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Forza Horizon 4
Cover art depicting the game’s seasonal change and featuring the McLaren Senna (foreground) and Land Rover Defender 90
Developer(s)	Playground Games[b]
Publisher(s)	Microsoft Studios
Director(s)	Ralph Fulton
Producer(s)	Adam Askew Andrew Ward
Designer(s)	Mike Brown Ben Thaker-Fell Christopher Tudor-Smith
Programmer(s)	Alan Roberts
Artist(s)	Benjamin Penrose
Series	Forza
Platform(s)	Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Release	Windows, Xbox One 2 October 2018[a] Xbox Series X/S 10 November 2020
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Forza Horizon 4 is a 2018 racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios.^[3] It was released on 2 October 2018 for Windows and Xbox One after being announced at Xbox’s E3 2018 conference.^[4][5] An enhanced version of the game was released on Xbox Series X/S on 10 November 2020. The game is set in a fictionalised representation of areas of Great Britain.^[3][4][5] It is the fourth Forza Horizon title and eleventh instalment in the Forza series. The game is noted for its introduction of changing seasons to the series, as well as featuring several content-expanding updates which have included new game modes. A sequel, Forza Horizon 5, was released on 9 November 2021.

Gameplay[edit]

Forza Horizon 4 is a racing video game set in an open world environment based in a fictionalised Great Britain, with regions that include condensed representations of Edinburgh, the Scottish Highlands, the Lake District (including Derwentwater), Ambleside and the Cotswolds (including Broadway), Bamburgh among others. The game features a route creator which enables players to create races using completely customised routes.^[6] The game takes place in a synchronised shared world, compared to the AI-driven ‘drivatars’ from its predecessors, with each server supporting up to 72 players.^[7] The game is also playable in offline mode.^[7]

The game features a dynamic weather system that also depicts the change of seasons. The environment in the world will change depending on the season: for example, Derwentwater would freeze over in winter and allow players the ability to drive on the ice to reach areas of the game world that would be inaccessible during all the other seasons.^[4][5][6] The seasons are fixed across the game’s servers, meaning that all players will experience the same conditions at the same time. After completing a prologue series of events which introduce players to all four seasons, the shared-world seasons will change every week,^[8] with the changes happening on Thursdays at 2:30PM GMT.^[9] The season changes are forewarned to players in the game with a countdown clock, which, when finished, will trigger a short cinematic cutscene showing the previous season changing to the new one, although the cinematic will be delayed for players who are in the middle of an event or activity.^[9]

The game features over 750 licensed cars. Players have the opportunity to buy in-game houses which unlock new items, cars and game-play perks, including Horizon Promo and the ability to fast travel anywhere on the map.^[8]

Returning from Forza Horizon 3, Wheelspins are prize spins with random rewards ranging from cars, Credits (in-game currency), emotes, horns, and clothing. Wheelspins are rewarded from progressing through the story and completing certain seasonal challenges. These can also be bought in the #Forzathon shop. Super Wheelspins, enhanced versions of Wheelspins with better prizes, are also given for completing parts of the story and seasonal challenges. Super Wheelspins can also be bought in the #Forzathon Shop.^[10] Also returning from the past two games, British drum & bass label Hospital Records provided a soundtrack composed of 20 original tracks from various label artists, as well as an unreleased track by Fred V & Grafix titled «Sunrise», made for the game’s opening cinematic. The soundtrack album was released on 26 October 2018.^[11]

The game features a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.^[12]

Owing to licensing issues, vehicles from Mitsubishi Motors and Toyota (including Lexus marque with the exception of some offroad racing and pre-customised trucks and Subaru BRZ) were not present in the base game, but updates released in 2019 re-introduced these brands;^[13] Mitsubishi returned on 15 January 2019 with the release of the Free Mitsubishi Motors Car Pack DLC.^[14] That same day, however, two dancing emotes («Carlton» and «Floss») were removed from the game due to lawsuits filed by those dances’ creators against Epic Games for their use of the dances as emotes in their game Fortnite Battle Royale.^[15] On 19 November 2019, the official Forza Motorsport Twitter account announced that Toyota cars would be returning to the Forza series in the Series 17 update of Forza Horizon 4 on 12 December with the release of the 1998 Toyota Supra RZ.^[16][17]

Content and gameplay updates[edit]

Forza Horizon 4 has seen several content expansions and updates since its release. There are two downloadable content expansions for the game.^[8] The first of these, Fortune Island, was released in December 2018. It includes a new map, a range of additional cars and adds extreme weather conditions to the game, along with a treasure hunting campaign in which players find treasure chests to earn up to ten million Credits. The second, Lego Speed Champions, was announced at E3 2019 and released on 13 June 2019.^[18][19][20] Similar to the Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels expansion, it is based on the Lego brand’s Lego Speed Champions toyline featuring Lego toy versions of real cars, a map «built» with various Lego pieces, and its own separate campaign.^[18][19] It also added a new in-game radio station, Radio Awesome, which is dedicated solely to playing The Lego Movie theme song «Everything Is Awesome» by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island.^[20]

The Series 5 update in January introduced the Free DLC Mitsubishi Motors Car Pack. It included 7 new cars and added a new 10-mission campaign called Isha’s Taxis.^[21] Four additional car packs have also been released as of 22 February 2021, one including cars from the James Bond films, the other being a collection of Formula Drift cars and a pack of cars from the Barrett-Jackson Car Pack from Forza Motorsport 7.^[22] Another car pack featuring Hot Wheels cars was released on 22 February 2021.^[23]

Every four weeks, at the end of every Spring season, a new update for the game was released introducing new gameplay content, cars, and cosmetic items. The first of these updates, at the end of October 2018, saw the addition of the Route Creator tool and a new Horizon Story, British Racing Green. The Series 7 update in March 2019 introduced the Festival Playlist.^[24] Players complete daily, weekly, and monthly challenges, including, but not limited to, Seasonal Championships, Playground Games, Ranked Adventure, and Seasonal PR Stunts. While completing these tasks alone earns players rewards, they also contribute to weekly and monthly rewards. 50% and 80% completion of both the Series and the current season rewards drivers with an exclusive car or cosmetic item, consisting of the Common, Rare, Epic, or Legendary rarity. The Festival Playlist has continued to be a part of each series since its introduction.

