

So, as with some of the other entries, scouring the second-hand market for cheap copies of the game isn't difficult to do, especially seeing as the game came with many special-edition versions of the XBox 360.įrom the universe of XBox 360, to the previous generation of PlayStation 2, Gran Turismo 4 provides a great idea of exactly what the PlayStation was able to perform in terms of games: Unlike the Forza franchise, the Gran Turismo games were beginning to differentiate from one another, and the release of Gran Turismo 4 examplified this. The game can be hard to come by for any modern consoles.

The many cars, coupled with the modification opportunities, makes this game the perfect time-sinker while working from home! The costumisation features of the Forza franchise remain some of the most elaborate in terms of aesthetics, maintaining a simple and powerful livery system, as well as a large host of licensed wheels, body kits and other visual modifications. It's also the last version of Forza Motorsport before Forza Horizon debutted, and before the franchise moved entirely to XBox One. While Motorsport 4 does feel a lot like Motorsport 3, new features, upgrades to graphics and physics as well as the implementation and affiliation with Top Gear, meant that Forza Motorsport 4 was a fitting poster-game for the final stage of the XBox 360s lifespan. Many have described the games as copy/paste, but forget to include the improvements that were made between versions.

Many cars of the newer cars are repurposed models from this one and previous versions, which tells about the sheer success of the game. Whether they know it or not, many players of more recent Forza games owe their tribute to the 4th iteration. To be certain, getting an XBox 360 and buying the disc off the second-hand market may be your best bet. For PC gamers, Steam-key websites like G2A.com offer a key, but this obviously doesn't guarentee that it'll still run. Since the game has been taken off the Steam store, picking up this digital piece of open-world history could prove itself a little tricky. However for most, especially among the younger audience, the sheer amount of features, such as visiting houses and car dealerships, far outweighed the issues that could be run into. The games reception was somewhat lukewarm, with some quirks and glitches taking a fair bit of the overall experience away. Being an open-world game, it sort of landed half-way in-between the Need for Speed segment and the Gran Turismo segment, making it sort of a fore-runner for the Forza Horizon series. The first one was good, sure, but the second one added an entirely new island, as well as graphical and physical improvements. The second iteration of the Test Drive Unlimited games was by far my favourite.
