Focus Leisure has partnered with Maverick Video games to publish CLUTCH, a brand-new open-world racing sport from a studio filled with former Forza Horizon expertise.
The sport is seeking to launch in Spring 2027 on PS5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC, marking Focus Leisure’s first main step into the open-world racing style.
Should you haven’t heard about Maverick Video games but, it was based by a bunch of veteran builders together with former Forza Horizon inventive director Mike Brown, so you understand what they’re doing on the subject of automobile video games.
Investing into an precise story
What’s attention-grabbing about CLUTCH is that fairly than merely giving us one other huge map full of races, it’s going large on its story which is being written by Jamie Brittain, co-creator of British TV collection Skins.
You’ll tackle the function of a brand new technology racing outsider dwelling one thing of a double life. Through the day, you’ll compete on the highest ranges {of professional} motorsport, whereas evening sees you enter a extra harmful underground racing scene constructed round status.
There’ll nonetheless be loads for these extra curious about automobiles than characters, after all. Maverick Video games is promising deep automobile customisation, permitting you to change your automobiles whereas shaping your individual development by the sport.
Focus Leisure Deputy CEO Vincent Chataignier mentioned the writer seems to be for creators able to redefining their respective genres, describing Brown and his crew as among the racing style’s “defining inventive voices”.
Brown, in the meantime, mentioned Maverick Video games was based particularly to create the open-world racing expertise its builders had needed to construct for years.
There’s nonetheless loads we don’t find out about CLUTCH, together with precisely the place its open world will likely be positioned and the way its day and evening racing scenes will work in follow, however we’re positive all of this will likely be unveiled sooner or later.
