Forza Horizon 5

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 1182 Ratings

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  1. manigma
    Feb 14, 2022
    10
    I was disappointed at first how similar it looked to FH4. But after a few days I could see the changes and improved details. The free gift Trailcat and 918 was a good move by team forza. The jungle missions are awesome.
  2. Masaj
    Feb 11, 2022
    0
    Multiplayer options in this game are joke, unpleyable pice of **** 4 is way better. Just WHY i cant pick type of race, car class and look for matching players??????????????????????????????? Uninstaled, not gona race in woods with cars class i dont care just because you tell me to.
  3. XabiXroSS
    Feb 8, 2022
    8
    The game looks amazing, and the gameplay is very good too, but has some problems with the online servers and weird graphic glitches while loading the map. Also the campaign is bland as hell.
  4. Pteromyin0
    Feb 8, 2022
    6
    There surely are 50+h of solid fun to be had. However, overall, the game is very disappointing and far from being a masterpiece. It feels like a lot of wasted potential, with lazy and cheap design decisions that make the game worse than its predecessor, especially in QoL and endgame. Yes, particle effects, lighting and texture quality have improved significantly, but at the cost of runningThere surely are 50+h of solid fun to be had. However, overall, the game is very disappointing and far from being a masterpiece. It feels like a lot of wasted potential, with lazy and cheap design decisions that make the game worse than its predecessor, especially in QoL and endgame. Yes, particle effects, lighting and texture quality have improved significantly, but at the cost of running choppy, 20-30% slower and/or very aliased. The soundtrack is shockingly bad.

    There are many examples of questionable design. Online Racing is a joke, there is no possibility to choose what races you want to do. There was an option to tune your car before a race. This was then abused, you were able to select an overpowered tune - so instead of limiting the choice they just removed the option altogether! Now you have to drive back and forth to your home or a festival location to tune your car. There was an option to do Horizon Tour races from the menu, they removed it. Now you have to drive to the map marker every time. There still is no acceptable solution for browsing custom races, you have to put in codes from reddit like it was Nintendo in 2009. Don't even think of the option to create your own championships.

    There is no meaningful progression, e.g. unlocking cars, classes or tuning parts. So they nerfed wheelspins that you only get 1k rewards regularly. In online free roam, people still just vanish to thin air. In menus, races don't even have individual thumbnails and are stripped of infos like weather or time or class. Most of the story missions take 5 min to get to, watch 1 min of boring cutscene to then drive some nonsensical car crosscountry for 53 seconds. For every minute of racing you have to do 10 minutes of stuff. It's ridiculous. You can drive in sandstorms but the vegetation does not react to it whatsoever, it's just a sepia filter. The seasons just alternate between wet and brown. Not to mention the plethora of bugs.

    When you (can) open up and start the game for the first time it looks like a delicious meal with appetizer, entrée, main and dessert, plus a cigar and a wonderful wine, but you then discover this is all put in a blender and spoon-fed to you until you vomit.

    No doubt this is one of the economically most succesful titles of all times, given how much is recycled and sourced out and how well it sold. I can't help but feel like in a fast food shop where they intentionally design the space so you don't stay for too long. Would be nice if Mike Brown actually would be working on improving the game design instead of sitting on a couch all the time.    … Expand
  5. AngryShark92
    Feb 8, 2022
    0
    Flat out not worth it this time around. Forza Horizon 5 is absolutely gorgeous, it boasts a nice map full of beautiful vistas with varying environments and biomes, it has the same style of arcade racing that you're used to, and the car list, while not expanded too much, is still a very long and generous list with every detail on the exterior and interior included.

    Problem is, this game    Flat out not worth it this time around. Forza Horizon 5 is absolutely gorgeous, it boasts a nice map full of beautiful vistas with varying environments and biomes, it has the same style of arcade racing that you're used to, and the car list, while not expanded too much, is still a very long and generous list with every detail on the exterior and interior included.

    Problem is, this game has nothing to differentiate itself from the last 3 entries. There is no new hook or feature to sell this one beyond the fact that it is in a different location, and while Mexico looks great in this game, I don't find it particularly interesting as the setting. Everyone wanted this to take place in Japan (Tokyo) and I think that would have been the right move, personally.

