I was hoping for a fun gaming experience in the, Forza Horizon 3 racing world. But what I found instead of fun was frustration. This game consistently crashes, the frame rate drops and lags, opponents will respawn in different parts of the track during a race, turn 10 is banning its players for no...

Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.

Forza Horizon 3 developed by Microsoft and released on Sept. 27, 2016. Its currently one of my best racing games I got in my games rack of Xbox One S. I was recommended to play this game by my friends and none of them were speaking out any mistakes in Forza Horizon 3.

Good physics; Environment is quite realisitc

Unnecessary drifting

Forza Horizon 2 was one of the greatest driving games of all time, combining the tight, physical and tactile control scheme from Forza Motorsport 5 with a fantastic open world which was as varied as it was beautiful. It was filled to the brim with the pure joy of driving.

By rights, Forza Horizon should be the poor cousin of Microsoft's driving games, having been spun off from the company's flagship Forza Motorsport franchise. However, where the parent game takes itself very seriously (and feels antiseptic and squeaky-clean as a result), Horizon has never been shy of...

Like clockwork, the Forza Horizon series by Playground Games has become the interim sandbox excursion between the major Forza Motorsport entries by Turn 10 Studios, giving Forza fans a reprieve from the more serious and technical side of racing.

Gorgeous Australian setting; Forza Blueprints; 4-player co-op campaign; High production value and familiar Forza features; Revised skill perks; Drivatar Lineup and Wheelspins

AI convoys and Drivatar spawns like crashing into you; World can feel skin-deep; Tags

I'm bombing down a jungle dirt road in The Outback chasing a jeep suspended from a helicopter while Cut Copy is blasting from the speakers. My heart is pumping and I couldn't be pressing down harder on the gas if I tried. And that's just in the first 5 minutes.

Giant open-world; Huge car list; Gorgeous visuals; Top-notch soundtrack

High specs needed to reach 60 fps on PC; Too much DLC

The racing genre has spawned countless franchises over the years, with the Forza brand becoming Microsoft's go-to option since the original game's debut in

Superb racing physics; Wide vehicle selection; Gorgeous Australian locales; Horizon blueprints

Lackluster story

Update: We've updated our review to reflect the PC version of Forza Horizon 3. Please scroll to the bottom of the story to find the updated content. - PB, 9/27/2016, 10:40 AM PDT However sacrilegious, the ability to launch a Jaguar over a hill and into a cornfield with no risk of mechanical damage...

Gorgeous environments; Accessible driving controls; Robust reward system; Great mix of off-road and traditional races

Minor online performance issues; Unappealing brand-building narrative

Racing games have gotten very serious. With arcade games like Blur, Split Second and Ridge Racer failing to excite a large enough audience, and genre staple Need For Speed seemingly in the middle of a crisis, the video game racing world has been left to the serious.

Gorgeous; So much content; Great fun

Groove Music might bother some