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This is easily the best Forza in the series in regards to vehicle physics, handling, AI and sound. The actual gameplay is phenomenal. Unfortunately it's easily the worst Forza in the series in all other regards. The efforts that the developer have made to further monetize the series with tokens stinks of Free-to-Play manipulation on a AAA title. The features have been completely neutered in order to entice the player to purchase tokens with real money, which are offered at exorbitant prices. Additionally, Forza has always done a great job with DLC but have decided to double the price of car downloads this time around. The content (cars and tracks) have been cut in half (really even more), and although this is a launch title when coupled with the token gaming it smells like an effort to sell back more of the content that used to be part of the game as DLC. The story with this series will really unfold over the next two years as we see if Turn 10 takes action to redeem themselves with Forza 6 but until then the jury is out and the present offering is a disappointment. UPDATE 04/09/2014: Since release it appears that Turn 10 has been fairly responsive to feedback. They have reworked the economics of the in-game currency, added the ability to buy DLC cars in-game for free (instead of previously having to purchase the content with real money and then turn around and spend more in-game money to put the cars into your garage) and released two free track packs which include both Road America and Long Beach as well as a handful of free DLC cars. The stream of content (both paid and free) from the developer makes me hopeful that the next iteration will be back to business as usual and that the drastic setbacks in this one were only an issue of time. In light of the changes I've revised my rating from three stars to four stars.