Racing fans will soon be able to take state of the art cars like the Lamborghini Centenario and 2017 Ford Raptor for a virtual spin on some very familiar stretches of road, with Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios today announcing the new game Forza Horizon 3 will be set throughout Australia. 
While the main Forza Motorpsort series aims to be a realistic simulation of professional driving, the Horizon spinoff series is all about doing things at your own pace. Which is to say incredibly fast, and often through everyone's fences.
The game follows a group of rich kids and their cars as they put on a cheerful festival of incredibly dangerous street racing, which in the first two games took place in the USA and Italy respectively.
Now the festival is headed down under, and Turn 10 studio head Alan Hartman says that having Australia as the backdrop "allowed us to create the largest, most diverse, beautiful, and fun open world we've ever built".
Forza fans have previously been able to get a taste of home in the Motorpsort series, with Bathurst and V8s both featuring. But given the much looser premise of the Horizon series, players will soon get to live out their fantasies of gunning a highly-tuned sports car (or a jeep, or kart, or any of the 350 included vehicles) through the bush, across the beach and over iconic paths like the Great Ocean Road.
While full details on the game will be laid out ahead of its   September release, previous games in the series have allowed players to build a garage of their favourite cars, drive them freely around the countryside and engage in outlandish racing events (like a circuit throw crops or a race against a military jet) to progress in the festival.
Turn 10, which collaborates on the Horizon titles with Playground Games, has said that the player actually takes the role of the festival's organiser this time, meaning they have the power to tweak many of the events to their own liking before taking part.
A demonstration of the game at Xbox's pre-E3 briefing showed off the ability for four people to play the game's main campaign mode together online, scouring the countryside looking for secrets, racing each other in events or going their own separate ways and only meeting up occasionally.
The game takes advantage of the newly-announced Xbox Play Anywhere feature, meaning once you buy the game you can play it on Xbox One or a Windows 10 PC, and all your progress and content syncs to the cloud. Players can connect and play together regardless of the platform they're using.
The game will also display in HDR if you have a compatible TV and pick up the new model Xbox One S.
The author travelled to Los Angeles courtesy of Microsoft.
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