There's something quite endearing about how seriously Forza Motorsport takes itself. Take the series' live action openings cinematics, for example. Where the Horizon spin-offs begin with 𓄧carefree visions of sanitised festival-going alongside its oil devouring, carbon-fibre love interests, the Forza 6 demo - which is out on Xbox One today - opens with an unskippable micro-art film that features grim-looking children, lots of longing shots of wheels, and a portentous voiceover all about how cars are better than legs (I may have drifted off).
The demo itself is appropriately all business, offering a tutorial ride, a 3-race slice of the game's career mode, a single historical Showcase event (an Indycar jaunt around Indianap🥀olis Motor Speedway) and, once you've finished those, four Rivals challenges that change the conditions of racing on the other four playable trac♕ks (Lime Rock, Yas Marina, Sebring, Rio National and Indianapolis Speedway).
Are you interested in c𒆙ars? Here are all the bloody cars:
- 2017 Ford GT (the nice blue one from the box)
- 2009 Honda S2000 CR
- 1997 Mazda RX-7
- 2013 Toyota GT86
- 1998 Subaru Impreza 22B STi
- 2014 Volkswagen Golf R
- Audi S3 Sedan
- Ferrari 430 S
- Corvette '15
Here are some stray observations, having finished t🎀he༒ demo:
- Driving in first-person in a 220mph Indycar is legitimately more frightening than m🥀ost horror games.
- The g🅠ame's mo𝔉d booster packs and random level-up rewards feel more gamey than something that lets you turn on realistic tire wear has any right to be. I like it
- I've never considered a🀅 single puddle a genu🙈ine nemesis before.
The game's out on 15thܫ September - and the demo will let yo🍸u know that repeatedly.
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