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:
Developer: Turn 10
Publisher: Microsoft
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