    The same issues I had with previous Horizons are still prevalent in this game, and they are simply that there is no sense of progression, everyone has an incredible car near the beginning of the campaign, I miss the days of starting with a junker and actually having to work your way up, there is none of that in this game, it is mostly instant gratification, throwing cars at the player left and right, some of which come through the terrible casino-style wheel spin mechanic.

    Clothing and emotes are just unnecessary, it feels like FH5 is trying to be like modern NFS or the old Test Drive games and it manages to be neither. This also includes masks, because there is nothing better than living your pandemic virtually as well, and muzzling your character in game so they don't spread the virtual virus. Smh.

    The inclusion of gender pronoun ideology and identity is just plain moronic, and is not something that should have been included in the game because introducing these awful concepts to children who want to play a racing game is borderline indoctrination. Keep your misguided politics to yourself. You do not need to pander to people looking to buy an arcade racer. Also, the amount of prosthetics feels like some sort of weird amputee fetishist's wet dream, and I am sure that community was clamouring for this as well.

    The characters in this game are all annoying, they are the same rehashed personalities of characters from previous games and adding voiced dialogue for our created character seems utterly pointless. Plus they are all incredibly ugly looking, and seem to be more "diverse" this time around. Are there no white males in Mexico? Weird.

    There are also several issues on PC that are making it much harder to enjoy the game at all. Constant frame drops related to GPU usage, a couple crashes, bugs causing the terrain to show pixelated squares and discolouration, co-op connection and syncing issues, draw distance issues, these are some of the reoccurring problems for me, (and others apparently) and while I know they will fix and patch them over time, this is the product that was released and there is no excuse for these quality issues from AAA developers.

    + Gorgeous graphics
    + Extensive car list
    + Obsession to detail with cars
    + Environments and Biomes are well done

    - Same old horizon
    - Poor soundtrack
    - No meaningful progression
    - Clothes and emotes in a car game
    - Frame drops
    - Crashes
    - Draw distance issues
    - Connection/syncing issues
    - Co-op doesn't work properly
    - Gender ideology/pandering in a racing game open to kids
    - Need to splash $150 for the full experience
    - Voiced characters are annoying and they look awful
    - Online load times are atrocious

    Overall, the core of Horizon is still here; big sprawling map, gorgeous graphics, lots of cars, content, and fun little factoids about Mexico, but the boring location, same old problems, plethora of computer stability issues, and pandering make this a poor entry in the series, and the "journalists" giving this game a 90 or 9 have never played a game in this series and/or are paid off as per usual. They missed the mark with this one. It definitely could have been a lot better. If you own Horizon 3 or 4, this is not worth the full price.

    ***If you don't want political reviews, don't inject politics into your games :    … Expand
  6. Serph
    Feb 2, 2022
    0
    Developers reducing rewards & make the game unnecessary grindy instead of fixing bugs. Would not recommend to start this game as a new player in its current state. Leaderbords full of cheaters. You cant search for speciffic onlinemodes (Race, Offroad, etc.). Many more issues.
  7. FlamesoFF
    Jan 30, 2022
    3
    Boring.
    It’s hard to feel the car weight in this game, it’s like a plastic toy. Open world is redundant, there is almost nothing to do in it.
    I see no point in having so many cars in this game, many of them differ only visually.
    Gameplay is boring, it has nothing special.
    Music is garbage.
    So it’s better to go play Grid again, which is probably the best racing game ever made.
  8. AlexandrRosca
    Jan 29, 2022
    7
    "Forza Horizon 5 | 2021 | PC | Played for: 28h

    Still the same old formula: many different cars, many songs, parties, vast open world, arcadey unrealistic physics. I played it for ""free"" with game pass subscription, can only recommend for purchase to fans and previous players. It is fund and relaxing, and you can set the difficulty and amount of progress that you want from the game    "Forza Horizon 5 | 2021 | PC | Played for: 28h

    Still the same old formula: many different cars, many songs, parties, vast open world, arcadey unrealistic physics. I played it for ""free"" with game pass subscription, can only recommend for purchase to fans and previous players.

