I had to pick from the Audi TTS, Ford Focus RS and Dodge Charger R/T for the first few roads, but soon I was also given the choice between the Subaru WRX STI Shortly after that the game gave me a more realistic choice of starter cars.
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The controls and physics have the same great feel that I've grown accustomed to over the Forza series and you can customize assists and settings to get your desired balance of realism and arcade-y fun. So many carsĭuring our demo, I got a taste of the McLaren Senna hero car - which is featured on the box art - during the introductory mission. If you play videogames to escape human contact, of course, you can opt out of online play through the in-game menus. The online connection means that the map is shared with other players - it's not a massively multiplayer deal, but you can see a smattering of players cruising the streets of the Horizon Festival, looking for challenges. Will certain seasons be more popular than others? Or will the constant change keep players coming back for more? Time will tell. The game is affected by each season in some surprising ways: A river you splash through in the Spring, for example, might be dried out in the Summer or frozen over during the Winter opening up new shortcuts in races or routes through the open world.Īs a player who really just enjoyed hanging out in the open worlds of the previous Horizon titles, I'm eager to see how this system will work out (my demo only lasted an hour) and am curious to see how the player base ebbs and flows around the dynamic seasons.
Each in-game season will last a real-time week before transitioning to the next season for everyone.ĭeveloper Playground Games tells me that with the changing seasons, you can technically consider this game to be four times more replayable than the last one.
You first experience each season during the game's introduction, which smash cuts between fall, winter, spring and summer races within one epic sequence.Īfter a few tutorial missions, the game will then then sync online to a four-season cycle shared by players around the globe. The fourth entry innovates with a dynamic four-season cycle. Previous entries in the series introduced dynamic day-night cycles and weather. No, the open world map isn't an accurate 1:1 representation of the country, but we're told that players will be able to roam over an area that's a bit larger than the last game's scaled-down rendition of Australia.
The in-game Horizon Festival - a fictitious traveling racing and music festival - takes place in the UK this time out.