Forza Horizon 3
Structure-wise, the game is still an open map that provides hundreds
of challenges each contributing toward your progress though the festival
rankings. This time, however, the player is the festival boss, deciding
when and where to set up new sites, tweaking event types and even
selecting the music. Through the new Horizon Blueprint option, you can
go in and customise each event, altering the route, the weather, the
time of day, the cars involved and any other restrictions. You can then
give your new variation a name and share it with friends. Playground has
also brought back the Bucket List mode, allowing you to create a custom
checklist of challenges to attempt and share. Playground reckons the
campaign is over 100 hours long, but if players start to build and
distribute their own events, that’s just the beginning.
Sharing, it turns out, is a key theme this time around. Forza Horizon
3 is a “Play Anywhere” title so it’ll be available on Xbox One and
Windows 10, allowing cross-play between friends on either platform.
There’s also a new four-payer campaign co-op option: “We’ve wanted to do
this from the beginning but now we can do it properly,” says Penrose.
“It’s ‘no ifs no buts’ co-op – everything you can do in the solo
campaign, you can do here. You can drop in and out, everything just
works.” It’s an interesting addition that’ll provide further impetus to
explore and progress, and vitally, anything you achieve while in co-op
is transferred over to solo play.
The drivatar system – which lets you locate and drive against AI
representations of your friends’ cars – has also been updated. A new
feature called Drivatar Line-Up lets you go out into the world, track
down your mates’ cars and recruit them to your festival as star drivers.
From that point, any achievements earned by your friends go toward your
own advancement as a festival boss. However, you only have four star
driver slots so if one of your choices isn’t performing up to scratch
you can sack them. Yes, in Forza Horizon 3 you can sack an artificially
intelligent version of a friend. This is gaming in 2016
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