A big part of today's Forza Monthly livestream was dedicated to the upcoming Forza Motorsport - right after we got confirmation of the official launch date during the Xbox Games Showcase. While the showcase trailer was brief, today's look features over 10 minutes of footage showing off the brand-new career mode.
It sounds like Turn 10 is going all-in on progressing from cheaper, slower cars right up to the biggest, baddest hypercars you can imagine. The team says it's heard from fans that they want this sort of long-haul progression in racing games - it's very much a core piece of the new Forza Motorsport.
That design philosophy extends to car levels as well. Each car has its own progression system, and a new on-track sector mechanic helps you level up faster. The courses will be cut up into segments that track your times and how good your driving is - do well on these segments and your car will rank up even more quickly. Turn 10 even cracked out the 'CARPG' term in describing Forza's new career progression.
You can tweak lots of Forza Motorsport under-the-hood as well, adding to the game's RPG-like feel. The team has overhauled the upgrade system in the new title, with plenty of new manual and automatic upgrade options that'll allow racers to tune and customise to their hearts' content.
In terms of the actual racing itself, the dev also touched on its vastly improved physics and AI systems during the latter half of the video, which you can catch up above in the extended gameplay sections. It's all looking and sounding pretty good to us!
However, you will have to make sure that you're always logged in online to enjoy this new Forza Motorsport career mode. The team confirmed this and some of its DLC plans during today's livestream event.
Do you like the look of this new career mode for Forza Motorsport? Drop your thoughts at the finish line down below!
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This is looking really good, I've always preferred Gran Turismo's progression to Forza's but this looks to be addressing that balance and between this and Starfield it looks like I'll be gaming mainly on Xbox later this year
I'm happy to hear that there's none of the stupid monetisation like on GT7 that really pissed me off but I'm not sure about this Car-RPG thing. Sounds weird but I have to see and maybe play it more first...
I really hope this is the game I’ve been waiting for for years. I’ve always only had PlayStations until a few months ago, when I bought a Series X next to my PS5. I kinda liked FH5, but was done with it rather quickly because arcade racers never hold my attention for long.
If this a sim racer like Gran Turismo 7 BUT with actually a solid single player mode I couldn’t be more happy.
@BRT15 It sounds like most car games I've played over the years. Start with a junker > get better cars until you get the super cars then they start selling you more stuff. They will sell separate tuned version of the same cars that will wipe the deck with the standards online.
Can't wait to sink a few hundred hours into this one! Looks spectacular
Always logged on to play a solo player mode. Ugh.
It’s so not necessary!
@Stocksy unfortunate trend on most games on all formats now sadly.
Odd as some solo players prefer it entirely solo ie offline.
Looks good. Good format. I like the D to A class cars. Working them up. Love Hot Hatch 🐣
Who cares, the game is going to be always-online so it's just a joke anyways. My hype for this game is gone. Way to ruin everything Turn 10. They suck.
It reminds me of older racing games so that's good. It's too bad about the online requirement.
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