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summarizing three if you think about it
racing games aren't as dime-a-dozen as
they used to be but somehow they still
manage to pump out for the games every
single year
I'm not really crazy about the main line
for the games you know the more
simulator style games maybe because I
like a little more personality and flair
to my racing games I don't know but
thankfully the horizon games and in
particular this new one for the horizon
three provide all the goods and then
some
if you haven't played any of the force
arising games basically what you really
just need to know is that it's open
world driving and racing there's some of
the stuff that you might come to expect
with a lot of racing games now there's a
deep customization both mechanically and
visually there's also hundreds of unique
cars and there's lots to do in the open
world there's exhibition races
cross-country races Sprint's old
unlockable cars to find hidden in like
storage containers and old barns their
signs that you can drive through and
smash and collect more experience and
other bonuses and then there's bucket
list challenges and showcase events
where things really get exciting with
kind of like some scripted moments and
like really weird exciting moments where
you're racing a train or racing an
airplane or Grayson chief through the
jungle and there's just really strong
multiplayer components with the drive at
our system i don't know if you guys have
heard about that by now but the 4th
games have been implementing it for a
while the game basically save your data
and learns and adapts to your driving
habits and makes an AI construct
attached to your xbox live account so
other players who have forza horizon
three and her friends of the own xbox
live can actually race against your own
custom artificial intelligence within
the game world and that's really cool
because it always makes the game feel
kind of alive and have a little bit more
personality than you would expect but on
top of that there's also multiplayer
co-op racing that feels stronger than
ever and just really fun in this world
in particular the way the force arising
games are set up is like around music
festivals it might sound a little corny
but thankfully it's kind of in the back
burner it's not really a big deal in
this one you're on top you're already
hot shit and you really just going out
and growing your festivals even more
sure there's the experience points and
the skill trees to grind through and get
new abilities and there's money to learn
but you're also learning and progressing
by literally
growing your fan base by the numbers if
it sounds a little tacky and corny
it's not that big of a deal one thing i
did really appreciate though the all the
characters and talk to you over your
radio are pretty unobtrusive and not
really too obnoxious I just really like
it when a racing game doesn't try and
shove a story in my face that's usually
just a waste of time for horizon 34 goes
that whole thing and if you're looking
if you're judging this by like a real
open-world game at the world may seem
kinda lifeless you know it's not GTA or
sleeping dogs teeming with life and
activities and stuff like that but what
you get here instead is amazing driving
opportunities from just like sick
driving lines across the country at high
speed to racing courses that just pop up
in the middle of the desert or maybe a
track outside of a city to just general
variation in the environment themselves
basically what you get here is an open
world Australia and it is incredibly
varied and definitely probably honestly
to start of the game there's wet city
streets for street racing there's long
straight roads across the outback which
you can tear through with a Ferrari and
then there's jungles and desert trails
for offworld four-wheel-drive racing and
even rally races and then like i
mentioned earlier with the bucket list
challenges there's just some weird stuff
in between if you've ever wanted to take
a Tesla or Corvette do burnouts on the
beach you can enforce horizon three and
that's what makes it really cool i just
like how dumb and unique and fun it is
other new little additions include
recruiting AI convoys that can follow
you around and prompt new races but what
you can do in this one that I really
like is that they have kind of like an
assassin's creed brotherhood effect
where you can actually set them to go
out and race for you and the festivals
and then they met you more bonuses i
like managing stuff like that but
ultimately the game looks incredible and
it has a great sense of speed to no
matter what car you drive
you always feel like you're hurtling
down a road at a perilously fast speed
and its really great and of course that
is due to the controls the generally
solid racing mechanics but also the
visuals i will say on xbox one this is
probably one of the best looking xbox
one games
not only that but thanks to that xbox
play anywhere thing because i have the
copy on xbox one I was able to also
check it out on pc and it looks even
better on pc obviously it's completely
unhinged and completely unlocked and as
a pc player i really loved it on there
as well you do need to make a choice
though because only the xbox one version
is going to have that HDR support so if
you do have a fan
TV and you want to make the most out of
maybe your xbox one asked for your
upcoming scorpio you might want to think
about that you might hear this a lot for
the horizon three kind of boils down to
being a collectathon but it's a fun as
hell 1 and the driving mechanics and the
world just make it so much more than
that when the multiplayer components the
car customization the music and the
various different environments all work
together the fact that there's just a
lot of busy work is kind of an
afterthought
I'd say if you are looking for some cons
one thing that really annoyed me is that
you have to unlock radio stations as you
go and they're actually dated which is
very frustrating because you know not
everybody likes one type of music so to
be stuck with that for a while is you
know kind of lame and like I said with
the whole collective farm thing if
you're looking for more than just pure
simple racing you might be let down
you know there's no deep story there's
no cops and robber chases and there's no
nitrous button i'd also say another
downer is up to $PERCENT contained
racetrack designs or simply just kind of
okay there's nothing really memorable
there's no memorable courses like from
the original for the game nothing really
that great overall do not get me wrong
at all 14 rising 3 is probably gonna go
on my game of the year list somewhere
with like I said the strong multiplayer
integration that crazy awesome fun as
hell sense of speed and just the look
and feel of the world the music and the
graphics I I'm just so into it and if
you got an xbox one and maybe you're
even just kind of vaguely into racing
games I'd say definitely check out the
force of rising 3 demo at the very least
but I'm gonna be real with you guys I'm
enjoying this game online so guys that's
42 horizon three if you're an xbox one
owner or a pc order let me know if
you're playing this let me know what you
think and let me know if I steered you
one way or the other if you got any
questions about horizon 3 i'll be down
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