How Forza Horizon 4 will let you express your inner race car driver

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 12, 2018
Updated June 20, 2025
9 min

Every now and then, I like to let my inner race car driver out and play a racing game. From Mario Kart to Project Cars or Forza, I play casually and just try to stay on the track.

But millions of players out there take their racing games seriously, and many of them are anticipating the October 2 release of Forza Horizon 4 on the Xbox One and the Windows PC. One of the big things that is different with this version is the introduce of full seasons with dynamic weather.

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Written by

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.