Forza Motorsport

Some of the worst AI I have ever seen in a racing game. They could care less if they are on the side of you. If you're on the racing line, they will smash you off it, and yet you get the time penalty...

Fun to play, but there's no career mode, and Microsoft pretty much dissolved the studio. This game was designed as a live service, but there’s no live service if there’s no studio to keep it running."

Very fun game..In no way shape or form is the game trying to be a simulator. i'll say the game is an arcadesim if that makes any sense. A little mix of both. This aint Assetto Corsa. Its severely easy in comparison. The game is very noob friendly (if you're trying to get into circuit racing and all that good stuff) The game has a massive car collection and tons of tracks. Amazing visuals and great graphics. Sounds are nice and the game plays well. At the end of the day, you're playing Forza after all. I dont understand the hate this game has gotten (maybe people were expecting a hardcore sim) but all that nonsense aside, the game is a great racing game. I'm a happy customer and ill recommend it. If anything, get it on sale. Lastly, and like all racing games of this type, I recommend playing it with a steering wheel. The immersion is awesome. Does it work with a controller? absolutely. It feels just as if you're playing Forza 5. The controllers are literally the same.

A racing "sim" game made by people who clearly take trains and buses to work.

All-in-One Package Game that can play every motorsport car. Not very sim racing but also not very arcade style of gameplay. It is a fine tune between sim and arcade.

Forza Motorsport 2023 isn’t a sequel—it’s a clean slate. Instead of simply being "Forza Motorsport 8," this reboot aims to redefine what the franchise stands for. It puts realism, detail, and driving precision in the spotlight. With overhauled physics, real-time weather, and a deeper career mode, it’s a serious sim built for serious racers—but one that still tries to stay accessible. This isn’t your laid-back, open-world joyride. This is about lap times, tire temperatures, and perfect apexes. Turn 10 promised a "generational leap" in physics, and they mostly delivered. Tire modeling, suspension behavior, and aerodynamics feel more dynamic than ever before. You can feel the weight of the car shifting under braking, and tire grip changes meaningfully with track conditions. This version puts a greater emphasis on practice and progression. You’re encouraged to learn the track, run clean laps, and gradually improve your skills through a revamped Career Mode that rewards precision—not just raw speed. For new players, the assist systems are customizable and helpful, but this game is definitely tuned for those who enjoy simulation-style racing. The Builder’s Cup introduces a progression-based approach. You earn experience for each car individually, leveling it up through use instead of buying upgrades outright. It’s a clever system that encourages you to bond with your machine, although some fans may miss the traditional car shopping and garage variety early on. Events are structured to challenge you gradually, with practice sessions and tuning before every race. It's rewarding, but a little repetitive over time. Visually, Forza Motorsport is stunning. Car models are razor-sharp, damage modeling is more realistic, and the ray-traced lighting adds depth to every track. Tracks like Maple Valley and Spa-Francorchamps look absolutely alive with detail. Weather effects and time-of-day changes are dynamic and immersive. Rain transforms the track surface, affecting grip and visibility in real time. It’s not just pretty—it impacts performance. Audio is equally impressive. Engine sounds are deep and unique to each car. You’ll hear the rattle of gravel, the hiss of brakes, and even tire flex under pressure. Online racing is more structured this time around, with a focus on fair, competitive matchmaking. Safety ratings and skill-based tiers aim to reduce the chaos of past lobbies. It's a welcome change, though matchmaking can still be slow. Content-wise, the game launched with over 500 cars and 20+ tracks, with regular updates promised. Still, some players felt the initial track selection lacked variety compared to previous entries. The lack of a livery-sharing marketplace at launch was a blow to the creative community, though Turn 10 has been patching in features post-release. Forza Motorsport (2023) is a strong technical achievement and a love letter to precision racing. It’s not about flash—it’s about focus. With deep physics, beautiful presentation, and a structured progression system, it succeeds as a sim-racer for dedicated players. That said, it plays things a bit too safe. Career mode, while polished, can feel a bit sterile, and the reboot doesn’t redefine the genre in a dramatic way. It’s a solid foundation, but not yet a masterpiece. Pros: -Excellent driving physics and handling -Gorgeous visuals and dynamic weather -Deep car progression system -Improved competitive online structure Cons: -Career mode can feel repetitive -Missing fan-favorite features at launch -Limited track variety early on Forza Motorsport is a refined, grounded, and technically brilliant return to track-focused racing. If you crave realism and want to fine-tune every turn, you’ll find a lot to love. Just don’t expect the fireworks of Forza Horizon—this one’s for the purists. Rating: 6/10

bought it and a week later Microsoft closes turn 10. game is half baked, not much there, and no one else is going to work on it. so if you like whats there now, then go for it, otherwise its a dead game.

