{"id":1872105,"date":"2026-04-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1872105"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:00:00","slug":"i-am-in-love-with-forza-horizon-6s-nissan-silvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1872105","title":{"rendered":"I am in love with Forza Horizon 6&#8217;s Nissan Silvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"previews\" data-article-group=\"other\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/previews\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Previews<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/forza-horizon-6\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Forza Horizon 6<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">I am in love with Forza Horizon 6&#8217;s Nissan Silvia<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">King&#8217;s banquet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-6.jpg?width=690&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing several cars almost neck-and-neck racing towards the camera\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-6.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"690\" height=\"388\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christian Donlan avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/christian-donlan.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Christian Donlan avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"christian-donlan.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"previews\"><br \/>\n                    Preview<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/christian-donlan\">Christian Donlan<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributing Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-04-08T13:00:00+00:00\">April 8, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/forza-horizon-6-preview-hands-on-nissan-silvia-ridge-racer?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          2 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"b99982ec-ce0c-4c4d-8150-6eb3628f1e8f\" data-name=\"Forza Horizon 6\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Forza Horizon 6\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Forza Horizon 6\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Forza Horizon 6\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Forza Horizon 6\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Forza Horizon 6\" title=\"Follow Forza Horizon 6\"><br \/>\n  Follow Forza Horizon 6<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/forza-horizon-6\">Forza Horizon 6<\/a> has learned at least one neat trick from Ridge Racer. It&#8217;s learned that for a certain kind of racing game, something that&#8217;s dreamy yet exactingly arcadey by turn, it&#8217;s quite nice to ghost around a corner every now and then and find something dramatic happening overhead. In Ridge Racer this something was often a jumbo taking off. In Horizon 6, it could be one of those chunky helicopters with two sets of propellors, or even a group of jet fighters flying in formation. But games are as prone to inflation as everything else. At one point, I crested a hill and a huge space rocket launched. Not bad, Horizon. Not bad.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"aside right\">\n<h2>Forza Horizon 6<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Xbox Game Studios<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developer:<\/strong> Playground Games<\/li>\n<li><strong>Platform:<\/strong> Played on Xbox Series X<\/li>\n<li><strong>Availability:<\/strong> Out 19th May on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2483190\/Forza_Horizon_6\/\">Steam<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/forza-horizon-6\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/forza-horizon-6\">Xbox PC<\/a>.  The game will be available day one on Game Pass. The game will be available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playstation.com\/en-gb\/games\/forza-horizon-6\/\">PS5<\/a> in 2026.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>But back at the very start? Reader, back at the start I got two synchronised bullet trains all in the space of about a minute. I&#8217;d turn the corner and they&#8217;d rush past, swift and low, bound for the gleaming distance. Welcome to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with Forza&#8217;s Horizon games you&#8217;ll be at home here, I think. It&#8217;s the same basic deal: arcade racing spread across a generous tourist-tuned open world. And it all starts with the same kind of going-to-the-festival thrill as the earlier games too. A handful of mini-events kick you back and forth between highways strung through forests one moment and a full-on snowy mountain descent the next. Futuristic concept cars with daringly minimalist tail lights are swapped out for a banana yellow Porsche. Duck into the accessibility menu and there&#8217;s the same world-beating options for dialing in the experience. Duck into the character creator and you can still add prosthetics before you choose your pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Horizon wants to be a breezy holiday, and everyone is welcome. Even playing locked at the 30fps &#8220;quality&#8221; mode for the demo build (a 60fps &#8220;performance&#8221; mode will be available at launch) it&#8217;s a Sunday afternoon bubble bath kind of affair. The engines roar and the petals fall and your earthly worries melt away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"image_wrapper\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a red car racing through a city\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a red car racing through a city\" data-autosize=\"bounds_lossy\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"loading spinner large\"><\/span><\/p>\n<nav class=\"pagination--hoverable\">\n<div class=\"previous\">\n<button class=\"button pagination-button\"><br \/>\n<span aria-label=\"Previous\" class=\"icon\" role=\"img\" style='--icon-mask-image: url(\"\/static\/solid\/angle-left.svg\")'><\/span><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"next\">\n<button class=\"button pagination-button\"><br \/>\n<span aria-label=\"Next\" class=\"icon\" role=\"img\" style='--icon-mask-image: url(\"\/static\/solid\/angle-right.svg\")'><\/span><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"details_overlay\">\n<div