With the Series 9 update in May 2019, the developers implemented a system to prevent wallriding—the practice of driving into a curved wall on the outside of a corner instead of braking and steering, thus allowing the player to carry more speed through a corner—and high-speed collisions in online multiplayer. The system predicts the occurrence of a collision between two cars with a large difference in speed and ghosts the faster vehicle, preventing rammings (both intentional and accidental). The anti-wall riding measures include slowing down a car in contact with the wall for an extended period of time, depending on speed and the predicted distance the player would have travelled if they did not hit the wall.^[25]

In July 2019, as part of the Series 11 update, a special Horizon Story was added in collaboration with BBC’s Top Gear. The missions, narrated by presenter Chris Harris, provided players with rewards including the «Track-tor» (a race-modified tractor featured in Series 25 of the show) and the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6. The update also saw the return of class-based Rivals modes from previous games in the series, and the ability to track progress in the Horizon Life menu, as well as several new unlockable cars in the game’s Festival Playlist feature.^[26]

In December 2019, as part of the Series 17 update, a new 72-player battle royale-style mode called The Eliminator was added. In this mode, players start by driving around the game world in a fairly slow, weak car such as a 1965 Mini Cooper. As players roam the safe zone, they can acquire car drops that contain more powerful vehicles that randomly appear on the map. Players can also challenge other players to head-to-head races to specific points on the map by pointing their camera at the other’s vehicle and honking their horn. Players are eliminated from the event if they drive out of the safe zone (which shrinks over time like in other battle royale games) or lose a head-to-head race, where the winner of such has the option to drive the opponent’s car or receive an upgrade. Eventually, when the safe zone shrinks to a certain point, the remaining players will then race to one final point on the map to determine the winner.^[27] Microsoft stated in 2021 that The Eliminator was the most popular multiplayer mode in the game.^[28]

In April 2020, as part of the Series 21 update, Horizon Promo, a feature previously found in Forza Horizon 2 and 3 where players take in-game photographs of cars using Photo Mode for rewards, made its return to the Forza Horizon series in Horizon 4.^[29] In July 2020, the Series 24 update brought a new Photo Challenge feature in the Festival Playlist. This feature would reward players if they took a photo of the specified car in front of the specified location as set out by the Photo Challenge for that week. In July 2020, it was announced that Forza Horizon 4 would be one of a suite of games published by Xbox Game Studios to receive an upgraded version for Xbox Series X/S through Microsoft’s Smart Delivery system, which will make the game playable on the new console in 4K resolution at 60 fps.^[30]

In December 2020, as part of the Series 30 update, another new game mode called Super7 was added to the game, which came alongside the expanded «Blueprint Builder» feature.^[31][32] In Super7, players have to complete a series of seven randomly selected stunt challenges for rewards.^[33][32] The Blueprint Builder expands upon the Forza Blueprint feature by allowing players to set up ramps, structures and scenery à la TrackMania series to create their own challenges and share them with the game’s online community.^[31][32] In the following days, a fictional car, known as the 2058 Quadra V-Tech, was included in the game as part of the release of Cyberpunk 2077.

On 9 March 2021, the game was released on Steam, which suffered from various gameplay issues and game crashes, as well as the inability to import Microsoft Store savegames.^[34] On 14 April 2021, the Steam version received a patch, which contained «various stability improvements», according to the patch notes.^[34] In July 2021, as part of the Series 37 update, a more difficult variant of the Super7 game mode, called Super7 High Stakes was released, which uses the same gameplay mechanics as the standard Super7, but with a «High Stakes» concept. After completing a challenge, the player has two options: Stick, which lets the player claim their previously earned reward(s) and which also restarts the game, or Twist, which piles up the rewards. The player has three attempts to complete every challenge and the opportunity to pick a new challenge three times per game. If the player loses three times, all previously earned rewards will be lost and the game will start from the beginning. It is also the last major content update for Forza Horizon 4, featuring only one new car, the VUHL 05RR, which is a nod to the Mexican location in Forza Horizon 5.^[35]

Reception[edit]

Forza Horizon 4 received «universal acclaim» for the Xbox One version, while the PC version received «generally favourable» reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.^[37][36] The Xbox One version is the highest rated Forza Horizon title and is tied with Forza Motorsport and Forza Motorsport 3 as the highest rated entry in the Forza series based on Metacritic scores.

Game Informer praised the changing weather, feeling it added more variety to each race, «The weather greatly impacts the way you race, and sometimes forces you to retreat to your garage to bring out rides that are more suitable for the conditions.^[47] VG247 liked the variety of challenges and activities available to the player, writing, «There are so many different events, and so much to do and find, but it never feels daunting unless you want to nail every weekly challenge and goal».^[48] While criticising the festival system as confusing, The Guardian enjoyed the different feel of the game’s cars, «Playground Games’ attention to car-modelling detail means that a garage full of 50 vehicles offers 50 slightly different experiences, and lets you develop a curated collection of favourites».^[49] Polygon criticised how the game world felt like a theme-park version of England, «everything has the faint whiff of an idealised 1950s about it, a place of ordered pub gardens and rosebushes. There’s no graffiti, no council estates, no industry, no suburbs».^[50]

GamesRadar+ felt the setting of England wasn’t as interesting as 3‘s Australia, but liked the online modes, saying «messing around with a group of mates was always fun in Burnout Paradise, and Forza Horizon 4 gives you everything you need to do that, if it’s your bag».^[51] GameSpot praised the new additions Forza Horizon 4 added, «You’re also now able to create your own custom courses, and the series’ more creative pursuits return with story missions—which feature things like stunt driving and nice homages to other racing games».^[52] Destructoid had mixed feelings on winter, saying it was «the only season that feels truly unique and actually affects the way driving works», but could be «less fun for the players who don’t want to slip and slide without much traction».^[53]

On 18 January 2019, Playground Games announced that they had reached 7 million registered users after the launch of Fortune Island expansion.^[54] In June 2019, prior to the launch of the Lego Speed Champions expansion, Playground Games announced the game had reached 10 million users.^[55] In August 2019 it was then announced that the game had now topped the 12 million player milestone.^[56] By November 2020, Microsoft reported that the game had been played by 24 million players since launch.^[57]

Accolades[edit]

