Forza Horizon 5 Reviews

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Gorgeous game, phenomenal races, huge variety of cars, beautiful open world, what else can a car enthusiast ask for? Forza 5 knocks it out of the ball park!

The biggest problem with the game is time to race. Fast travel is gated with money and having to find collectibles which is just a huge annoyance and for no real reason. Even once you've unlocked fast travel, the time from selecting an event, selecting a car and actually racing is just too long. Overall Horizon is a better game than most the NFS games but even the middling ones are a lot better about letting you go from race to race to race and start them MUCH much quicker, and isn't that why we're all here anyway? To race? Forget all this "vibes" and dress up nonsense. There ARE a lot of cars though. Perhaps too many. Who really wants to race the lower tier cars? Maybe some but the vast majority is just filler. The DLCs are just okay. If I had it to do over again I'd just buy the main game on sale instead of the Premium Edition. Most of the extra modes are trash as well. Hide and Seek is awful.

It’s super fun and hard to stop playing once you start!

I would like to love this game, on paper it should be everything I would want in a free roaming car game, open world, loads and loads of cars, tuning and custom parts, cruising with other petrol-heads etc... but.. it's just not. Where to start, first of all it is one of the most cringe game I have in my library. Why does everything need to be woke? it is a car game?! I could go into details of all the irrational game design decisions but saving you the mega rant. For me it breaks the whole experience right there already. the cherry on top is the non skip-able cut scenes and most terrible "story" imaginable. So I was hoping the car aspect would make me look over this Forza woke fest, and in some aspects it delivers, but in complete Forza style with less attention to detail and weird physics. I know it isn't a high end simulation game, for example I love Dirt Rally 2 and BeamMG. But come on, this could be a great winding down and fun game except the racing is rubber banding to the max. If you hit the side rails you go flying through it like a cardboard box, same goes for lots of trees. It doesnt give you any sense of trying not to hit anything. just meh racing. Also the menu/UI is terrible and overly complex. billions and billions of pop-ups, flashy nonsense and more cringe confetti. I had to google how to progress some aspects of the game. In the end it doesn't matter though... All of it could be bearable just for messing around, because the rest is what it is, but no, the game keeps crashing over and over again. I am typing this review after crashing in the middle of an online race, furious but also a bit sad knowing this game is not giving me any fun at all.

This is a game for profoundly damaged minds, hyperstimulating malicious design everywhere. Every 2 seconds some gambling mechanic gets shoved in your face or some intrusive thing flashes on the screen begging you for your attention. The tragedy here is that underneath all of that exhausting crap there's a really good core. The driving physics are fun and there are plenty of cars and game modes in a pretty good world, the game just can't seem to get out of its own way for long enough to let you enjoy that. It's like when a really attractive person is super insecure and gets a bunch of plastic surgery that makes them look like a total freak. What a shame. Also they sold a car pass then decided they wanted to squeeze players for even more money so they just made up some arbitrary new way to sell them without honoring the car pass. That was super dishonest and scummy. Forza Horizon 5 feels like it was made by skilled designers who actually cared, but then it was irreparably tainted by evil imposed from above.

Environment: Worse than FH4 but still incredible Gameplay: It's Forza Horizon, it will always be amazing Story: The plot is almost nonexistent and its very easy to tell what's going on Graphics: Weirdly enough I think FH4 has better graphics, though worse UI I'd say it's definitely worth buying this when it's on sale, the wheel support alone is enough of a reason to get this

Full disclosure: I'm not a racing guy. I'm not a car guy, even. My extent of car knowledge begins and ends at "vroom-vroom go that way." But that's all you need to know for this game. I can tune the holy bejeezus out of a million sliders that mean absolutely nothing to me, or I can just equip a premade setting by someone who does and suddenly the vroom-vrooms are *better*. Not sure when to brake or start a turn? Easy, there's a friendly line. Follow the line, make less vroom-vrooms when it's red, everything's gravy. Don't have the reaction time to follow the line? You can slow the game down until it's at a pace where you can. Incredible. You can be as serious as you want with it. Me, I'm taking my van that's dolled up to look like the Mystery Machine and ramping it off a volcano.

10/10 - Fun collecting cool and rare cars - Love cruising around with the versatile radio - Lots of content and Lots of unique races - Well its not a sim, but tries to be a sim- arcade hybrid You love cars ? Blindly buy it

There's so many car packs that are supposed to be free, at least to who bought the deluxe edition. But the most unacceptable thing is the game bans ppl for NO REASON!!! I hadn't played it for weeks and when I came online again, it told me my gamertag has been banned, meaning I can't use all of the online features. I never cheated or did anything bad. Then I saw plenty of ppl online also have this issue. It's unbelievable for a big game like this to have such ridiculous system.