
They’re translucent, too just watch how stretches of track arcing into the sky glow orange and blue as the sun beats down on them from behind. During the day the sunlight picks up the scuffs on the giant plastic tracks. The world itself is larger than Blizzard Mountain and even more stunning. For those of you who like to hoon around with minimal driving aids, prepare for the stress of wrestling a rear-wheel drive monster back under control while you’re bouncing off the limiter after a boost pad sent you to top speed like a Scud missile with seats and a steering wheel. Executing a loop-the-loop in a Forza game will be a very foreign experience for series veterans, but the semi-realistic handling model remains unaltered.

It’s fun racing, cut from the same cloth as Trackmania Turbo and GTA Online’s stunt races, that nonetheless retains Forza’s driving feel.

Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels takes Forza’s very familiar physics and forces us to use them to survive a wild world engineered inside the mind of an eight-year-old child.
