With its fastidious approach to driving and fetishistic attitude to cars, Forza Motorsport is the racing series of choice for the Xbox-owning automobile aficionado.
And yet those same qualities have proved off-putting to more casual car lovers, who prefer hair-raising spills to splitting hairs over handling dynamics.
Enter Playground Games’ open-world racer Forza Horizon, a radical departure for the series that promises to bridge the gap between simulation and stimulation and expand upon developer Turn 10’s objective of turning car lovers into gamers and gamers into car lovers.