Taking place during the fictitious Horizon Festival, a street racing event set in the state of Colorado, the aim is to progress via winning. The game is the fifth instalment of the Forza series, having spun-off from the elder Forza Motorsport series. Forza Horizon is a 2012 racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox 360 on 23 October 2012.
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My forte is programing music for people to listen to in lots of different environments so I love that challenge. I think it’s actually a strength that it’s not my medium. I’ve been open with Ralph at Playground that I don’t play computer games myself so I see it as a sort of double challenge and I don’t see a problem with that.
I hope now that Forza Horizon is in its second game we can establish ourselves as a real music brand, let alone an amazing game. How do you think this affects the artists?Like I said, I’m not a gamer so if you see it from my perspective then it looks like an amazing thing. Suddenly an artist has an extra million people listening to their tracks. We’re massive fans of those labels so we gave them the choice of what they brought to the table but we were a bit worried that they might go for their lesser known tracks, but it ended up really well and they all even have their own unique DJ.Getting synched to a franchise like Forza is a big coo. I think it’s Hospital, Innovative Leisure and Ninja Tunes. We didn’t know what gamers would say about our choices but we’re really pleased with it so we came back for a second one! Also, Playground have almost doubled the amount of music stations in the game and also added these label stations as well so it’s really exciting.As well as the normal radio stations in the game, we decided having some sort of handpicked and curated stations from some of our favourite record labels.
We’ve just set up a new music supervision company and we’ve just got our first film score. We want to make sure we’re doing the right thing and the great thing is the guys from Playground are playing it right through the development cycle and giving us constant feedback.If there ever is a Forza Horizon 3, would you jump on board again?I’d love to. Ralph from PlayGround, who’s sort of in charge of it all, is a real music fan and there are tracks on here that he specifically said, ‘Oh man it’d be amazing if that was on there’ and I like that, I don’t want to be selfish and say this is what we’re going to do. There are certain bass-heavy tracks that don’t work well with the engine sounds as well as certain frequencies that don’t work and that’s something we don’t really have any control over. We direct the general flow of it and come to them with long lists, at least two or three times the actual music that gets into the game, and go through it with them during the play testing of the game.
Click here to listen to the Best Of Forza Horizon 2 playlist ahead of its launch. It looks like there has been some fantastic development since the first one.The massive open world racing game Forza Horizon 2 is set for release in Australia on the 2nd of October. I think the game’s going to do really well.
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