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Editor's note: We've only recently taken receipt of final retail code for Forza Motorsport 7, so our review will be with you early next week. Before then, here's some early impressions culled from a couple of hours' play. Forza Motorsport isn't exactly showing its age - even if that '7' at the end of the latest title displays a seniority that few other series have ever enjoyed - but it's been around long enough to be considered a grand old dame of driving games. This isn't the spunky young upstart anymore, and now - three games into its tenure on Xbox One - it doesn't feel like it's got that much left to prove. It's a brilliant, varied and polished driving experience, and Forza Motorsport 7, as you may well expect from an iterative series, is possibly the best it's ever been.
And it's doing something that no other driving game really does anymore. Gran Turismo Sport looks to have moved on to focus on the more competitive element of its game - or, if you want to be a bit less charitable, has narrowed the series' once sweeping focus in order for Polyphony Digital to make its long overdue debut on PlayStation 4 - while Project Cars 2 puts an emphasis on the motorsport part of the equation. In Forza Motorsport 7, it's still perfectly possible to take a regular sedan and trick it out until it's an ungodly beast, and it's all the better for it.
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