For those of you looking to turn your XBox360 into the cockpit of your favorite racer or street machine, then Forza Motorsport 4 is the most realistic racing game you’ll play this year.

One of the hallmarks of Forza 4 is its selection of racing environments, which are among some of the most beautiful we’ve seen of all of our race game reviews.

With Forza 4 there is also an incredible attention to graphic detail, as each car uses 800,000 polygons to make the best use of the market’s most current gaming graphics, adding a stunning realism to not only the drive and race experience, but simultaneously allowing each race environment to be variable as though you were actually there.

Being that Forza offers one of the gaming market’s most true-to-life driving opportunities, it’s good news to us that American muscle makes its presence known within the game’s virtual playground as seen in our featured video, where everything from a GTX to an AMC tries to set lap records in the midst of a racing scenario that is far more than convincing.

Our featured video is also the first in this year’s Virtual Touring Cars Championship, or VTCC series. VTCC itself is a Forza 4 community that engages in everything from British Tour cars to Super GT, offering the XBox gamers’ community the most “clean and realistic” virtual drive venue around, according to the VTCC website.

Better lighting techniques combined with realistic time changes make Forza 4 a refreshing approach to the virtual motoring hobby, and if you own an XBox 360 and are ready to drive your favorite muscle machine on your racetrack of choice then Forza Motorsport 4 is one piece of gaming software that you need to investigate for your collection!