Forza Motorsport gets October 10, 2023, release date

The photorealistic sim racer is almost ready to go

Marco Wutz | Jun 11, 2023

Forza Motorsport gets October 10, 2023, release date /

Sim racing game Forza Motorsport will be released on October 10, 2023, for PC and Xbox Series X|S, Microsoft has announced. Developed by Turn 10 Studios and described as the “most technically advanced racing game ever made” by its creative director, Chris Esaki, it’s technically the eight entry into the sim racing focused Forza spin-off series.

Since the current trend in the video games industry is to use no numbers at all in titles or begin again at “1”, Forza Motorsport has the same exact name as the 2005 original, so don’t get confused – this is not a remake or a remaster and more like a reboot. Offering over 500 vehicles and 800 upgrades at launch, the game certainly has plenty of cars to choose from. About 100 of these will be brand-new to the series, most of the others have been in previous titles and will be familiar to veteran players and car enthusiasts.

Aside from multiplayer modes that range from casual races to hyper-realistic competitive affairs, Forza Motorsport will feature a single-player career mode as well.

It’s been three years since the game was initially announced at a Xbox Games Showcase, but a relatively steady stream of news and footage has kept racing game fans happy and excited in the meantime, such as an impressive five-minute gameplay video shown off in 2022.

Naturally, the release date announcement was accompanied by plenty of beautiful footage you can check out here:

Make sure to visit videogames.si.com for more coverage of all Xbox Games Showcase announcements and reveals.

Published Jun 11, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg