Forza Motorsport is back after an almost decade long break that promised a true generational leap. The results aren’t great. This feels like just another iterative step in the Forza Motorsport series that in some aspects goes the wrong direction.

The driving is the best it’s ever been in a Forza Motorsport game, but it feels like a marginal upgrade. Visuals are underwhelming, uneven, and inaccurate. The game opts for a hazy, almost washed out, visual style, which does not look particularly attractive. Forza Horizon 5, despite being an open world game, appears to me to provide better image quality and more world detail than this game. AI is still awful with all the faults of past games. AI driven cars appear to have no awareness of you or each other. Tracks with tight first turns still result in chaos. AI drivers that speed ahead of the pack are still encountered regularly. The career mode is bare bones. The move to a car level system for upgrades makes no sense. The reasoning was to force people to get to know a car and build it up as they progress with it, but that’s not how the career mode is structured. Career mode is built around series for specific car categories. Most will require switching to a different car for them. Previous entries in the series provided a much better career mode. Here there’s no soul, passion, or variety. Additionally, navigating through the game requires excessive menus and mini cutscenes to get through. In some of these menus your car is shown awkwardly with a gray void as the backdrop.

I understand building a new game engine requires a lot of time and effort, but what matters is the end result and this doesn’t deliver. The comparison to GT7 can't be ignored either, which in my opinion is the better game in every way. Unfortunately, it's not available on the PC.

Forza Motorsport is back after an almost decade long break that promised a true generational leap. The results aren’t great. This feels like just another iterative step in the Forza Motorsport series that in some aspects goes the wrong direction. The driving is the best it’s ever been in a Forza Motorsport game, but it feels like a marginal upgrade. Visuals are underwhelming, uneven, and inaccurate. The game opts for a hazy, almost washed out, visual style, which does not look particularly attractive. Forza Horizon 5, despite being an open world game, appears to me to provide better image quality and more world detail than this game. AI is still awful with all the faults of past games. AI driven cars appear to have no awareness of you or each other. Tracks with tight first turns still result in chaos. AI drivers that speed ahead of the pack are still encountered regularly. The career mode is bare bones. The move to a car level system for upgrades makes no sense. The reasoning was to force people to get to know a car and build it up as they progress with it, but that’s not how the career mode is structured. Career mode is built around series for specific car categories. Most will require switching to a different car for them. Previous entries in the series provided a much better career mode. Here there’s no soul, passion, or variety. Additionally, navigating through the game requires excessive menus and mini cutscenes to get through. In some of these menus your car is shown awkwardly with a gray void as the backdrop. I understand building a new game engine requires a lot of time and effort, but what matters is the end result and this doesn’t deliver. The comparison to GT7 can't be ignored either, which in my opinion is the better game in every way. Unfortunately, it's not available on the PC.