Forza Horizon 5 Review (Xbox Series S)

This Forza Horizon 5 Review has us taking on breathtaking expeditions across the vibrant and ever-evolving open-world landscapes of Mexico with limitless, fun driving action in hundreds of the world’s greatest cars.

Forza Horizon 5 Review Pros:

  • Gorgeous graphics.
  • 101.6GB download size.
  • 1000 Gamerscore.
  • Driving gameplay.
  • The opening sequence is where you race a handful of cars and get tips on controls.
  • Further tutorial pop-ups as you play.
  • Pick your starting car from a selection of 3.
  • Has a rewind feature.
  • Create your avatar and has full prosthetic and gender identity choices.
  • Six views including in car with highly detailed dashboards.
  • Can set the difficulty and race settings before each event.
  • Open world.
  • 9 difficulties, driving assist preset, braking, steering, traction control, stability control, shifting, driving line, rewind and damage tire wear that affects bonus credits.
  • Colorblind support along with sliders for Deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia.
  • Subtitles on/off but you can also adjust the text size, keyword highlighting, and text background.
  • Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders along with deadzone sliders, can rebind buttons, change how gears work, and also set the acceleration sensitivity.
  • Graphics mode – performance or quality.
  • Play how you want.
  • Seemless online integration.
  • The World is populated with Ai players using your friend’s list gamer tags.
  • Earn EXP and level up for rewards.
  • Roads will show up as highlighted when traveled on, earn rewards for driving all the roads.
  • Skill points are earned from doing tricks, racing, speed, and more. Use skill points to unlock unique rewards for each car.
  • Can set your own routes and have a driving line show on the roads.
  • EXP boards are hidden around and give an instant reward. They show on the map when you drive near them.
  • Full photo mode.
  • Your character is fully Voiced and a part of the proceedings.
  • Photo challenges.
  • Horizon adventure chapter is the main story and you unlock them by doing other events and earning accolade points.
  • Loyalty rewards for owning or playing the previous games.
  • Wheelspin and super Wheelspins give out random rewards.
  • Collect cars and fill up your garage with all the cars in a brand for rewards.
  • The accolade points chart will auto-complete as you do the objectives.
  • Free fast travel tokens to find in the world.
  • All set in Mexico.
  • Speed trap zone events where you race as fast as you can between two points. Supports leaderboards and you can earn 1 – 3 stars.
  • Race events can be done in solo, Co-op, PVP, rivals, and route creation.
  • A Festival map is a big colorful map and allows you to pick territories to play in which act as a racing discipline like street racing or off-road.
  • Objectives especially within the festival will have optional accolades to earn.
  • Gift drops appear in special barns that can be found where you get gifts and can send a car gift to – anyone, new players, returning players, a new hall of farmers, and community contributors.
  • Seasons are back with weather changes and events that earn points for rewards.

Forza Horizon 5 Review Cons:

  • Cannot skip the cutscenes.
  • Very overwhelming as the map fills with icons.
  • Gets way too addictive.
  • Not always clear how and where you buy cars.
  • Feels a lot like the last game in a new environment.
  • A lot of the dialogue is pure cheese.
  • Actually jumping into o line sessions still feels alien and isn’t very accommodating.
  • It costs a lot to unlock fast travel and even then you have to Google on what to do.

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Forza Horizon 5:

Official website.

Developer: Turn 10

Publisher: Microsoft

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Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!

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