The Forza Horizon 5 Hot Wheels DLC was the practice run for Horizon 6.
The next stop in the Forza series will be Japan in Forza Horizon 6, but the team at Playground Games has had a long road to get there, one that included, oddly enough, Hot Wheels. In an interview with GamesRadar, Forza Horizon 6 art director Don Arceta dove into how Playground Games prepared to recreate Japan and gave some hints about what players can expect from the biggest, densest game in the series yet.
« Working with Xbox Series X, we worked with that on Horizon 5, and we’ve really grown to understand that technology for Horizon 6 », Arceta explained. He went on to add that, « Technology and console aside, our workflows and the way we built our worlds throughout each iteration, for Forza Horizon 6 [we took] lots of learnings from past games. »
One of the « past games » that influenced Horizon 6 most was (somewhat surprisingly) the Hot Wheels DLC for Horizon 5, as Arceta explained: « We actually developed a new way to create those orange tracks that go around the road to get the best quality and have it be authentic [to Hot Wheels].
