Microsoft announced the next installment in its open-world, online racing franchise at its impressive E3 2018 press conference, and it’s all about seasons as each season brings its own sort of events and championships and the types of things that the Horizon Festival has always done. Of course, they’ll be themed around each season, and one of the examples of this change was a lake that will freeze over in winter, allowing us to go to an island that we couldn’t get to before because the lake was too deep.
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One of the other great things which we’ve always found in Horizon is, because we have a really broad feature set, we end up with a really diverse set of players who play the game in really interesting and different ways,” said principal game designer Mike Brown in an interview with IGN. “
Obviously there are people who come to race, but there’s equally people who don’t really want to race at all, and maybe they’re artistic and they want to express themselves in the livery creator.”
According to IGN, Playground Games has spent an entire year gathering necessary reference material, sound recordings, and sky captures from all over Britain in order to make sure that
Forza Horizon 4 is as faithful a recreation of the kind of seasonal variety Britain boasts as possible. There's a whole team dedicated at Playground to live operations and you check out the latest gameplay footage below:
For the first time in the driving genre, experience dynamic seasons in a shared open-world. Explore beautiful scenery, collect over 450 cars, and become a Horizon Superstar in historic Britain.
Forza Horizon 4 is coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 October 2, 2018.