Whenever there’s a new sports game, especially a new racing game, there must also be the traditional listing of the Granular Technical Advancements™. For the next game in the Forza Motorsport series (Forza Horizon’s older, more serious sibling), that moment came during Wednesday’s Xbox and Bethesda “Developer Direct” showcase, and it was a doozy.
Here’s a summary of everything promised by Forza Motorsport’s developers in the video embedded above:
- Over 500 cars at launch, 100 of which are new to the series: “The most modern race cars ever featured” on a Forza Motorsport roster
- 800 unique car upgrades
- 20 race sites, including five new locations to the series
- “Physically based lighting and volumetric fog effects”
- “A fully procedural cl…