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The numbered games are straight-and-narrow car sims with all the sliders, gauges and percentages you can shake a stick labelled "realism" at, but Horizon? Horizon is an open world racer which just wants to have fun. It's also a racer that'll tell you where you are and where you're going when you shout at it. Take my money, Turn 10. Take it before I spend it on something foolish, like a real car.
"You know Forza 4 had a lot of Kinect features," Design Director John Knowles told OXM at E3 today, "And the only one that makes this game better wasn't in Forza 4. It's new - it's GPS Voice.
"That's actually a huge win for open world games in general - you never have to pause or look at a map, you just say "next race," or "festival," or "gas station" and the green line takes you there."
"'GPS' becomes the keyword," he explained. "You can tell it a specific location, but it also has smart listening systems so it knows when you're shortcutting. You could say "GPS, event, circuit race, blankety blank," like a four-step thing or you could just say 'GPS, next circuit race.'"
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