hmm. i would coin a different term for the horizon series in this regard:
MS tried to position the Forza Motorsport series as a ‘serious’ contender in the sim racing market, sth that’s to be taken with more than just one grain of salt. Accordingly, it focusses on the racing bits and offers some kind of career-mode where you are progressing through a number of set-pieces that should give you the feeling of being a competitor in series X. truth to be told, it feels like you are shuffled along in a theme park though…
the horizon series, as has been described before, is more like a take on the well known ‘Need for speed’ x ‘Fast and the furious’-formula - i personally would even go so far and call it a Driving Experience Action CarPG, because that’s what most important for me in this series:
experiencing the joy of driving cars i would never be able or want to afford, in places i never would be allowed to, in a manner that never would work in real life, and - best of all - with friends, relatives and strangers that join the (literal) joy ride for minutes, hours, days or months: that’s what i love about FH3. It even shows in the way how i approach both games, in FM7 i tend to play from the cockpit pov, whereas i go for the 3rd person view in FH3, to see the car i am driving with, and where i am aiming it at.
… and tbh, with FH3, most of the time, it isn’t even important what you are doing, or where you are going:
it is the act of going places and how you get there that counts, and those are the moments that stick with you:
e. g. one that stuck around is the following, experiencing sunset at the horizon (pun not intended) after heavy showers, in a Lexus LFA with a painfully embarrasing idolm@ster paintjob, while you are jumping over dunes in the australian outback - a perfect moment that won’t come back.
if you enjoy that kind of thing, then you won’t care whether you have to grind a little bit longer for car X (if it isn’t the most expensive car in the game, that is…)… and if that’s the case, then just buy it and enjoy driving, because that’s what we are here for, right?..
, but what can you do than turning to old (and IRL crappy build quality) british toy cars. I encourage everyone to enjoy the presence of a proper transformers-trainee:
