Forza Motorsport (2023)

Играть в эту игру сразу после 6-й части был не лучший выбор. Нововведенная система штрафов практически не работает в сигле. Точнее работает только для игрока. В остальном все серое и стерильное. Играть, даже в мультиплеере, откровенно скучно. Прошел Кубок Конструкторов (в целом уровень водителя за 140) и понял, что дальше играть не хочу. Ту же 6-ю часть с интересом "добивал" полностью. Не в плане игровых наград, а в плане всех заездов и дополнений. В этой же игре серии что-то пошло не так. Но народ смотрю играет, может просто я такой привередливый. Но ничего не поделать.

Forza Motorsport is not only a world class racing sim, but it is a welcoming, encouraging experience for racers of all abilities. Its desire to help and improve racers is perhaps only surpassed by the technology the game is built on. It’s beautiful, brilliant to play and packed full of cars worth tinkering with. All in one easy-to-access package. Pure racing at its best.

Very solid in some ways, feeling very nice to control and maintaining everything you'd expect from a good one of these. I don't think leveling up cars like you do in this game works as well as, say, leveling up guns in Call of Duty in a similar way, due to just how many cars there are and the fact that the upgrades don't feel as exciting as a new scope or something does there. It feels like a sort of unnecessary grind as a result, and I can't imagine people actually interested in tinkering with cars (unlike me) are too into that. The career mode would probably be more fun without the "forced" practice laps, which yes you can back out of once they start, but miss out on expected car XP that you're supposed to get for doing them. In some sense I was in the mood for the simplicity of Forza Motorsport, since while games like Forza Horizon 5 and Need For Speed Unbound have more pizzazz and flavor than this, sometimes the flavor in those games is really dumb and you just want to race cars in peace. But I still feel that this is much too sterile and car-commercial-y. It's a game where I can sit down and relax and have fun, and that's enough, but just don't expect me to get too excited about it.

Every race feels like a battle royal for the first lap. The ai is ruthless in raming into you and trying to spin you out. The practice laps make the pacing seem so sluggish. I would have preferred to have that be qualifying laps that put you into your start position. Choosing your start position seems weird for a game that is supposed to be a Sim. That being said the game looks great and car handling with a wheel is great as well.