Bought the game after update 20, saw fujimi videos on youtube and decided to give it a try. I'm actually very surprised on how much enjoyable this game is. Spent a couple of hours on meetups, it was extremely enjoyable. Was a bit disappointed when I saw that no single player championships have been added to the game from the release but then saw the release notes of update 21 and was very very pleased, that they've added new single player championships and they seem really really good. I'm actually very pleased with the recent effort that they've put into the game, I recommend to give it a try. I think that it doesn't deserve so much of a hate that it's getting right now. There is still a good amount of work to do (for example a good couple of car models that they have promissed to update are still look extremely outdated) but I think the recent updates are really good, it's deffinetely a right direction and the game deserves your attention. P.S. Fujimi is so so good, absolutely love it.

the game is pretty good all in, but as Microsoft's has all but wiped out turn 10, I cannot recommend this game, it will son be a dead one, and they will go all out on Forza Horizon. so don't buy it if you want a game to last.

Got the game from sale, and it has been worth it. Took 470h to get all achievements naturally. My biggest complaint is, that singleplayer content is very lacking. Out of all Forza Motorsport & Horizon games, this definitely has the worst singleplayer aspect. If you are solo player I can't really recommend this but if you are planning to play online, definitely jump in when the game is next time on sale!

Microsoft Shareholders made turn 10 sign onto a shareholder game baked with microtransactions. The game launched missing a whole bunch of staple items due to Microsoft thinking they knew better than the game studio that has been making these games for 20 years. Fast-forward and now turn10 is a support studio for the inferior game series Horizon. (A game made for mouth breathers that hold onto their parents wallet. ) Something tells me that this was Microsoft mismanaging their game studios (Look at that joke Halo Studios). The game is finally in an acceptable state and the studio got shut down. This will probably keep me away from the series as I have no attachments to forza horizon. While I am just one person that will be voting with their wallet, I hope more simcade fans will not support microsoft in the future. Looks like it is time for polyphony to release GT7 on PC, however now they have ZERO incentive to do so. If you want a simcade game you'll be over $600 into a ps5. Not to say turn10 is innocent, They knew they were making a crap game that was not "built from the ground up". Unfortunately they were more interested in middle management keeping their positions rather than keeping their position as a game studio. Seems like when you ignore your community constantly and hand out bans for petty crap, you end up forgetting to make a AAA game. TLDR 20 year forza fan disappointed in microsoft. T10 had no balls to tell microsoft no on bad monetary practices. But has plenty of balls to ignore their community and hand out petty bans. Microsoft misread the room and fired a bunch of employees and combined them with Playground Games. ( You know instead of the remaining employees being able to effectively develop a game without bachelors holding middle management. ) This is modern gaming folks! Are you happy that the modern studio prioritizes microtransactions and graphics instead of engaging game play? Do not buy anything racing from microsoft for the forseable future. (While this makes it look like the market share is shrinking, it is to make a statement that you do not want monetized trash on your system)

No camera height/angle adjustments for cockpit (or any other) view is a deal-breaker for me, as the default camera position isn't level with the horizon, and doesn't even seem to be consistent car-to-car. Not an issue for controller players I'm sure, but on a dedicated sim rig it's pretty uncomfortable. Will consider buying again if this feature is added, as this did seem like a good game for casually driving a whole bunch of cars on a whole bunch of tracks. **Edited for tone, as the developers do appear to be reading these reviews.

It's sad that I was so surprised when I booted up the game and it both [b]looked great AND ran well[/b]. The bar is in the floor for modern AAA games. The modeling of the cars, the tracks, the world are absolutely beautiful. For reference, I'm running 1440p high settings on a 3060 and getting a rock steady 60 to 70 FPS. If you enjoyed Forza in your childhood like I did, you'll enjoy this. It does feel a little pay to win with how you get a bunch of cars just given to you for buying the premium gold plus whatever they call it version, and, frankly, I would have rather had to work for those cars to feel the accomplishment of earning them, but it's whatever, there are a bunch of other cars still to unlock. ---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☑ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ 9 / 10 }---

It's not what was promised or a real racing sim, but it is fun. All stock tunes are useless though, so all cars are required to get tuned. There are apps and guides for this (Forzatune is a decent free app). If you try and drive the cars with stock tune they will all understeer and perform horribly. Also takes forever to get set up with a wheel. Get it on sale if you want a fun and easy simcade experience.

