Jaw-Dropping Forza Horizon 3 trailer !

In case you missed it, here is the spectacular debut trailer for the game that played as it was announced today at E3. I'm a little speechless now but suffice it to say I'm stoked for this considering how much I loved the last 2 titles.

Australia will be our playground this time around. The races near the beaches look great and it looks like they have a lot of rough terrain for our racing pleasures! Furthermore, the game will be available on Win 10 with cross platform play so this will mean a larger pool of players who can enjoy Forza! Releasing Sep 27

@Alucard_Prime: Being an Aussie i'm stoked they are using Australia as the setting, hopefully the map is twice the size of FH2's.

Oh and I pray they don't hire non Australian actors, to do the voices in the game because it will be very cringe worthy.

Best part is that the game is only 3 months away :)

@i_p_daily: Also I just remembered something from the announcement....that the game will support 4 player coop campaign....that's great I was not expecting that. Can't wait to see what else they might have added

Absolute Phenom !!!! :D

I suppose I better try finishing up FH2 before this one hits, I'm about 80% done with it but once FH3 hits I'm sure I'll never go back to FH2 lol :P

one of the highlights of E3 so far.

Watch this get banned by the Australia government

Hilarious... (end sarcasm).

Anyway, this is looking like another great addition to the series. About time we had a game set down here!

@Alucard_Prime: I found out that the map is twice the size of 2's, and that the player is in control of the horizon festival this time.

Haven't heard that before, you're so clever, end sarcasm.

@i_p_daily: lol that's awesome news they're pulling out all the stops! Best Horizon game ever it's looking like, and Horizon 2 was a nice upgrade from the first one.

The clock is ticking for me, I've got 3 months or so before this game releases to work on my backlog...after that the backlog is taking a back seat!

It will be interesting to see how they handle the create your own horizon festival scenario.

@i_p_daily: Yeah should be fun. Probably I'm thinking they will let you select the trajectory of the overall race (like go through the forest area, or instead race along the beaches , etc, type of cars to and class to be used, etc.)....kind of like a customize your race kind of thing, and can be played 4 player coop too damn lol this will surpass Horizon 2 I'm thinking easily.

Holy moly.....check out this IGN preview

EDIT: Whoa! You can create your own radio station now, it will stream music from your OneDrive account

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E3 2016: Cars, Clouds, and Crocodiles in Forza Horizon 3

by Luke Reilly

IGN | Jun, 15 2016

Crikey.

To be candid, Playground Games could’ve set Forza Horizon 3 just about anywhere on the planet and I expect I’d have found myself aboard. This UK-based racing supergroup has carved itself a well-earned reputation as a master of open-world racing; frankly, when it comes to open-world racers, there’s the Horizon series and then there’s everything else.

But yes; I won’t pretend not to be hugely excited at the revelation Horizon 3 is bringing the series down under, and I’ll freely admit that I’m buzzing at the prospect of hooning around in some of the new vehicles Horizon’s Australian holiday will feature. But putting aside the novelty of having a racing game set in my own backyard, Horizon 3 is still shaping up to be the most diverse, most social, and most customisable open-world racer in the business. No matter where you’re from, Horizon 3 seems to be striving to make you happy.

While I’m certain we have plenty left to learn before its September release, creative director Ralph Fulton and the Playground team have wasted no time laying out details. Simply put, expect more of everything.

Playground’s Frankenstein mash-up of iconic Australian locations... has resulted in a terrifically diverse environment.

Horizon 3 is twice the size of Horizon 2 and has twice the ecosystem types, and this delivers a fistful of new driving experiences. Speed down a beach, dragging your wheels through the lapping waves. Bomb through the bush on muddy and twisting trails. Attack the outback and crash over towering sand dunes. Playground’s Frankenstein mash-up of iconic Australian locations from up and down the east coast of the continent (and deep into the red centre) has resulted in a terrifically diverse environment.

Horizon 3 will also have the most cars in the series by far: 350, which Fulton notes is 150 more than Horizon 2 shipped with. The car list is even more diverse than the environment, ranging from the newly-debuted Lamborghini Centenario to specialised Baja buggies like the Penhall Cholla, and just about everything in between. Of course, being set in Australia means fans down under can expect some above average and long-awaited local representation lining up against the international metal. I spotted a Torana A9X during the demo, which previously popped up as Forza Motorsport 6 DLC, but Fulton confirmed we can also expect gems like the ’74 Holden Sandman and the first Holden ute (plus, as a bittersweet bonus, the final production utes from both Holden and Ford).

But it doesn’t stop with a bigger world and more cars. Horizon 3 brings new levels of customisation – new rally parts, new rim styles, and, for the first time, widebody kits. It brings back fan-favourite systems from Forza Motorsport 4, like the Auction House and the Storefront. There are more radio stations, one of which allows you to use your own music (Horizon 3 will stream personal playlists from OneDrive). You can even now play the game in four-player co-op, with friends playing on Xbox One or Windows 10 dropping in and out at their discretion. Everything in Horizon 3’s solo campaign can be played in co-op, and everything earned and completed while in co-op will remain with you once you go back to solo play; you’ll never have to arbitrarily race the same event twice. There really is extra everything.

Everything in Horizon 3’s solo campaign can be played in co-op.

What’s more is you’ll be able to create your own events with Horizon 3’s ‘Blueprint’ mode. As opposed to the previous Horizon games, Horizon 3 casts players as the boss of the Horizon festival and, as such, you can fiddle with it as you desire. Horizon Blueprint allows us to change routes, car restrictions, weather conditions, and more to create custom races and events. These can be named and shared with friends, who’ll see them in their own games (the game will even generate a custom poster for the event). Completing your friends’ Blueprint events will net you the same rewards you’d earn for taking on the “official” events Playground has baked into the game. With a few friends and 350 cars to play with, you may never run out of new races.

Playground has assembled a great demo for Horizon 3 that cycled me through several cars and bunch of surface types, and I can happily report the driving is typically excellent. It’s also absolutely stunning to look at in motion, from the fractured shadows in the dense rainforest to the most realistic sky and cloud formations I’ve ever seen this side of simply looking up. Horizon 3 has picked up visual touches from Forza Motorsport 6, too, like the moving beads of water climbing the windscreen as you speed forwards. New wildlife is a great flourish that adds life to the world (you’ve probably seen the kangaroos from the trailer, but I was also encouraged to keep my eyes peeled for a crocodile as I crashed through the shallow streams snaking through the rainforest).

Horizon 3 even sounds better than Horizon 2 already; angrier, perhaps. The crackle and snarl of the cars I’ve driven in Horizon 3 may just be the best I’ve heard in the series to date.

I’ll be making my way back to Australia the moment E3 wraps but I’ll be counting the days until Playground’s version of it makes its way back to me.

Luke is Games Editor at IGN's Sydney office and is clearing his calendar for this one. You can find him on Twitter .

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http://m.ca.ign.com/articles/2016/06/15/e3-2016-cars-clouds-and-crocodiles-in-forza-horizon-3

@Alucard_Prime: Thanks for posting that mate it was a great read. I'm stocked that there will be some classic Aussie cars in it, and hopefully the latest model Commodores and Ford Falcons (I need something to ram into, Aussie joke)

It's sounding awesome, and thankfully it's only months away :)