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.
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