Forza Horizon 4

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8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1816 Ratings

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  1. szogyenyi
    Oct 11, 2018
    7
    Don't let yourself be fooled. Forza Horizon 4 is a good game, but not nearly as goo as it's predecessors. It has everything what the previous Horizon titles had. The four seasons are really a huge game changer, i liked the kinda story mode missions as well, and everything else just work the same as it wored before. But in a technical point oh my God, this game is broke as Hell! The HorizonDon't let yourself be fooled. Forza Horizon 4 is a good game, but not nearly as goo as it's predecessors. It has everything what the previous Horizon titles had. The four seasons are really a huge game changer, i liked the kinda story mode missions as well, and everything else just work the same as it wored before. But in a technical point oh my God, this game is broke as Hell! The Horizon Life online mode doesn't work most of the times, it has serious issues to join a server, and even if you manage to join a session, you will be dropped out to solo mode after any event. So basically you must rejoin to online mode after every race. The Showdown PvP events are broken as well, because in that case the game does not respond to any controller commands, so basically you are forced to restart your game at that point. The ghosting in online events are also broken, because if someone got revinded in front of you in a race, it doesn't matter if he is ghosted, he still gonna has collision and it can screw up your race. The latest update managed to half the number of framerates and there are so much minor issues across the game, it is very annoying! Because i never see this kind of bugs in the previous titles! Don't misunderstand me! If you are looking for a Horizon feeling, you definitely gonna get it from this game, but from a technical point, this game is a huge stepback. Worst thing is the developers are not even responding regarding this problems, so at this point, after 2 weeks of release we still have no idea if these problems are going to be fixed in the near future, or not. I have trusted vote to this game with my money, and i'm so sorry to say that i'm disappointed.… Expand
  2. Mats2468
    Oct 3, 2018
    6
    Forza Horizon 4 comes with a good package of a lot of content, but very repepetive ones. First 2 hours into this game was enjoyable but if you have played Forza games early this wasen't worth the hype. Forza Horizon 4 stands to be the best racing experience of the year for sure.
  3. Dethw1sh
    Oct 3, 2018
    6
    This is a great looking racing game and the racing itself is decent. That's about all I will give it props for. Seeing my friends' names used for drivers in the game makes it feel completely fake, the soundtrack is terrible and can't be permanently turned off, and if you turn down the voice-overs while you're driving (can't mute 'em), it turns the voices down in the cutscenes as well. IThis is a great looking racing game and the racing itself is decent. That's about all I will give it props for. Seeing my friends' names used for drivers in the game makes it feel completely fake, the soundtrack is terrible and can't be permanently turned off, and if you turn down the voice-overs while you're driving (can't mute 'em), it turns the voices down in the cutscenes as well. I don't get why they added so much extra crap to the concept of racing. Give me the cars, the road and the land, and leave everything else out, or at least the option to do so. I want to listen to the engine, tires, and wind, not someone telling me constantly what to do or where to go. I dont really need all that if I have a GPS point to drive to on the minimap.… Expand
  4. groinis
    Sep 9, 2020
    6
    The graphics of this game is mind-boggling. The driving physics for the simcade racer is very well done. It's fun just messing about in the English country side (although the map is a bit boring even with Edinburgh in the game). The car lineup is staggering. All sorts of brands and cars from different eras. Even have Lego (DLC) and Hotwheels cars in the game. The seasonal events are funThe graphics of this game is mind-boggling. The driving physics for the simcade racer is very well done. It's fun just messing about in the English country side (although the map is a bit boring even with Edinburgh in the game). The car lineup is staggering. All sorts of brands and cars from different eras. Even have Lego (DLC) and Hotwheels cars in the game. The seasonal events are fun but can sometimes be monotonous. Seasons in general are a neat novelty at first but gets tiring after a while, especially winter. The biggest downfall of this game is the progression system. Every time you level up, you earn a wheelspin. But the rewards in the wheelspins are garbage. The addition of unnecessary cosmetics like clothing, car horns, emotes feels out of place for a racing game. It just felt that it was added on since that was the trend in 2018. I feel that the wheelspins should have just been credits and cars. The progression system with the specific events are similar in this manner. It's based on a tier system. But the rewards sometimes feel out of place. After you get to a certain tier level in street racing for instance, you can unlock a Nissan Skyline R34. But then afterwards, you can unlock a emote. It doesn't make any sense. The Horizon stories are a fun addition to the game. The community for this game is fantastic. They are a creative bunch. The battle royale mode added in the game is actually surprisingly fun. They added houses to the game but owning a castle doesn't really feel different than owning a shack in the forest. There's no interior differences and no place for you to walk around with your character and see the car. In fact, you character serves virtually no purpose in the game except as a poor excuse to add clothing and emotes in the game. Overall, it's a fun racing game for you to play when you just want to kick back and relax.… Expand
  5. michasacuer
    Oct 20, 2018
    6
    TL;DR ALERT

