Well, yesterday I somehow rediscovered that the Game Pass trial was for a fortnite rather than seven days so I caved like a spelunker and downloaded FH4 straight away.
For me, the original was an utter delight and a real surprise, possibly the last real home run MS knocked out for a new franchise. The sequel that followed was just brilliant in everyway, so good I did both 360 and XBO versions of the game. The third game was equally strong and if I had to levy one complaint against it I'd have to go with the setting feeling a little too similar to that of the second game.
Here we find ourselves at the expected fourth entry and after some diverting DLC for the last game, some ambition has gone into keeping the series moving as we hit the UK streets. I'm running it on PC where there's some tinkering needed, but the auto-detect system seems to do a good job of calibrating to your specs and 4K/60fps is in place. Purely from memory, the game looks great but so far not really much of a jump on the third game. Not an issue given the bar the series is at but don't go in expecting a quantum leap, we're too late gen for that now.
If I'm reading the info right, there's 70 events to work through and the game is structurally the same as previous games. I'm only 5 events in but so far it's the same mix of races across different on and off road types alongside some staged stunt events. The game moves at a fast pace and handles great as you'd expect, it also still sadly contains all the same Festival cutscene guff the franchise has never needed.
The chosen setting doesn't feel to me to be particularly giving off a UK vibe but it's different enough from the last two to feel fresh and I'm settling in nicely. I'm curious if they've added anything that feels completely fresh as there's still that vague air of it being iterative or an expansion in many ways - not that that diminishes what is likely to be a GOTY contender.
For me, the original was an utter delight and a real surprise, possibly the last real home run MS knocked out for a new franchise. The sequel that followed was just brilliant in everyway, so good I did both 360 and XBO versions of the game. The third game was equally strong and if I had to levy one complaint against it I'd have to go with the setting feeling a little too similar to that of the second game.
Here we find ourselves at the expected fourth entry and after some diverting DLC for the last game, some ambition has gone into keeping the series moving as we hit the UK streets. I'm running it on PC where there's some tinkering needed, but the auto-detect system seems to do a good job of calibrating to your specs and 4K/60fps is in place. Purely from memory, the game looks great but so far not really much of a jump on the third game. Not an issue given the bar the series is at but don't go in expecting a quantum leap, we're too late gen for that now.
If I'm reading the info right, there's 70 events to work through and the game is structurally the same as previous games. I'm only 5 events in but so far it's the same mix of races across different on and off road types alongside some staged stunt events. The game moves at a fast pace and handles great as you'd expect, it also still sadly contains all the same Festival cutscene guff the franchise has never needed.
The chosen setting doesn't feel to me to be particularly giving off a UK vibe but it's different enough from the last two to feel fresh and I'm settling in nicely. I'm curious if they've added anything that feels completely fresh as there's still that vague air of it being iterative or an expansion in many ways - not that that diminishes what is likely to be a GOTY contender.
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