His arrival on Xbox Game Pass coincides with the premiere in a few weeks of Xbox Series. We tell you why it is worth rediscovering the title of Turn 10.
The arrival of Forza Motorsport 7 to Xbox Game Pass is not trivial. The title of Turn 10 Studios has become, now that we finish the current cycle of consoles, in the best simulation video game behind the wheel of the generation; despite the myriad improvements Gran Turismo Sport has undergone since its launch. FM7 is now available to everyone if we have Xbox Game Pass; both on console and on PC or mobile devices via streaming. But, let us make a recommendation: we have an appointment pending with Xbox Series X.
The improvements that come “standard” with Xbox Series X | S
One of the biggest problems of the cycle that is now ending – applicable to Forza Motorsport 7 and, by extension, to all exponents of the driving genre – has been loading times. Too much data, too much information for traditional hard drives, and long-lasting RAM. And it is precisely that one of the elemental changes that the new generation of consoles brings us, both Sony and Microsoft. In the case of the latter, things like Quick Resume, Auto HDR and SSD memory will bring the experience of the title today the protagonist closer to what back in 2013 we would have liked with One, that in 2017 it was tried with Xbox One X and, in practice, it was half achieved.
Forza Motorsport 7 | Comparison of loading times between Xbox One X and Xbox Series X
Because Forza 7 was the great standard-bearer of Project Scorpio that summer of 2017. What if 60 FPS, what if 4K resolution, dynamic weather … It is still spectacular to play it today, it has shed incomprehensible policies such as the controversial initial loot boxes that They played too incisive a role in the gameplay experience and has recovered (and improved) what Forza Mortorspot 6 did so well just a couple of years before: finding the balance between visually striking simcade with accessibility options for all audiences . An entry point for some and continuity for others.
Forza Motorsport 7 asks you 11 seconds to convince you
The initial barrier was broken down with assist options like ABS, Anytime Rewind, Guided Line, and other settings for stability and brakes. That bulk of the market that finds it too complex to enter the Assetto Corsa, Project CARS and even Gran Turismo, saw here an escape route where they can enjoy a perhaps excessively arcade design … despite its more simulation-focused driving.
We do not know why a video game from the Xbox Game Studios label has been made to beg for almost three years to join Xbox Game Pass together with the reference of the other side of the coin, which replaces the checkered flag with the flag of the open world and do Gala of the saying impossible is nothing, Forza Horizon 4, but it is already here. Those of us who are lovers of driving smile a little when we see videos like this one, where Salva Fernàndez compared the loading times between Xbox One X and Xbox Series X. Do you remember the 40 seconds of waiting to start a race? Now it will be 11. Do you remember that feeling of laziness from having to wait more than four minutes between opening the application, selecting mode and resuming an interrupted competition? With Quick Resume that will be summarized in… another 10 or 15 seconds. We are still not aware of the obvious change that SSDs are going to make in our gaming sessions, in quality of life details.
We have come to run, to feel the passion for the wheel that studios like Turn 10 Studios have impregnated in their projects with a creative vision so broad that it was fragmented into two tracks, the one that has its feet on the ground and the one that puts the earth upside down. With Auto HDR, despite not having a dedicated patch for Xbox Series X | S as Forza Horizon 4 will have on November 10, Forza 7 will look better on Xbox Series X than on Xbox One X. It remains to be seen how behaves in Series S.
Xbox Game Pass, an opening of doors to study how to design the future
Now is the time to give a try to the classic racing title that has best understood the public of the current generation of consoles, the one that wanted to be impressed technically without having to settle for YouTube videos because of its demands at the controls. In the new generation we will see, through this seventh numbered chapter of the series, only a preview of what will be the currently in development Forza Motorsport for Xbox Series, an apparent restart that must correct many things and, again, redirect the series whatever is necessary at the time. Far from being perfect, the defects of Forza 7 should serve the North American study to take note of the feedback from the community, which is truly the one that responds to that love for the pleasure of driving. The community is the first that wants a definitive experience, the one that wants snow, rain and sun to shine in the same race and that squeezes each delivery for years. Is the road a delivery every two years? Probably not.
We are in times where periodic injection doses of life end up empowering the whole. Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 4 or Gran Turismo Sport itself have shown that people can make a project profitable based on microtransactions, if they are fair, instead of having to change the entire organization chart; This includes starting from scratch, leaving progress behind, and control schemes that, in practice, change more than they seem. Xbox Series X | S needs a Forza that will last for years. How many? That’s hard to predict, but it’s not unreasonable to ask that it last — at least — four years. Apply changes along the way to improve and bring the experience closer to the definitive.
Forza Motorsport 7 on Xbox Game Pass is a declaration of intent. Now thousands (surely many hundreds of thousands) of players will download the game, share opinions and generate conversation. We wanted the new Forza to launch with the console this November and we won’t have it. As an aperitif, a Forza 7 vitamin is presented as that approach to what awaits us whenever the eighth is ready. Forza 7 only asks you 11 seconds to discover everything that awaits inside. The visit seems a must; the illusion for what will come next is palpable in the environment. If they blink they will miss it.
