
Pulling up at the festival tent and choosing your first car via two different takes on the car selection screen, we also see that the high-end vehicle modelling utilised by each version of the game is also very close to like-for-like. But could the Xbox 360 version stand up to Digital Foundry scrutiny? Loading up the Xbox 360 code and replicating that initial road trip to the Horizon festival in the Lamborghini Huracan shows Sumo Digital's work at its best - the initial blast through the coastal town of Castelletto reveals clear compromise, but the spirit of the experience is uncannily similar to the Xbox One title. When pre-release video eventually emerged on YouTube last week, initial impressions looked positive - against all odds, UK-based Sumo Digital appeared to have handed in a phenomenally close conversion. Could this remarkable achievement really translate across to the vintage 2005 Xbox 360 hardware? Forza Horizon 2 on Xbox One is a highlight of the new console era: a phenomenal package of state-of-the-art rendering technology, open-world gameplay and a brilliant driving simulation melded into an outstanding arcade-style racer. The company sold more than a million copies of Sea of Thieves on Steam in the space of around six weeks.Now this is the last-gen conversion - or HD demaster, if you like - that we wanted to see. The storefront gives Microsoft another way to reach PC players and it's proven to be a successful strategy. Microsoft has brought several of its games to Steam over the last few years, including Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Sea of Thieves and Gears 5. You can also hop into some of 007's most famous rides with the Best of Bond Car Pack and look forward to the upcoming Hot Wheels Legends Car Pack. Steam players can buy expansions and add-ons for the game, including Fortune Island and Lego-themed DLC.

While this doesn't mark the game's debut on PC (you can buy it through the Xbox app or play it with Game Pass), it offers another way for gamers to get behind the virtual wheel.įorza Horizon 4 includes cross-play, so you can race against friends on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and other devices via xCloud streaming. Xbox Game Studios will release Forza Horizon 4 on the platform on March 9th. The Forza franchise is speeding onto Steam for the first time next month.