Year	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2018	Game Critics Awards	Best Racing Game	Won	[58]
Gamescom Awards	Won	[59]
Best Console Game (Xbox One)	Nominated
Golden Joystick Awards	Best Audio Design	Nominated	[60][61][62]
Best Competitive Game	Nominated
Xbox Game of the Year	Won
Ultimate Game of the Year	Nominated
The Game Awards 2018	Best Audio Design	Nominated	[63][64]
Best Sports/Racing Game	Won
Gamers’ Choice Awards	Fan Favourite Sports/Racing Game	Nominated	[65]
Titanium Awards	Best Sports/Driving Game	Won	[66]
Australian Games Awards	Sports, Racing or Fighting Title of the Year	Won	[67]
2019	Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Best Music Supervision in a Video Game	Nominated	[68]
D.I.C.E. Awards	Racing Game of the Year	Won	[69][70]
National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards	Control Precision	Nominated	[71]
Engineering	Nominated
Game, Franchise Racing	Won
Graphics, Technical	Nominated
Original Light Mix Score, Franchise	Nominated
Song Collection	Won
Sound Editing in a Game Cinema	Nominated
SXSW Gaming Awards	Excellence in SFX	Nominated	[72]
Game Developers Choice Awards	Best Technology	Nominated	[73]
15th British Academy Games Awards	British Game	Won	[74][75]
Italian Video Game Awards	Game of the Year	Nominated	[76]
Best Audio	Nominated
Best Sport Game	Won
Game Critics Awards	Best Racing Game (LEGO Speed Champions)	Nominated	[77]
Develop:Star Awards	Best Visual Art	Won	[78][79]
Best Game Design	Nominated
Best Audio	Nominated
Best Use of Game Engine	Won
Game of the Year	Nominated
2019 Golden Joystick Awards	Best Game Expansion (LEGO Speed Champions)	Nominated	[80]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website

Forza Horizon 4
Cover art depicting the game’s seasonal change and featuring the McLaren Senna (foreground) and Land Rover Defender 90
Developer(s)	Playground Games[b]
Publisher(s)	Microsoft Studios
Director(s)	Ralph Fulton
Producer(s)	Adam Askew Andrew Ward
Designer(s)	Mike Brown Ben Thaker-Fell Christopher Tudor-Smith
Programmer(s)	Alan Roberts
Artist(s)	Benjamin Penrose
Series	Forza
Platform(s)	Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Release	Windows, Xbox One 2 October 2018[a] Xbox Series X/S 10 November 2020
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Forza Horizon 4 is a 2018 racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios.^[3] It was released on 2 October 2018 for Windows and Xbox One after being announced at Xbox’s E3 2018 conference.^[4][5] An enhanced version of the game was released on Xbox Series X/S on 10 November 2020. The game is set in a fictionalised representation of areas of Great Britain.^[3][4][5] It is the fourth Forza Horizon title and eleventh instalment in the Forza series. The game is noted for its introduction of changing seasons to the series, as well as featuring several content-expanding updates which have included new game modes. A sequel, Forza Horizon 5, was released on 9 November 2021.

Gameplay[edit]

Forza Horizon 4 is a racing video game set in an open world environment based in a fictionalised Great Britain, with regions that include condensed representations of Edinburgh, the Scottish Highlands, the Lake District (including Derwentwater), Ambleside and the Cotswolds (including Broadway), Bamburgh among others. The game features a route creator which enables players to create races using completely customised routes.^[6] The game takes place in a synchronised shared world, compared to the AI-driven ‘drivatars’ from its predecessors, with each server supporting up to 72 players.^[7] The game is also playable in offline mode.^[7]

The game features a dynamic weather system that also depicts the change of seasons. The environment in the world will change depending on the season: for example, Derwentwater would freeze over in winter and allow players the ability to drive on the ice to reach areas of the game world that would be inaccessible during all the other seasons.^[4][5][6] The seasons are fixed across the game’s servers, meaning that all players will experience the same conditions at the same time. After completing a prologue series of events which introduce players to all four seasons, the shared-world seasons will change every week,^[8] with the changes happening on Thursdays at 2:30PM GMT.^[9] The season changes are forewarned to players in the game with a countdown clock, which, when finished, will trigger a short cinematic cutscene showing the previous season changing to the new one, although the cinematic will be delayed for players who are in the middle of an event or activity.^[9]

The game features over 750 licensed cars. Players have the opportunity to buy in-game houses which unlock new items, cars and game-play perks, including Horizon Promo and the ability to fast travel anywhere on the map.^[8]

Returning from Forza Horizon 3, Wheelspins are prize spins with random rewards ranging from cars, Credits (in-game currency), emotes, horns, and clothing. Wheelspins are rewarded from progressing through the story and completing certain seasonal challenges. These can also be bought in the #Forzathon shop. Super Wheelspins, enhanced versions of Wheelspins with better prizes, are also given for completing parts of the story and seasonal challenges. Super Wheelspins can also be bought in the #Forzathon Shop.^[10] Also returning from the past two games, British drum & bass label Hospital Records provided a soundtrack composed of 20 original tracks from various label artists, as well as an unreleased track by Fred V & Grafix titled «Sunrise», made for the game’s opening cinematic. The soundtrack album was released on 26 October 2018.^[11]

The game features a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.^[12]

Owing to licensing issues, vehicles from Mitsubishi Motors and Toyota (including Lexus marque with the exception of some offroad racing and pre-customised trucks and Subaru BRZ) were not present in the base game, but updates released in 2019 re-introduced these brands;^[13] Mitsubishi returned on 15 January 2019 with the release of the Free Mitsubishi Motors Car Pack DLC.^[14] That same day, however, two dancing emotes («Carlton» and «Floss») were removed from the game due to lawsuits filed by those dances’ creators against Epic Games for their use of the dances as emotes in their game Fortnite Battle Royale.^[15] On 19 November 2019, the official Forza Motorsport Twitter account announced that Toyota cars would be returning to the Forza series in the Series 17 update of Forza Horizon 4 on 12 December with the release of the 1998 Toyota Supra RZ.^[16][17]

Content and gameplay updates[edit]

Forza Horizon 4 has seen several content expansions and updates since its release. There are two downloadable content expansions for the game.^[8] The first of these, Fortune Island, was released in December 2018. It includes a new map, a range of additional cars and adds extreme weather conditions to the game, along with a treasure hunting campaign in which players find treasure chests to earn up to ten million Credits. The second, Lego Speed Champions, was announced at E3 2019 and released on 13 June 2019.^[18][19][20] Similar to the Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels expansion, it is based on the Lego brand’s Lego Speed Champions toyline featuring Lego toy versions of real cars, a map «built» with various Lego pieces, and its own separate campaign.^[18][19] It also added a new in-game radio station, Radio Awesome, which is dedicated solely to playing The Lego Movie theme song «Everything Is Awesome» by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island.^[20]

