For me, Forza Motorsport’s career mode started to get really great with Forza 4. That, in my opinion, is when Forza found the hard-to-quantify “soul” that so many other racing games lack – and, not by coincidence, when Forza made the leap from very good sim racing franchise to world-class. Forza Motorsport 7 again looks like it’s going to impress in the single-player campaign department.
I played the first hour of Forza 7’s solo mode, dubbed the Forza Cup. It opens with three races, each as a different well-known driver, and each race is not only on a different track but set in different weather conditions. It’s a clever way of showing off the depth, breadth, and new features that Motorsport 7 is packing.
Oh, and it also shows off the absurd 4K, 60fps visuals that the Xbox One X version is packing (though sadly, you’ll have to wait just over a month after the game’s October 3 release date, seeing as how the X doesn’t ship until November 7). It’s funny, every year at E3 I joke with Forza developers about how their games are so consistently and predictably good that it’s almost difficult to get hyped up for them each year. I kind of feel the same way about Forza Motorsport 7’s 4K/60fps graphics on Xbox One X. The first X-tuned Forza looks and runs so, so well – and since we’re dealing with a car game here, those good looks serve to add to the realism – that you almost don’t even notice how impressive the graphics are.
Fortunately, you can see for yourself in the videos embedded on this page. I recorded my entire session with the game and have posted most of it here. Though I’ve been a cockpit-view fan ever since Forza introduced it, I did my best to change camera views every minute or so during each race in order to showcase every single look that Forza Motorsport 7 can throw at you.
To be clear, I expect that Forza 7 will still look fantastic on a 1080p TV regardless of which Xbox you’re running it on. But, as expected, Microsoft has only ever shown it off running in 4K on an Xbox One X (I’d do the same thing if I were them). Forza 6 is probably a good comp in the visuals department, though again, the so-far-excellent campaign will be the same regardless of your Xbox type or TV resolution.
My one gameplay critique of the career mode thus far – aside from my oddly specific, personal nitpick that my two favorite car brands, Tesla and DeLorean, are not in the shipping version of Forza 7 despite each previously being featured in other Forza games – is that you lose all of your progress in a series if you quit out of it before you’ve finished all of the races in it. This is unfortunate because it doesn’t allow you to jump around and see more cars and tracks as quickly as you might like.
I am of the opinion that Forza Horizon is the better series for car fans who don’t necessarily like or play racing games to jump into, but thanks to a strong start to the career mode and the absolutely stunning 4K 60fps graphics on Xbox One X (or, of course, a beefy enough PC), Forza Motorsport 7 should prove to be a siren song for many car lovers, regardless of whether or not they're already racing game aficionados.
Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s Executive Editor of Previews and Xbox Guru-in-Chief. Follow him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan, catch him on Unlocked, and drop-ship him Taylor Ham sandwiches from New Jersey whenever possible.
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