Worst Forza ever made, devs destroyed their fanbase and now the game is hardly car culture related at all. Edit: dev wrote me an apology email, Ill give credit where its due. Someone over there still understands accountability.

Fire the guy who decided to lock cursor keys. It is sick. But very good game otherwise. Works fine.

21 updates later its pretty alright, not worth 70 usd. Rain racing seems to have been severely downgraded vs forza 7's puddle formation, this needs to be added into the game, id make racing much more interesting. small nitpick, cars with slicks leave tire skirts with thread pattern, annoying pls fix. also, modern gt3s are a must man cmon.

It's fun. Not quite as good as some of the past titles, but I'm enjoying racing and buying cars.

Absolutely rife with bugs and cheaters in MP. Races take way too long to do. Minimum 1 hour for a regular MP race. Practice, waiting, and each race has like 15 laps. Half the time you just crash when the race starts or your FPS gets halved for no reason. Who has time for this?

They missed tha mark with this one. They made such an emphasis on racing but i can't find my LAP TIMES nor does the game have on-the-fly adjustability for TCS ABS EB Stability or mapping. No brake rotor thermals. Can't flash lights for endurance races. Doing a pit stop does not clean the windshield. Edit i will keep adding as i play the game: Unable to start the car in ForzaVista so i can't here a new exhaust without going through the process of starting a race. No drag racing or drag strip but has drag tyres? Manual with clutch selected but when i am driving a dual clutch transmission car (which doesn't need or have a clutch to shift gears) it still needs to be driven with the use of a clutch but at the same time when i drive something like a touring car the dog box works just fine without a clutch. Looking to the left or right in first person view should still be in first person view, it shouldn't switch to an external view. If you make contact with an NPC you will get thrown off the track and they won't even budge off the racing line, it's like an Daihatsu Charade vs Kenworth W900. When sorting through the car list the transmission should be listed. Can only do "street" "sport" "race" transmissions. where is there dual clutch 7 speed or the 4 speed auto with transbrake or a 5 speed dog box? i paid for the top top edition of Forza Motorsport that includes a "car pass" but i don't have access to the JZX1000 without buying another car pack BUG: ForzaVista often bugs out and auto clicks where you have to hit Escape to leave ForzaVista. sometimes the game freezes when applying a tune.

1 hour in and still in the tutorial... When do I get to play the game? Forcing me to install the XBox app was also annoying. Refund requested. Sad because I really enjoyed Forza on XBox 360.

It's obvious why Microsoft closed this studio down. It is losing players and the majority of the community left playing does not care about clean racing and the penalty system continues to be an absolute joke. If you want to just mess around and drive cars and bounce off other players and use them to help brake into corners play this. If you want more real genuine racing, look somewhere else.

...and I want over 2h, hopefully support will hear me out 5/10 after year and a half of patching. No, this is not GT7 alternative. This game doesn't come even close to it. PROS: - visuals of track - lots of content - improved driving model sine FM7 CONS: - AI, AI, AI!!! I mean, I'm scared how it was before patches, but it makes career unplayable if you want challange. They often "glue" on you, spin you out etc. (when you're in front). And sometimes game gives YOU the penalty. The worst is, in slower cars, this isn't so noticeable, but faster the cars, more AI is ruining it - career - no sense of progress whatsoever - too slippery - while driving model IS better, it's also still a bit on ice still and cars are too prone to understeer - technical issues still - every track has that one corner or point where game will micro-stutter - penalty system works 4 out of 5 times; consider this with AI point and you'll get it - considering state of game - criminal DLC policy - Turn10 should just close for good if this is the best they can do Blow off dust from X360 and replay FM4, seriously. EDIT: Also, in most expensive tier - not all DLCs are present :D

objectively bad game it stutters and will loading screen lock you its just the only one to play because horizon is 15x worse with a reinstall everytime you go to play it

bland/washed out visuals, horrible optimization, unfinished gameplay, horrible car models and more. Better off playing Gran Turismo 7

