Impressive colors, and lighting makes every season pop off the screen and feel so lifelike, better than lifelike even.

Every season and track is incredible looking. While the dream would be 4K and 60 FPS, you will have the option to go one or the other at least. There will be few games that run as well as Forza Horizon 4, and look as good as it does when it releases in the fall. The Xbox One X, still the undisputed champion when it comes to home console graphics, heightens what was already an impressive looking series of games into the stratosphere. When all put together into one long track like it was, it made for a unique challenge that I hadn’t experienced before. The spring section had me racing alongside a team of bikers through an off-road track, and as you would expect, I navigated bumpy roads, and impromptu ramps and tight pathways. Horizon 4 is an arcade racer, so you can get away with ignoring the break on some tracks, except when you’re in winter. Winter forces you to navigate a snowy track that punished over aggressive driving. Fall and summer were easy on the eyes with bright vibrant colors and tracks that allowed for extremely high speeds. The demo we played was one long stretch of races that transitioned between all four seasons.

I love that Horizon 4 is going to take the uniqueness of each season and incorporate it heavily into the game’s world, and design. And, in the same breath, when it’s July and it’s 100 degrees out and humid, I’m living in my AC’d bedroom until the sweet cool air of fall finally returns. I love the first snowfall of winter, but when it’s all mud by April, I can’t wait for spring and summer to melt it all away. I’m a New Yorker that cherishes the change in the seasons. The big hook this year is the varied seasons of Britain.

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