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There’s a Warthog in Forza 4 – an easter egg that you’ll unlock over the course of the game – but it’s only for show; you won’t be able to get behind the wheel of it. Turn 10 explains why.
“One, it’s got some technology that’s built into Halo that would have been a big investment for us to then build into the game only to support one vehicle,” Turn 10 chief Dan Greenawalt told Eurogamer.
“To do with vehicle dynamics in general, it’s a very, very tall vehicle. It’s got four wheel steering to a very large degree. It’s one thing to have four wheel steering on a car like a GTO – you know, real cars. But to have the amount of crab walking that car can actually do, per the specs? We’re technically oriented. We don’t just kinda do things. We researched the Warthog. We were like, well, we would have to do, literally, crab walking steering on the front and back. Technically we don’t support that because no real world cars in our game do.
“Also, the suspension travel is gargantuan. It’s a different type of suspension than is found on most cars. And then the final damning fact for us was, we didn’t make the tyres in Forza 4. Pirelli made all of the tyres in Forza 4. This may sound like a cop out, but it’s true: we didn’t want to soil the ability to say all of the simulation in Forza 4, when you turn off all of the assists, is drop dead, absolutely as good as we could have got it. They didn’t give us tyres from nanotube technology from 2525.”
You can take a gander at the Warthog in Forza 4’s ‘Autovista’ mode. Here, you can use Kinect to pan about the vehicle, and Cortana will narrate and recount stories about the vehicle’s achievements from the Halo series.
The Warthog is predominantly a vehicle for war, of course, and Turn 10 doesn’t want this interfering with the game’s E for Everyone rating.
“It’s very important to us to have a game that is PEGI 3, or E rated in the US. Shooting a gun at other cars, while it would be tremendously entertaining – there’s no doubt about that, I’m a core gamer as well – it really would not help us towards that vision of creating the next generation of car lover.”
Martin saw Forza 4 yesterday. For more on the game, including the impressive World Tour mode, check out his preview.
Forza 4 is due for release October 14 for Xbox 360. A demo hits Xbox LIVE on October 3.
