Forza Horizon 5

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6.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1182 Ratings

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  1. kingoftheking
    Sep 9, 2023
    0
    Soy game for those who don’t know what deodorant is. I advise all Forza players to take a shower and throw away the disc with this garbage. Worst racing game ever.
  2. Havoc-M2
    Aug 31, 2023
    0
    worse than its predecessors, reading content missing from the game that was already in previous titles and selling it as "new" content
    had a good foundation but a new game wasn't really necessary could've just updated the old one.
  3. gugachad
    Aug 1, 2023
    3
    genuinely the worst horizon game for now, i get bored after 5 minutes after driving, ost isnt bad but also not good, game crashes after 20 minutes, play the other horizon games since this is not worth playing
  4. k1erx
    Jul 14, 2023
    3
    графика улучшеная но вот карта в игре плохая и не может показать всю графику игры, мало машин и не интересная игра
  5. YAMASHIDO
    Jul 3, 2023
    2
    bad physics, awful tracks and music, boring races. 2 points for graphics. Servers are kind of forever idle feature to laugh about how game is bad
  6. AidenT06
    May 26, 2023
    0
    Was good but over time this has got more and more buggy just feels like paper over cracks with every update. Game crashes after an hour, game sometimes refuses to start.

    Great when you can get it going. Not so when it doesn't. Frustrating doesn't describe it.
  7. fps_
    May 2, 2023
    0
    When the game works, its great. Unfortunately, it crashes constantly. I worked through every troubleshooting step as well as contacted support who were absolutely useless. 0/10 as a game must be playable to even make the scoreboard.
  8. POMARANCHYT
    Mar 23, 2023
    0
    In my opinion, the developers made the game to make the players suffer. Worst part of the series. There is no good optimization, management has become worse, a lot of things have been "cut out", and they spat in the face of every player.
  9. MarbleXeno
    Feb 5, 2023
    0
    This is a great driving experience with stunning visuals.
    This is not a great game.
    There is absolutely zero new stuff added when compared to FH4 or even FH3. The only thing that's different is the upgraded graphics and improved car sounds. Most of the cars drive the same with zero difference to the handling. The story is trash. It doesn't motivate the player to explore anything    This is a great driving experience with stunning visuals.
    This is not a great game.

    There is absolutely zero new stuff added when compared to FH4 or even FH3. The only thing that's different is the upgraded graphics and improved car sounds.

    Most of the cars drive the same with zero difference to the handling.

    The story is trash. It doesn't motivate the player to explore anything as you already start with "everything" as a special person on the festival.

    The worst thing about this game is the progression system. In less than 5 hours of playing you can get a great car and loose all the motivation to unlock other cars.

    The map is diverse and in some places detailed but still really empty and it can get boring very quickly as it's not big.

