00:00Did you notice the strong undercurrent of anime in the Forza Horizon 6 gameplay reveal
00:05at Xbox Developer Direct?
00:07Yeah, me too.
00:08The few seconds we saw of the nighttime toge battle mode looked like a straight-up adaptation
00:13of Initial D, and the whole thing ended on what appears to be a full-sized Gundam.
00:18There was never any question that fans would turn an open-world racing game set in Japan
00:22into Initial D. The wildly popular anime series is all about street racing and is best known
00:28for its depictions of dangerous one-on-one races down mountain roads in the dark of night,
00:33but Forza Horizon 6 has an explicit toge battle mode, Playground Games has confirmed.
00:40There aren't many details on what the mode entails, but the dev said that these will be
00:44iconic nighttime races down Japanese mountain passes.
00:48As if the inspiration wasn't clear enough, the gameplay footage shown focuses on a Toyota
00:54AE86, the iconic car at the center of Initial D. Sure, a tribute to a beloved racing series
01:00in a Forza Horizon game makes sense, but the wild bit is the teaser at the very end of the
01:06gameplay breakdown. A car sits on an aged bit of road with a cracked asphalt, and we zoom
01:11out to see what appeared to be the feet of a full-sized Gundam striding up behind.
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