(Its more mature Forza Motorsport sister series caters a bit more to the sim-racer crowd.) There's so much more to Horizon than just racing. If you want to wheel all manner of automotive esoterica around a super scenic and highly content-dense game world, you could do worse than Forza Horizon 4.įorza Horizon is a series of Xbox racing games, but I wouldn't call them racing sims. It's a great time and I highly recommend it.

Since recently rediscovering this game on Steam, I've been finding myself more and more willing to get lost in its sun-baked hellscape, with nothing but the atonal roar of a big, uncorked V8 for company. It also offers up tons of character and - more importantly - car customization. It's from this last film that my favorite modern car game, 2015's Mad Max, takes its inspiration.Īs with any Mad Max property, the game is packed with dangerous, rusty, fire-spitting hulks barreling through desert wastelands at high speed, as well as wild fistfights, insane characters (Scabrous Scrotus, Stank Gum or Pink Eye, anyone?) and a weirdly engaging (if not super original) story.

The Mad Max movies are pretty much unassailably cool, especially the most recent installment, Mad Max: Fury Road.

It's not a brilliant game in many ways, but for sheer guzzolene-fueled, post-apocalyptic mayhem, Mad Max is hard to beat.

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