    Okay, so for the start i want to apologize for my english but i think you will get the clue of my thread. Its month from premiere so its a good time to sum up some things. For the start, game was 9/10 for me but after whole moth of playing as "ultimate" copy owner my mark droped down to 6/10. I played a lot of FH3 (something about 80 hours) and in FH4 i have something    TL;DR ALERT

    Okay, so for the start i want to apologize for my english but i think you will get the clue of my thread.

    Its month from premiere so its a good time to sum up some things. For the start, game was 9/10 for me but after whole moth of playing as "ultimate" copy owner my mark droped down to 6/10. I played a lot of FH3 (something about 80 hours) and in FH4 i have something around 30h. Im more competetive player than casual. For the start, things that i like in Horizon 4:

    -Emoticons and avatar customization, its pretty fresh and i like it. If you dont like it, you can easily ignore it. For me its fun.
    - Team rankeds. For all of you it could be a little controversial but let me explain. I noticed, that players FINALLY get it, there is less amount of rammers than in FH3 BUT there thing is more complicated. I will explain it later.
    - Amazing tracks
    - Skills trees on cars
    - Game is easier. Freeroam is less frustrating (less thing to hit) and there is fewer cases when u can lost your sick skillchains. Cars handling is simpler (+125% CR player here on Elite controller) and its more fun to play and riding around
    - Bots on "Unbeatable" are easier. In FH3 they were STUPIDLY fast on corners. In FH4 they fix that.
    - Seasons are ok, fresh touch.

    Now things that i hate and i noticed, and Polish Community in our official Facebook group.

    - Long time to get into ranked/multiplayer. Are you serious? Its get stupidly long! Where is the reason to wait so long when at all i get into non-classified players? We are already month from premiere and you still dont fix it, thats a shame
    - My +125% CR rank gives nothing in FH4 in multi. I could easily win adventure in FH3 ending in the middle, now its more complicated because of team-only rankeds.
    - Hendicap. Its impossible to win match playing 6 vs 4 (if you are in more numeroes team). If i with my friend end up on 1 and 2 place, we get 450 and 400 points its impossible to win with retards in your team because 3, 4 and 5 place get 400 points. I lost a lot of games like that, and win a lot. Playing in less counted player team is easier, because only bad players rage quiting and you get more points.
    - Second problem, game not updates score points when someone leave in race. 3 of your teammates can leave so you are playing 6 v 3 by rest of the race and there is no way you can win it.
    - I have no idea who thought that will be a good idea to random cross/road and classes.
    - Playground Games need to smoke some good **** the most complicated, curved and tight tracks are in road S2 in winter Season. Good joke folks.
    - Not all cars have winter tyres
    - No championships in singleplayer
    - More grind like in Fh3. I never repeated race in Horizon 3 because i wanted to get something. In FH4 you need to grind to get Goliath, for example. You have a lot of cars taht you like? Grind skillchains
    - Getting more points in skillchains that 600k is pointless. You get 6000 xp points and 10 SP max
    - "Anything Goes" races should named "Anything vs Ford Focus, Audi TT and Chalenger", seriously its nothing fun to being catched up by Ford Focus when u ride your Vulcan 430kmh+. We need more variety here!
    - Glitchers still on top in scoreboards. WTF? Devs didnt know limitations of their own game? Im Software Developer too and i belive, that it can be blocked by software. D100 car and 500kmh+ dont seems to be stupid by Playground Games?
    - Season championships are boring. And that rewards, +5000kr? One super Wheelspin? Devs dont know their own game? 5000kr is nothing here. Why so many cross - championships there? Seriosly, even in ranked i played cross-events most, what the hell? I feel first expansion will be something like Rally in FH1 :v
    - Clubs have no sense. Where is in-club rank? Where is awards for getting exp for your club?
    - Forzathon Live not scaling. You can never end it up in 3 players or end all live in 3 minutes. It depends on how many players join it. You should scale tasks to end
    - Having cars in C, B classes are pointless because of lack of adventures with these classes