    It is fund and relaxing, and you can set the difficulty and amount of progress that you want from the game according to your desire.
    Car models are extremely well done, exterior and interior, the best part of the game by far. Music, landscapes and graphics are top notch too.

    Story: 6/10
    Gameplay: 7,5/10
    Graphics/Physics: 9,5/10
    Music/Sound: 9,5/10
    Final Score: 7,75/10    … Expand
  9. Roksi6996
    Jan 26, 2022
    1
    Since the game out Devs dont care about fixing main bugs with texture rendering etc. Lack of new content. Copy-paste car list from previous game. Lack of new car models from 2019-2022. So I you thinking about buying this game, it is not worth it.
  10. MrBrownBud
    Jan 24, 2022
    0
    Rien d'autre à dire à part que ce jeu est une enorme arnaque de fdp de boomer, graphismes propres ok et encore jvois aucune diff entre le 3 et le 5 le jeu crash sans cesse pour rien, voitures corrompues, bug d'affichages, rag dolls, bref une catastrophe, bug de collisions, chutes undermap sans raison, collisions invisibles, une interface à chier, ergonomie pensée pour des trisomiques sousRien d'autre à dire à part que ce jeu est une enorme arnaque de fdp de boomer, graphismes propres ok et encore jvois aucune diff entre le 3 et le 5 le jeu crash sans cesse pour rien, voitures corrompues, bug d'affichages, rag dolls, bref une catastrophe, bug de collisions, chutes undermap sans raison, collisions invisibles, une interface à chier, ergonomie pensée pour des trisomiques sous LSD, custom des vehicules pire que modern warfare et son mode creation de logo en 2010, musique et dialogues inutiles, mou, bref une enorme daube à 45 balles la clé, un seul regret avoir acheté en démat' pour ne pas pouvoir péter dans la boite et le revendre après. J'étais un bon client des jeux de simulation, forza 3 etait pas mal mais celui là nous chie ouvertement dans la bouche et les gens leurs disent merci. Je comprend pas qu'on puisse lui mettre une si bonne note, sheshounet fais quelque chose pitié.… Expand
  11. Invisible_Mango
    Jan 22, 2022
    0
    Advertised as a next gen huge graphical update on FH4. The game looks exactly the same, if not worse. And it runs worse. This is on a 3070. Honestly, pretty disappointing. The gameplay is solid enough if you didn’t just play FH4 (on PC), but if you did it’s basically the exact same thing (only winter doesn’t really seem to matter anymore and as a person from Canada, that’s a big loss forAdvertised as a next gen huge graphical update on FH4. The game looks exactly the same, if not worse. And it runs worse. This is on a 3070. Honestly, pretty disappointing. The gameplay is solid enough if you didn’t just play FH4 (on PC), but if you did it’s basically the exact same thing (only winter doesn’t really seem to matter anymore and as a person from Canada, that’s a big loss for me cause I love cruising around in the snow.) in a different setting. The trailers make it look like a step forward but it doesn’t look like that when you play, even with graphics cranked. I just feel a little bit lied to on this one.… Expand
  12. CompleteIdiot
    Jan 22, 2022
    7
    A very fun game, but shallow. It has many things going for it. The fact that the game is on Microsoft's game pass, a service that has extremely reasonable pricing is a massive pro. But if I had paid 60 EUR for this, I'd be rather disappointed. The driving itself feels great, the amount of cars is astounding and tuning them is quite fun. But that shallow feeling does not escape. I am notA very fun game, but shallow. It has many things going for it. The fact that the game is on Microsoft's game pass, a service that has extremely reasonable pricing is a massive pro. But if I had paid 60 EUR for this, I'd be rather disappointed. The driving itself feels great, the amount of cars is astounding and tuning them is quite fun. But that shallow feeling does not escape. I am not sure how exactly this can be avoided, but maybe work on the world itself more. Its a gorgeous massive map, but what is the point? It feels extremely empty. The online game modes have good ideas, but the size of the map makes them very unfulfilling. Sense of exploration is non-existent, the "story" tid bits are awful and the voice acting is lack luster. I hope future instalments try to improve more significantly as there is almost no difference between 5th and 4th instalments.… Expand
  13. Feri4k
    Jan 21, 2022
    9
    What can i say ? After 7 years away from racing games , Forza horizon 5 made me play 18 hours still want to get back playing it . Graphics : 9/10
    Gameplay: 9/10
    Design and content : 9/10
    It worths your money
  14. Kosmo1982
    Jan 17, 2022
    0
    Zero. 0 . Jaggies. Overexposed cockpit. Pop up. Cause its unplayble in the state it is
  15. sonicmrsumo
    Jan 12, 2022
    0
    Utter garbage on PC. Total luck on whether the game decides to co-operate and let you play it each and every time you start it up. It either crashes or tanks frame rates to an unplayable level (and this is on an RTX 3080 mobile with 11800H @ 1080P on HIGH settings). Just play it on Xbox instead.
  16. itsamamaluigi
    Jan 12, 2022
    4
    Game could be great, but there are too many problems for me to give it a positive review.

