Microsoft has announced the newest instalment in the Forza Horizon open world racing game series at the E3 in Los Angeles earlier today. Called Forza Horizon 3, the venue has now shifted to Australia.
Looks like the secret is really out. For a long time now, we’ve known Australia to boast some of the most ideal ingredients for automotive heaven: wide open spaces, lots of sun, beautifully varied terrain, breath-taking vistas, and roads that keep going and going.
For those living outside Australia, they can now experience this for themselves by driving a selection of 350 cars (at least) – including the Lamborghini Centenario and an Ariel Nomad as shown in the trailer – through what must be a summarised version of mainland Australia as the ‘Horizon Festival’ heads Down Under.
Despite the game developers boasting its in-game size being three times as a large as the open world map of its predecessor (set along the Mediterranean coast), there’s no way the game can faithfully represent all 8.5 million square kilometres. That is a very tall order, so we’ll give them a pass.
Turn 10 Studios says that Forza Horizon 3 will allow players to take control of the fictitious speed festival that makes up the game’s open world premise, allowing the modification of each event and how the game traverses locations across Australia – even cooler.
Forza Horizon 3 (or ‘Forza Horizon: Australia’ as we’ve just decided to call it) will hit store shelves in September, playable on Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Windows 10 machines.
