DO NOT BUY Forza Motorsport - Very Disappointing

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Forza Motorsport, and as an avid fan of

Forza games and racing games in general,

I knew I just had to play this game.

Unfortunately, so far it's been kind of

bland, boring, and uninspired. And

compared to the previous Forza game,

Forza Horizon 5, this addition to the

Forza series just comes across as kind of

lacking in luster. So they've taken a very

different approach in this game compared

to the previous Forza game. In Forza

Horizon 5, it was like an open-world game

with a story and missions, and your

character kind of had a personality and a

goal. In Forza Horizon 5, you really felt

like you were following in the footsteps

of this ambitious, energetic person who

wants to make his name in the racing

scene, and it just felt more vibrant and

colorful as a game. Compared to that,

they've kind of stripped down the bare

essentials of the racing game in Forza

Motorsport to just the bare-bones

mechanics of racing and improving your

car. And they've gotten rid of all of the

other fluff. Now, I don't know if you

would like that more and you just want the

game to focus on the racing and the

driving, but I find it kind of dull. So

after you get through all of the tedious

tutorials and cutscenes, which you can't

really skip, and all the hand-holding,

which you can't skip either, it took hours

to eventually get into the main meat of

the game. It's really frustrating. You get

to start doing races, and when you win a

race, you earn money and points. And using

these points and money, you can use it to

upgrade your car. And the fine-tuning and

the customization of the car's parts and

engines, braking, suspension, all that

kind of stuff, is very intricate and very

in-depth. But if you don't really know

much about cars and you don't really care

about fine-tuning your car, you'll find

that this stuff kind of just goes straight

over your head and it's just very boring.

For example, you can tweak the braking and

the suspension to improve the car by like

0.1%, and you don't even notice it when

you're racing the car. It basically feels

exactly as if nothing has changed. The

gameplay is extremely basic. You've got

this on-screen line, like a load of arrows

in a line, which helps guide you through

corners in the most efficient way. And it

also changes color from blue to yellow to

red depending on how fast you're going.

So if you're going too fast, it'll be red,

and then if you start braking, it'll start

going green to tell you that you are now

traveling at the right speed to take the

corner. So basically all you have to do is

keep your eye on this line and then brake

when it's red and accelerate when it

starts to go green, so you're braking at

the right time and accelerating at the

right time. It just really feels like

you're being handheld throughout the game,

and the game can be entirely played with

just 3 buttons. Well, actually 4— WASD.

You don't even need your right hand to be

able to play this game. I just sit here

with my left hand on WASD, but I guess a

lot of people will be using controllers or

steering wheels. But as someone who only

has a keyboard and mouse, you don't really

have much to do with your hands. You just

press W to go forwards, you press S to go

backwards, and And you press A and D to go

left and right. There's no handbrake

turning or handbrake drifting or that kind

of stuff. There's not really much for you

to do. You just basically hold down W and

then press S when you need to slow down.

It feels very basic. I mean, Mario Kart 8

had more things to do, and that's just

like a kids arcade racer game. The

optimization of the game is also really

bad. I'm running an RTX 3060 with an Intel

i7 10th generation, which is a pretty good

computer. But this game just really

struggles to run at any good frame rates.

I had to turn all the graphics down to

super low and put DLSS on ultra

performance to be able to get the game to

play somewhat smoothly. But even then,

the game's not entirely smooth and it's

kind of laggy and stuttery. And I just

don't understand why, because the game is

not exactly like this massive sprawling

open world. It's just like small

racetracks with a couple cars on it with

some scenery. I don't know why this is

making my system struggle. But it is, and

it's really frustrating. The game's also

really frustrating because before you

start an actual race, it forces you to do

like a practice lap, and you have to do

like 2 or 3 practice laps around the

entire track before you can actually do

the actual race, which is really annoying.

I don't want to do practice lap, but it

makes you do it, and it takes ages to

finish the practice lap. I just want to do

the main race and get my money and have

like a proper competition, not just racing

around the track by myself for no reason

apart from to get experience and to learn

how the track works. But I don't really

want to learn how the track works. I just

want to jump in and then see what it's

like. The cars also handle really badly.

I don't know why. They, they seem to

struggle to turn very well when they're

going very fast. It's not like GTA or

Cyberpunk where you can do like a quick

turn or do like a handbrake turn and skid

around all over the place and you feel

really maneuverable. The cars in this game

feel like they're massive blocks of ice

sliding around on an ice rink or a lake of

ice, and the turning and the mobility of

the cars in this game feels really weird.

It's like you're not really going very

fast, maybe 30-40 miles per hour, and then

you're trying to do a turn, but the car

just won't turn at all until you really

hit the brakes hard and slow right down

until it feels like you're barely moving

at all. It just makes the game feel not

very responsive, kind of sluggish, and the

cars don't look very good. There's no real

on-screen real-time damage to the cars.

The cars do take damage, like if you hit

things, you do have like steering or

handling problems because they get

damaged, but you don't see any of the

damage on the body of the car. Like, you

can crash into the other cars on the track

and nothing happens. There's no bonnets

flying off or real-time damage. And older

games from like 2010 or '15 have real-time

damage where parts of the body of the car

fly off or get damaged and bent. And I

don't see why this game can't have that.

It just makes it seem kind of unrealistic.

The realism and the immersion kind of gets

ruined when there's no such thing as

on-screen real-time damage. So

unfortunately, I can't really recommend

this game, and I have to give it 6.2 out