Forza Motorsport gets long‑awaited release date | FOS Future Lab

The game is set to trade heavily on all that has been excellent about the franchise in the past, with a 500-strong car list – including, importantly, 100 cars that are all-new to the series – over 800 unique upgrades, real-time ray tracing, rejuvenated physics and re-imagined vehicle destruction. The track models will be bang up-to-date, captured with the latest greatest tech, while the environments and cars will be experienced with a variable weather system and day-night cycle.

Forza’s issues with Motorsport 7 were mostly in bad sounds, an infuriating UI and dodgy car models. We’re hoping these are points that have been addressed, with the User Interface most likely to have experienced a major overhaul. Certainly, in the gameplay trailer, it looks a lot cleaner, showing off the cars better and adding more features.

Speaking of the trailer, we see plenty of track action with exclusive new cars, including the Corvette E-Ray and Cadillac V Series R LMDh car we just watched compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours. Also revealed as one of the all-new cars is the new Lamborghini Revuelto, which has just been revealed as the cover car for The Crew: Motorfest. We see clips of Spa Francorchamps, Le Mans and Suzuka in beautiful detail, in various conditions and at various times of day. Officially-announced circuits also include Kyalami, Silverstone, VIR and many more.

There’s potential here for Forza Motorsport 2023 to be a very good game – it ought to be given that under normal circumstances in the time we’ve waited, we’d have seen two entries and be on the way to a third by now – but we’ve been fooled by trailers before. We look forward to its October 10 release to find out.