Forza Horizon 3 – Xbox One

I am a bit late to the game with Forza 3 Horizon. I purchased it this last Black Friday, but just havent gotten around to playing it until this last week. One of the reasons I finally got motivated to play it was the Hot Wheels addition was coming out within the week and it looked absolutely amazing. Its important to note that Im a professional photographer (architectural photographer) and taking screenshots has become one of my favorite aspects of modern gaming. The reason I mention this is because Forza Horizon 3 has the single best photo mode I have seen to date in a videogame. I run a few screenshot clubs on XBox, and belong to many more, and I kept seeing all these amazing screenshots coming out of Forza 3 Horizon that had nothing to do with racing. Architectural shots, people shots, animal shots and most importantly, stunning landscape shots. I didnt understand how such a wide range of screenshots were being taken in what was ultimately a racing game...until I finally played it. Once in photo mode you can literally travel 50-60 car lengths away from the car in any direction, which gives one the ability to take screenshots of just about any content that is in the game. You can adjust the color (I love desaturated color shots), shoot B&W, and it even has a sepia option. You can tilt in any direction including left and right, and it even lists the numeric value for the level of tiliting. You can adjust the shutter rate, aperture, and can zoom in and out to a significant degree. Zooming all the way out gives one a super wide angle look and the amount you can zoom in is pretty stunning. And everything retains the amazing detail no matter how far you zoom in or out. I would estimate that its equivalent to a roughy 24mm to well over 300mm lens. You combine all of these different abilities with an amazing Austrailian landscape that includes both the outback and cities and the possibilities for amazing screenshots is really endless. And you can enter photo mode at any point in time by pressing a button. Honestly, given how much I love taking screenshots, I could literally spend months playing this game doing nothing but taking screenshots.

This is a fun game for those not into hardcore sims. Amazing graphics. But if you want realism Id recommend Dirt Rally over this.

Preordered this game. Love the game, awesome fun. The game is a totally destroyed by its co distant crashing. Youll be so pissed of when youre in a long race and the game reboots and ALL your progress is gone. No update has fixed this issue. I managed the crashing by periodically shutting down the game and resetting the cache. This helped spread out the crashes with this game. I was so pissed off I finally called XBOX and demanded a refund. Which the gave me. The game could have been awesome if not for the crashing.

Great game.

Awesome

Great game - son loves!

Great game! Somehow I got $10 off on purchase from Amazon too. I was not expecting that and it wouldve been worth full price. Showed up day of release

love this game!!!

Awesome graphics and fun game

Exactly what I ordered, on time at a great price!