I was excited to hear about the Forza 7 demo going live yesterday and I downloaded it the moment I got home. I have a long standing love for the Forza series for some reason I don't quite understand.
Sadly this demo is a huge 22GB file of barebones nothing. It's three stand alone races that really don't do anything different from Forza 6, and I fear the game is becoming iterative. The first 4 Forza games had genuinely interesting and fun progressive career modes, where you start with lowly D class cars through a ton of events and locations, working your way into powerful S Class cars doing 220MPH.
Since the Xbone though, the campaigns have been haphazard at best. Both 5 and 6 have had pointless campaigns that offered no real sense of accomplishment or progression. In both those games you get into Ferrari's really really quickly.
Now while I can't say for sure with Forza 7, I can say the demo is there to show off weather effects more than anything else and on my high powered gaming PC the load times were incredibly long. In fact, one of the races where you race in a lightning storm took longer to load that to actually do the full two lap race! What the fuck is that shit?
While the game ran 50-60fps easily throughout the race, I noticed that the AI cars drive like they aren't attached to the road. It's like the AI car models shift side to side and when they turn, they are very blocky about it. It is really jarring to watch especially since your car feels great, sticking and clinging to the road. Hopefully that gets worked out.
All in all, I may have to wait until I see some reviews and gameplay on Forza 7. I need to see the optimization fixed because 5 minute load times are utterly unacceptable, the shitty AI cars on the road need to be fixed, and I need to see what the campaign mode looks like because I need to see something that will motivate me to go from race to race.
Sadly this demo is a huge 22GB file of barebones nothing. It's three stand alone races that really don't do anything different from Forza 6, and I fear the game is becoming iterative. The first 4 Forza games had genuinely interesting and fun progressive career modes, where you start with lowly D class cars through a ton of events and locations, working your way into powerful S Class cars doing 220MPH.
Since the Xbone though, the campaigns have been haphazard at best. Both 5 and 6 have had pointless campaigns that offered no real sense of accomplishment or progression. In both those games you get into Ferrari's really really quickly.
Now while I can't say for sure with Forza 7, I can say the demo is there to show off weather effects more than anything else and on my high powered gaming PC the load times were incredibly long. In fact, one of the races where you race in a lightning storm took longer to load that to actually do the full two lap race! What the fuck is that shit?
While the game ran 50-60fps easily throughout the race, I noticed that the AI cars drive like they aren't attached to the road. It's like the AI car models shift side to side and when they turn, they are very blocky about it. It is really jarring to watch especially since your car feels great, sticking and clinging to the road. Hopefully that gets worked out.
All in all, I may have to wait until I see some reviews and gameplay on Forza 7. I need to see the optimization fixed because 5 minute load times are utterly unacceptable, the shitty AI cars on the road need to be fixed, and I need to see what the campaign mode looks like because I need to see something that will motivate me to go from race to race.
