Playground Games devs sat down with GQ to talk some Forza Horizon, and they revealed that they originally meant to make a different game altogether.
Remember Project Gotham Racing? That game was the business, and not a small amount of people were hoping that the game would eventually get a reboot. Well... Forza was originally meant to be exactly that: A reboot of Project Gotham Racing. This was revealed by the Playground Games devs in a sit-down with GQ.
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Forza Was Meant to Be Project Gotham Racing
Studio head Trevor Williams sat down with GQ, and explained that the creators of the original Forza series had originally pitched a reboot of Project Gotham Racing. The idea was shut down, and the team was devastated. The switch to turning their racing-game-desire into Forza was actually a last-minute decision, coming to them in a restaurant:
It was one of those stories where the steak turns to ash in your mouth, and I'm thinking, 'how do we afford the flights home? After five minutes, [Forza corporate vice president Alan Hartman] was like, 'what would you do with Forza? Where would you take Forza?' And we pitched what literally became Horizon, almost on a napkin.
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So what do we take away from this? Even a failed dream can blossom into something beautiful. A decade later, and Forza is easily the biggest racing franchise Microsoft ever had. And it all started on a napkin... Don't give up y'all. And if you want to read more about Forza Motorsport - it's release date and everything else... we got you covered.