- Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
- Release Date: Nov 5, 2021
- Also On: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox One
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Nov 4, 2021FH5 is an easy recommendation as part of a paid Xbox Game Pass subscription, and it's a great excuse to flex your newest gaming hardware purchase. But if you're already happy with Forza Horizon 4 or were bored by that one, take your sweet time sitting behind this game's wheel.
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Nov 4, 2021Ultimately, Horizon 5 doesn’t really care how you play provided you’re having a good time; the fact that you can race any event in any car should be evidence enough of that. And it delivers you enough cars and event variety that you’re never really agonising over minor incidental perks. There’s as much fun to be had driving a LaFerrari here as a Mercedes A-Class, or a shitty little jeep. It’s about sunshine and sights and sounds and freedom. Don Draper once mused that happiness is a moment before you need more happiness. Horizon 5 is constantly delivering those addictive micro-doses and it’s why I never want to leave.
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Nov 4, 2021Playground Games delivers yet another gorgeous and enveloping pocket holiday, smartly restructured but reassuringly unchanged. [Eurogamer Recommended]
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Nov 4, 2021If all this sounds a lot like Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Horizon 3 and so on, yeah, okay. So what? Sure, Forza Horizon 5 doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It doesn’t need to. Forza Horizon 5 is constant rise. It’s 138 bpm. It’s uncut MDMA (or so I’ve heard). There are few true thrills in gaming that come without a catch, and Forza’s core is still, all these years later, one of them: It feels genuinely fantastic to be on the open road, zooming toward the horizon with nothing on your mind other than the pulsing beat of a killer song, and the unburdened knowledge that you can keep going as long as you want, with no one and nothing around to tell you otherwise.
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Nov 4, 2021Even now, though, I can feel myself tightening up in my shoulders and chest thinking about everything in Forza Horizon 5, and the difference between everything I have — with a V sound — and everything I have — F sound — to do. It’s the difference between opportunities and obligations. The only area in which Forza Horizon 5 stumbles is when it gives me so much of the former that they become the latter. [Recommended]
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Nov 8, 2021Forza Horizon 5 is just another Forza Horizon, yes, but it’s a beautiful one with an incredible setting, and that’s enough to make it the best in the series. If you have any interest whatsoever in driving fast cars fast, I highly recommend it.
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Nov 4, 2021Is Forza Horizon 5 a good Forza Horizon? Of course, it’s even the best episode until the next one as the license shamelessly reiterates its successes and adds minor tweaks here and there. This results in a game as addictive as ever allowing for a great deal of pleasure. In this respect, the Mexico map is a devilishly efficient playground, both for the variety of its landscapes and for the tracks that have been devised on it. We drive, we explore, we marvel while time passes quickly, as quickly as the scenery passes by at an improbable pace without anything really slowing us down. This pretty much embodies what the series has become for the Xbox brand since this opus will undoubtedly be praised by the public and reviewers. Hopefully, it’ll go down that road.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3,218 out of 4021
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Mixed: 210 out of 4021
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Negative: 593 out of 4021
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Nov 6, 2021Forza Horizon 5 é simplesmente fantástico, não há nenhum jogo de corrida no mesmo nível
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Nov 6, 2021This is just Forza horizon 4 copy and pasted with a different map. This should have been a 20$ dlc for Forza horizon 4
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Nov 11, 2021