Vast dune seas flow into volcanic mountains, and back down into gnarled jungles. But by not being stuck in the samey fields of Great Britain, FH5's Mexico is bursting with the kind of variety a game like this craves. Nat Clayton, Features Producer: Like Fraser, I wasn't sure I'd vibe with a Forza that doesn't let me literally drive up my back garden (even if Horizon 4's Edinburgh cuts off just before my flat). I might be stuck in my flat, the weather might be atrocious, but in-game I'm doing donuts around ancient pyramids and racing my mates through jungles and pristine beaches. Forza Horizon 5's Mexico absolutely shits on green and grey Blighty, and it nearly makes up for how I've not left this country in nearly two years. It turns out that the novelty of exploring a familiar place in a videogame can be outdone by exploring a place that's just more exciting to drive through. From a story perspective it's sort of bizarre (I'm a racing celebrity who literally drops from the heavens and, in the course of a few hours, is buying or just being given multiple houses), but you can't deny the appeal of a frictionless, upbeat racer in our current, dreary world state.įraser Brown, Online Editor: After Forza Horizon 4 let me drive around my former home of Edinburgh, I thought I'd found my favourite racing romp. For an open world game, Forza is obsessed with dropping a railroad track line of prizes in front of you. From minute one you're being praised and awarded stuff: free cars, mastery points, abandoned antique cars (barn-finders, keepers), clothes and emotes, the constant, almost creepy attention of radio DJs and a constant drip of XP for even the most innocuous actions, like obliterating a Mexican cactus. Those inconveniences aside, Forza is the most utterly uncynical game I played all year, an uninterrupted stream of cheerfulness. Such is the nature of modern games, I guess, especially under covid. There's a ton of beauty in the Mexican map and a whole lot to do, even though I spent my first few hours on a joyride for no other reason than the thrill of the drive and the beauty of the landscape.Įvan Lahti, Global Editor-in-Chief: My biggest complaint is how wonky the convoy system was for weeks after launch, and the fact that you couldn't use a steering wheel with it initially. That Forza Horizon 5 feels very much like a shinier version of that same game, well, that's all I could've asked for. Jacob Ridley, Senior Hardware Editor: Ahead of Forza Horizon 5's release, I was still playing Forza Horizon 4.
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