    Forza Horizon 5 is not a great game. Stop giving it 10's and 9's only based on its looks.    … Expand
  10. Klazaep
    Dec 8, 2022
    0
    BORING BORING BORING, IT HASENT EVEN BEEN 3 DAYS AND IM BORED OF THE GAME, i loved fh4 but this?!?!??!?!? its not the worst but its SOO BORING MATE
  11. mennybolt
    Nov 6, 2022
    0
    Buggy Crashing Loading Screen Horizon 5. Same game as FH4 just worse in general.
  12. Prophet061
    Sep 2, 2022
    0
    Worst car handling of every game i used to play... Horizon 4 was much better...
  13. Trovaga
    Jul 24, 2022
    4
    More slot machine cosmetics like glitter pimp shoes, purple hip hop jacket and pink fedora
    Same driving as other FH but the map is just boring. It feels all over the place and never makes an area into something believable or interesting like FH 4 and 3 did respectively. Add to that the insanity of the microtransactions and you're paying about 150-200 dollars for a slotmachine reskin.
  14. TURBOKAN
    Jul 15, 2022
    4
    Yeni harita ve sesler dışında 4.oyun ile aynı. Başka bir şey yok. Aynı önceki oyunda olduğu gibi bir festival sahibi birisiniz. Üstelik oyunun size "başlangıç aracı" olarak Corvette, Branco ve Supra veriyor. Yani kısaca amele gibi haritada ki tüm yarışları yapmak dışında bir amacınız yok. Üstelik bu da yetmezmiş gibi PC portunda bir sürü problem var. Gerçekten 3 yılda bunu mu yaptınız?Yeni harita ve sesler dışında 4.oyun ile aynı. Başka bir şey yok. Aynı önceki oyunda olduğu gibi bir festival sahibi birisiniz. Üstelik oyunun size "başlangıç aracı" olarak Corvette, Branco ve Supra veriyor. Yani kısaca amele gibi haritada ki tüm yarışları yapmak dışında bir amacınız yok. Üstelik bu da yetmezmiş gibi PC portunda bir sürü problem var. Gerçekten 3 yılda bunu mu yaptınız? İnsan azıcık farklı bir şeyler yapar. Gerçekten rezalet.… Expand
  15. 3t3rnal
    Jul 5, 2022
    1
    Horizon 5 is both a disappointment and also exactly what I expected.

    From technical standpoint, it is certainly one of the best games currently available. It looks great and it runs great as well, no crashes, no craziness, nothing too buggy, throwing the Bethesda excuse of "our map big, bugs fine because map big" out of the window. However, it also realizes the biggest fears I had    Horizon 5 is both a disappointment and also exactly what I expected.

    From technical standpoint, it is certainly one of the best games currently available. It looks great and it runs great as well, no crashes, no craziness, nothing too buggy, throwing the Bethesda excuse of "our map big, bugs fine because map big" out of the window.

    However, it also realizes the biggest fears I had coming from Horizon 4. It focuses on a couple spectacle events, but regular racing is even more sidelined, the event types, length, etc. are stagnant and it feel like playing Horizon 3 all over again. The progress and building out your collection is even more randomized this time, as you do not earn money from races anymore (as far as I know), and about 90% (by my guesstimate) of anything you get is through random rewards, which is, to me, extremely unsatisfying and unfair, most of the time. I called Horizon 4 a gacha game without microtransactions. Horizon 5 is the same game, but after a patch doubling gacha mechanics after the halfway point in the life of the game, when the publisher knows the game is dying, so they make a last great push to milk the whales dry. Except FH does not have actual microtransactions, as far as I know, at least for now. It certainly feels like they are trying to ready the playerbase for them though, normalizing lootbox rewards and then eventually just switching selling them for IRL money. To be clear, this is just my opinion, I do not have any verifiable information. Either way, the progression feels even worse than in FH4 which was already a repetitive chore with abysmal rewards for the time spent. FH5 is even worse, by a lot.

    The other parts of the gameplay loop, much like the regular races, are also stagnant - the AI is just as bad, except it is now a bit more rubber-bandy, the driving physics were changed a bit and some cars do feel better, but others have moved closer to the ocean liner steering of Forza Motorsport 7, the story is utter cringe, the characters are still San Franciso bicycle riding urbanites pretending to be car enthusiasts, now with the added benefit of a voiced protagonist who is about as relatable as clothing store mannequins - it has a vaguely human shape, and that's about it. The car sound is just as generic and bland as in previous two games. And so on.

    This game isn't even one step forward, two backwards. It's more like standing in place and awkwardly shuffling to the side for a bit, like when rain is falling and you are under a short roof, so you try to squeeze more onto the wall to avoid the last few raindrops still hitting your shoulder, except the wall is covered in some pretty nasty stuff.

    As a gamepass game, where you ignore the story and characters, entertain yourself with the flashy special events in "brain turned off, things go brrm brrm boom, cool" way, play through the races once or perhaps a couple times, to complete the "main campaign" it's okay. However, it has no place being in the AAA price range, and as a live-service game with long-term shelf life, it's terrible progression system and bland main gameplay loop put it squarely among the titans of live-service genre, such as Tom Clancy's Breakpoint.

