Forza Horizon 3 caught my attention from the moment it was announced.
I've been playing Forza since it's first release on the Original Xbox and it become my racing game of choice. That said, I've always enjoyed more arcade-y, do whatever you want racers. When I saw the first Forza Horizon, I was very excited, though I ended up missing it. Forza Horizon 2 though, really caught my eye. The beautiful and huge open world amalgamation of France, Italy and Spain, combined with Forza's stunningly crafted cars and handling made Horizon 2 a blast!
So of course, when I saw Horizon 3, I knew I had to have it. Where the Forza Motorsports half of the series signature is hyper detailed tracks, cars and simulation handling; The Forza Horizon half of the series has really been building their reputation for bringing you to breath taking locales to explore in beautiful cars while bringing that festival energy to the game. Forza Horizon 2 really did this well, but I have to admit, Forza Horizon 3 has hit it out of the park.
Forza Horizon 3 is the first full next gen title in the series. By that I mean Forza Horizon 2 was developed partially on the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One. My point is, it shows. Horizon 3 has amazing vistas, from flying along the beach watching the beautiful sky in a Lamborghini, ripping through the city in a Viper, sliding along the valleys and hills of farmland in a Ford Raptor, monster trucking in rally trucks through the jungle and leaping over red desert mounds in the buggies, you get to rip across all kinds of landscapes in any vehicle you want. It all looks fantastic, there is plenty to see and do in Australia.
These are all improvements on the formula of first two Forza Horizons, but what's new? Well, this time around you get to choose from various(limited) player models to appear in your car and an alias for your number 1 to refer to you as throughout the game. Oh and you are the boss of the Horizon Festival, this is a major change to the formula. In this case, you get the choice to modify each championship via what cars that can be driven, the time of day, rain or sunshine and name it. This is a cool feature I enjoyed as you don't have to worry about getting stuck racing C grade hatchbacks, I dunno, that was always boring to me.
While it's a cool feature, I did feel like it didn't make as big an impact as I'd hoped story wise, but experience wise, it does make it a lot more fun to choose your own races. Or you can just go with the options presented as well. You also get to choose how your festivals grow. You can choose what regions to expand too and upgrade each festival. It's cool to unlock more races and see visible upgrades to the festival Zone.
There are now 'street races' that you can participate in to build up to Midnight Battles, basically a one on one race for slips. It's pretty fun. I will say, when choosing Extreme Off Road races, I didn't feel like the race tracks were designed quite as well as I'd hoped, to utilize to rugged terrain.
All in the, the base game is fantastic. The cars look great, the weather and rain is a great edition and looks fantastic. Land is filled with beautiful vistas to see and roads and areas to explore. The cars also definitely all feel and drive differently as well. One of my only dislikes is that in Horizon 2 you got to see and drive around with the festival boss and they interesting conversations. The festival mechanic was also in some cut scenes that were neat. While you hear your number 1 a lot, you never see her. You also only get to see the back of your mechanic who helps you with barn finds, I feel like it takes from their character and from it feeling like a general interactions.
Going to the expansions, Blizzard Mountain and Hot Wheels, they are both great additions. Blizzard Mountain features snow for the first time in the whole Forza series and its very impressive. Seeing your tires leave imprints in the snow is satisfying and of course all the challenges of handling in that terrain. The area is nice to look at as well.
Maybe one of the biggest changes the expansion introduces is a new system to how you score on races. A 3 star system is introduced and besides winning the race, there are two other objectives to complete during the races. Say you win the race, but to get the other two stars in that particular race you must drift into 20 poles and also reach 120 MPH during the race. These accumulative stars unlock more races, so completing the secondary objectives in the race becomes crucial.
It's sort of a nice changes up for the game play, though I feel like it was done better in the expansion following it. I found Blizzard Mountain difficult enough with out the added game play mechanic. Blizzard Mountain is definitely the hardest section on Horizon 3.
The Hot Wheels expansion really takes the arcade racing genre to a new level. The tracks are absolutely mind bending and racing on them is always exciting. While you would think that Hot Wheels tracks could never be graphically impressive, Playground Games has definitely proven that wrong. Each track piece has grooves running through them and the massive posts and metal that connects them is jaw dropping when viewed from a distance. When the track has the sun directly behind it, whether blue or orange, it glows through the plastic track impressively. At night, there are either lights on small posts or embedded in the wall of the track to light the way.
