Forza fans can take the latest game home in a supercar – for free
Forza Horizon 4 features over 450 amazing cars - and you can hitch a ride in one of six of the best to get the game home thanks to Argos
MICROSOFT'S gorgeous new arcade racer Forza Horizon 4 is coming out on October 2, and motoring fans now have the option of taking it home in fitting style.
Argos is offering transport from its Nine Elms store in London after you've picked up your pre-order on release day in one of six supercars featured in the game.
Petrolheads have a choice of the legendary McLaren 720s, Lamborghini Aventador, Aston Martin DB11, Ferrari 488, BMW i8 or Porsche 911 GT3.
All you need to book a ride is head with proof of you pre-order, and away you go.
The fun-focused cousin of the much more serious Forza Motorsport series, Horizon 4 is set in the UK, with events all over a gloriously recreated version of Great Britain.
The full game may not come out until fpr a few weeks, but you can and check it out today.
From what we've seen of the game so far it's got everything that Horizon fans want and a whole lot more besides.
- Forza Horizon 4, £49.99 from Argos -
It's got a whole host of events across Great Britain you can jump between, miles of roads to blaze down, and hundreds of cars rendered in frankly absurd levels of detail.
In the first few hours of the game you get to tear up some bucolic side roads in a McLaren Senna, the game's cover car, tearing up the tarmac on your way to the Horizon Festival.
There you pick up another car and dive into events as and when you feel like it.
In our first couple of hours we jumped into a full-on rallycross course, an illegal street race and did a set of stunts for a rather demanding movie director -- who sounded distractingly like Sean Bean.
This was all while customising our avatar, post-race emotes, buying a little country house and taking great pleasure demolishing lovingly-built dry stone walls and delighting in how glorious the Oxfordshire-like countryside looked in the summer sunshine.
That sunshine doesn't last, though -- it looked even better in Autumn thanks to piles of leaves blowing up off the road and a new piece of spectacular multi-coloured landscape around every bend.
That's because of the much-hyped seasons in Forza Horizon. Once the game is out the season in-game will change every week, cycling through summer, autumn, winter and spring. Some events will be limited to one season -- you can't race on frozen lakes in the height of summer -- but some are open all year round, so you'll be able to experience your favourite track covered in snow, in a sudden April shower, or in glorious summer sun.
The landscapes, especially as highlighted by the changing weather, are every bit as gorgeous as the cars themselves--and combined, they're as good an excuse as you're ever going to get to upgrading to an Xbox One X and 4K telly.
We only got to try a tiny fraction of the game's 450+ vehicles, but every one we saw looked amazing. The number of hours that went into re-creating the McLaren Senna really have paid off, with the resulting recreation being the closest you'll ever get to driving one of the ultra-limited edition vehicles.
Only 500 will ever be made, but the same engineers who are hand-building them at McLaren helped make sure the in-game recreation was perfect, from the roar of the engine to how it feels off the line.
We can't wait to get our hands on the full version, and highly suggest you grab the demo today to check it out for yourself.
- Forza Horizon 4, £49.99 from Argos -