    Overall gameplay? Really good! A bit reductive, since it is basically the same old Forza Horizon formula that has continued since 3 but with a different setting, but why fix what isn't broken? Race, get cars, get LOTS of cars, tune, paint, whatever. It's all here. The online is basically    Game could be great, but there are too many problems for me to give it a positive review.

    Overall gameplay? Really good! A bit reductive, since it is basically the same old Forza Horizon formula that has continued since 3 but with a different setting, but why fix what isn't broken? Race, get cars, get LOTS of cars, tune, paint, whatever. It's all here.

    The online is basically unusable. Months after release it still doesn't work right. I don't even play online that much.

    The biggest strike against the PC version is the RAM usage. This game has had a terrible memory leak since release that is still not fixed. I get frequent "low memory" warnings that eventually leads to poor performance and crashes. I have 16 GB of RAM in my PC, which meets the recommended requirements.

    Given that it released over two months ago, and the PC version still isn't really playable, I've given up on the game.    … Expand
  17. Atyne
    Jan 11, 2022
    3
    It's the same cringe-fest as Horizon 3 and 4. There is no innovation since Horizon 2 which was a really great game. It's sad to see all these reviewers giving it 9-10 ratings. It's like if the game was brainwashing people. And I don't even consider all technical issues with the pc version.
  18. Erroneus
    Jan 9, 2022
    7
    It's a good looking game and the driving is solid, but it feels like Forza Horizon 4,5. The new map is better then the map in FH4, but it feels to much of the same. When they make FH6, i hope they take a look at Riders Republic, and get some inspiration, and try out totally new stuff, because it's getting stale.

    Not a bad game, just not a necessary game.
  19. grocstv
    Jan 9, 2022
    3
    У меня была Форза 2 на 360 боксе. Отличие лишь в графике и уйме рулеток казино, которые пытаются выжимать из тебя побольше денег. Не знаю как, но создателям удается удержать внимание игрока, когда уже становится скучно. Думаешь, что нужно ещё э!о и то сделать...У меня была Форза 2 на 360 боксе. Отличие лишь в графике и уйме рулеток казино, которые пытаются выжимать из тебя побольше денег. Не знаю как, но создателям удается удержать внимание игрока, когда уже становится скучно. Думаешь, что нужно ещё э!о и то сделать...
  20. Likebec47
    Jan 8, 2022
    3
    I will say that Part 4 is made more voluminous and diverse than this piece copied from part 4 is smaller than that of the main game. There is nothing new here, and even less.
    In fact, this is just a small addition And not a new game!
  21. DylanColino
    Jan 7, 2022
    6
    Un muy buen juego pero con muchos fallos y errores

    En esta nueva edicion, personalmente estuvo por debajo de la anterior, es muuy similar, el sistema de carreras, misiones, desafios, etc. Pero ah cambiado un poco la jugabilidad, es decir, ahora hacer drift es super facil lo cual es algo positivo, ahora subir de nivel cuesta un poco mas y a su vez tenes mucho menos sorteos o sorteos    Un muy buen juego pero con muchos fallos y errores

    En esta nueva edicion, personalmente estuvo por debajo de la anterior, es muuy similar, el sistema de carreras, misiones, desafios, etc. Pero ah cambiado un poco la jugabilidad, es decir, ahora hacer drift es super facil lo cual es algo positivo, ahora subir de nivel cuesta un poco mas y a su vez tenes mucho menos sorteos o sorteos especiales.

