Forza Motorsport 4
Forza Motorsport 4 is a racing simulator for the Xbox 360 video game console that was developed by Microsoft. It is the sequel to the 2009 released Forza Motorsport 3 The game was released in the fall of 2011. Due to the large amount of data, the game was shipped on two discs, only the first was absolutely necessary during the second additional Plug and cars contains. For Xbox Live members the demo of Forza Motorsport 4 was released for download.
Gameplay
Forza Motorsport 4, as the successor of Forza Motorsport (Xbox ) Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox 360) and Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360), a realistic racing simulator, which was released exclusively for the Xbox 360.
The game includes modifiable cars from 80 manufacturers and many well-known tracks such as Le Mans, Laguna Seca, Sebring International Raceway, or the, but also fictional circuits like Maple Valley or the Bernese Alps.
Basically, the gameplay of Forza Motorsport 3 is adopted, however, some changes have been incorporated to make the game for casual players interesting. For example, it is possible to control the game with only one button if all driving aids are turned on. In addition, the 3 known also from Forza Motorsport rewind feature was installed, which it is similar in Race Driver: GRID permitted to make driving errors committed reversed by the action is set to the time prior to driving errors.
The three known from Forza Motorsport cockpit view for each of the cars and the improved editor, with which it is possible to create short films and to make them public online, is available again in the fourth installment of the series.
Kinect
The game has some Kinect ways to operate the menus using voice commands, head tracking to look while driving out of the car to the left / right or even complete control of the car with his hands.
Furthermore, Kinect can be used for online games as a microphone for voice chat, whereby the use of a separate headset is omitted.
Multiplayer / Online - Part
For Xbox Live Gold members to interact with other players and his Xbox Live friends is thanks to car clubs, rivals mode and a 16 -player multiplayer mode.
VIP players ( Purchasers of the Collector 's Edition ) will receive periodic special cars from the game developers. These are characterized usually by special tuning setups and / or painting from.
Ratings
- Jalopnik: " Incredibly Realistic "
- 1UP, G4, GAME INFORMER, IGN.COM: "Best Racing Game " E3 2011
Criticism
- For licensing reasons, it was in the original version of the game no vehicles from Porsche, as the rights are held by Electronic Arts for this. After all, there are cars from RUF, an automobile manufacturer, which produces its own vehicles based on Porsche body shells. However, Microsoft announced on 5 March 2012 that it had solved the license issue with EA and thereby on May 22, a Porsche Expansion Pack will release in which 30 vehicles are included