These niggles don’t really matter though. When going back to a mission, I still can’t skip a cutscene pre or post-challenge – something our very own Justin Sutton will be very disappointed about. However, I still didn’t care for the characters one iota. Here, while that is still a key element and I was given a Supra, Bronco and a Corvette within the first five minutes, Horizon 5 heralds genuine, satisfying, progression thanks to a set campaign.Ī lot of the talk ahead of launch by Playground Games was about an expanded story, and how it takes you through Mexican culture. Then, though, I felt the main goal was often car collection. My main bugbear with the fourth instalment was the rapid progression, as within 90 minutes I already owned a Koenigsegg and that could win nearly every event in the game. Only a little, though, and that’s a marked improvement over the previous FH title three years ago. I appreciate the need to try and hook you in immediately, and if you simply play the first four hours you’re going to be more excited than an eight-year-old after a tube of M&Ms, however, you can get a little lost.
I think you could easily lose track of what each element does and your priorities if you aren’t already part of the Horizon cognoscenti. But it can be overwhelming and if you’ve never played a Horizon game before – as I’m sure many of those with Game Pass will attest – most of what I’ve said already will sound like a different language.Ī concerted effort has been made to reveal each element to you over time, bit by bit, the speed of which is still a little too fast. On paper then, you have the most feature-complete racing game of all time. There’s just so much to do and you can’t move a single millimetre without some kind of number scrolling, pop up, radio DJ or phone call. There’s a new Car Collection Panini-aping metagame. Here you can create and share, or simply find, fun levels that seem to always involve bowling pins in one way or another in an attempt to recreate something like Trackmania’s Royal Mode.Īll the time, you are earning cash to buy houses with, or cars, or clothing for your avatar. It means a regular single-player race event can become a network-connected team event. Or the Horizon Tour that groups together several events for an online championship with up to five other players.Ĭo-op. Or the Wheelspins and Super Wheelspins unlocked through level progression. I haven’t yet mentioned the Super7 card challenge game, Festival Playlist monthly events or the online battle-royale Eliminator, all carried across from Forza Horizon 4. They start on a regular basis throughout your day and also emerge on the map. Then there’s Forza Arcade that implements cool online team events, like smashing Piñatas or achieving a cumulative drifting score. As you explore the area, you are gaining XP for partaking in PR stunts and hidden Barn Finds crop up on your map.Īlso appearing will be Drivatar rivals you can challenge on a whim or real humans playing online in your world and requesting events via Forza Link.
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This isn’t linear and sits alongside a whole host of themed racing series to take part in. There’s the main story to complete, incorporating Showcase events and the new Expedition adventures. But five releases in, and the game has added more layers than a kilo of onions. The basics remain in many ways the same as ever. Yes, this is an open-world racing game, and yes there are cars and races to compete in. Upon starting the game, you can’t help but think that you actually can have too much of a good thing.Īs you progress, however, you’ll soon find the game’s natural rhythm, find a flow, and be enveloped in one of the richest driving experiences yet. If the sheer enormity of the environment doesn’t intimidate you, the number of challenges, events, experience bonuses, points and options popping in your face certainly will do. The spec sheet reads like an Apple Event comparison chart where Tim Cook compares the number of megapixels in the latest iPhone vs the first-ever model. It features the longest highway in a Horizon title and the volcano is the highest point ever seen in a Horizon release too. The largest map for a Horizon game ever is almost too much to handle. In many ways, Forza Horizon 5 is the same.
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