Pretty good, full arcade alternative to forza horizon. But it doesn't fully utilize things that forza can't do to get a leg up on it ( boats, planes, racecars etc). It feels like if they made a an actade game solely based on the festival playlist.
It does use a lot of things to it's advantage, like the constant use of filters(that adapt to location, weather and time) to make every place you drive through, look like a movie set. The map itself is preety good and is larger than fh5 by a good bit. It scratches the itch for cities towns and even gas stations. But lacks tight sierra nueva type roads. However its handling isnt made for it anyway. It really needs to fix its physics inconsistencies however. I can see that becoming a problem for its longevity.
It runs heavier than forza at 1080p ultra for both (with rt at extreme and dlaa for forza). Online is a bit spotty like fh5 at launch. These will probably be optimized to some degree for launch hopefully.
The biggest hurdle it will have is its launch window. One week after starfield and baldurs gate 2, and just before cyberpunk expansion (plus it's overhaul update) as well as mortal combat within 2 weeks of its launch. The next month is also loaded with Forza motorsport, Alan wake 2 and spiderman 2.
I fear that this will suffer the same fate as grid legends that launched next to elden ring and gt7.
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