Запуск Forza Horizon 4 от Turn 10 Studios и Playground Games состоится уже 2 октября на ПК (Windows 10) и Xbox One, а покупатели версии Ultimate Edition смогут наслаждаться гоночной аркадной ещё раньше — начиная с 28 сентября. По этому случаю Microsoft и разработчики представили релизный трейлер грядущего проекта.
Ролик записан в 4K и демонстрирует детализированный открытый мир: действие происходит в Великобритании на огромном автомобильном фестивале с тысячами участников. Игроков ждут живописные пейзажи, городские улицы, горные вершины, гоночные треки, заезды по бездорожью, безумные прыжки с трамплинов и самые разные соревнования на более чем 450 различных автомобилях, включая заезды на машинах из серии фильмов про Джеймса Бонда (для владельцев соответствующего DLC).
Акцент в ролике сделан на проработанность заездов зимой, весной, летом и осенью, с динамическими погодными условиями, включающими дождь и снег. На дорогах можно будет сносить деревянные и каменные ограды, расставленные заботливыми английскими фермерами, встретить сельскую живность вроде курочек или овец (сбить их вряд ли получится) и так далее. Чтобы стать суперзвездой Horizon, предстоит собирать и улучшать автомобили, участвовать в заездах, совершать трюки, исследовать мир и прокладывать свой путь к вершинам славы. Всё это показано в трейлере под композицию Satisfied группы Galantis.
Вместе с трейлером Microsoft выпустила динамично снятое видео, посвящённое Forza Horizon 4. На нём запечатлён выпускаемый ограниченным тиражом спортивный автомобиль McLaren Senna, а также мотоциклетные трюки. Как утверждают создатели, заезды выполнены профессиональными гонщиками на общественных дорогах, закрытых властями специально для съёмки. Разумеется, McLaren Senna будет в Forza Horizon 4.
Наконец, в рамках кампании по продвижению игры разработчики провели ряд знаменитостей через своеобразный «симулятор погоды»: звёзды садились в кресло и играли в Forza Horizon 4, причём во время дождя на них лили воду и подобие грязи, а во время снега напускали белые хлопья. Поучаствовали в сомнительном аттракционе Меган Фокс (Megan Fox), Тайриз Гибсон (Tyrese Gibson), Джейсон Деруло (Jason Derulo) и Антон Заславский, более известный под псевдонимом Zedd.
Демоверсия Forza Horizon 4, включающая четыре времени года, уже пару недель доступна всем желающим.
Looking for the ultimate racing simulator? Forza Motorsport is one of the best out there. But if you want to venture off the virtual race track and into a less constricted digital environment, Forza Horizon has got you covered. And this is our first look at the latest.
Following the debut of the first Forza Horizon in 2012, the second in 2014, and the third in 2016, Turn 10 Studios has announced the next chapter will hit shelves (physical or otherwise) on October 2. But before it does, it’s released these first details, screen shots, and video footage ahead of its announcement at E3 in Los Angeles.
Like the previous iterations, Forza Horizon 4 goes off the track into a virtually limitless environment – this time based in the UK. And what’s more is that the environment changes continuously with the weather, seasons, even time of day. So that route you drove yesterday may not be exactly the same the next time you venture out onto it – just like in the real world the game seeks to emulate.
Based as it is in Great Britain, British cars feature front and center – chief among them the McLaren Senna, which will grace the box cover (along with a 1997 Land Rover Defender 90). In fact the Senna will mark its first appearance in the US at Forza’s booth at E3 on Tuesday. And a fitting centerpiece it is. But it won’t be the only vehicle to feature in the game, of course. The developers promise over 450 cars digitally replicated from 100 different manufacturers, and you can see some of them in the launch trailer and images below.
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McLaren Senna
The 2018 McLaren Senna is a mid-engined hypercar designed, developed, and manufactured by McLaren that debuted in Forza Horizon 4 and later added to Forza Motorsport 7 as the Spotlight Car for April 2019.
It is named after Ayrton Senna, paying tribute and honor to his successes between the 1988 and 1993 Formula 1 seasons as part of the McLaren Formula One Team, of which he won three Driver’s Championship titles, thirty-five Grand Prix race wins, and four consecutive Constructor’s Championship titles under McLaren’s driver line-up.
Synopsis
The McLaren Senna was first revealed online to the world on December 10, 2017 before being officially shown at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. Built through McLaren’s Ultimate Series, the same series that spawned the McLaren P1, Andy Palmer oversaw the Senna’s engineering and design team for its two year development.
During its development, being formally known as the McLaren P15, the Senna was set with an immense mission statement of being everything that the McLaren P1 fell short of; «the purest connection yet between driver and car of any road-legal McLaren». That meant throwing out practicality — the likes of which the McLaren 720S Coupe are built for by comparison — crafting a new roll over structure that leaves only enough room for «two helmets, two driving suits and possibly a packet of sandwiches» according to Andy Palmer.
The carbon fiber chassis of the Senna is derived from the 720S, but has been refined to the extent of being McLaren’s strongest road car chassis. The aluminium subframe is utilized for its deformable crash structure and to carry the front suspension, whilst the rear bulkhead is mostly carbon fiber to save additional weight.
Overall, the striking detail in which the Senna has been crafted stems from the car’s performance target, meaning every curve and every sculpted carbon fibre piece was designed with the purpose of keeping a balance between downforce, aerodynamics, cooling, and purpose. Nothing in the design was by accident, every line passes through a functional vent, and air moves along the body with such purpose that the engine bay sits in a low pressure area to better draw out hot air.
Performance
Fitted with a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8, the Senna puts down up to 789 bhp (588 kW) of power and 590 lb⋅ft (800 N·m) of torque through the rear wheels alone. The high power output of engine is teamed with the lightweight body — which weights 2,800 lbs (1,270 kg) giving the Senna a power-to-weight ratio of 658 bhp (491 kW) per 2,205 lb (1,000 kg) — allows it to pull away with lighting speed similar to other lightweights like the Caterham Superlight R500.
The braking and downforce of the Senna play a two part act in its cornering ability; slow down too much and there won’t be enough downforce to stop the rear stepping out, but go too quick and face the consequences of uneven public roads. Finding the sweet spot between going too slow to reap the benefits, and going too quick in a homologated race car on public roads, will ultimately play the biggest factor in setting fast laps in the Senna.
A top speed just below 220 mph (355 km/h) along a perfect straight, makes the Senna best suited to twisting roads than high speed highways. It’ll get to a high top speed very quickly from corner to corner, but breaking the 200 mph (322 km/h) mark and relentlessly beyond is best suited to other hypercars.
Variants
In Forza Horizon 4, there were 3 variations of the Senna, with the exception of the LEGO iteration. Alongs > S2 975 , with a top speed of 195.8 mph. The latter in comparison has a higher PI of S2 981 , with a top speed of 206.9 mph. Appending to the mystique, these variations are not assigned to any championships/car types. [2]
These Senna’s were removed from all player garages since Update 9. [3]
