Rally DLC for Forza Horizon detailed

Playground Games' design director Ralph Fulton has explained what players can expect when the rally DLC launches for Forza Horizon next month.

The new content, due out 18 December, will add stage-by-stage rallies to the critically acclaimed racer.

Fulton said that the aim was to add a pure rally experience for players to enjoy.

"We're trying to put together a really enthralling rally package," he told IGN. "I think there's an opportunity to go much deeper into that pure rally experience.

"That's maybe something we didn't have the chance to do in the broader context of Horizon itself but we identified that pure, one-car-on-a-rally-route, really intense rally experience that you can get if you go deep into rally, is something that I think a lot of people are going to respond to and really look forward to."

The expansion won't be part of Horizon's open-world, instead it will be available in a new mode titled the Horizon Rally Championship.

"It's not going to be part of the open world, because obviously we're changing quite a lot of the world and that's going to make synching up between people who have and don't have the pack difficult.

"So instead you're going to choose to enter the Horizon Rally Championship. That's going to take you off into a separate mode in which you get to experience the new routes and the new terrain that we've built."

The rally expansion will be priced at 1600 Microsoft Points upon release. Check out our Forza Horizon review here.