The Series 5 update in January introduced the Free DLC Mitsubishi Motors Car Pack. It included 7 new cars and added a new 10-mission campaign called Isha’s Taxis.^[21] Four additional car packs have also been released as of 22 February 2021, one including cars from the James Bond films, the other being a collection of Formula Drift cars and a pack of cars from the Barrett-Jackson Car Pack from Forza Motorsport 7.^[22] Another car pack featuring Hot Wheels cars was released on 22 February 2021.^[23]

Every four weeks, at the end of every Spring season, a new update for the game was released introducing new gameplay content, cars, and cosmetic items. The first of these updates, at the end of October 2018, saw the addition of the Route Creator tool and a new Horizon Story, British Racing Green. The Series 7 update in March 2019 introduced the Festival Playlist.^[24] Players complete daily, weekly, and monthly challenges, including, but not limited to, Seasonal Championships, Playground Games, Ranked Adventure, and Seasonal PR Stunts. While completing these tasks alone earns players rewards, they also contribute to weekly and monthly rewards. 50% and 80% completion of both the Series and the current season rewards drivers with an exclusive car or cosmetic item, consisting of the Common, Rare, Epic, or Legendary rarity. The Festival Playlist has continued to be a part of each series since its introduction.

With the Series 9 update in May 2019, the developers implemented a system to prevent wallriding—the practice of driving into a curved wall on the outside of a corner instead of braking and steering, thus allowing the player to carry more speed through a corner—and high-speed collisions in online multiplayer. The system predicts the occurrence of a collision between two cars with a large difference in speed and ghosts the faster vehicle, preventing rammings (both intentional and accidental). The anti-wall riding measures include slowing down a car in contact with the wall for an extended period of time, depending on speed and the predicted distance the player would have travelled if they did not hit the wall.^[25]

In July 2019, as part of the Series 11 update, a special Horizon Story was added in collaboration with BBC’s Top Gear. The missions, narrated by presenter Chris Harris, provided players with rewards including the «Track-tor» (a race-modified tractor featured in Series 25 of the show) and the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6. The update also saw the return of class-based Rivals modes from previous games in the series, and the ability to track progress in the Horizon Life menu, as well as several new unlockable cars in the game’s Festival Playlist feature.^[26]

In December 2019, as part of the Series 17 update, a new 72-player battle royale-style mode called The Eliminator was added. In this mode, players start by driving around the game world in a fairly slow, weak car such as a 1965 Mini Cooper. As players roam the safe zone, they can acquire car drops that contain more powerful vehicles that randomly appear on the map. Players can also challenge other players to head-to-head races to specific points on the map by pointing their camera at the other’s vehicle and honking their horn. Players are eliminated from the event if they drive out of the safe zone (which shrinks over time like in other battle royale games) or lose a head-to-head race, where the winner of such has the option to drive the opponent’s car or receive an upgrade. Eventually, when the safe zone shrinks to a certain point, the remaining players will then race to one final point on the map to determine the winner.^[27] Microsoft stated in 2021 that The Eliminator was the most popular multiplayer mode in the game.^[28]

In April 2020, as part of the Series 21 update, Horizon Promo, a feature previously found in Forza Horizon 2 and 3 where players take in-game photographs of cars using Photo Mode for rewards, made its return to the Forza Horizon series in Horizon 4.^[29] In July 2020, the Series 24 update brought a new Photo Challenge feature in the Festival Playlist. This feature would reward players if they took a photo of the specified car in front of the specified location as set out by the Photo Challenge for that week. In July 2020, it was announced that Forza Horizon 4 would be one of a suite of games published by Xbox Game Studios to receive an upgraded version for Xbox Series X/S through Microsoft’s Smart Delivery system, which will make the game playable on the new console in 4K resolution at 60 fps.^[30]

In December 2020, as part of the Series 30 update, another new game mode called Super7 was added to the game, which came alongside the expanded «Blueprint Builder» feature.^[31][32] In Super7, players have to complete a series of seven randomly selected stunt challenges for rewards.^[33][32] The Blueprint Builder expands upon the Forza Blueprint feature by allowing players to set up ramps, structures and scenery à la TrackMania series to create their own challenges and share them with the game’s online community.^[31][32] In the following days, a fictional car, known as the 2058 Quadra V-Tech, was included in the game as part of the release of Cyberpunk 2077.

On 9 March 2021, the game was released on Steam, which suffered from various gameplay issues and game crashes, as well as the inability to import Microsoft Store savegames.^[34] On 14 April 2021, the Steam version received a patch, which contained «various stability improvements», according to the patch notes.^[34] In July 2021, as part of the Series 37 update, a more difficult variant of the Super7 game mode, called Super7 High Stakes was released, which uses the same gameplay mechanics as the standard Super7, but with a «High Stakes» concept. After completing a challenge, the player has two options: Stick, which lets the player claim their previously earned reward(s) and which also restarts the game, or Twist, which piles up the rewards. The player has three attempts to complete every challenge and the opportunity to pick a new challenge three times per game. If the player loses three times, all previously earned rewards will be lost and the game will start from the beginning. It is also the last major content update for Forza Horizon 4, featuring only one new car, the VUHL 05RR, which is a nod to the Mexican location in Forza Horizon 5.^[35]

Reception[edit]

Forza Horizon 4 received «universal acclaim» for the Xbox One version, while the PC version received «generally favourable» reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.^[37][36] The Xbox One version is the highest rated Forza Horizon title and is tied with Forza Motorsport and Forza Motorsport 3 as the highest rated entry in the Forza series based on Metacritic scores.

