Horizon 7 in Germany: Reclaiming Unrestricted Freedom and the Ultimate Stage for the Festival
Dear Playground Games Team,
As a passionate enthusiast of the Forza Horizon series, I am writing to share a focused, high-level vision for the future of the franchise. While Forza Horizon 6 showcased incredible technical achievements, its geographical setting inherently shifted the series toward low-speed technical driving and dense, narrow environments.
For Forza Horizon 7, I strongly urge the team to head to Germany—a country that is peerless in its ability to fulfill the true, core philosophy of the Horizon Festival: unrestricted speed, breathtaking scale, and automotive euphoria.
Here is why Germany represents the ultimate, definitive stage for the next generation of Horizon:
1. The Ultimate Playground of Speed: The Unrestricted Autobahn
The absolute soul of Horizon is the freedom to open the throttle and feel the raw power of the world’s greatest machines. Germany possesses the ultimate automotive holy grail: the Autobahn. A massive, accurately scaled, unrestricted highway network would completely redefine the endgame and high-speed cruising experience. It would provide the perfect, boundary-free canvas for modern hypercars, sleeper builds, and high-horsepower beasts to finally stretch their mechanical legs and push their top-speed limits in a way that narrow, claustrophobic maps simply cannot allow.
2. A Masterclass in Geographical Contrast
Germany offers an incredible tapestry of landscapes that perfectly balance pristine asphalt racing with rugged off-road exploration. The map potential is staggeringly diverse:
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The Mystical Black Forest (Schwarzwald): Dense, sweeping canopy roads that create an incredible sense of speed, transitioning into technical, misty rally stages through the timberlines.
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The Historical Rhine Valley: Gorgeous, flowing tarmac winding alongside the river, overlooked by sweeping medieval castles and vineyard terraces—offering a stark, beautiful contrast to hypercars flying past.
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Industrial Horizons & Modern Hubs: Contrasting the historic countryside with the brutalist, gritty architecture of industrial Ruhr regions or the hyper-modern, neon-lit skylines of Frankfurt and Berlin for urban street racing.
3. The Pilgrimage: A Direct Link to the NĂĽrburgring Nordschleife
For racing fans, Germany is a land of pilgrimage. Imagine an open-world Horizon map where players can seamlessly drive from a festival hub directly onto a beautifully integrated, open-world adaptation of the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Having the “Green Hell” exist as the ultimate, looming end-game championship route within the open world would be a monumental milestone for the franchise, blending track culture seamlessly with festival energy.
4. Returning to the “Grand Scale” Festival Vibe
The Horizon Festival shines brightest when it feels massive,豪放 (bold), and celebratory. Germany’s wide-open country fields, sweeping open tarmac, and deep European car culture provide the exact sense of grand scale needed to make the festival feel like a massive global phenomenon again. It allows for giant cross-country events, massive high-speed speed traps, and an overarching feeling of liberating open-world freedom.
Playground Games has always excelled at capturing the distinct soul of a nation’s landscape. Bringing the festival to Germany would not just be a shift in location; it would be a return to the glorious, high-speed, boundary-free open-world ethos that made Forza Horizon a legendary franchise.
Thank you for your incredible craft, and I truly hope to see us all sprinting down the unrestricted lanes of Germany in the next chapter.
Sincerely,
A Passionate Horizon Driver