Meanwhile the islands that are conjoined by the tracks and the beautiful water below all look great. The only thing downside I found to it, is I didn't feel the cities were lively enough. There's two parts of the Expansion that should have people partying, one of which is a large island with skyscrapers. The island with Skyscrapers basically has no one there visible. Besides the amazing loop de loop, twisting and turning tracks, you also get Animatronic dinosaurs blotting the islands and a few cool Hot Wheels cars to race with. It is a Gem and personally I think it could have been a game all to itself.
I was able to purchase the base game from Amazon for about $35 brand new during a sale. I also bought the car pass and expansion pass at discounted prices as well on Xbox Live with the Gold Membership. Forza Horizon 3 is absolutely fantastic, it proves to be the pinnacle of arcade racing and racing in general. From highly customizable and upgrade-able beautifully detailed cars, to the amazing vistas and varied races on changing land, this game has almost everything you need to have a great game. It is a must own Xbox exclusive and must own racing game.
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- Forza Horizon 3 Standard Edition includes the full game and the Forza Hub App
- Explore Australia, the Horizon Festival's largest, most beautiful and diverse open world ever
- Be the boss of your own Horizon Festival. Customize every aspect of your game. Hire and fire friends to win you fans, or invite them to join in the all-new 4 player online campaign co-op
- Discover thrilling new driving gameplay like Danger Sign Jumps, Convoys, and Drift Zones
- Xbox One Console Exclusive
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Platform For Display:Xbox One | Edition:StandardManufacturer | Microsoft |
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Product Dimensions | 0.76 x 14.22 x 17.53 cm; 90.72 Grams |
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<P><B>This is your Horizon</B></P> <P>You're in charge of the Horizon Festival. Customize everything, hire and fire your friends, and explore Australia in over 350 of the world's greatest cars. Make your Horizon the ultimate celebration of cars, music, and freedom of the open road. How you get there is up to you.</P>
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The Listener
5.0 out of 5 stars
Forza Horizon 3 is absolutely fantastic, it proves to be the pinnacle of arcade racing and racing games in general.
5 September 2017 -
Published on Amazon.comPlatform For Display: Xbox OneEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
14 people found this helpful

Andy
1.0 out of 5 stars
Somebody has sticky fingers....
31 May 2020 -
Published on Amazon.comPlatform For Display: Xbox OneEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
...figuratively and literally. I bought this game for a family member during Christmas and since school is over they decided to try it out. Mind you, they were pretty damn excited to play it, but it was not to be. This game was, at least I initially thought so, factory sealed. When they removed the wrapping, they noticed a goober mark on the metal cover (gross). Then when they finally did open it, NO disc.
So, at the moment I am unable to give any feedback on the game, however, I imagine it's great, loads of fun, keeping one on one's edge of their seat, from the looks of the cover. I hope it is.
Anywho, I'm sure it's too late to do anything about it, Amazon, but I just thought I would let you know the situation.
So, at the moment I am unable to give any feedback on the game, however, I imagine it's great, loads of fun, keeping one on one's edge of their seat, from the looks of the cover. I hope it is.
Anywho, I'm sure it's too late to do anything about it, Amazon, but I just thought I would let you know the situation.

1.0 out of 5 stars
Somebody has sticky fingers....
Reviewed in the United States on 31 May 2020
...figuratively and literally. I bought this game for a family member during Christmas and since school is over they decided to try it out. Mind you, they were pretty damn excited to play it, but it was not to be. This game was, at least I initially thought so, factory sealed. When they removed the wrapping, they noticed a goober mark on the metal cover (gross). Then when they finally did open it, NO disc.Reviewed in the United States on 31 May 2020
So, at the moment I am unable to give any feedback on the game, however, I imagine it's great, loads of fun, keeping one on one's edge of their seat, from the looks of the cover. I hope it is.
Anywho, I'm sure it's too late to do anything about it, Amazon, but I just thought I would let you know the situation.
