Among the many idle intellectual property in Microsoft also Gotham Racing Projectstopped for years in the fourth episode aired in 2007: it seems Playground Games, authors of Forza Horizonhad offered a raise a long time ago but what Microsoft refused idea.
In an interview published by GQ that focused heavily on the new Forza Motorsport, Trevor WilliamsThe head of the Playground team proposed a project to reboot the Project Gotham Racing series to Turn 10 and Microsoft, but received a negative response. It seems that the Redmond-based company had no plans to save the franchise, at least not in the same classic arcade racing style that characterizes it.
However, there seemed to be interest in a new driving game with a stronger footprint. game machine and Playground Games felt there was some room for maneuver for the proposal. They suddenly turned to each other inside the same restaurant they were in to come up with the idea for Project Gotham Racing. Forza Motorsport spin-off in a slightly different style.
“It was one of those moments when the meat turned to ash in the mouth, and I found myself thinking: how do we buy the return plane?” Williams reported. “Five minutes later Alan Hartman [VP del franchise Forza] asked us What can you do with Forza? Where can you take the series? And so, in practice, we tried to propose a first idea on a napkin that would later become Horizon.
On the one hand, this represented the birth of a series that later became known as Forza Horizon, which recently received its fifth installment with Forza Horizon 5, where the first DLC dedicated to Hot Wheels was recently announced, but on the other hand, the episode also represents Microsoft’s Bizarre Creations. It also shows how little hope there is of seeing Project Gotham Racing on the market again, given that it has little intention of relaunching the series created by .
Source: Multiplayer