class=\"counter\">\n<span class=\"current\">1<\/span> <span class=\"of\">of<\/span> <span class=\"max\">3<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"details\">\n<div class=\"button-wrapper\">\n<button aria-label=\"Toggle information\" class=\"toggle button outline\"><\/button><br \/>\n<button aria-label=\"Close fullscreen gallery\" class=\"close button\"><\/button>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thumbnails-wrapper overflow-shadow-x\">\n<div class=\"thumbnails\">\n<button class=\"thumbnail active\" data-attribution=\"Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a red car racing through a city\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a red car racing through a city\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"thumbnail\" data-attribution=\"Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground\" data-uri=\"Forza-Horizon-6-car-meetup.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a parked, upgraded Fiat 500\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Forza-Horizon-6-car-meetup.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a parked, upgraded Fiat 500\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"Forza-Horizon-6-car-meetup.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"thumbnail\" data-attribution=\"Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-1_mzRO9mN.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing an orange retro Porche with racing modifications by a red Japanese flag\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-1_mzRO9mN.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing an orange retro Porche with racing modifications by a red Japanese flag\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-1_mzRO9mN.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullscreen_info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nCaption          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"attribution\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nAttribution          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-gallery-caption\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advert_container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And as those bullet trains suggest, the game&#8217;s intent on delivering everything you might expect from a game set in Japan. I&#8217;ve been messing about with the current demo build offering a decent suite of events and a large chunk of open world, and I&#8217;m delighted by the range and detailing on offer. I expected highways carpeted with pink blossom and gleaming flyovers. I expected busy electric town facades and constant views of Mount Fuji. All present as you&#8217;d want them to be. But a cross-country ramble takes you from rutted muddy paths to the golden sands of a beach and the opportunity to race, weightless, across turquoise water. Elsewhere a forest gives way to a lakeside with little houses stood around the edges, peaked roofs giving the horizon a tart scattering of sharp points.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is all lovely, and in that classic Horizon way it manages to convey scope and scale while dealing in clever contractions. Deep in Tokyo itself, I passed the Tokyo Tower and the Shibuya Crossing in under forty-five seconds. They both felt entirely like themselves and neither felt rushed or squashed together. But in a game in which you often find yourself tooling between events, there won&#8217;t be so much travel time that you&#8217;ll be tempted to switch to auto-drive.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a distant Mt Fuji, with a road leading into fields of tall yellow grass and valleys in the foreground\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-4.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a distant Mt Fuji, with a road leading into fields of tall yellow grass and valleys in the foreground\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-4.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Japan is the eye-catching part, then, but the cars themselves are the core of the game. I loved trying to contain that yellow Porsche&#8217;s power as I rattled around hairpins in a tutorial about cornering that was really a tutorial about drifting. When I switched to a 4X4 challenge later on, the GMC I was in charge of felt like a steroidal hearse, conveying so much weight through the pad that I was afraid to even turn for the first ten seconds. Minutes later, as we lumbered over flooded rice paddies, I worried that gleaming beast would sink into the water and never emerge.<\/p>\n<p>But the heart wants what it wants, and it turns out that my heart wants a 1989 Nissan Silvia K&#8217;s. Here is a slick urban delight, its body the colour of evening skies that announce the arrival of a summer storm. It&#8217;s the car that I chose when the campaign started, and I quickly grew to love its air of 80s-tinged menace. It&#8217;s fast while feeling as solid and consequential as a refrigerator falling from a third storey. You can turn pretty sweetly in it if you&#8217;re trying a timing lap, but it still comes off like the kind of thing a mid-level businessman might once have used therapeutically to run over squirrels in the Mulholland Hills after a movie deal went south.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a car with spoiler racing away from the camera in a Shinjuku-like city street\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-5.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a car with spoiler racing away from the camera in a Shinjuku-like city street\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-5.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What is probably clear from all this is that I like cars and the thrilling ways that games can make you feel in their presence, but I don&#8217;t have any kind of knowledge of them. This is why Horizon is the Forza for me, I guess, because it&#8217;s a holiday from too much seriousness whilst also being built so carefully that anyone from an idiot to an expert can have real fun here. It&#8217;s also why I can appreciate the parade of cars the game offers, even in the early moments. I can tell that an apple-red Celica is a very different thing from a Nissan GTR with a gigantic spoiler, because of how they both feel. And alongside that I can get an idiot sense of what Horizon&#8217;s baseline feel is, too.