Forza Horizon Announced

Forza Horizon Announced

The latest chapter in the Forza franchise

Written by DaveKinetic on 05 March 12 at 19:36

During Microsoft's Xbox Spring Showcase in San Francisco last week, Turn 10's Creative Director, Dan Greenawalt lifted the hood on the next chapter of the Forza Motorsport franchise.

The game titled Forza Horizon is being developed by independent, UK based studio Playground Games in collaboration with Turn 10 Studios. Founded in 2009, Playground Games was formed by the same management team that brought us award-winning racing franchises such as TOCA, Colin McRae Rally, Race Driver: GRID and DiRT.

Over the past two years the studio has enhanced its core team with experienced developers from Bizarre Creations, Black Rock Studios, Slightly Mad Studios, Criterion Games, Rockstar North, and Ubisoft Reflections, among others. Today, Playground employs more than 100 staff at its headquarters in Royal Leamington Spa, working exclusively on Forza Horizon.


Forza Horizon is scheduled for release this Fall.

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Posted on 05 March 12 at 19:40
Hopefully it isn't a kinect based street race across america.
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kinda happy kinda sad,dont want forza to turn into a game they spit out every year
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 19:41, Edited on 05 March 12 at 19:42 by Confused Shelf
Unexpected!!!! This is welcome news however. Will watch this with keen interest.

Edit: Holy Shit! Some of the Black Rock team is doing this. And we all know they made my favourite 360 game ever.
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 19:47
Looks like a good team, hopefully it's as enjoyable as Forza usually is. Although a little more innovation than the latest iteration would be nice.
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Sounds like a sell-out to m...

"... enhanced its core team with experienced developers fromBizarre Creations, Black Rock Studios, Slightly Mad Studios, Criterion Games, Rockstar North, and Ubisoft Reflections"

OK, I'm sold! Where do I sign?
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 19:48
Chemical Brothers.
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 19:54, Edited on 05 March 12 at 19:58 by Sku11ySn1p3r
I'd love to have a big open world game with long straight roads, tight mountain passes, ability to go off road and Forzas' customizability / tuning options with a huge range of cars. If they do all that in the desert (in the trailer) than I will probably have a new favourite game.

EDIT: Also please don't make it Kinect only or have Kinect achievements.
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Hmmm, seems like it may be a different take on the forza series.
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 20:03
Didn't see that coming. Looks cool, though.
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very curious to see what this game will be about..
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 20:10
That was a very poor trailer. The majority of it was a concert and amusement park. I only saw a full car about three times. Turn 10 better know what they're doing.
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BinaryP0wnage said:That was a very poor trailer. The majority of it was a concert and amusement park. I only saw a full car about three times. Turn 10 better know what they're doing.Turn 10 aren't developing their game, so I don't think they do...
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what the hell, Why do we need another forza game so soon after 4. This is what i hate about good franchises when they start a yearly bararage of increasly bad games. MS lay of Turn 10 and let them take there time over the next game in the franchise don't make the same mistake sony did with GT4 and even need for speed games
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 20:17
What a dumb trailer
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 20:41, Edited on 05 March 12 at 20:42 by Psymon100
From Wikipedia:
Gameplay
Neither Microsoft nor Playground Games has revealed specific details about the exact gameplay format in Forza Horizon, although a full announcement is expected by the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June 2012. Members of the gaming press have speculated that the game may follow a cross-country racing format similar to Need for Speed: The Run, released in 2011, or offer features inspired by the franchise's partnership with the BBC's hit television series Top Gear.
I look forward to hearing more about it.
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 20:44
I was going to say what another but forza 4 was released last year. Then I saw the list of the developers involved with the game. My good so many great racing game developers involved in the game that it could turn out to be a fantastic game.
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 20:50
This should be interesting
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Posted on 05 March 12 at 21:16
Be interesting to see how this plays out. Not really interested in Forza becoming a yearly release nor do I want it to be tied to the Kinect but It has been a good series.