Game Informer praised the changing weather, feeling it added more variety to each race, «The weather greatly impacts the way you race, and sometimes forces you to retreat to your garage to bring out rides that are more suitable for the conditions.^[47] VG247 liked the variety of challenges and activities available to the player, writing, «There are so many different events, and so much to do and find, but it never feels daunting unless you want to nail every weekly challenge and goal».^[48] While criticising the festival system as confusing, The Guardian enjoyed the different feel of the game’s cars, «Playground Games’ attention to car-modelling detail means that a garage full of 50 vehicles offers 50 slightly different experiences, and lets you develop a curated collection of favourites».^[49] Polygon criticised how the game world felt like a theme-park version of England, «everything has the faint whiff of an idealised 1950s about it, a place of ordered pub gardens and rosebushes. There’s no graffiti, no council estates, no industry, no suburbs».^[50]

GamesRadar+ felt the setting of England wasn’t as interesting as 3‘s Australia, but liked the online modes, saying «messing around with a group of mates was always fun in Burnout Paradise, and Forza Horizon 4 gives you everything you need to do that, if it’s your bag».^[51] GameSpot praised the new additions Forza Horizon 4 added, «You’re also now able to create your own custom courses, and the series’ more creative pursuits return with story missions—which feature things like stunt driving and nice homages to other racing games».^[52] Destructoid had mixed feelings on winter, saying it was «the only season that feels truly unique and actually affects the way driving works», but could be «less fun for the players who don’t want to slip and slide without much traction».^[53]

On 18 January 2019, Playground Games announced that they had reached 7 million registered users after the launch of Fortune Island expansion.^[54] In June 2019, prior to the launch of the Lego Speed Champions expansion, Playground Games announced the game had reached 10 million users.^[55] In August 2019 it was then announced that the game had now topped the 12 million player milestone.^[56] By November 2020, Microsoft reported that the game had been played by 24 million players since launch.^[57]

Accolades[edit]

Year	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2018	Game Critics Awards	Best Racing Game	Won	[58]
Gamescom Awards	Won	[59]
Best Console Game (Xbox One)	Nominated
Golden Joystick Awards	Best Audio Design	Nominated	[60][61][62]
Best Competitive Game	Nominated
Xbox Game of the Year	Won
Ultimate Game of the Year	Nominated
The Game Awards 2018	Best Audio Design	Nominated	[63][64]
Best Sports/Racing Game	Won
Gamers’ Choice Awards	Fan Favourite Sports/Racing Game	Nominated	[65]
Titanium Awards	Best Sports/Driving Game	Won	[66]
Australian Games Awards	Sports, Racing or Fighting Title of the Year	Won	[67]
2019	Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Best Music Supervision in a Video Game	Nominated	[68]
D.I.C.E. Awards	Racing Game of the Year	Won	[69][70]
National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards	Control Precision	Nominated	[71]
Engineering	Nominated
Game, Franchise Racing	Won
Graphics, Technical	Nominated
Original Light Mix Score, Franchise	Nominated
Song Collection	Won
Sound Editing in a Game Cinema	Nominated
SXSW Gaming Awards	Excellence in SFX	Nominated	[72]
Game Developers Choice Awards	Best Technology	Nominated	[73]
15th British Academy Games Awards	British Game	Won	[74][75]
Italian Video Game Awards	Game of the Year	Nominated	[76]
Best Audio	Nominated
Best Sport Game	Won
Game Critics Awards	Best Racing Game (LEGO Speed Champions)	Nominated	[77]
Develop:Star Awards	Best Visual Art	Won	[78][79]
Best Game Design	Nominated
Best Audio	Nominated
Best Use of Game Engine	Won
Game of the Year	Nominated
2019 Golden Joystick Awards	Best Game Expansion (LEGO Speed Champions)	Nominated	[80]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website

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Forza Horizon 4 is an open-world racing game developed by Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios.

The Steam release was developed by Sumo Digital, and the Series X/S release was developed by Panic Button.

It was announced during Microsoft’s E3 2018 briefing. Set in Great Britain with a new seasons feature, each week the game world alters across spring, summer, autumn, and winter. As well as showcasing co-operative racing and a Great Britain setting, a 60 frames per second mode was unveiled.

It was released on October 2, 2018 for the Xbox One and Windows 10 platforms, with an early access release on September 28, 2018 for the Ultimate Edition bundle. Similar to Forza Motorsport 7, it is available on the Xbox One X as an enhanced title, featuring 1080p resolution at 60 fps or improved visuals at 30 fps.

On November 10, 2020, an enhanced version of the title was released for the Xbox Series X and S platforms, with the Series X release being playable on 4K resolution at 60 fps.^[1]

The Windows 10 release was announced on February 8, 2021 to be available on Steam starting on March 9, 2021.^[2]

Setting

The title is set in a «heavily-stylised version of Britain» within Scotland and the Lake District of North West England. It features Edinburgh and villages in Cotswolds as one of many locations.

Environments and weather types are determined by dynamic seasons that include spring, summer, autumn and winter. Depending on the season, players may have access to new temporary locations such as a frozen lake in winter or dried-up rivers during the summer. Weather temperature also has an effect on handling.

Seasons last one week in real-time, rotating in the normal order, and are Playground’s main channel for adding content to the game that can be viewed on the Festival Playlist. If in the game during the transition, players receive a countdown that culminates in a quick cutscene.^[3]

Free-roaming Drivatars from previous titles were are disabled when playing online, however they will be reenabled when switching to Horizon Solo. Up to 72 players can be found within a game session, with all players syncing the same time of day, season and weather, although it is also possible to create a private session. Players may quickly engage in activities with other players via the Quick Chat feature.

Progression

The title’s campaign is split up by the title’s four seasons that offer different events and activities. It may be completed through solo or co-op play.

Horizon Life

Main article: Horizon Life

Horizon Life gives objectives and rewards players for taking part in events, photographing, tuning and painting vehicles, as well as for completing PR Stunts. It is an online shared world that can support up to 72 players. When racing in online mode, cars pass through players rather than crash (unless they are friends or part of a player-created convoy).

Horizon Stories allows players to partake in driving opportunities given by characters from the Horizon Festival. They include stunt driver montages, car documentary shoots and more.

Festival Playlist

Main article: Forza Horizon 4/Festival Playlist

The Festival Playlist displays all Forzathon challenges and seasonal activities of a Series. It also shows the player’s progress and all rewards that are unlocked for completing seasonal activities. In addition, players receive bonus rewards for achieving a high seasonal or serial progress.

Forzathon

Main article: Forza Horizon 4/Forzathon

Forzathon Live is an hourly-rotated multiplayer game mode that can be joined by up to 12 players. It gives players group objectives that must be completed before time runs out. Upon completion of an objective — determined by the team achieving a high enough score — players get to a higher stage, with stage three being the highest.

