I love Forza 4 – still playing it. Still battling through the truly enormous events list, and then comes along Forza Horizon and yet more racing.

BUT, if you are a fan of 4, you may hate Horizon. Many say the Le Mans 24 Hours is a great funfair with a boring motor race going on in the background. They are wrong of course.

This is a music festival with some races going on in the background. The festival is called Horizon, but while the music stages have packed audiences, the tracksides and stands are pretty sparse.

Don’t let this put you off – the racing is good. Bit more arcade that 4, but not bad.

The idea is simple. Win races, notch up points, get given cars, win more races, get more points. It all ends with a finale. On medium, I finished the game in a few days winning everything, but it was fun.

You do get plenty of vests and insanely shapely women in cut-off shorts and crop tops, music (which thankfully can be turned off), and unbreakable cars, the sort of thing that will have a 12-years-old agog.

The best concept is the way it is taking on Test Drive – you get to drive across a version of Colorado, but it’s not very big. Maybe Horizon 2 will be much bigger. And there are too many crash barriers. If you can’t be bothered to drive, use the quick jump points, which are free when you do some PR Stunts. But driving gets you popularity points from knocking things over, near misses, drifts, that sort of thing.

You can find incredibly expensive wrecks in bars and steal them for a mechanic to restore them for you, all for free.

As a player, you get called ‘bro’ and ‘dog’, so guess the demographic they are aiming at.

I like this game, but it’s a tad short, and as I said, a little too arcade. I would imagine the online games will be insane crash fests, but that is kinda the idea here. There needs to be a few add-ons soon – that’ll be good.