14 DAY TRIAL // Turn 10 Studios, the developer of the upcoming Forza Motorsport 5 racing game for the Xbox One, has confirmed that the title's technology is quite adaptable and that it can also support monthly DLC car packs, like the ones that appeared for Forza Motorsport 4 or Forza Horizon.
Racing games tend to have big rosters of cars but, in recent years, most of them have relied on DLC to augment the list of vehicles from their standard editions.
Forza Motorsport 5, the next-gen iteration in the long running series, can also support such a rhythmic DLC release schedule, according to Turn 10 Studios boss Dan Greenawalt, who talked with OXM.
"The game is very configurable," Greenawalt said. "So we can add new tools and road locales and regions for like a van class. I think the diversity is a big part of our strength. We have incredible depth across multiple axes. We have the depth of our garage diversity – we do traditionally have SUVs, cars, trucks, racecars, all sorts."
Turn 10 wants to deliver a diverse lineup of cars, according to Greenawalt, and this goal can also be achieved by launching outlandish DLCs with vans and other such vehicles.
"We have the diversity in manufacturers – it's not like we have 75 of some given manufacturer, we tend to really spread our bed across a lot of manufacturers. And we have a diversity of depth across time, because we do monthly updates of cars, because the car industry is always changing."
"So being able to do monthly cars allows us to do wild cards like the transit van," he continued. "And it's not like it was a strategy like 'let's add wild things later' – it just happens. We get interest in it, we talk as a team. The nice thing is the game is so configurable that we can add things at will. We can add ten cars a month, just constantly releasing stuff, and the game will rearrange itself."
While it's not a confirmation that monthly DLCs will be released for Forza Motorsport 5, it's quite obvious that Turn 10 plans on launching lots of new cars after the game's release in November, alongside the Xbox One.