Come along for a little drive around Great Britain: in July 2018, in a live stream from the developers, Playground Games showed a big chunk of Forza Horizon 4 running in summer, and IGN gathered it all in a 45-minute gameplay video, which you can check out below.
For fans of the series, everything was there: racing across the open map, car tuning and customization, paint, parts, and that music-and-speed festival vibe that is Forza Horizon’s trademark. The cutest novelty was being able to customize your driver too, with clothes and accessories to put together the look just the way you want.
The big topic, though, was the seasons. For the first time in the series, the world goes through summer, autumn, winter and spring, and that changes how you drive: wet roads, dry leaves, frozen lakes that become shortcuts in winter. And the change is the same for everyone at the same time, because the map is a shared world: the other drivers you meet on the road are real players.
The setting is a condensed version of Great Britain, with Edinburgh, the Scottish Highlands, the Lake District and the Cotswolds, all with stone cottages and little country roads that make you want to cruise without hurry. The numbers were impressive too: more than 450 cars, multiplayer between Xbox One and Windows 10 PC, and a launch set for October 2, 2018.
What came next
Forza Horizon 4 came out on October 2, 2018 and drew critical acclaim, with a 92 Metacritic score on Xbox One, tied with the best-rated titles in the franchise. The seasons began changing every Thursday. The Fortune Island expansion followed in December 2018, then LEGO Speed Champions in June 2019, the enhanced Xbox Series X|S version in November 2020 and the arrival on Steam in March 2021, by which point the game had passed 24 million players. A sad note: because of licensing, Forza Horizon 4 was removed from digital stores on December 15, 2024.
Source: Playground Games, Xbox.
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