Forza Horizon 4: Defend and Conquer

Forza Horizon 4 is one of the few games that pay tribute to Land Rover's 70th anniversary and this Defender, a descendant of legendary Land Rover offroaders in the past, is the icing in the cake that celebrates the best of Britain's legendary utility vehicle maker known for go-anywhere offroaders like this to their luxury offerings such as the Range Rover.



The Defender is Land Rover's legendary masterpiece that helped shaped the name into the offroad specialist we know today and for almost seventy years, this tough, go-anywhere legend keeps writing its own stories even when Land Rover stopped making one in the UK a few years ago. As a descendant of the first Land Rovers in history, the Defender is long remembered for its toughness, ruggedness, strength, and capability that can't be matched by other offroad legends.



It's an honor for the producers to make the Land Rover Defender one of the cover cars of Forza Horizon 4 apart from the downforce-hungry McLaren Senna hypercar because both these cars are role models of what made Britain great and as Britain is on the brink of exiting the European Union in the springtime, rest assured that the cars made by the Brits for the Brits will be long remembered by their neighbors and it's hard to miss these machines when Britain closed its doors to all of Europe because of the Brexit stuff.

As a matter of fact, that gives me an idea. Because Forza Horizon 4 pays tribute to Land Rover's 70th anniversary, I want to give the Defender a very special task to show that it's made to go "above and beyond."





Me and the Defender are taking on The Gauntlet, which is the longest Cross Country race in-game, and due to its length, it's difficult to film such a feat with the capture feature of my Xbox One because it is limited to 10 minutes to record it, so what I do is tune the Defender to the max so I can film its glory at ease, well sort of. Anyway, after numerous doublethink, it's time to roll the clip to see what the Defender is made for even if it's tweaked to the highest degree.



You know what? If they update the Xbox One to increase the recording limit by another five minutes, I wouldn't have to pause the game when the recording ends and then unpause it for part two. Still, despite video issues, the Defender accomplished The Gauntlet and we won. Just.



The Defender is one of the key offroaders in Land Rover's 70th-year history and its legendary offroad capability has been shared with numerous offerings such as the Discovery and the Range Rover. The Defender might be gone but its legacy lives on and rest assured, there's no substitute for the legend itself. That is the bottom line.

Goodbye, everybody!