Forzathon points are given out equally to all players, and can be spent at the Forzathon Shop for rewards.^[4] The shop items refresh with every season, though do not have exclusive items. No real money purchases will be available.^[5]

Daily and Weekly Challenges are also available, with the former focusing on achievements and the latter on mastering specific vehicles.

The Eliminator

Main article: The Eliminator

The Eliminator is a 72-player battle royale game mode introduced with Update 17 released on December 12, 2019, and was made available for free, requiring only the base game for entry as all cars are provided within each session of The Eliminator.

Players battle against each other in Head-to-Head sprint races within an ever shrinking arena until a single player is left and is dubbed ‘The Eliminator.’

Achievements

Main article: Forza Horizon 4/Achievements

There is a total of 154 achievements worth 3000 Gamerscore, covering aspects of single-player and multiplayer.

Other Features

• Custom player routes that are created and shared via the Route Creator.
• Purchasable Player Houses and businesses with new items and gameplay perks.
  • There are a total of 12 houses players may choose from. Car customizations take place at home, and players have access to a variety of both cosmetic and gameplay-influencing perks. Two mentioned houses are Huntsman Lodge and Edinburgh Castle.^[6]
• Player character customization that consists of 14 preset characters, 500 apparel choices, and 50 emotes.
  • Clothing comes in a variety of colors and rarities and can be used by either gender, with some more outlandish than others. Items can be obtained either via direct purchase (unknown if this includes real-world money) and/or by completing challenges.^[7]
• Drift Suspension is an additional Upgrade option available on all vehicles.
• A «Horizon Solo» button to instantly disable online features.^[8]
• Showcases return, where players can race against completely unique vehicles such as hovercrafts and airplanes.
• Star Card is a feature granting gamertag icons upon completion of various missions.

Cars

Main article: Forza Horizon 4/Cars

Over 700 cars from more than 100 licensed manufacturers are featured, with the McLaren Senna and Land Rover Defender 90 being the cover cars. Each car has a skill tree with up to 16 perks, with each car leveling up separately. Cars can be sold on the Auction House.^[9]

Downloadable Content

Main article: Forza Horizon 4/Downloadable Content

The Deluxe Edition offers additional downloadable content over the standard release:

The Ultimate Edition features all of the above along with the following content:

Updates

Main article: Forza Horizon 4/Update history

Reception

Forza Horizon 4 received «universal acclaim» reviews on Metacritic and was tagged as a «must-play» game on Xbox One holding a metascore of 92/100 based on 88 critic reviews.^[11] While on PC it receives a metascore of 88/100 based on 22 critic reviews.^[12]

Trivia

• The E3 2018 trailer features I Can See For Miles by Surfing The Apocalypse, which is a condensed cover of I Can See For Miles by The Who.

Media

Images

Videos

References

Forza Horizon 4 is a 2018 racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios.^[3] It was released on 2 October 2018 for Windows and Xbox One after being announced at Xbox’s E3 2018 conference.^[4][5] An enhanced version of the game was released on Xbox Series X/S on 10 November 2020. The game is set in a fictionalised representation of areas of Great Britain.^[3][4][5] It is the fourth Forza Horizon title and eleventh instalment in the Forza series. The game is noted for its introduction of changing seasons to the series, as well as featuring several content-expanding updates which have included new game modes. A sequel, Forza Horizon 5, was released on 9 November 2021.

Gameplay

Forza Horizon 4 is a racing video game set in an open world environment based in a fictionalised Great Britain, with regions that include condensed representations of Edinburgh, the Scottish Highlands, the Lake District (including Derwentwater), Ambleside and the Cotswolds (including Broadway), Bamburgh among others. The game features a route creator which enables players to create races using completely customised routes.^[6] The game takes place in a synchronised shared world, compared to the AI-driven ‘drivatars’ from its predecessors, with each server supporting up to 72 players.^[7] The game is also playable in offline mode.^[7]

The game features a dynamic weather system that also depicts the change of seasons. The environment in the world will change depending on the season: for example, Derwentwater would freeze over in winter and allow players the ability to drive on the ice to reach areas of the game world that would be inaccessible during all the other seasons.^[4][5][6] The seasons are fixed across the game’s servers, meaning that all players will experience the same conditions at the same time. After completing a prologue series of events which introduce players to all four seasons, the shared-world seasons will change every week,^[8] with the changes happening on Thursdays at 2:30PM GMT.^[9] The season changes are forewarned to players in the game with a countdown clock, which, when finished, will trigger a short cinematic cutscene showing the previous season changing to the new one, although the cinematic will be delayed for players who are in the middle of an event or activity.^[9]

The game features over 750 licensed cars. Players have the opportunity to buy in-game houses which unlock new items, cars and game-play perks, including Horizon Promo and the ability to fast travel anywhere on the map.^[8]

Returning from Forza Horizon 3, Wheelspins are prize spins with random rewards ranging from cars, Credits (in-game currency), emotes, horns, and clothing. Wheelspins are rewarded from progressing through the story and completing certain seasonal challenges. These can also be bought in the #Forzathon shop. Super Wheelspins, enhanced versions of Wheelspins with better prizes, are also given for completing parts of the story and seasonal challenges. Super Wheelspins can also be bought in the #Forzathon Shop.^[10] Also returning from the past two games, British drum & bass label Hospital Records provided a soundtrack composed of 20 original tracks from various label artists, as well as an unreleased track by Fred V & Grafix titled «Sunrise», made for the game’s opening cinematic. The soundtrack album was released on 26 October 2018.^[11]

The game features a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.^[12]

Owing to licensing issues, vehicles from Mitsubishi Motors and Toyota (including Lexus marque with the exception of some offroad racing and pre-customised trucks and Subaru BRZ) were not present in the base game, but updates released in 2019 re-introduced these brands;^[13] Mitsubishi returned on 15 January 2019 with the release of the Free Mitsubishi Motors Car Pack DLC.^[14] That same day, however, two dancing emotes («Carlton» and «Floss») were removed from the game due to lawsuits filed by those dances’ creators against Epic Games for their use of the dances as emotes in their game Fortnite Battle Royale.^[15] On 19 November 2019, the official Forza Motorsport Twitter account announced that Toyota cars would be returning to the Forza series in the Series 17 update of Forza Horizon 4 on 12 December with the release of the 1998 Toyota Supra RZ.^[16][17]

