Forza Horizon 3
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Forza Horizon 3 is a racing developed by Playground Games, released 27 September 2016 on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Forza Horizon 3 is
Forza Horizon 3 is a racing game developed by Playground Games and released in 2016. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Forza Horizon 3 is a 2016 racing game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox One and Windows. It is the ninth instalment in the Forza series and the third instalment in the Forza Horizon sub-series. The game is set in a fictionalised Australia, where the player is the leader of the titular Horizon car festival and has to expand the festival by completing events to earn fans. Like previous Forza Horizon games, it features an open world environment where players can freely roam the map.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Forza series
Forza Horizon 3 is the 19th of 62 entries we hold in the Forza series. The next entry was Forza Horizon 3: Blizzard Mountain in 2016. Its critic score of 89 is 3 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is Forza Horizon 5 at 94.
How it was received
Forza Horizon 3 holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 220 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 106 hrs.
What it launched against
Forza Horizon 3 launched on 27 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Mafia III and FIFA 17. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Persona 5, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Mafia III, FIFA 17.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Forza Horizon 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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