know that the first leg of the game is a mandatory tutorial before you’re allowed to race with your friends. The addition of customizable player characters is interesting but the barrage of useless cosmetic items turns the wheelspins that you get from leveling up into something of a chore. Instead of credits or a car (which are the most useful thing a standard edition owner could get) you’re constantly getting rewarded cosmetic items and Fortnite-esque dance moves for the load screens that serve no purpose what so ever. Buying houses is not so much of a feature as much as it is mandatory if you want to unlock features that in previous titles you’d be able to buy simply with skill points you get as you race. The driving mechanics are on point.

What isn’t on point, however, is how the game coerces you into buying the VIP by jacking up the prices of the houses and certain cars. The skill trees are now attached to the car you drive as opposed to your player character, which turns them into a bit of a hassle, but you at least get enough skill points on average that you can max out your ‘main’ cars.

The variety of cars is decent, but there’s a lack of more ‘normal’ cars, and certain basic cars are hidden behind wheelspins like the Crown Victoria for an example. Being able to create your own circuits is great, and gives the players a chance to better utilize some parts of the map that had wasted potential. (They seriously created an offroad park and made one race that goes through it and doesn’t even utilize the most fun parts of said track)

There used to be a feature where if your opponent abandoned the race the game would immediately end the event and give you the full first place prize. It’s since been removed from the game because players had realized they didn’t need to buy VIP, simply set a “Goliath” race and have a friend DNF for them. Of course the producers were mighty annoyed by such and removed it entirely. They wanna milk the fanbase dry, just like every other game producer these days.

The initial release was a mess, and as it is tradition with Forza, there’s update notes saying that they’ve fixed bugs that are still present. In fact, a lot of times you’ll either get no engine sound or the entirety of the game’s sounds are at a delay, and takes a minute or two for the sound to catch up to the video.

Everything that would make me love this game to death exists in there, but between the massive bias towards Ford cars (Seriously, they take up a lot of the screen at the game’s shop!), the removal of certain cars that would’ve been perfect for this title given the wide variety of race types (No Honda Odyssey, no Cadillac Escalade, no Plymouth Fury, no 1982 Pontiac Firebird?) and deliberately hiding certain cars behind paywalls by attaching them to owning a 10 – 15 million credits house in the game, I can’t give this title a 5 stars.

Make it so clothes and “emotes” have to be bought from a shop, remove them from the wheelspins, do away with that cringe inducing La Gamer story mode, improve upon the track builder, and undo that sneaky nerf on the credits payout for people without VIP and I might update this.

The disc was delivered within five days. The packaging was good .
There was no problem . Only the language on box was french but the game was in English.

Me llegó en excelente condiciones, lo recomiendo.