Hutch Games is an English development team that has always focused on offering alternative racing experiences on mobile devices, from the "TV" racing of Smash Cops to the automotive collecting of Top Drives. Purchase the official Forza Motorsport license to create a match-3 style puzzle gameHowever, even to them it seemed excessive.
In short, Forza Customs is a crazy project in many ways: a game that from the Turn 10 series only use the name, putting at our disposal (for the moment) ten cars to modify and/or restore on a purely visual level, replacing the different parts of the body and tires, but asking us to complete short puzzle challenges in order to carry out these operations.
Were we positively surprised by the unusual combination? We reveal it to you in Customs review of Forza.
Gameplay: between tricks and markers
As we mentioned at the beginning, the gameplay of Forza Customs is characterized by two different phases. The first is the personalization of the cars themselves, which sometimes arrive to us in desperate conditions with the aim of perform a full restore dedicated to a specific objective, for example the preparation of a car intended for drifting competitions.
Unfortunately, this aspect of the experience is nothing more than a mere expedient. Removing hoods, replacing bumpers and painting bodywork does not require any skill or commitment: simply touch a button on the screen for the operation to be performed automatically, without any real interaction (apart from the choice of colors and parts), in the presence of a mechanic who will only complement our style.
Each intervention, however, requires a number of points and resources that can only be obtained by completing tasks. puzzle based challenges, and it is in this situation where the true nature of Forza Customs manifests itself. We will then be presented with a board that gradually becomes more complex and convoluted, with a limited number of moves available to collect the requested items from time to time.
Our goal will be combine the same objects in groups of three or more, targeting particular shapes to obtain modifiers capable of eliminating entire rows, creating explosions, destroying all boxes of the same color, etc., with the progressive introduction of new variables and expendable special moves that can get us out of trouble in the most difficult situations. Difficult phases.
The fact is that Puzzle sections soon become a problem rather than an opportunity.: a brief, annoying and boring parenthesis compared to the spectacle offered by the bodies of these cars under renovation.
In short, what could hardly be considered anything more than a simple mini-game becomes, in Forza Customs, the highlight of an obviously poorly thought-out product, which uses the Microsoft license only to obtain a recovery name but he exploits it perhaps in the worst possible way.
Technical realization: nice cars, but it all ends there.
The undoubted collecting vocation of Forza Customs is expressed in the possibility of freely admire your cars throughout the review process, with excellent definition and fluidity in camera movements. Nothing remotely comparable to Forzavista, let's be clear, but if you love racing cars and aesthetic customizations it's a very nice sight.
On the other hand, the phases of the game itself, that is, those in which there are different boards and colored elements to join and eliminate, present modest and essential graphics, nor can they count on sound accompaniment capable of filling these obvious gaps.
Conclusions
Tested version iPhone digital delivery app store, Google Play Price Free Holygamerz.com 5.0 Readers (7) 5.2 your voteForza Customs is an original but unfortunate experiment that relies on fallacious assumptions and uses the official Forza Motorsport license in a meaningless way. A variation on the Car Mechanic Simulator theme would have been much more coherent and interesting, given that all modification and customization operations are automatic and the only playful component of the experience is represented by Match-3 style puzzle challenges that perhaps taken separately they would be too. made sense, but in this context they become just an annoying interlude.
PRO
- very beautiful cars
- It is free to play without major limitations.
AGAINST
- Nothing to do really
- Annoying and uninteresting puzzle sections.
- Completely meaningless use of the license.
