The soundtrack of a game is often an overlooked part of what makes things tick, and it’s the same here. But then when you do slow down to enjoy the view, the draw distances are breathtaking, and leaping from the top of a mountain, it almost seems that you have time to ring your insurance company before you hit the ground below.
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It helps that it looks sensational on Xbox Series X|S, with everything moving at such a speed. There is no other racing game that has ever allowed the player to have so much fun ‘just looking around’. There is seemingly no end to the terrains that FH5 brings to life: small Mexican towns go past in a blur as you scream down a coastline hugging highway, before taking to the jungle and swamp land, which gives way to a desert and an active volcano. That is, however, exactly what they’ve done with Forza Horizon 5.įorza Horizon 5 is set in Mexico, and from the opening sequence where various cars are parachuted into the world, across different biomes, the real star of the game apart from the cars, is the beautiful countryside. I mean, if your previous game was rubbish, then making a better one should be fairly straightforward, right? Well, imagine working at Playground Games and having to follow the brilliance of Forza Horizon 4. Now, in the world of game development, I imagine it’s pretty hard to follow a game as successful as the previous Horizon games. After the triumph of Forza Horizon 4, the difficult follow up is here in the form of Forza Horizon 5. Any game that allows me to start a review with a quote from a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is already off to a good start.