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Forza Horizon 4 hands-on — Do seasons change everything, after all?

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I laughed cynically during the unintentionally funny moment of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at Microsoft’s press event last June, when Ralph Fulton, creative director of Playground Games, announced the Forza Horizon 4 racing video game.

“Seasons change everything!” insisted Fulton, who was circus ringmaster talking about the dynamic seasons in the game. I thought it was a comical celebration of something that — as I’ve experience, collectively, for the whole industry — seemed like just one more small nuanced improvement in a game. And these games have become so good that it’s hard to top last year’s title. Of course, when you’ve got 10 million players like Forza does, you have to try.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.