Forza Horizon

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standfree93

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3,001 posts

186 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Looks like a new chapter in the Forza games.

Here's a teaser trailer from them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2A03ifIks

Looks like, from the trailer, they're going to be changing it to more street racing and such.



ETA: Not sure if there's another thread about it, done a quick search and ain't found anything!


Cerberus90

1,553 posts

212 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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So this is what Playground Games are working on.

Could be legit, as they say they are working on a racing game. But there's no information been released on it, not even a name or anything on their website.


I wonder if it's anything to do with 'the forza', or if they've just used that name, I'd be surprised if Turn 10 would appreciate that if it was true.

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After watching another one, looks like Turn10 are publishing and Playground Games must be developing it.


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http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/confirmed-forza-horizon-hits-retail-this-year/092229

Can't believe it's going to be much different to Forza 4, Playground have only just finished hiring, so can't have been working on it for much more than a year. Probably be Forza 4 engine, with a different world.

Edited by Cerberus90 on Monday 5th March 15:05


Edited by Cerberus90 on Monday 5th March 15:08

stephen300o

15,464 posts

227 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Gumballesque with decent handling? yes please.

y2blade

56,029 posts

214 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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EXCELLENT woohoo

LukeSi

5,753 posts

160 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Looks great, it would be brilliant if it was say a route across America but it was one huge track.

By that I basically mean, there is events in different locations along the way, however the user either has the option to drive there (300-400 miles in one slog) or they have the option to skip to that location. When driving to a location it would act like TDU being MMO, so you could challenge people from all over the world (say 30+ cars on the route map at any one time) and there is the option to complete career races online. I think something like that would work, people who want to just do races can skip and people who want to drive can go for it, also give a number of different routes, so you can take the highway if you want to be quick (all the roads would have traffic) or if you want to explore there are plenty of routes which will take you far out of the way but to the same place, these routes would include side missions, e.g. getting away from the police. And just to cap it off being the cannonball run there must be police.

Chunkychucky

5,942 posts

168 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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God knows what this is about, saw the trailer on their Facebook page, looks more like a music festival with a few fast cars scattered about the place..

Sleepy nic

207 posts

173 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/05/forza-horizon-comi...

Just seen this and as above really hope it does end up like TDU with decent handling biggrin

Chunkychucky

5,942 posts

168 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Sleepy nic said:
http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/05/forza-horizon-comi...

Just seen this and as above really hope it does end up like TDU with decent handling biggrin
Good link, thanks smile

TAHodgson

875 posts

170 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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If they keep making Forza Motorsport the racing game as good as it is at the moment, AND make this to take up the gap that Need for Speed had to themselves but have messed up with terrible games recently. This can only be a good thing!

LukeBird

17,170 posts

208 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Interesting; I had no idea anything like this was in the pipeline.
Even if it used the FM4 engine, is it really going to be ready for Autumn this year?!

davepoth

29,395 posts

198 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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LukeBird said:
Interesting; I had no idea anything like this was in the pipeline.
Even if it used the FM4 engine, is it really going to be ready for Autumn this year?!
Forza engine, Forza cars, so that just leaves gameplay mechanics (which don't take long in man hours compared to the rest of it) and designing a world in which it takes place.

http://forums.forzamotorsport.net/forums/thread/46...

This suggests that it's been in development for twelve months at least, with another six to go. That's as much time as Turn 10 put into Forza 4, so it's definitely possible.

Polarbert

17,923 posts

230 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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This looks as if it will the gap nicely from Forza 3. biggrin

LukeBird

17,170 posts

208 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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davepoth said:
Stuff
Fair enough. smile
Will be interested to see what comes of this, could work well with FM4 as something a little more 'relaxing'. I did thoroughly enjoy TDU & 2 for their more laid back nature.

JDMDrifter

4,039 posts

164 months

Monday 5th March 2012
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Im hoping a testdrive unlimited style game with Forza physics cool

standfree93

Original Poster:

3,001 posts

186 months

Tuesday 6th March 2012
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JDMDrifter said:
Im hoping a testdrive unlimited style game with Forza physics cool
+1

Exactly what I'll be hoping for!

ajprice

27,321 posts

195 months

Thursday 17th May 2012
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http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/en-us/forza_horiz...

Box art and first in game screen. So it's open world, and it has the new Viper in it.


CBR JGWRR

6,518 posts

148 months

Thursday 17th May 2012
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US only?

ajprice

27,321 posts

195 months

Thursday 17th May 2012
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CBR JGWRR said:
US only?
Where does it say that?

CBR JGWRR

6,518 posts

148 months

Thursday 17th May 2012
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standfree93 said:
JDMDrifter said:
Im hoping a testdrive unlimited style game with Forza physics cool
+1

Exactly what I'll be hoping for!
A little less prone to just sliding though.


TDU2 is probably going to struggle...

CBR JGWRR

6,518 posts

148 months

Thursday 17th May 2012
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ajprice said:
CBR JGWRR said:
US only?
Where does it say that?
I'm guessing, judging by the box art.

Very grand canyony.