Forza Horizon 6's Japan map is the series' best yet

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Subscribe to our newsletter After roughly four hours spent with a Forza Horizon 6 preview build I explored 84 of 673 roads.

I crashed into 7 of 200 XP boards, and mowed down two of hundreds of mascots.

I visited 17 of 74 districts and criss-crossed through all seven of the map's regions.

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I drove three cars from a total of "more than" 550 (the preview build only had three).

I was constantly, amply rewarded XP for crashing into things.

I also got XP for narrowly avoiding crashing into things, and—almost as an afterthought—going very fast and racing very well.Five years have passed since the release of Forza Horizon 5, and a lot has changed in the world.

But save for a change of scenery almost nothing has changed in Forza Horizon 6, which I played on an Xbox Series X because a PC build wasn't provided.That scenery is pretty important, though.

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Japan is the new setting, and the map pivots around a condensed version of Tokyo.

The city sprawls like no urban centre in a Forza game has done before ## Editor's Note The implications of this news could be significant for the industry. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/racing/forza-horizon-6s-japan-map-is-the-series-best-yet/)