



The franchise has sold 16 million copies as of December 2016 and has garnered critical acclaim. The franchise is primarily divided into two ongoing titles the original Forza Motorsport series developed by American developer Turn 10 Studios, which focuses on primarily professional-style track racing events and series around a variety of both real and fictional tracks, and the Forza Horizon series developed by British developer Playground Games, which revolves around a fictional racing and music festival called the "Horizon Festival" and features open world environments set in fictional representations of real-world areas in which players may freely roam and participate in racing events. The series seeks to emulate the performance and handling characteristics of many real-life production, modified, and racing cars. Forza ( / ˈ f ɔːr t s ə/ FORT-sə, Italian: Italian for "force" and "strength") is a series of simulation racing games for Xbox consoles and Microsoft Windows published by Xbox Game Studios.
