Official Xbox 360 Thread

Forza Horizon is... I don't know. The graphics are pretty, but MS are a bunch of liars when they say this is Colorado. It's Colorado like Vice City is California- just a map with some stylings and broad representation. TDU raised the bar on that front and FH doesn't come close. The whole "Horizon Festival" construct is super tacky, it's like they got every terrible song from commercials these days, including the one from Doritos Locos.

The dirt race was fun (but stuck with too-easy AI from what I can tell) but I'm not sure how much fun the free roaming will be. The cockpit view seems okay.

Add on all the DLC MS are peddling and this looks like a solid $20 purchase.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Forza Horizon is... I don't know. The graphics are pretty, but MS are a bunch of liars when they say this is Colorado. It's Colorado like Vice City is California- just a map with some stylings and broad representation.

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Vice City is Miami, so that's pretty far off. ;)

That's what I meant to write but it was late.

Point is, this isn't Colorado, it's a general, broad, impersonation of it. Which is fine, but MS has been talking like this is Colorado like TDU is Oahu, or at least to scale. It's a lie.

Colorado is such a great choice for an open-world game because it has those amazing drives through the Rockies, but they set the demo in a flat, farm area like eastern CO/western KS. Boring.

I liked the demo, but with a Criterion game hitting at basically the same time...

I fucking hate open world racing games.

I always thought it was a good idea. I wanted to like Test Drive Unlimited, but I just couldn't get into it.
I just started playing Burnout Paradise recently, and I like it so far.

Burnout Paradise was great. Would have been better without the time wasting open world shit. Racing games are for RACING!

Outrun 2006 is still my favourite.

While I appreciated Dirt 2 on a technical level, I could never like and enjoy playing it, and I hated the incredibly annoying pro racer interface/implementation in its world tour mode. Forza Horizon, from the demo at least, seems quite similar but solves some of those issues as a more palatable experience.

I liked it for the most part, as I have previous Forza demos, although my tastes run more along loving how the cars handle in NFS Hot Pursuit instead.

I think that Forza game is going to be really good. The demo is really cool and you can tell that when you get some bad ass cars it'll be awesome