Content and gameplay updates

Forza Horizon 4 has seen several content expansions and updates since its release. There are two downloadable content expansions for the game.^[8] The first of these, Fortune Island, was released in December 2018. It includes a new map, a range of additional cars and adds extreme weather conditions to the game, along with a treasure hunting campaign in which players find treasure chests to earn up to ten million Credits. The second, Lego Speed Champions, was announced at E3 2019 and released on 13 June 2019.^[18][19][20] Similar to the Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels expansion, it is based on the Lego brand’s Lego Speed Champions toyline featuring Lego toy versions of real cars, a map «built» with various Lego pieces, and its own separate campaign.^[18][19] It also added a new in-game radio station, Radio Awesome, which is dedicated solely to playing The Lego Movie theme song «Everything Is Awesome» by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island.^[20]

The Series 5 update in January introduced the Free DLC Mitsubishi Motors Car Pack. It included 7 new cars and added a new 10-mission campaign called Isha’s Taxis.^[21] Four additional car packs have also been released as of 22 February 2021, one including cars from the James Bond films, the other being a collection of Formula Drift cars and a pack of cars from the Barrett-Jackson Car Pack from Forza Motorsport 7.^[22] Another car pack featuring Hot Wheels cars was released on 22 February 2021.^[23]

Every four weeks, at the end of every Spring season, a new update for the game was released introducing new gameplay content, cars, and cosmetic items. The first of these updates, at the end of October 2018, saw the addition of the Route Creator tool and a new Horizon Story, British Racing Green. The Series 7 update in March 2019 introduced the Festival Playlist.^[24] Players complete daily, weekly, and monthly challenges, including, but not limited to, Seasonal Championships, Playground Games, Ranked Adventure, and Seasonal PR Stunts. While completing these tasks alone earns players rewards, they also contribute to weekly and monthly rewards. 50% and 80% completion of both the Series and the current season rewards drivers with an exclusive car or cosmetic item, consisting of the Common, Rare, Epic, or Legendary rarity. The Festival Playlist has continued to be a part of each series since its introduction.

With the Series 9 update in May 2019, the developers implemented a system to prevent wallriding—the practice of driving into a curved wall on the outside of a corner instead of braking and steering, thus allowing the player to carry more speed through a corner—and high-speed collisions in online multiplayer. The system predicts the occurrence of a collision between two cars with a large difference in speed and ghosts the faster vehicle, preventing rammings (both intentional and accidental). The anti-wall riding measures include slowing down a car in contact with the wall for an extended period of time, depending on speed and the predicted distance the player would have travelled if they did not hit the wall.^[25]

In July 2019, as part of the Series 11 update, a special Horizon Story was added in collaboration with BBC’s Top Gear. The missions, narrated by presenter Chris Harris, provided players with rewards including the «Track-tor» (a race-modified tractor featured in Series 25 of the show) and the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6. The update also saw the return of class-based Rivals modes from previous games in the series, and the ability to track progress in the Horizon Life menu, as well as several new unlockable cars in the game’s Festival Playlist feature.^[26]

In December 2019, as part of the Series 17 update, a new 72-player battle royale-style mode called The Eliminator was added. In this mode, players start by driving around the game world in a fairly slow, weak car such as a 1965 Mini Cooper. As players roam the safe zone, they can acquire car drops that contain more powerful vehicles that randomly appear on the map. Players can also challenge other players to head-to-head races to specific points on the map by pointing their camera at the other’s vehicle and honking their horn. Players are eliminated from the event if they drive out of the safe zone (which shrinks over time like in other battle royale games) or lose a head-to-head race, where the winner of such has the option to drive the opponent’s car or receive an upgrade. Eventually, when the safe zone shrinks to a certain point, the remaining players will then race to one final point on the map to determine the winner.^[27] Microsoft stated in 2021 that The Eliminator was the most popular multiplayer mode in the game.^[28]

In April 2020, as part of the Series 21 update, Horizon Promo, a feature previously found in Forza Horizon 2 and 3 where players take in-game photographs of cars using Photo Mode for rewards, made its return to the Forza Horizon series in Horizon 4.^[29] In July 2020, the Series 24 update brought a new Photo Challenge feature in the Festival Playlist. This feature would reward players if they took a photo of the specified car in front of the specified location as set out by the Photo Challenge for that week. In July 2020, it was announced that Forza Horizon 4 would be one of a suite of games published by Xbox Game Studios to receive an upgraded version for Xbox Series X/S through Microsoft’s Smart Delivery system, which will make the game playable on the new console in 4K resolution at 60 fps.^[30]

In December 2020, as part of the Series 30 update, another new game mode called Super7 was added to the game, which came alongside the expanded «Blueprint Builder» feature.^[31][32] In Super7, players have to complete a series of seven randomly selected stunt challenges for rewards.^[33][32] The Blueprint Builder expands upon the Forza Blueprint feature by allowing players to set up ramps, structures and scenery à la TrackMania series to create their own challenges and share them with the game’s online community.^[31][32] In the following days, a fictional car, known as the 2058 Quadra V-Tech, was included in the game as part of the release of Cyberpunk 2077.

On 9 March 2021, the game was released on Steam, which suffered from various gameplay issues and game crashes, as well as the inability to import Microsoft Store savegames.^[34] On 14 April 2021, the Steam version received a patch, which contained «various stability improvements», according to the patch notes.^[34] In July 2021, as part of the Series 37 update, a more difficult variant of the Super7 game mode, called Super7 High Stakes was released, which uses the same gameplay mechanics as the standard Super7, but with a «High Stakes» concept. After completing a challenge, the player has two options: Stick, which lets the player claim their previously earned reward(s) and which also restarts the game, or Twist, which piles up the rewards. The player has three attempts to complete every challenge and the opportunity to pick a new challenge three times per game. If the player loses three times, all previously earned rewards will be lost and the game will start from the beginning. It is also the last major content update for Forza Horizon 4, featuring only one new car, the VUHL 05RR, which is a nod to the Mexican location in Forza Horizon 5.^[35]

Reception

Forza Horizon 4 received «universal acclaim» for the Xbox One version, while the PC version received «generally favourable» reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.^[37][36] The Xbox One version is the highest rated Forza Horizon title and is tied with Forza Motorsport and Forza Motorsport 3 as the highest rated entry in the Forza series based on Metacritic scores.

