Speaking of a lack of content, it’s not just game modes that are lacking but cars and tracks. Sure, the AI made some mistakes but it never seemed like anyone was prone to more contact or driving off-road or dive-bomb pass attempts when compared to others.
It’s hard to really confirm that without racing the actual players online to know whose bad habits have translated best to their drivatar.
These are AI drivers that somewhat simulate real players’ driving habits. The closest you will get is leaderboards where you are ranked against the world on race points by race. Drivatars are available in the game.
Unfortunately, Apex doesn’t come with multiplayer. The differences between Spotlight and Campaign are a lack of race introducing voiceovers and that there are new challenges every week to keep the game fresh.
I estimate that it took me two to three hours to complete the whole campaign. There is no option to purchase additional content or expansions which is unfortunate given how much content we don’t have access to with the base free-to-play game.Īlso featured is the Spotlight mode. Various challenge events will be unlocked for two-week periods with two new events per week. Like the campaign mode, there are specific cars (or car classes) to drive with various challenges to earn you bonus race points to earn medals and unlock more cars. The dozen races of Apex will take you an afternoon to complete.
Prior to launch of the full Xbox One game, Turn 10 boasted some 70 hours of gameplay in the campaign mode. While I realize that Forza 6: Apex is a free-to-play title, the Stories campaign is the part of the full release that gets stripped down for Apex. Each race is introduced by a member of the motoring press, including former Top Gear hosts billed as automotive journalists Richard Hammond and James May (Jeremy Clarkson was suspended and fired from the BBC six months before the game was released), Top Gear USA hosts Tanner Foust and The Smoking Tire’s Matt Farah. There is a single-player campaign mode, called Stories of Motorsport, that will bring you through a dozen or so races. In a sense, that’s better than Gran Turismo but you don’t have a career mode or really anything in terms of car customization so comparing the Forza 6 to Gran Turismo (which isn’t on current-gen consoles) is a bit apples to oranges at this point. I never really found the unlocking to be particularly slow nor did I have to grind for better cars to beat races. I should mention off the top that Forza Motorsport 6: Apex is a free-to-play title with microtransactions. These microtransactions allow you to unlock cars early rather than earn medals from races to unlock new cars. While Forza 6 is a decent experience and certainly worthy of the Forza franchises comparisons to PlayStation’s Gran Turismo series, I can’t help but think that Apex is a little lacking.
The first experience that I’ve had as a result of Microsoft’s push of Windows 10 as a gaming platform is Forza Motorsport 6: Apex. Unlike the upcoming Forza Horizon 3, this isn’t a full release of Forza 6 on PC but rather a jumped up tech demo. Given some teething problems with games through the Microsoft Store and the Universal Windows App (UWP) format, no one would fault you for being concerned.
With the nearly forced conversion of Windows 7 and 8 users to Windows 10 earlier this year, Microsoft also announced their Xbox Play Anywhere program that promises all Microsoft published Xbox One titles will be available on PC via Windows 10 and the Microsoft Store.