The Xbox racing sim series is transitioning to a live service model, and after getting hands on with the game, my excitement for Forza Motorsport has been restored.
22.08.2023 - 22:31 / pcgamer.com
Back in January, Turn 10 presented us with the traditional listing of the Granular Technical Advancements™ coming in Forza Motorsport. It was an impressive rundown of things like «a fully procedural cloud system,» car paint «sourced using a spectrophotometer» which frankly sounds like a gizmo that gets wheeled out during one of those silly ghost-hunting shows, and the pièce de résistance, «hardware accelerated convolution reverb [that] accurately reproduces how sounds in Forza interact within an acoustic space.»
(All kidding aside, «convolution reverb» is actually a real thing, which I know because Tyler looked it up.)
What Turn 10 did not say at that time was what sort of hardware you'd need to actually take advantage of all these modern new wonders, but today that oversight has been rectified. The studio has revealed the full PC system requirements for Forza Motorsport, along with various other bits and bobs that players have to look forward to.
It's probably not surprising that the hardware requirements for the new Forza are pretty steep. The minimum specification is relatively midrange, although the storage requirement—130GB of SSD space—is an eye-popper. But assuming you don't want to play a Forza game at the minimum settings (and I'm pretty sure you don't), you're going to need some heavier hardware, because the specs ramp up pretty quickly.
Here's the full breakdown:
Forza Motorsport is set to go live on Steam on October 10, but in what's become something of a new tradition, anyone who springs for the Forza Motorsport premium edition—which includes the base game, the Race Day Car Pack, the Car Pass, VIP Membership (a separate package of rewards and boosts including a permanent 2x credits boost), and the Welcome Pack—or the Premium Add-Ons Bundle can start playing five days early, on October 5.
The Xbox racing sim series is transitioning to a live service model, and after getting hands on with the game, my excitement for Forza Motorsport has been restored.
Fans of the Forza Motorsport franchise should prepare for the next mainline installment. The new game just dropped today on the official Forza YouTube channel. Here, we’re getting a look at a couple of race tracks before diving a bit more into starting off your actual racing career. With nearly twenty minutes of footage, there’s enough here to check out to prepare you a little more before the development team unleashes their next racing installment into the public.
The new Forza Motorsport races our way in less than a month, and while the game may not be quite as big as Starfield, it definitely shouldn’t be overlooked by Xbox fans. A new round of info, previews, and footage has gone out today, and Turn 10 Studios’ latest is certainly looking impressive. First up, let’s check out a healthy chunk of new Forza Motorsport gameplay, showing off the rebuilt Maple Valley and Hakone Circuit, as well as the brand-new Grand Oak Raceway. Check it out for yourself, below.
It’s been six years since the last Forza Motorsport game. The circuit-racing series has been on extended hiatus while the shop was more than ably minded by its knockabout cousin Forza Horizon, an open-world spinoff so exuberant and fun that it became the main event. In the meantime, Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios has been rebuilding its technology for a new hardware generation and reconsidering the structure of its racing action, which spent much of the Xbox One era bogged down in a mess of loot boxes and overdeveloped live-service progression systems.
It’s been six years since Forza Motorsport 7 was released, and a fraction under two years since it was delisted. That’s right; it’s been over 725 days since you could buy a Forza Motorsport game this side of the second-hand market. Fortunately, that’s about to change next month – but ahead of the much-anticipated launch of Forza Motorsport on PC and Xbox Series X|S consoles on October 10, 2023 we’ve finally been able to get behind the wheel. Unsurprisingly, it does look and feel fabulous – but it’s the more thoughtful tweaks to the moment-to-moment racing out on track that have me the most interested.
Hands-on impressions for Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Motorsport are coming on September 11th, but that’s not all. The developer has announced the next edition of the Forza Monthly livestream for the same date at 9 AM PDT. There are no further details, but perhaps we’ll see more of the +100 new cars in action.
Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Motorsport has received new gameplay videos lately, showcasing the various in-game tracks, with the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course recently revealed. However, more details are coming next week via some new hands-on impressions.
Turn 10 Studios continues its rollout of details on Forza Motorsport as we draw closer to racing sim’s launch a little over a month from now, and the developer has revealed another new track that will be available in the game upon its release.
With the clock clicking down to the launch of Forza Motorsport about a month and a half from now, Turn 10 Studios has revealed several tracks that will be featured in the racing sim over recent weeks, including the likes of Road America, Maple Valley Raceway, Suzuka Circuit, Nürburgring GP, and a new introduction in Grand Oak Raceway. Now, a couple more tracks have been revealed for the game.
When I saw Forza Motorsport at Summer of Gaming a couple of months ago, I came away a little disappointed. Forza’s pedigree of having some of the most gorgeous visuals of any racing game is well known, and while the latest iteration of Motorsport undoubtedly looked good, it lacked polish at the time. So as a long-time Forza fan I’m pleased to say that Turn 10 has done a lot of work and after a behind-closed-doors demo at gamescom showing the game on the Xbox Series X, I walked away happy. Forza is definitely on track.
Forza Motorsport will feature 20 tracks at launch, a number of which have been revealed by developer Turn 10 Studios in the lead up to the racing sim’s launch, from returning favourites like Road America, Maple Valley Raceway, and Suzuka Circuit, to new introductions like the Grand Oak Raceway.
True to the traditions of the franchise, the upcoming Forza Motorsport is once again looking to push the envelope with its visual and technical achievements, which is why it comes as no surprise that the system requirements for its PC version are quite steep, even if you choose to play on the lowest settings.