    At all, for whole month of playing it looks like reskin of Forza Horizon 3. We get less content, more of them are the same as FH2. We get a little better graphics, seasons and drift tuning. Thats all. The rest of all are less. No community chalenges (in FH4 it calls like singleplayer missions for drift club, YT channel etc, you know what i mean), no championships (it makes single much shorter), you cant choose what you want to play in multiplayer. This game is step back, but i love to playing it, Thats why i posted my thoughts and i belive, devs will fix it in the future and FH5 will be finally something new. For now, its 5/10 for me. Its good, but we should get more.    … Expand
  6. shiftyman
    Sep 29, 2018
    5
    Don’t listen to the fanboys or paid off critics, forza 4 is a major downgrade from 3, a ton of worthless useless cosmetics, is just one of the many reasons why it’s only average at best, the whole experience thing compared to earning fans, really adds a boring element to the game. Clubs are pointless now, the whole UK map looks almost the same apart from a few of the city sections. HorizonDon’t listen to the fanboys or paid off critics, forza 4 is a major downgrade from 3, a ton of worthless useless cosmetics, is just one of the many reasons why it’s only average at best, the whole experience thing compared to earning fans, really adds a boring element to the game. Clubs are pointless now, the whole UK map looks almost the same apart from a few of the city sections. Horizon greed.… Expand
  7. Herik
    Sep 28, 2018
    6
    I do not see much difference with the predecessor, but it's still a good game.
  8. Beto544X
    Sep 30, 2018
    7
    Its more of the same, the forza series is starting to get a bit old and repetitive. Its essentially Fh3 with slightly better graphics and seasons. Not much innovation, i loved Fh2, quickly got bored of fh3 as is was more of the same and that's the story here again.
  9. Antek
    Oct 27, 2019
    5
    Firstly, game is beautiful.
    But do not expect any kind of simulation here. Car handling with a steering wheel and FFB is out of this earth, even unplayable (tested on "simulation" difficulty).
    Thanks to xbox game pass I did not have to pay a full price for it. Going back to Diret Rally 2.
  10. OwtDaft
    May 2, 2019
    6
    + Discovered some great songs from this game.
    + Some times the game falls into place and you can have a really enjoyable race.
    +/- Graphics are pretty solid, though the games lighting looks dated and everywhere looks simlar. - The difficulty is painfully inconsistent, goes from way to easy to near impossible. - The game doesn't benefit from been open world as it hurts the games pace.    + Discovered some great songs from this game.
    + Some times the game falls into place and you can have a really enjoyable race.
    +/- Graphics are pretty solid, though the games lighting looks dated and everywhere looks simlar.
    - The difficulty is painfully inconsistent, goes from way to easy to near impossible.
    - The game doesn't benefit from been open world as it hurts the games pace.
    - Many of the vehicles handle like crap.
    - Annoying fighting your way up to 2nd only to find the car in 1st is way ahead and unpassable.
    - Game needed more landmarks to appear less repetitive.    … Expand
  11. ravihe
    Oct 8, 2018
    7
    The races feel good and similar to FH3.
    I didn't like the progression, it also doesn't "force" variety like 3 did, you can complete the whole game using the same few cars. It also feels shorter.
  12. Driftking24
    Aug 16, 2019
    5
    One big thing the creators need to add to fh4 is a 1998 toyota supra 2020 supra free dlc
  13. earbus
    Jun 20, 2020
    7
    Feel a bit burnt out by the series ,love normal Forza but find this game a bit of a chore now .The music sucks and festivals are a bit annoying shame it's not more like test drive unlimited 1 .Yet I am finding the crew 2 more fun.
  14. imt558
    Jan 3, 2020
    6
    Outside seasons and different map, game is pretty much Forza Horizon 3. Almost the same cars, same music. Car customization is the samey too. If you didn't played Forza Horizon 3, this game is almost perfect - 9.5/10. If you did, well, above average.

    Edit : i've edited review score because Lego add-on. :)
  15. xPREEMOx
    Nov 24, 2018
    7
    ONLINE RACERS BEWARE!

    Great game as far as cars, physics and things to do just like the previous Horizons but the online portion has been completely changed and for the worse if you ask me. There is no more Solo Online Adventure. There is no more driving to events in between each race. There is only Team Race Adventure. So you get put on a random team if you are playing by yourself    ONLINE RACERS BEWARE!

