Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport 6 has you racing — and fishtailing — in realistic rain

Some may scoff, but pulling off realistic rain is something no one has done yet in a racing sim. And it’s the latest feature that Microsoft is touting for its highly anticipated Forza Motorsport 6.

Dan Greenawalt, the creative director at the publisher’s Turn 10 Studios, showed off the latest gameplay for Forza Motorsport 6 at the Xbox One parent’s press event today at Gamescom, the big trade show in Cologne, Germany.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.