Forza Horizon

Forza Horizon is an upcoming, open world racing video game for Microsoft's Xbox 360video game console. Developed principally by British games developer Playground Games in association with Turn 10 Studios, the game will be a part of Turn 10's long-running Forza Motorsport franchise, but is considered more of a spin-off instead of the next true member of the series.^[2] The game is expected to be released on 23 October 2012.

Forza Horizon is an open-world game based around a fictitious festival called the 'Horizon Festival', set in Colorado, USA. The game incorporates many different gameplay aspects from previous Forza Motorsport titles, like the large variety of cars and the realistic physics and graphics. From a demonstration shown at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the player can encounter AI drivers in the open world, and can challenge them to instant races. According to Dan Greenawalt, director of Turn 10's Forza Motorsport series, the game's soundtrack contains a lot of dubstep tracks, with a demonstration showing a variation of Avicii's "Levels" remixed by American music producer Skrillex. Forza Horizon is the first game in the Forza Motorsport series to be an open-world game, but as it is being partly developed by Playground Games, some experience with open-world racing is already present, as Playground Games is composed of many employees of other game studios, such as Ubisoft Reflections (DriverSeries) and Criterion Games (Burnout Series). The aim is to progress through the game by means of obtaining "Wristbands" by driving fast, destroying property, winning races and other driving antics.

Horizon is set to feature the physics of Forza 4, which have been optimised to work on the 65 variants of terrain said to be present in the game.