Without the seasonal restrictions, for instance, I'd never have bothered tuning any of my cars. We've had plenty of looter shooters, but Forza Horizon is slowly turning into the first looter racer, and it suits the series well-giving you reasons to think about your garage and what fits your next goal. The seasonal playlist, then, succeeds by forcing you out of your comfort zone, and making you think about how to overcome the restrictions. In another, I fought through the mud in an A-class modern sports car to win a 'steam boat' car horn.Įlsewhere, you're free to pick your class and the game will pit you against relevant opponents. In one seasonal championship, I battled the pouring rain in a B-class classic muscle car to win a Ford 'Hoonicorn' V2 that's become a mainstay of my drift zone attempts. It's summer in-game right now, which means it's the wet season in Horizon's Mexico. Each week takes place in a new season and offers a variety of events and challenges, usually with restrictions to class, type and difficulty. The seasonal playlist is the heart of Forza Horizon 5's live service. But, thanks to the restrictions present in the seasonal playlist, you're encouraged to chase many different makes and models. You'll likely get an S2 class car-one of the best and fastest-in your first hours. Difficulty too is fully customisable, with assists and 'drivatar' difficulty options carrying over from previous games-as does the cash bonus for making things harder for yourself.Ĭollecting new cars, then, is more about broadening your options than upgrading to newer and better vehicles. Serious attention has been given to accessibility options with scalable colour filtering, subtitle size and keyword highlighting and screen reader, text-to-speech and speech-to-text options.

I haven't been able to test on less powerful cards, but Forza Horizon 5 offers a highly customisable suite of graphics settings, from regular options like shadow quality, reflections and anisotropic filtering, to more granular settings such as environment geometry quality, deformable terrain quality and SSR quality.īeyond graphics, it's an impressive suite of options on offer. Perhaps unsurprisingly, performance was smooth on an RTX 3080Ti-achieving 94 fps in benchmarks on the highest, Extreme, settings at 1440p.

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