

It was hard for me not to laugh a little in the opening minutes as I was being told about the Horizon event and my goal to be the number one car racer in the U.K while my goofy avatar stood there nodding along with a stare off into the distance.
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The character models you have to represent you in-game (even if we all know it’s really about how to fly your car looks) are distractingly plastic. However you choose to play Forza Horizon 4 is the right way, and that’s fantastic.

You constantly feel like you’re achieving something no matter what you’re doing in Horizon 4 as no matter what you're doing, even spending fifteen minutes searching an area for a hidden barn, it will get you experience and help build your overall Influence. These tiers level up from different things including completing street racing, dirt racing, story missions, drift challenges, or getting collectibles and even watching and streaming on Mixer. You can also get Influence points in the many different tiers available in Forza Horizon 4. In those opening prologue hours you’ll probably accrue a nice credit amount and, hopefully, some good cars from Wheelspins which, like previous games, you get as rewards for levelling up as a player. If you did want to rush through the prologue, it’s probably about an hour to finish each season. Don’t feel the need to rush the prologue though, it took me about 8 hours to make it through the four seasons, but I was enjoying a lot of it and making the most of each given once you’re onto the live server, you can’t change the seasons in the world as you wish. The prologue for Forza Horizon 4 has you spend some time in each season before eventually you’re moved into the server with everyone else, and that’s where the season’s change only weekly, every Friday at 12.30 AM AEST. A track can feel completely different in each season you race a mountain climb in Summer is a fun dirt rally, but in Winter it’s a dangerous slippery climb of death requiring, of course, a completely different car or tuning for your vehicle. The seasonal changes haven’t been over-hyped as the main feature in Forza Horizon 4, they’re truly game-changing.
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Set in the semi-fictionalized United Kingdom with a dynamic seasons system, Forza Horizon 4 quickly gets you excited for its world by letting you feel the burning rubber in Summer blowing through a road full of leaves in Autumn making your way over a now-frozen lake in Winter, and seeing plant life and farmland starting to grow in Spring. Forza Horizon 4 is often ridiculously silly at times, but still a meticulous car racer when it comes to its motor vehicles. After a moment taking in this beautiful sight, I proceeded to do a street race, a drift challenge, before quickly making my way back to the historical castle with the real players occupying my world to take place in a Forzathon event.
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I let loose with my horn which just so happens to be the Windows XP shutdown noise and then as the camera panned around the beauty of the old castle, I stood, doing the Hotline Bling dance. In my 1997 Nissan Skyline, I had designed to look like Brian O’Conner’s from 2 Fast 2 Furious, I pulled up to Bamburgh Castle with a full suit and tie on.