I HAVE SPENT THE LAST HOUR AND 40 MINUTES TRYING TO ENJOY THIS GAME. I have a thrustmaster tmx which isn't a high end wheel but i have yet to run into issues with games. Well that was until this one. I spent the last hour and 40 minutes setting up, trouble shooting, and configuring the settings, just for it to delete all of it in a second. I am pissed off and honestly am disappointed. Beamng was easier than this game so ima just refund it and play beamng instead. Good luck to anyone else getting this game, I hope I'm the only one who had this many Issues

This game had a rough launch on PC but now the game is in a really good spot. The Game and Turn10 dont deserve the hate. I hope this game continues to get updates and does well in the future. Long Live Forza Motorsport <3

The game is not bad, but a large number of problems of varying severity kill any desire to play it. I'm not even talking about stupid bots, unfair penalties, small amount of content, dysfunctional multiplayer, non-consistent mechanics. Problems are found even in small things and cost players Hours of their lives. The developers create a dumbass quest to “run 49 laps in an indycar on the Fujimi Kaido track” and its progress is NOT saved between restarts of the game. You have to be a clown to do ZERO testing of your updates.

[b]A non-functioning product (on Linux), a studio closure, and indifference from Steam Support.[/b] I thought I'd give this game a chance, as something of a more casual sim-ish title, considering they were adding more and more positive updates to it and, had Turn 10 not dissolved since I had purchased it, they probably would have added more. While I usually don't spend 30 Euros or more on a game easily, I thought it would be a good deal for the "complete" edition and probably get enough enjoyment out of it, again also with more updates over time. However, when I finally had time to sit down and play a few weeks after purchasing it, as I had purchased it quickly before the discount went away, upon trying to launch it I got the error that it needs this “Microsoft Gaming Services”. But I run Linux and can’t really install that. I presumed that, because the “Horizon”-games run on Linux (through Proton) with next to no issue, it would be the same for “Motorsport”. That’s partly my own fault, but I didn’t expect it to be absolutely “borked”, as I later found on ProtonDB. - Lesson learned to check anyway, I suppose. So I contacted Steam Support for a refund, explaining I cannot run it, as well as the unlikeliness of any updates coming, but while they say "we understand the situation", they also go "not after 2 weeks, bub". - Again, I haven't even been able to launch the game because of what is basically a preventative measure. - I simply do not run Windows and there wasn't a clear warning about this. I've been put up with an unfinished and non-functioning product for 30 Euros. - Thanks, Microsoft/Xbox/Turn10/Valve! I will make sure to avoid Microsoft/Xbox products, as well as purchasing from Steam directly, where I can from now on. - American companies are the worst. (Yes, Valve ain't no saints.) - Take your 30% cut and go make all the "3"s, if you remember how.

Hey Forza Devs, y'all suck. physics is failing because y'all got lazy. your penalty system literally enables trash players to ram others off track. y'all have ruined the franchise name. Motorsport 7 is leaps and bounds better than this garbage. you ruined the game just for what, some money. fix your penalty system and stop bending the knee to a whiny fan base. either make them get good at the game or penalize them. Anyway, I'm gonna go play the better game. Assetto Corsa.

i have played every Forza game since the've been released , this forza got a lot of hate at the start but this game is extremely solid with lots of fun to be had. they for sure need to add Darlington, Talladega, and michigan racetracks for the nascar series, just to many small tracks not enough big tracks to run without restrictor plates. could also add nascar truck series would be amazing as well. kind of a shame they dont have more Formula 1 cars in here besides senna's 2 iconic cars and a ferarri... what about f1 bmw/ benneton jordan renault ligier brabham? or even the niki lauda era? so many good cars that they can add thatll help the game grow and have cars for those tracks from those eras. gets boring always having to drive paddle shifter cars. i want more 5pd 6 spd manual cars. they need to force races to turn off driving assists like they used to. and also bring back player banning. im sick of players crashing me while im in first and there in dead last and costing me the race, this used to be a thing back in forza 4-3 please for the love of god, bring it back. and make it so we can actually report people for driving horrible or intentionally crashing into other people. 7/15/25 - i left this review before i found out about the massive layoff at the turn 10 studios. i don't know what they have planned. been a longtime fan of the Forza Motorsport series. but if they don't address the current situations in the game, bugs, glitches, penalty system, not being able to lobby vote a person out of the race for crashing into others, etc etc the list goes on and on. but the big one is they need to answer to the loyal fan/player base before its to late and the series wont recover, that's if they plan to make anymore in the future. i hope this isnt the end of something great. i hope this means they're going to sit down and fix what actually went wrong and recover and make a better Motorsport come time. but as of right now this way they are taking the game will cost them to lose a lot of people that play the game, and its sad because its the only game that holds a candle to Grand Turismo. I'm sorry turn 10 but if you don't fix and address things and make a good public statement im afraid you'll lose another fan/longtime player and ill just have to join the iRacing community... tons of us xbox / pc players are really left with no choice if we want actual sim racing for steering wheels etc. Hopefully someones wakes up and see's that..