Game Informer praised the changing weather, feeling it added more variety to each race, «The weather greatly impacts the way you race, and sometimes forces you to retreat to your garage to bring out rides that are more suitable for the conditions.^[47] VG247 liked the variety of challenges and activities available to the player, writing, «There are so many different events, and so much to do and find, but it never feels daunting unless you want to nail every weekly challenge and goal».^[48] While criticising the festival system as confusing, The Guardian enjoyed the different feel of the game’s cars, «Playground Games’ attention to car-modelling detail means that a garage full of 50 vehicles offers 50 slightly different experiences, and lets you develop a curated collection of favourites».^[49] Polygon criticised how the game world felt like a theme-park version of England, «everything has the faint whiff of an idealised 1950s about it, a place of ordered pub gardens and rosebushes. There’s no graffiti, no council estates, no industry, no suburbs».^[50]

GamesRadar+ felt the setting of England wasn’t as interesting as 3‘s Australia, but liked the online modes, saying «messing around with a group of mates was always fun in Burnout Paradise, and Forza Horizon 4 gives you everything you need to do that, if it’s your bag».^[51] GameSpot praised the new additions Forza Horizon 4 added, «You’re also now able to create your own custom courses, and the series’ more creative pursuits return with story missions—which feature things like stunt driving and nice homages to other racing games».^[52] Destructoid had mixed feelings on winter, saying it was «the only season that feels truly unique and actually affects the way driving works», but could be «less fun for the players who don’t want to slip and slide without much traction».^[53]

On 18 January 2019, Playground Games announced that they had reached 7 million registered users after the launch of Fortune Island expansion.^[54] In June 2019, prior to the launch of the Lego Speed Champions expansion, Playground Games announced the game had reached 10 million users.^[55] In August 2019 it was then announced that the game had now topped the 12 million player milestone.^[56] By November 2020, Microsoft reported that the game had been played by 24 million players since launch.^[57]

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2018	Game Critics Awards	Best Racing Game	Won	[58]
Gamescom Awards	Won	[59]
Best Console Game (Xbox One)	Nominated
Golden Joystick Awards	Best Audio Design	Nominated	[60][61][62]
Best Competitive Game	Nominated
Xbox Game of the Year	Won
Ultimate Game of the Year	Nominated
The Game Awards 2018	Best Audio Design	Nominated	[63][64]
Best Sports/Racing Game	Won
Gamers’ Choice Awards	Fan Favourite Sports/Racing Game	Nominated	[65]
Titanium Awards	Best Sports/Driving Game	Won	[66]
Australian Games Awards	Sports, Racing or Fighting Title of the Year	Won	[67]
2019	Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Best Music Supervision in a Video Game	Nominated	[68]
D.I.C.E. Awards	Racing Game of the Year	Won	[69][70]
National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards	Control Precision	Nominated	[71]
Engineering	Nominated
Game, Franchise Racing	Won
Graphics, Technical	Nominated
Original Light Mix Score, Franchise	Nominated
Song Collection	Won
Sound Editing in a Game Cinema	Nominated
SXSW Gaming Awards	Excellence in SFX	Nominated	[72]
Game Developers Choice Awards	Best Technology	Nominated	[73]
15th British Academy Games Awards	British Game	Won	[74][75]
Italian Video Game Awards	Game of the Year	Nominated	[76]
Best Audio	Nominated
Best Sport Game	Won
Game Critics Awards	Best Racing Game (LEGO Speed Champions)	Nominated	[77]
Develop:Star Awards	Best Visual Art	Won	[78][79]
Best Game Design	Nominated
Best Audio	Nominated
Best Use of Game Engine	Won
Game of the Year	Nominated
2019 Golden Joystick Awards	Best Game Expansion (LEGO Speed Champions)	Nominated	[80]

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 02:54

Forza Horizon 4

Developers
	Playground Games
	Turn 10 Studios
Steam	Sumo Digital[1]
Publishers
	Microsoft Studios
Engines
	ForzaTech
Release dates
Windows	October 2, 2018
Reception
Metacritic	88
OpenCritic	92
IGDB	91
Taxonomy
Monetization	DLC
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person, First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Racing
Vehicles	Automobile
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, Europe
Series	Forza

Forza
Forza Motorsport 6: Apex	2016
Forza Horizon 3	2016
Forza Motorsport 7	2017
Forza Street	2018
Forza Horizon 4	2018
Forza Horizon 5	2021
Forza Motorsport	2023

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

All versions require a Microsoft account.

Version differences

Standard Edition

Includes Formula Drift Car Pack.

Deluxe Edition

Includes all Standard Edition content, Car Pass and Best of Bond Car Pack.

Ultimate Edition

Includes all Deluxe Edition content, VIP Membership, 2 expansions (Fortune Island and LEGO Speed Champions) and Welcome Pack.

Demo

A demo is available.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Save game data location

Save game cloud syncing

Due to technical limitations, Microsoft Store save files are not compatible with the Steam version, except leaderboards and clubs.^[2]

Video

Input

Extending support for more wheels: Forza Emuwheel Setup guide (Discord group’s: FH4 mapping fix file 2)

Audio

Localizations

Network

Multiplayer types

Connection types

Issues fixed

Game crashes

After intro movies:
Set 48000Hz and 24 bit in Control Panel->Sound, or Use integrated card instead of e.g. X-Fi, or Disable enhancements in Sound (fix for AIM cards)

During gameplay:

Create bat file and run before playing (close on exit) START explorer.exe shell: appsFolder Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_8wekyb3d8bbwe! SunriseReleaseFinal TIMEOUT / T 70 / NOBREAK taskkill / f / im explorer.exe Alternative bat @echo off :M1 TIMEOUT /T 600 /NOBREAK netsh interface set interface name=LAN admin = DISABLE TIMEOUT /T 30 /NOBREAK netsh interface set interface name=LAN admin = ENABLE GOTO M1 In place of «LAN» write your connection name (e.g. Ethernet or Wi-Fi). Alternative bat: :loop @echo off cls ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew cls timeout /t 600 goto loop

Check for more info about possible fixes on problems with the game and MS Store here

Missing 30fps Frame Rate Option

Some displays might not be able to see the 30fps Frame Rate option in the video settings. To solve this change your desktop refresh rate to 30 Hz.

Anisotropic Filtering is not working correctly

Forcing AF in the driver settings will cause it to not work correctly. Set Anisotropic Filtering to Application-controlled in your graphics card driver and then change it to your desired value in game.

Other information

API

Middleware

System requirements

Notes

References