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It Almost Feels... Familiar The (likely) first leaked gameplay footage of Turn 10's upcoming free-to-play PC debut, Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, has appeared on YouTube already. The game itself is due for release this spring, so we don't have a long wait ahead, but the gameplay footage at least gives us a better idea of what we're getting for all those nonexistent monies. Well, clearly this isn't radically different from the Forza we know and love on our Xbox One. The biggest change is that this isn't a full game, but rather a game demo or tech demo that shows the power of the ForzaTech™ engine running on DirectX 12 with resolutions an Xbox would melt just at the thought of. You only have 63 cars and 6 locations to test, but this is not new information. So, what have we learned? What we do see here is that you have the advanced and customisable graphics options that PC gamers have come to expect, such as the ability to change texture quality and anti-aliasing. There appears to be a fairly good variety of cars to choose from, a little something for everyone, and some of the prettier locations in Forza such as Spa and Yas Marina. The traditional 'race - earn money - buy cars' system has been replaced with a classic unlocking system. You have to accumulate X amount of medals to unlock cars, for example 42 to unlock a Veyron Super Sport, and it can be assumed that these medals are accumulated by completing events in the Showcase Tour and Spotlight Series. However what we also see is a big orange button... On that big orange button it reads "Unlock Early". I would imagine this means you either have another points system besides medals that can be used to unlock vehicles or perhaps Microsoft have created a way to generate some cash. Instead of grinding to earn those medals, you pay a small sum of money and get instantly rewarded with the car you want. Can you fault them? Well, probably. If you're anything like me, you hate paying for things that you expected to be free, but Microsoft would just be following the trend of the successful micro-transactions model that we see in the majority of Android and iOS games. Free to play, unless you're impatient. Let us know your thoughts in the forum, how do you feel about a micro-transaction based Forza? Source: forzamotorsport.net