I know there’s been other games to do this stuff before, but none with the handling model of the Horizon series, and none with a whole roster of real-world cars to do it with. Racing games just peaked at that particular moment. It made me feel like I was a child again, like Christmas morning and I’d just unwrapped my Aurora AFX set, like there was no way I could be having more fun than I was at that moment. Within the first 10 minutes of gameplay, I was grinning like The Cheshire Cat as I was thrown from a speed booster into a large curved track, placing me at a 90 degree angle to the horizon, through loops and over insane mind-bending leaps of faith. “This was it, this was exactly the game I’d been hoping for for so long”. On the news of a Hot Wheels expansion to this series, I was at first questioning how they’d fit that into the universe - then met with astonishment as I watched the launch trailer play. It’s the ability to do things like this in a semi-realistic setting that really draws me to the Horizon games. I thoroughly enjoy track racing as well as per the Motorsport entries in the Forza franchise, but sometimes, it’s just nice to kick back around open country roads shredding the tires of an exotic sportscar that many of us in our lifetimes aren’t ever going to be able to buy. The Forza Horizon series for me has been that perfect combination of a more sim-like handling model with the open-world approach of more arcade titles, like the Need For Speed series. I didn’t have much in the way of Hot Wheels tracks - merely a sweet collection of their cars, that I’d improvise tracks around the house (much to my parents chagrin).
It was either my Aurora AFX (think Scalextric with loops and banked turns), remote control cars and setting up courses for them to get around or building all manner of vehicles in either some LEGO or K’nex. I was acutely aware that the former was more likely than the latter, if only because the implementation would likely be easier that way around.Īs a child, I’d spend my afternoons most commonly with something car based. Reviews // 21st May 2017 - 6 years ago // By Steven John Dawson Forza Horizon 3 Hot Wheels Reviewįor some time, I’ve been wanting to see the results that would come from a more serious racing game expanding into less serious territory, or for a less serious racing game to deliver a product with a more serious car handling model.
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