Is Forza Motorsport secretly a dating sim? Turn 10 is very keen for you to ‘have a relationship with your car'
Turn 10 Studios wants you to have a relationship with your car. It wants you to fall in love with it. Seriously. In a behind-closed-doors presentation after the Xbox Games Showcase, Forza Motorsport general manager Dan Greenawalt and creative director Chris Esaki really wanted to emphasise that this is a game where you fall in love with your car, and treat it like a lover.
To really drive this point home (pun intended), there’s one big difference in Forza Motorsport compared to the other Turn 10 and PlayGround Games titles that have come before; you build your cars, you don’t buy them. The hope here is that you get to know them inside out – that you have pored over and pondered every single element that makes up your vehicle, that you feel the hum and bite of every last bit of assembly when you’re taking it around the track.
But let’s step back a bit. There’s a whole new progression loop in Forza Motorsport 2023, per the developers. “Level, build, dominate.” That language is perhaps a bit violent or over-bearing for a romantic relationship, but hey – different strokes for different folks, right? This means that, from the beginning of your career right through until the end, you’re coaxed into treating your car like it’s one you actually own, sat out on the road. You don’t want to total it in a race, you don’t want to damage it; you want to get out there every Saturday morning and spend proper time with it, wash it down, sing to it (probably).
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