[STEAM] Forza Horizon 6 Releases Zoomed Out Image of Full Japan Map — and Fans Are Trying to Work Out Just How Big It Is

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As players start revving up for

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next month, developer Playground Games has shared our best look yet at its full Japanese map.

Forza Horizon 6 takes the Horizon Festival to "scenic and breathtaking" Japan from May 19 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. While we've seen plenty of snippets of the game and a handful of the 550 real-world cars you'll be using, this is the first time Playground has shared the full map, showing how we'll shift gears from the urban city sprawl out into the lush green countryside.

"This is Horizon Japan! From the iconic downtown streets of Tokyo City all the way to the snowy Japanese Alps, Forza Horizon 6 introduces our most dense and vertical map yet,"

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alongside a distant but detailed map of the upcoming racing game.

Fans have, of course, been busy zooming in to get a feel for the circuit,

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" but devilishly difficult areas, with some

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that it seems a little "small," particularly the city itself. That said, we don't have any kind of scale here, so it's impossible to know exactly how it'll size up to its predecessors.

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Some fans are

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people that Tokyo is supposed to be "four times the size of the city in Horizon 5," and another helpfully

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Forza Horizon 5's map over the new one, using the airports' runways to guesstimate the positioning and give us a better sense of size and scale.

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-embed-wrapper iframe { margin-left: 0 !important; } We also get to see Mt. Akina, the Nikko or Tsukuba circuit (no one's entirely sure which one it is!), and some really densely packed, intricate roads, plus a "circular" highway that appears to encircle the entire map.

"This map looks incredible. I ain’t lying when I say that the devs did a near flawless job making Japan look like a toybox of biomes and driving joy," said one excited

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. "Tokyo City looks like a maze, we got plenty of snaking touges, the alpine biome up top is beautiful, the stadium looks like it will serve a similar purpose to FH5 (pretty nice carryon), dock area is fire, and tbh, I’m glad there’s still a fair amount of off-roading routes.

"I get people are gonna have their hangups about seeing a new map for the first time, but perhaps, maybe, perchance, y’all are too quick to judge. I reckon that when people start driving around and seeing these places in detail, the true beauty of FH6 will be known."

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at

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