Clutch Blends Both Forza Horizon And Motorsport With A Dash Of Fast & Furious

[00:08] I just saw an hour of clutch from

[00:10] Maverick Games at Summer GameFest. These

[00:12] are some of the former developers from

[00:15] Playground Games, the Welcome to Forza

[00:16] Horizon series. And these are my three

[00:19] biggest takeaways. So, my biggest

[00:21] takeaway is how much it just looks like

[00:24] Fortza. And that is both the Forza

[00:26] Horizon series and the Fortza

[00:28] Motorsports series. While it looks like

[00:30] the Forza games, they are trying to make

[00:32] it feel a bit different. It is very

[00:35] familiar apparently for people that have

[00:37] played those Fortza titles, but they've

[00:39] tried to make how the cars feel like a a

[00:43] bit more different than you might

[00:44] experience in a Forza game. In a Ford

[00:46] game, you've got hundreds of cars, so

[00:48] they exist over a really wide spectrum

[00:51] with little nuances between each of the

[00:53] vehicles. Whereas in this game, you're

[00:56] not driving as many cars. So, they want

[00:58] all of them to feel really different.

[01:00] And that's that's going to be the

[01:01] biggest difference between this and the

[01:03] Forza series. And then another big

[01:05] difference from the Forza series is you

[01:07] can actually walk around and get out of

[01:09] the car. These are going to be very

[01:11] limited segments. You can walk around

[01:13] like car meets and showrooms. Some of

[01:15] the missions have you walking around a

[01:17] specific location. You can't walk around

[01:20] the whole open world map. You can walk

[01:22] around back at the villa. There's mini

[01:24] games to play in there. They have an

[01:25] arcade cabinet and that is where you

[01:28] fine-tune and can customize the cars as

[01:30] well. So, there is actually some on foot

[01:33] sections, but they are very minimal. But

[01:34] something we haven't seen in the for

[01:36] series. In the game, you play as Theo

[01:39] and Cass, two racing siblings. And not

[01:42] only do they compete in a tournament

[01:45] with actual track racing, but they also

[01:48] compete in street racing as well. So,

[01:50] there is a big open world. It's set in

[01:52] the French Riviera with a recreation of

[01:55] Monaco and some other locations in that

[01:58] part of the world. The Monaco section is

[02:00] really interesting. Every landmark and

[02:03] every road is represented in the game.

[02:06] However, it's a bit bigger than the

[02:08] actual real life Monaco, and that was

[02:11] because they had to design it so you

[02:12] could actually race around it. Monaco is

[02:15] a really dense city, and they tried to

[02:17] balance that out while also making it

[02:19] fun to drive around and not a huge pain

[02:22] to get around this incredible city that

[02:25] has such a tie to racing culture. But

[02:28] beyond that, yes, you have this big open

[02:29] world. As they were driving around, we

[02:32] got notifications of, oh, there's a

[02:34] clutch cache over here. There's tons of

[02:36] things to see and do like in a Forza

[02:38] Horizon game, but then you also have

[02:41] these track races that you compete in

[02:43] like motorsport.

[02:45] The competition that they're a part of

[02:47] is just a part of the story. And the

[02:50] story actually will change depending on

[02:52] how you perform in that tournament. You

[02:55] can win the tournament and in the end of

[02:58] the game there will be a certain story

[03:00] that plays out because you won it. If

[03:02] you come in third, that's going to

[03:04] change up how all of that plays out. So,

[03:07] it's a critical part to the story, but

[03:08] it's not the main focus. My second

[03:10] biggest takeaway is how it also kind of

[03:12] looks like Need for Speed Hot Pursuit.

[03:15] So, there's a mission where Theo has to

[03:17] steal a car. Funnily enough, it's the

[03:20] Aston Martin Valhalla, which is also

[03:22] featured in 007 First Light recently.

[03:25] So, I was surprised that I recognized

[03:27] the car cuz I know nothing about cars.

[03:29] But, uh the Valhalla is in the game.

[03:32] This one has a harpoon attached to the

[03:34] end of it. And uh you get in a street

[03:36] and you're trying to escape the cops and

[03:38] you can actually use the harpoon to make

[03:40] tight turns. You can use it to screw up

[03:43] the cops and make them mess up. And uh

[03:45] yeah, it had this Need for Speed Hop

[03:48] Pursuit vibe mixed with like a Fast and

[03:51] Furious game. Like they are I think

[03:53] trying to touch every form of racing

[03:56] that we experience in media with this.

[03:58] And from what I've seen, they're doing a

[04:00] really great job so far. And finally, my

[04:02] third biggest takeaway is I'm actually

[04:04] really excited to see what the

[04:06] multiplayer of this game looks like. We

[04:08] didn't get to see that today. They're

[04:10] really trying to focus on the narrative

[04:11] on the single player campaign, but there

[04:13] are a whole host of multiplayer options

[04:16] here. You can compete in street races.

[04:18] You can compete in track races with

[04:20] other players online. You can also

[04:23] actually play the story in co-op with

[04:25] one person controlling steering and one

[04:28] person controlling gas and brakes. It's

[04:30] online only. It isn't local, so that's

[04:34] something I'm a little disappointed in.

[04:35] I would love to have that experience

[04:36] locally, but they said it's a really,

[04:38] really interesting way to experience the

[04:41] game. And then beyond that, you can be

[04:43] in the open world map with up to 16

[04:46] other players at one time. And then they

[04:48] described an interesting PvPVE mode

[04:51] which I thought was fascinating for a

[04:54] racing game. And basically in that you

[04:58] and a bunch of other players are tasked

[05:00] with stealing the same car. So you're

[05:03] trying to go out and steal this car, but

[05:06] you're also trying to steal it from

[05:08] under the nose of other players as well.

[05:10] So this goes beyond the multiplayer

[05:12] options in both the motorsport and the

[05:14] Horizon games. I'm really excited to see

[05:17] more from that aspect of the game, but

[05:19] I'm also thinking that this single

[05:21] player story looks pretty neat, too. For

[05:22] more on Clutch and everything else we've

[05:25] seen at Summer GameFest, stay right here

[05:28] on GameSpot.