    As a NFS substitute, 6/10. As a live service game where you actually want to do ALL the things, 3/10. EDIT: Never mind what I said about no technical issues, now the game randomly started taking 10+ minutes to load from an nvme SSD... 1/10    … Expand
  16. JackPlack
    Jun 28, 2022
    2
    -5 points for Microsoft Storage system. Microsoft: do u have brain ? Last time i was looking SSD free space. What ive discovered - some secret place, which cannot be, browsed, deleted, where Forza Horizon 5 was installed. Congratulations i just thinked mostly IE or Pc/XBox game center was **** up. U beat every wrong practices records, and u will probably ruin every owned game studio.-5 points for Microsoft Storage system. Microsoft: do u have brain ? Last time i was looking SSD free space. What ive discovered - some secret place, which cannot be, browsed, deleted, where Forza Horizon 5 was installed. Congratulations i just thinked mostly IE or Pc/XBox game center was **** up. U beat every wrong practices records, and u will probably ruin every owned game studio.

    New review: Why are u killing good game?
    - new challenges - destroyed by for example "dodge demon" best for drag racing and dont tune it. U're kidding? There is no chance to win or there is some dumb acceleration system. Without good fast tuning system its dumb.
    - Im not playing month since new car perks arrived. Give something on exchange. Spending lost 500 perks is bad idea. It wasnst good moment for changes. They could been changed for example 10 cars per weak
    - still its uncomfortable to tune/filter cars. Its maybe IE5 standard, because its Microsoft.
    - there are better reflections maybe now
    - still unfixed player house car/wheels animation

    Old review 9/10
    Better than Forza 4. More impressive graphics, better locations/map, comfortable roads, few fresh
    good ideas. Maybe less realistic or other wheel configuration than 4. Lot of the same problems.
    Problem 0: like 0nline. If online game would not be fixed i will change my mind and give this game 1/10. I'm not paying full price for game pass users. I hate Playstation and now could even more X-Box practices. As usual Microsoft is worse if we're talking about internet. Online is terrible and u use little force to use it with season events. Even if there will be less problems with connection, auctions, matches - matchmaking is also mostly terrible. Long waiting, wrong messages, disconnections, when connected after long time very wrong matchmaking balance, a specially once there was whole team with better car and next with weaker car. There is no game with so much online problems. Also u dont give a good chance to choose proper car. 30seconds - and terrible car list with only one tag. Even offline not tuned car same class has sometimes no chance with weaker cpu opponents. Should be at least 2 more tags or stars. Online matches looks much worse in this case.
    Minor problems:
    Problem 1: gifts - my rule is "catch them all" and u give me lot of gifts, lotteries, cars to get from achievements which should be sold to some AI. Euro Truck Sim 2 has better ideas, less expansive and more addicting. At middle of the game game chests are so boring. In Overwatch it was much earlier.
    Problem 2: wrong car difficulty balance and no tags.
    Problem 3: traction at race start - how it works? This game has most unclear start rules. Usually every car is faster tried maybe every option
    Problem 4: console like menus - too long animations, jumping between menus, sometimes unclear names of season events
    Problem 5: not enough preview options when searching car paint projects. I'm using usually hood view - and they are too pixelated.
    Problem 6 - auctions usually dont work and as usual i dont know if i have already some car
    Problem 7 - force feedback isnt turning off when im turning on menu
    Problem 8 - unactual - im using manual gearbox. Automatic gearbox could have manual reverse gear option.
    Problem 9 - screen text is sometimes in wrong place or in online match there is so big list - should be shown with some key
    Problem MsStore: installation with MsStore its so terrible - buggy. Game library and uninstall so hidden - but its not about the game. As for me with functionality MsStore is still behind Origin and maybe behind PsStore - they are at the end of my list. Maybe u need every player with x-box game pass or Steam.
    Problem 10: "Do u like project...." project of what? Painting, track, tuning?    … Expand
  17. Mustafa973
    Jun 19, 2022
    0
    Garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage
  18. Dimitry42
    Apr 26, 2022
    3
    As a game on it's own, it's barely okay. As a sequel, it's absolutely terrible. They imported bugs from previous games, keep saying 'we're listening to the community' and then do nothing about it and just keep making the game grindier and grindier. They removed content that we all ready got in FH4 and sold it to us as DLC.