First of all, fuck the grinding. Trying to earn money in this game is like pleasuring yourself with a sandpaper while having all your orifices violently invaded. That's all I need to say. Also the AI is so bad, its comical -like getting a train ran on you and not the good kind. I play on the hardest difficulty and I noticed that AI tends to behave like you don't exist. They will drive into you, drive in front of you, drive like they are doing a time trial and especially brake check you giving you a penalty (I love when this happens). They stick to the racing line to a ridiculous degree (probably because you're invisible to them or they just enjoy fucking with you). The top 2 AI drivers drive like they are WR pace until you overtake them, it's like they had a lobotomy mid overtake and don't care about winning anymore. The sound. Oh my fucking god. How do evolve backwards, you fix this in FH5 and then you go back to FH4 sounds? What the fuck? The sounds are so bad and robotic, it like it's being synthesised live by a robot that's trying to imitate car sounds verbally while a tyrannical overlord(turn 10) is whipping it telling it put it's heart into it. Honestly it's admirable how they made an i4 engine can sound like a fucking v12 or a v10 at times or vice versa. If I didn't find the driving fun, I would've refunded long long ago. If you can tolerate the mentally challenged AI and orifice invading grinding, there's a lot of potential in the game if turn 10 cared. The optimisation is alright, I don't know how others are having so many issues, yeah it ran like turning a book page when it launched but now I consistently get 100+ fps on a overall high setting without any up scaling on a 5800x3d+6800xt @ 3440x1440p

Awesome game, has overtaken Gran Turismo as the top driving simulator - and I've been playing GT since the first one, but they've lost their way with overly cautious changes over the years that leaves them with a dated and lifeless feeling driving model. Forza meanwhile excels at getting the feel of cars through via just a gamepad, which is very impressive. If you've ever owned a higher end sports car, you know the feeling of the tires biting in corners, and somehow Forza gets that across, while GT does. Also Forza is just flat out more fun. I played about 100 hours via GamePass and finally just bought it on Steam, so my hours are a lot lower here than what they really are - but one awesome note is that all the progress transferred over (for some reason Forza Horizon doesn't do this). I will say at first I wasn't the biggest fan of the way you level up in this game, I guess just because it was different I didn't like it, but after putting in my time, I've come to like the model - but I still wish either Forza or GT would look back to what made this genre famous, and that was GT1 and in particular GT2, and how you'd go around town to different dealers, with new and used inventory that changed, that was so much better than the dull car buying model both use now. It was fun to see what beaters various dealerships had, and if memory serves right, models could also disappear. GT has tried something like this in the new game, but everything is just blandly presented on a single page, so there's no reason to look around - no idea why devs can't figure out that it was fun to shop around and gave you a reason to visit different places. Anyways, for Forza the 'career' mode works as they often update the challenges still - not sure how long they'll keep doing it, but hopefully they'll just dump all of them into one area whenever they stop, because there's a ton of them that have rotated since launch. Anyways, this is an exceptional driving simulator, that you can dumb down to an arcade game if you want, or all the way up to needing to have a wheel. Those giving it thumbs down are probably GenY who expect to get the best car in the game from the 1st second they start playing and don't understand the point of the game is to grind and level up, earning money and cars, repeat, repeat.

Microsoft closes turn 10, DO NOT BUY WHOLE FORZA MOTORSPORT SERIES IS CANCELLED , THIS GAME TOO

Bought the game on pc and it still wants me to spend 10 more dollars a month for xbox live to play with my friends ....

A failure so immense it closed half the studio and a 20 year old franchise. The game is at best half baked with no style to call its own besides an attempt at modern minimalism. After escaping the clunky menus you are greeted with dreary racing and brainless CPU opponents. I don’t know why you’d even attempt online racing. Go play GT, iRacing, or the hundreds of fun arcade racers from the past.