    Great game as far as cars, physics and things to do just like the previous Horizons but the online portion has been completely changed and for the worse if you ask me. There is no more Solo Online Adventure. There is no more driving to events in between each race. There is only Team Race Adventure. So you get put on a random team if you are playing by yourself and even if you win the race you can still lose overall if you don't have good teammates. But wait...there is more. There is no collisions off mode so prepare to be rammed into constantly by the other team and also your own team!!! It's extremely frustrating to be crashed into, corner bombed and pushed out of checkpoints over and over again. It's as if they made the multiplayer specifically for 12 year olds. I won't even play it anymore.

    Also there is NO OPEN CLASS RIVALS!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can only race rivals in the cars they give you or from a small pool of specific cars. Example B class off road buggies.

    Had I known all the things I loved about the Horizon series were going to be removed I would have never bought the Ultimate Edition of this game. Total waste of money.    … Expand
  16. Bakoluk
    Aug 31, 2021
    6
    Graphics 6/10
    Playability 7/10
    Entertainment 6/10
    Overall 6/10
    Good arcade racing. Graphics could be better and England is little boring location.
  17. R3D1
    Dec 11, 2018
    7
    Its a solid arcade style racing entry. I personally went from Horizon 2 to 4 and i have to say i enjoyed 2 more. I like the old rival system better. The visuals are beautiful but the trees are still old school sprites. I am unable to use my g920 to its' full potential in the game which i know other players are having the same problem. The whole weather system is a gimmick that i wasIts a solid arcade style racing entry. I personally went from Horizon 2 to 4 and i have to say i enjoyed 2 more. I like the old rival system better. The visuals are beautiful but the trees are still old school sprites. I am unable to use my g920 to its' full potential in the game which i know other players are having the same problem. The whole weather system is a gimmick that i was excited about until actually playing the game. Having clothes in the wheelspin was a poor choice. The tuning system is the same but somehow different so I am assuming that has to do with new physics? One more negative, somehow it seems like the AI drivers are more accident prone than FH2 but that might just be me.

    Don't get me wrong, i enjoy the game but it isn't up to par with the series. I just bought FH3 last night to replace FH4 if that tells you anything. I hope that one is more like FH2 than this one.    … Expand
  18. SrCre
    Mar 11, 2020
    7
    [ ] 10 :) Perfect
    [ ] 09 :) Awesome
    [x] 07 :/ Good
    [ ] 04 :/ Good Bad
    [ ] 00 :( Fail

    Não vejo necessidade em escrever um longo texto analisando uma arte, a nota é apenas um conselho para saber o quanto ela vale para sua vida.

    I see no need to write a long text analyzing an art, the note is just a piece of advice to know how much it is worth in your life.
  19. NxtDoc
    Jul 19, 2020
    6
    It seems Xbox is running their franchises into the ground. Forza Horizon 4's seasons miss the mark. They are fun but frustrating as they change once a couple weeks. So you if you didn't complete the previous seasons tasks then you must wait over a month for that season to return.


    Give your games a break so we can miss them.
  20. jhongams2014
    Oct 18, 2021
    6
    it is a fun game to play with friends but when you are on your own and once you complete all of the events it can get boring fast. the open world is nice but it is not all exciting, the one thing that I am glad about is that that don't have the whole token system that had in FH3.
  21. albericegames
    Feb 20, 2022
    7
    Jogo legal, porem muito repetitivo a Microsoft erra muito em falta de inovação nos games.

Awards & Rankings

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#3 Best Xbox One Game of 2018
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#4 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2018
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#5 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2018

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Universal acclaim - based on 88 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 88 out of 88
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 88
  3. Negative: 0 out of 88
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    100
    Again a little bit better and not because of continuity, but because of two years worth of obvious work. Thanks to that you can drown dozens or hundreds of hours racing on the ground that gave the world Jeremy Clarkson. And yeah, it has a couple of good cars too. [Issue#289]
  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Nov 21, 2018
    100
    This gorgeous, event-packed racer earns its place as a must-have for your Xbox. [Dec 2018, p.80]
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Nov 21, 2018
    90
    Forza Horizon 4 sets a new mark: from now on, any open-world racing game that doesn’t feature passing of the seasons will feel like it’s missing something very important both for immersion and variety. [Issue #233, p.50]
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