    Do you have a problem with the game? Encountered a bug? Your    As a game on it's own, it's barely okay. As a sequel, it's absolutely terrible. They imported bugs from previous games, keep saying 'we're listening to the community' and then do nothing about it and just keep making the game grindier and grindier. They removed content that we all ready got in FH4 and sold it to us as DLC.

    Do you have a problem with the game? Encountered a bug? Your game doesn't work? Issue a support ticket where you'll get a reply 'we know of the issue' and they'll mark your issue as solved and lock the conversation. Then they'll move the issue to 'known issues' list where it may remain for years or they'll move it under 'won't fix' list which keeps getting bigger and bigger.

    And the worst thing is that actually treat their players like it's some sort of a free to play mobile game with time gated exclusive cars, daily login bonuses and stuff like that. It's just to boost player numbers to show it to the shareholders. If you dare mention that on the official forum, they delete your post.    … Expand
  19. elektryk
    Apr 14, 2022
    0
    This game is just simply a scam and clearly shows how deceptive Microsoft and the studios cooperating with it are...
  20. Thesis85RU
    Mar 31, 2022
    1
    Это не игра, а сплошная пропаганда. Это атракцион для недоразвитых детей. Главный герой отвечает абсолютно тупыми репликами, каими даже в самых назкосортных фильмах не используют. Я не вижу никакой интересной истории или интриги, которая меня заставила бы возвращаться в эту игру. Графика и количество машин это не имеет решающего значения! Боты либо совсем глупые, либо аналогичныеЭто не игра, а сплошная пропаганда. Это атракцион для недоразвитых детей. Главный герой отвечает абсолютно тупыми репликами, каими даже в самых назкосортных фильмах не используют. Я не вижу никакой интересной истории или интриги, которая меня заставила бы возвращаться в эту игру. Графика и количество машин это не имеет решающего значения! Боты либо совсем глупые, либо аналогичные автомобили меня обгоняют как стоячего в зависисости от предустановок, и это не мастерство, а подкрутка игры. Единственное, что там есть это музыка, и то её мало. Определенно FH 4 произвела более приятное впечатление. Геймдев деградирует.… Expand
  21. pyotoru
    Mar 29, 2022
    4
    After hearing all the hype as a supposed rival to Gran Turismo, i decided to give this game a try.
    Long story short, I didn't like it at all.
    In this game, you can't simply participate in a race. The game forces the player to ride around to reach various destination before you can ride in a race. I simply cannot phantom what is the reason for that. I initially thought there is a bug or    After hearing all the hype as a supposed rival to Gran Turismo, i decided to give this game a try.
    Long story short, I didn't like it at all.

    In this game, you can't simply participate in a race. The game forces the player to ride around to reach various destination before you can ride in a race. I simply cannot phantom what is the reason for that. I initially thought there is a bug or i am doing something wrong. However it turned out that's the actual game design.

    It feels like the game has no respect for my time whatsover. This is supposed to be a racing game and I want to join a race and compete, but the game does not allow me to do that. I don't have time nor interest in "riding around" endlessly and trying to figure out where to go to find a race.

