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#FORZA HORIZON 2 SERVERS SOFTWARE#

It was clearly a generational leap from the Xbox 360, both in terms of power and the feature set. What was your assessment of the Xbox One hardware when you first got your hands on it, and to what extent could you tap into Turn 10's experience with the kit? This is all part of the fun of working with cutting-edge technology, and makes big-budget game development challenging and interesting. The upshot of this was that we were not exactly settled on our final processes and budgets like we would have been had we created a same-platform sequel, but our pre-production estimates were very close.

#FORZA HORIZON 2 SERVERS SOFTWARE#

As each new hardware and software revision became available we tested our assumptions and began to outline our budgets. We created a whole bunch of calculations to estimate final hardware performance and some benchmark assets. However, we were working closely with the Turn 10 team and had early access to a lot of platform information so we could extrapolate to a fair degree of accuracy where we would end up. When making our initial plans it was certainly fairly tricky to assess exactly where we'd end up from a performance standpoint. There's a gap of sorts between the release of Forza Horizon on 360 and the release of dev hardware based on final XO silicon - how did this impact your pre-production? Many thanks to Playground's Alan Roberts (technical director), Matt Craven (chief engineer), Andy Sage (lead rendering engineer) and John Longcroft-Neal (senior rendering engineer) for indulging us with this avalanche of technical info.

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Playground Games is established, and it has the benefit of handing in its first Xbox One title almost a full year after the hardware shipped, while also benefiting from experience with the platform inherited from Turn 10. There's a sense of confidence and accomplishment about this new Forza sequel. It was a calculated gamble by Microsoft and Turn 10, yielding instantly impressive results. It remains a remarkable story - the creation of a brand new studio located thousands of miles away from the Forza development mother base, immediately handed the keys to one of the most valuable franchises in console gaming. We've interviewed developer Playground Games before of course, when the original Forza Horizon debuted towards the end of the Xbox 360's lifecycle.

Forza Horizon 2 improves on the raw, unadulterated fun of its predecessor - an intoxicating fusion of arcade-style gameplay based on the intricate Forza Motorsport simulation - and melds it with some of the most impressive rendering technology yet seen on the eighth generation of games consoles. It's the tech interview we've been chasing down for a while now - especially in the wake of that superb playable demo, released a few weeks back.

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