Great graphics and excellent handling on a wheel. This game has one of the largest selections of cars. If you have a favourite car that you want to drive, its probably in the game. Road cars, sports, super, hyper, touring, GT, open-wheel, Etc. The career mode is really fun. While it has quite a lot of series to enjoy, playing each series feels a bit quick because the races are short (you cant change race length) and it doesn't use some of the new features such as pit-stops. The online is probably the best part of this game. It has many types of races to choose from like open class, semi-open, spec series and class racing. It makes good use of the pit-stops in longer races if you prefer that style of racing. The ranking system is okay. It matches based on Safety more than skill so often times you are matched unevenly in terms of speed. The multiplayer is very competitive when you do find a good split and majority of drivers will race fairly and the penalty system works well. This is might be one of the best sim-cade games currently on PC.

Very realistic, many options to race on, and very very fun

Went for refund after I realized i can't escape tutorials and cutscenes.

I don't understand the hate for this game. I really think this game is really good. The only problem is the always online part but that's about it.

Very nice game. It does not deserve all the hate. I really enjoy it. Graphics are awesome and the control is good.

Feels super real and is 100% worth the price. i recommend.

The Good: I've played Forza Motorsport since the first one on the OG Xbox, and this seems to be the best one yet in many ways. I like how some of the progression has been tweaked, rewarding even practice sessions with vehicle XP and then using your experience level with a car to determine which and how many upgrades you can make to it. Not using money encourages you to experiment with upgrade strategies to see what works, or change strategies from one track to the next, since removing upgrades refunds you their full points value. The bad: they way Microsoft chose to monetize this game is a slap in the face. Not having VIP status halves the money earned from races, which is small enough as it is. VIP status normally costs you an extra $20. I spent $50 total on sale buying the game and all DLC (normally $100) which includes VIP status, so I'm not that mad personally. But if I'd paid for full price on the base game and got shafted this badly I'd be furious. The ugly: now that MS has fired half of the team for FM, this may be the last one we ever get. I like other sim racers too, but I always have a special place in my heart for the Gran-Turismo-like subgenre of sim racer, which is underrepresented in the PC gaming space.

Fun and feels realistic! I love the amount of customizing you can do with all the cars.

Much better than expected. Definitely a huge upgrade over FM7. However, some very easily fixable points deter me from recommending FM to friends: 1. The game doesn't have to point out every time I open up the game that the hardware is unsupported. I know it is not, but it runs beautifully. Please make it a one-time warning. 2. The game should include all component that it depends on. I am talking about Xbox gaming service. Include it in the game as Forza Horizon 5 did. [b]Honestly I think this is the only way that FM can attract significantly more users, possibly from Linux and SteamOS, at this point.[/b] 3. AI is terrible. Even after the Update 21, AI still bumps into me every corner, and I get the penalty for that. I wish the AI aggression slider comes back. 4. Default force feedback is mediocre at best. Still, a huge improvement over FM7.

bad ai

Previous Post: I really want to recommend this game because everything else about it is great, at least to me. But the black screen after almost every race ruins the experience. I have to Alt F4 the game multiple times, which is extremely frustrating. I wouldn’t want anyone else to go through this, so for now, until they fix it, I can’t recommend buying it. Edit: After a few days of receiving multiple troubleshooting tips from a Forza dev, I finally figured out the problem I was having. Let me just say, reading is fundamental, folks. I had Forza installed on my HDD, but once I switched it to my M.2 drive, everything started working perfectly. Turns out, I completely overlooked the “Additional Notes” section under the system requirements, which clearly states “SSD required.” If you’ve been dealing with the same black screen issue after every race, it’s most likely because the game is installed on a HDD. Move it to an SSD or M.2 drive, and you should be good to go. Other than that, the game runs beautifully. I genuinely love Forza Motorsport and would definitely recommend it to any casual car fan.

The graphics are washed even on ultra settings and 1440p resolution, singleplayer campaign is souless and the online is a typical soy microsoft stuff that they been pushing for years now, you get punished for anything. Game made by corporate rats with no soul or love for racing or cars in general.

Feels like the game is starting to turn things around, with the past two updates. Would really like to see the return of 3-lap drift lobbies, a complete drift rivals board, and privately hosted lobbies like in FM4. The Fujimi overhaul is b e a u t i f u l - quite happy to have it back in the game!

All aspects of it are controllable especially if you have a fairly high end set of controls. i enjoy the game a lot though the lower end of the scale (g923) can be frustrating sometimes trying to control your car