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>These cars are slickly connected to the road but they&#8217;re eager to turn. There&#8217;s a little Valium in the mix when you accidentally fly through roadside fences and their splinters barely trouble the air around you. But there&#8217;s a willingness to punish, too.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a crucial thing in a racing game, isn&#8217;t it? Yesterday, I took the Silvia into a narrow, right-angle-heavy road race on the busy streets of Tokyo and I was fine right up until the rains came, and then? Then I was sliding around like melting ice cubes spilled on a coffee table. I had made an error and the game had noticed. I was assuming that because Horizon is a welcoming game I could play it with a casual spirit. Not true. And that&#8217;s very good news.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/forza-horizon-6\">Forza Horizon 6<\/a> has learned at least one neat trick from Ridge Racer. It&#8217;s learned that for a certain kind of racing game, something that&#8217;s dreamy yet exactingly arcadey by turn, it&#8217;s quite nice to ghost around a corner every now and then and find something dramatic happening overhead. In Ridge Racer this something was often a jumbo taking off. In Horizon 6, it could be one of those chunky helicopters with two sets of propellors, or even a group of jet fighters flying in formation. But games are as prone to inflation as everything else. At one point, I crested a hill and a huge space rocket launched. Not bad, Horizon. Not bad.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"aside right\">\n<h2>Forza Horizon 6<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Xbox Game Studios<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developer:<\/strong> Playground Games<\/li>\n<li><strong>Platform:<\/strong> Played on Xbox Series X<\/li>\n<li><strong>Availability:<\/strong> Out 19th May on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2483190\/Forza_Horizon_6\/\">Steam<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/forza-horizon-6\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/forza-horizon-6\">Xbox PC<\/a>.  The game will be available day one on Game Pass. The game will be available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playstation.com\/en-gb\/games\/forza-horizon-6\/\">PS5<\/a> in 2026.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>But back at the very start? Reader, back at the start I got two synchronised bullet trains all in the space of about a minute. I&#8217;d turn the corner and they&#8217;d rush past, swift and low, bound for the gleaming distance. Welcome to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with Forza&#8217;s Horizon games you&#8217;ll be at home here, I think. It&#8217;s the same basic deal: arcade racing spread across a generous tourist-tuned open world. And it all starts with the same kind of going-to-the-festival thrill as the earlier games too. A handful of mini-events kick you back and forth between highways strung through forests one moment and a full-on snowy mountain descent the next. Futuristic concept cars with daringly minimalist tail lights are swapped out for a banana yellow Porsche. Duck into the accessibility menu and there&#8217;s the same world-beating options for dialing in the experience. Duck into the character creator and you can still add prosthetics before you choose your pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Horizon wants to be a breezy holiday, and everyone is welcome. Even playing locked at the 30fps &#8220;quality&#8221; mode for the demo build (a 60fps &#8220;performance&#8221; mode will be available at launch) it&#8217;s a Sunday afternoon bubble bath kind of affair. The engines roar and the petals fall and your earthly worries melt away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"image_wrapper\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a red car racing through a city\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a red car racing through a city\" data-autosize=\"bounds_lossy\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"loading spinner large\"><\/span><\/p>\n<nav class=\"pagination--hoverable\">\n<div class=\"previous\">\n<button class=\"button pagination-button\"><br \/>\n<span aria-label=\"Previous\" class=\"icon\" role=\"img\" style='--icon-mask-image: url(\"\/static\/solid\/angle-left.svg\")'><\/span><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"next\">\n<button class=\"button pagination-button\"><br \/>\n<span aria-label=\"Next\" class=\"icon\" role=\"img\" style='--icon-mask-image: url(\"\/static\/solid\/angle-right.svg\")'><\/span><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"details_overlay\">\n<div class=\"counter\">\n<span class=\"current\">1<\/span> <span class=\"of\">of<\/span> <span class=\"max\">3<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"details\">\n<div class=\"button-wrapper\">\n<button aria-label=\"Toggle information\" class=\"toggle button outline\"><\/button><br \/>\n<button aria-label=\"Close fullscreen gallery\" class=\"close button\"><\/button>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thumbnails-wrapper overflow-shadow-x\">\n<div class=\"thumbnails\">\n<button class=\"thumbnail active\" data-attribution=\"Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a red car racing through a city\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a red car racing through a city\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-3_XKNeC6A.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"thumbnail\" data-attribution=\"Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground\" data-uri=\"Forza-Horizon-6-car-meetup.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a parked, upgraded Fiat 500\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Forza-Horizon-6-car-meetup.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a parked, upgraded Fiat 500\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"Forza-Horizon-6-car-meetup.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"thumbnail\" data-attribution=\"Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-1_mzRO9mN.