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5 people found this helpful

Michael Kerner
4.0 out of 5 stars
Open Microsoft Racer
13 December 2020 -
Published on Amazon.comPlatform For Display: Xbox OneEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
Hard to believe that it has been nearly 7 years since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One was released. Now, with all the hype around the upcoming Xbox Series S & X consoles, many are more eager to head into the next console. But for somebody like myself, whom just wanted to get their feet wet into a Microsoft Xbox console, I recently bought the Xbox One S and honestly, I think the console is catchy at the heart, with a few flaws. So, as somebody whom is a hard core racing game fan, for years with Nintendo and the Mario Kart franchise, which has never lost its luster, but just gotten better. So I decided to go to my first Xbox One racing game, with one many critics raved at for its strong and addictive gameplay. Many people have recommended the Forza racing series, and honestly my first Forza title does do a firm amount of justice to that.
Forza Horizon 3 is a game I was surprised at. The game continues the open-world excitement you got from Forza's previous Horizon titles. This game has you setup making your own Festivals in the heart of Australia, and recruit racers from all corners of the continent. The game features many different cars that really do test you from traditional fast & furious sports cars to burn rubber on, all the way to off-Road Dune Buggies and SUV's. There are a lot of challenges for you to master as well from drift racing to checkpoint rallies, street races with others to build your roster, all the way to handling stunt jump snapshot challenges. Graphically, the game looks amazing and the control is simple to maintain, once you get used to it, which took me a little longer than I thought, considered there were no print made instruction booklets for the game. The music also sounds good and handles from classical music, to techno. There are a few disadvantages to the game though. For one, you have to be online all the time to play the game. You cannot be offline in the process. Also, it would've also been nice if they did allow you to easily play through the levels where you could decide elements like weather and laps, for extra challenges.
While many people have claimed Forza Horizon 3 is the greatest racing game of all-time, it isn't. But nevertheless, I have a lot of fun playing the game, with its challenging races and off-road rugged terrain of the Barbary, Australian Coast. I do think there could've been a few things adjusted to make it more exciting, but if you love open-world racing games like Need For Speed and rally racing games like Dirt, than you will like this game a lot. This is a good game for your Xbox One and Xbox Series X.
Graphics: B+
Sound: B 1/2+
Control: B
Fun & Enjoyment: B 1/2+
Overall: B 1/2+
Forza Horizon 3 is a game I was surprised at. The game continues the open-world excitement you got from Forza's previous Horizon titles. This game has you setup making your own Festivals in the heart of Australia, and recruit racers from all corners of the continent. The game features many different cars that really do test you from traditional fast & furious sports cars to burn rubber on, all the way to off-Road Dune Buggies and SUV's. There are a lot of challenges for you to master as well from drift racing to checkpoint rallies, street races with others to build your roster, all the way to handling stunt jump snapshot challenges. Graphically, the game looks amazing and the control is simple to maintain, once you get used to it, which took me a little longer than I thought, considered there were no print made instruction booklets for the game. The music also sounds good and handles from classical music, to techno. There are a few disadvantages to the game though. For one, you have to be online all the time to play the game. You cannot be offline in the process. Also, it would've also been nice if they did allow you to easily play through the levels where you could decide elements like weather and laps, for extra challenges.
While many people have claimed Forza Horizon 3 is the greatest racing game of all-time, it isn't. But nevertheless, I have a lot of fun playing the game, with its challenging races and off-road rugged terrain of the Barbary, Australian Coast. I do think there could've been a few things adjusted to make it more exciting, but if you love open-world racing games like Need For Speed and rally racing games like Dirt, than you will like this game a lot. This is a good game for your Xbox One and Xbox Series X.
Graphics: B+
Sound: B 1/2+
Control: B
Fun & Enjoyment: B 1/2+
Overall: B 1/2+
3 people found this helpful

Sharkmarina
5.0 out of 5 stars
Horizon 3
18 February 2017 -
Published on Amazon.comPlatform For Display: Xbox OneEdition: StandardVerified Purchase
Super fun game. One of my favorites. Not complicated but challenging and multi faceted. The game makes you drive an array of different cars and winning the races takes skill. Fun searching for the "barn finds" where you are rewarded with special cars that are later restored for you to drive. With all cars acquired, you pick the paint jobs and modifications. There is also the auto-tune route you can go if you know nothing about modifying cars for racing. Its way fun.
8 people found this helpful