First, a little background. I’ve been playing racing games ever since there was Night Driver on the Atari 2600. I’ve had multiple racing games on multiple systems since then .If there is one genre of video games I am an expert at it is racing games. I am also a car nut and car racing nut. I’ve owned multiple performance cars – Firebird(not the greatest but it did have some performance, ) a Toyota Supra and a corvette. I didn’t just own them, I drove them hard, I street raced often(although I HIGHLY discourage that now). So I know cars, I know racing, I know video games.
So I borrowed Forza 6 (I own F2 skipped F3 and own F4). The only improvement since 4 is that now the field of cars is bigger. And other things are worse. So many good cars are now DLC. Turn 10 apparently likes these cars so much they don’t want anybody driving them. The Ferraris are the ones that really are frustrating. Then looking at the DLC packs I can’t tell at least thru XBL which cars come with each packs. So basically from what I can tell ,if I get all the cars I want I will cost me $100(cost of the game plus DLC). That is ridiculous. I don’t mind pay that much in total for a game IF IF the game gives me what I want, but Forza still FAILS to do that.
Here is a list
- Drivatars are as bad as any AI I have ever seen. I don’t care what they are based on. It is still no different than the AI in Forza 4. You get turned going down straight stretches, Pileups going down into the first turn are common. Completely idiotic driving.
- Drivators would not be so bad if I could just QUALIFY for the race so most of that mess would be behind me. It again is ridiculous that there is no qualifying in most of the races. I’m only 1/3 thru the career , but so far no qualifying. Its just dumb. There is no reason why there can’t be qualifying.
- Why is there no metallic paints? They had them in Forza 4. But not in Forza 6. Again makes no sense what so ever.
- For this game to be one of Microsoft’s exclusives, the graphics are terrible. Yeah, its got 60FPS, but at what cost?
- Lack of a track creator
- Cars completely missing
So to sum it up, the terrible DLC tactics, idiotic Drivatar AI, lack of qualifying, lack of customization(paints) and poor graphics, there is no reason to buy this game. I don’t count the track creator as that is just wishlist stuff. IF XBL offers a decent sale on the DLC and I can get the base game for $20 or less, I may consider it. But still doubt it. I will just continue and see what Forza 7 will offer, But I have no reason to think it will be any better than 6. There is good reason why there is only roughly a half a million players that have played(based on number I see in rankings). EA’s NASCAR 2005 AI is far superior to the crap in this game. That’s pretty pathetic. Thankfully I only borrowed the game.
When you guys at Turn 10 decide to make a modern game let me know I will spend the money. But I won’t waste my money on games that take steps backward.