    Uninstalled and will never go back.    … Expand
  22. AlexBannik
    Mar 27, 2022
    4
    27.03.22 Today it is very dissapointing. A LOT of bugs. Boring content. Much worse than FH4. They just added blur effect and better SSAO with horizontal lines on screen. There are no snow at all(except mountain). I love FH4 and played >200hours in it. FH5 is very raw now. Don't worth it's price.
  23. Neverstop61
    Mar 21, 2022
    1
    The game has been around for a long time but still textures not loading and disconnections.
  24. poopscoop
    Mar 19, 2022
    0
    Fix your game trillion dollar company! How much more pathetic can it get than an infinitely rich company also not being able to port a game properly to pc? They even make the os for the platform and yet it runs like garbage, stutter, slowdown, and hitching galore. Yes I'm talking about the single player experience. Not you too Microsoft, can nobody come anymore? It's been months, optimiseFix your game trillion dollar company! How much more pathetic can it get than an infinitely rich company also not being able to port a game properly to pc? They even make the os for the platform and yet it runs like garbage, stutter, slowdown, and hitching galore. Yes I'm talking about the single player experience. Not you too Microsoft, can nobody come anymore? It's been months, optimise your games!… Expand
  25. bayol
    Mar 17, 2022
    0
    engine sounds are laughable, the cars sound like bees lol also everything is copy paste of previous Horizon games, I'm tired of playing the same game every time!!! Avoid this game
  26. bazida
    Mar 17, 2022
    0
    Trash game so many micro transactions microsoft is really anti consumer recently
  27. 3dharrington
    Mar 17, 2022
    0
    Get this game if you enjoy listening to a screaming announcer obnoxiously narrate things that are scripted to happen right in front of you, along with unskippable cutscenes and yammering about nothing. Doesn't have the flair of the NFS series or the Spirit of the GT series...egh
  28. Kunray
    Mar 8, 2022
    1
    It's your call but for now it's not recommended.
    1/10 this game at that stage.

    microsoft goodbye
  29. USA89
    Mar 8, 2022
    0
    Вы стали политизированы, тогда и оценка будет политизирована!
  30. Boshmachok666
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    Oh yeah, you know what? Go to hell!
    Since when did games become associated with politics? Why are Russian gamers worse than others? How are they related to government decisions? And why did it become normal to hate all Russian people? This is already discrimination based on nationality. You just rake everyone under the same brush! Damn racists! Of the Russian gamers, no one supports what    Oh yeah, you know what? Go to hell!
    Since when did games become associated with politics? Why are Russian gamers worse than others? How are they related to government decisions? And why did it become normal to hate all Russian people? This is already discrimination based on nationality. You just rake everyone under the same brush! Damn racists! Of the Russian gamers, no one supports what the Russian government is doing now.
    Didn't expect this from you. Went to delete all your damn games. And if you ever decide to return to the Russian market, then you should know. The Russian people will never buy your games again. Chao!    … Expand
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#3 Best PC Game of 2021
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#8 Most Discussed PC Game of 2021

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91

Universal acclaim - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Het Nieuwsblad
    Dec 20, 2021
    100
    The graphics, lighting and weather effects are some of the best we've seen in a racing game, but of course it's all about the cars. Although this is an arcade racer that does not focus on realism but rather on short and fast action, the cars behave truthfully and react differently whether you are driving on a track, on the street or off road. The controls have been kept simple, making the game accessible to just about anyone. Altogether, this makes Forza Horizon 5 the most fun racing game of the moment.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 15, 2021
    81
    Forza Horizon 5 still is a great racing game, but there’s no denying that the series is in a torpor-like state. It’s obvious that Playground is afraid not only to innovate, but to make any sort of significant change to a successful formula. [Issue#257, p.64]
  3. Ragequit.gr
    Nov 24, 2021
    91
    I don't think there's a motoring enthusiast who won't be excited about Forza Horizon 5, with a slight caveat for those who have had their fill of Forza Horizon 4 and might want more of the same - though honestly, I can't imagine how the formula could be improved upon, which in the arcade driving department is bordering on perfection. It promises and delivers an incomparably customizable driving experience, with dream-cars, in breathtaking landscapes.
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