The game looked great and more importantly, felt great to play. I tried the game on a laptop with a 960m and a 980m and the performance was buttery smooth on both at 1080p resolution and high settings.īut I’m just nit-picking. That said, the game ran beautifully on PC. Some of these performance issues may be ironed out by launch tomorrow. Bear in mind that this is pre-release code. There was a lot of texture pop-in over long distances and frame-rates would crash every time motion blur would rear its head on the Xbox. The graphics on the Xbox One version were admittedly of lower quality than on the PC version, however. I played the game on an Xbox One and a couple of laptops and in both cases, the graphics looked stellar. The preview dropped me into the driver’s seat of a Lamborghini Centenario and let me loose on Forza’s version of Australia. While I don’t mind playing Need for Speed from time to time (Who can forget the ' target='_blank" data-type="undefined" target="_blank"> original Most Wanted?), I’d rather be playing Assetto Corsa, iRacing or even Project Cars.įorza Horizon 3, on the surface, seemed like a mix of Test Drive Unlimited and the newer Most Wanted. I’ve always been a fan of all racing games, but I’ve got a soft spot for the sim-racing variety. This was the first game in a long time to reignite my interest in open-world racing games.

I got my hands on a pre-release copy of Forza Horizon 3, and it is impressive.