    La variedad de autos es super amplia, lamentablemente faltan algunos autos de los ultimos 2 años, que se agregaran como DLCs y de pago, El sonido se mejoro muchisimo, y ahora cambia dependiendo de las mejoras que tenga el auto. Me sorprendio mucho la ausencia de Alfa Romeo y Fiat, siendo 2 marcas muy representativas del mundo automotor, en el Forza Horizon 4 si estaban

    Graficamente es espectacular, no me gusto mucho que en esta edicion se centraran en el fotorealismo de los escenarios, me hubiera gustado que invertieran en mejorar los autos ya que hay algunos interiores o moteres que no estan modelados.

    Noto que hay mucha menor variedad de musicas que en el juego anterior, ya despues de un par de horas de juego ya se empiezan a repetir una y otra vez, ademas de que algunas canciones tienen partes que censuran la voz

    Ahora vienen los puntos negativos y es la mala optimizacion que tiene el juego y la cantidad de fallos; abuso excesivo de recursos, me llego a consumir el 100% del CPU y los 16Gb de RAM, caidas extremas de fps obligandome a reiniciar el juego, crasheos, bugs visuales, y muchisimos problemas para encontrar partidas y conectarme a internet. Esto arruino mucho mi experiencia    … Expand
  22. jarvitom
    Jan 3, 2022
    9
    Best car racing game right now, great graphics, fun gameplay, lots of content but gets boring after a while.
  23. weber123
    Dec 31, 2021
    0
    I am very unhappy not only that it is no different from the fourth part, so the physics in this part is just terrible
  24. fybyfyby
    Dec 27, 2021
    5
    I try every new Forza game because I love car racing games. But.....All Forza games still seems a little dull and sterile to me. So, another Forza game, another uninstall after a week of playing. It has nice graphics, it has lot of things to do. But for me there is no car spirit in this game.
  25. Wheiss
    Dec 24, 2021
    9
    Forza Horizon 5 is one of the greatest games in this year. Horizon series never was that fun, polished, balanced and full of content. The performance and graphics are very well. The only issue I can mention is a horrible net code. It’s better, ofc, then previous game, but it still has lot of tps problems and bugs
  26. f0rdragon
    Dec 23, 2021
    8
    Great graphics,nice gameplay,It runs really nice even on older cards.It get a bit repetitive after some point and overwhelming with races on the map.The AI is a bit unballanced in many races they can just destroy you in a specific part of the track while it can be really slow in other parts.Furthermore as i understand you just need a quick car to win,handling and braking doesnt matter asGreat graphics,nice gameplay,It runs really nice even on older cards.It get a bit repetitive after some point and overwhelming with races on the map.The AI is a bit unballanced in many races they can just destroy you in a specific part of the track while it can be really slow in other parts.Furthermore as i understand you just need a quick car to win,handling and braking doesnt matter as you will lose to a quicker cars no matter how good your car is at corners.Some connection problems some times but overall a good.… Expand
  27. MadWinning
    Dec 21, 2021
    0
    7 for the game, 0 for the series. Blame capitalism. F**k two-new-iPhones-per-year-with-no-improvements business model. Forza Horizon could be as good as CS:GO or Dota 2, but the devs prefer milking.
  28. yearsGone
    Dec 17, 2021
    10
    Pretty much perfect racing game, haven't had any crashes or issues, runs extremely well maxed out with 2060.
  29. Best_of_2021
    Dec 17, 2021
    10
    Forza Horizon 5 is most beautiful and best car game ever made. Over 500 cars, huge open world, phenomenal graphics.
  30. INik
    Dec 17, 2021
    8
    Смог пройти только знакомство с фестивалем, после не прогружались текстуры, кажется пора менять хард
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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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Metascore
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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