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing an orange retro Porche with racing modifications by a red Japanese flag\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-1_mzRO9mN.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing an orange retro Porche with racing modifications by a red Japanese flag\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-1_mzRO9mN.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullscreen_info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nCaption          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"attribution\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nAttribution          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-gallery-caption\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advert_container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And as those bullet trains suggest, the game&#8217;s intent on delivering everything you might expect from a game set in Japan. I&#8217;ve been messing about with the current demo build offering a decent suite of events and a large chunk of open world, and I&#8217;m delighted by the range and detailing on offer. I expected highways carpeted with pink blossom and gleaming flyovers. I expected busy electric town facades and constant views of Mount Fuji. All present as you&#8217;d want them to be. But a cross-country ramble takes you from rutted muddy paths to the golden sands of a beach and the opportunity to race, weightless, across turquoise water. Elsewhere a forest gives way to a lakeside with little houses stood around the edges, peaked roofs giving the horizon a tart scattering of sharp points.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is all lovely, and in that classic Horizon way it manages to convey scope and scale while dealing in clever contractions. Deep in Tokyo itself, I passed the Tokyo Tower and the Shibuya Crossing in under forty-five seconds. They both felt entirely like themselves and neither felt rushed or squashed together. But in a game in which you often find yourself tooling between events, there won&#8217;t be so much travel time that you&#8217;ll be tempted to switch to auto-drive.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a distant Mt Fuji, with a road leading into fields of tall yellow grass and valleys in the foreground\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-4.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a distant Mt Fuji, with a road leading into fields of tall yellow grass and valleys in the foreground\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-4.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Japan is the eye-catching part, then, but the cars themselves are the core of the game. I loved trying to contain that yellow Porsche&#8217;s power as I rattled around hairpins in a tutorial about cornering that was really a tutorial about drifting. When I switched to a 4X4 challenge later on, the GMC I was in charge of felt like a steroidal hearse, conveying so much weight through the pad that I was afraid to even turn for the first ten seconds. Minutes later, as we lumbered over flooded rice paddies, I worried that gleaming beast would sink into the water and never emerge.<\/p>\n<p>But the heart wants what it wants, and it turns out that my heart wants a 1989 Nissan Silvia K&#8217;s. Here is a slick urban delight, its body the colour of evening skies that announce the arrival of a summer storm. It&#8217;s the car that I chose when the campaign started, and I quickly grew to love its air of 80s-tinged menace. It&#8217;s fast while feeling as solid and consequential as a refrigerator falling from a third storey. You can turn pretty sweetly in it if you&#8217;re trying a timing lap, but it still comes off like the kind of thing a mid-level businessman might once have used therapeutically to run over squirrels in the Mulholland Hills after a movie deal went south.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a car with spoiler racing away from the camera in a Shinjuku-like city street\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/forza-horizon-6-5.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Official Forza Horizon 6 screenshot showing a car with spoiler racing away from the camera in a Shinjuku-like city street\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"forza-horizon-6-5.jpg\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1920\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What is probably clear from all this is that I like cars and the thrilling ways that games can make you feel in their presence, but I don&#8217;t have any kind of knowledge of them. This is why Horizon is the Forza for me, I guess, because it&#8217;s a holiday from too much seriousness whilst also being built so carefully that anyone from an idiot to an expert can have real fun here. It&#8217;s also why I can appreciate the parade of cars the game offers, even in the early moments. I can tell that an apple-red Celica is a very different thing from a Nissan GTR with a gigantic spoiler, because of how they both feel. And alongside that I can get an idiot sense of what Horizon&#8217;s baseline feel is, too.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>These cars are slickly connected to the road but they&#8217;re eager to turn. There&#8217;s a little Valium in the mix when you accidentally fly through roadside fences and their splinters barely trouble the air around you. But there&#8217;s a willingness to punish, too.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a crucial thing in a racing game, isn&#8217;t it? Yesterday, I took the Silvia into a narrow, right-angle-heavy road race on the busy streets of Tokyo and I was fine right up until the rains came, and then? Then I was sliding around like melting ice cubes spilled on a coffee table. I had made an error and the game had noticed. I was assuming that because Horizon is a welcoming game I could play it with a casual spirit. Not true. And that&#8217;s very good news.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Previews Forza Horizon 6 I am in love with Forza Horizon 6&#8217;s Nissan Silvia King&#8217;s banquet. Image credit: Xbox Game Studios \/ Playground Preview by Christian Donlan Contributing Editor Published on April 8, 2026 2 comments Follow Forza Horizon 6 Forza Horizon 6 has learned at least one neat trick from Ridge Racer. 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