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'Forza Motorsport 4' developers explain non-drivable Warthog

Top Gear in Forza Motorsport 4

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Forza Motorsport 4's developer has explained why the Halo 4 Warthog can't be driven in the game.

Turn 10 investigated the possibility of being able to take the fantasy vehicle onto the track, but decided it was too technically demanding.

"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," game director 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."

Halo 4 Warthog in Forza Motorsport 4

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He continued: "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."

Unveiled last month, the Warthog will only appear in the AutoVista mode, which allows players to step around the vehicle, investigate the engine and sit in the driver's seat.

Forza Motorsport 4 will be available on October 11 in North America and October 14 in the UK, exclusively on Xbox 360, and also offers a season pass for downloadable content.

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