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Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece based on a weekend playing the single-player mode of Forza Motorsport 6. We'll have a full review once we've been able to spend more time with the campaign and properly assess Forza 6's multiplayer component.Why do so many of us dedicate countless Sundays to watching cars drive around in circles? I've never come up with a single satisfactory answer, though there have been moments where it's all come into focus: like how on one sodden late-September morning I traipsed up to Brands Hatch's Grand Prix loop and saw another cagoule-sporting enthusiast camping out under one of the dripping trees. "Why on earth do we do this?", he asked, before he was interrupted by the urgent swoosh of a Lotus Cortina, a petite blur of white and green fury as it launched itself up from the kerbs of Dingle Dell corner. We looked at each other in a moment of silent satisfaction as the answer so perfectly presented itself.
Forza Motorsport 6, Turn 10's latest Xbox exclusive that marks a full decade of the series, asks a question along similar lines in a portentous live-action opening movie that sets an awkward tone for the answers that follow. It's a more glamorous brand of motorsport that Forza's chasing, where Hollywood drama mixes in with a corporate sheen; there's no mistaking, in the cold American voiceover that guides you through menus and a certain steely-eyed gloss throughout Forza Motorsport 6, that this is motor racing as seen through the filter of Microsoft's Redmond campus. It makes for a game that can be as frustrating as it is thrilling.
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