The Japanese concept of kaizen – continuous improvement – could be used to describe the evolution of the Forza Horizon franchise. It is a series that began with a simple concept. Playground Games wanted to build an open-world racer that was truer to life than its peers using the ForzaTech engine.
It offered the realism of a sim but livened the genre’s cold edges with a vibrant environment full of activities celebrating car culture. Since then, Playground Games has taken on the kaizen ethos, continually improving every facet of the series. It has gone from an amusing spin-off to a Microsoft tentpole franchise and game of the year winner, a rarity for a racing game.
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