Forza Horizon Devs Originally Pitched Making a Project Gotham Racing Reboot
Playground Games, the developer of Forza Horizon, initially suggested to Microsoft to restart Project Gotham Racing, and then switched gear to the now iconic racing spin-off series.
Talk to GQ For the newly released Forza Motorsport, studio director Trevor Williams originally met the creators of the Core Forza series and had been dormant for a long time, the highly beloved Project Gotham Racing (originally obsolete). Work described as proposing a restart) (developed by Studio Bizarre).
Williams says his first idea was discontinued and he and his team had to switch at the last minute to market the Forza franchise spin-off while still in the restaurant.
“It was one of those stories where steaks turn into ashes in your mouth, and I’m wondering,’How can I afford to buy a plane at home?'” Williams said. .. “after 5 minutes, [Forza corporate vice president Alan Hartman] It was like,’What do you do in Forza? Where do you take Forza? And I threw what was literally a horizon on most of my menstrual pads. “
Project Gotham Racing ran from 2001 to 2007, with the first two games released on the original Xbox and the last two games (except for the two mobile spinoffs) on the Xbox 360. Master. Sadly, PGR was shelved after Activision acquired series developer Bizarre Creations. The license remains on the Xbox, but I haven’t seen another entry. In 2010, Microsoft was said to be looking for a new developer, but it seems they couldn’t find one. Probably because Playground has started a new development.
Playground must have pitched a new PGR shortly after Bizarre was purchased. This is because the first Forza Horizon game was also released for the Xbox 360 in 2011 and will serve as a more casual and open game for the mainline simulation-based Forza Motorsport franchise.
Forza Horizon was quickly popular and praised by critics and players (IGN calls it great). Since then, the franchise has become more and more powerful. The fourth article received 9.6 / 10 from us, but last year’s Forza Horizon 5 was considered a masterpiece and won IGN’s Game of the Year.
In a 10/10 review, “Forza Horizon 5 is the result of the best racing studios and the best open world racing games available.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who sometimes remembers tweeting @thelastdinsdale. He talks about Witcher all day long.
