Analysis of Forza Horizon 5

Forza Horizon 4 is a video game as well as adventure computer game. Much of the game is in Open World, whose map is motivated by Great Britain and more specifically in Edinburgh. Established by Playground Games for Xbox One, Xbox Series and also Microsoft Windows systems, published by Microsoft Studios, released on October 2, 2018. A totally free demo has actually been available because September 12, 2018. It came out on November 10, 2020 on Xbox Series.

A superlative racing game, so impressive in the technical as generous in its content.

Forza Horizon 5, of course, does not take shortcuts. A few seconds, nothing more to start the game, you release you from an airplane in a Ford Bronco on the top of a snow-covered mountain with an eruption volcano, then ask you to run hillside down at full speed. Immediately, still not having been able to recover your breath after seeing the huge map to the distance, jumps at the wheel of a Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray that meanders by a mountain road until reaching an imposing sand storm that dyes orange the screen while Visibility It is reduced to a minimum. I think, during a brief moment, in a very concrete sequence of Mad Max Fury Road, but there is not much time for earners: Other jump in vacuum, on this occasion with the mythical Porsche 964 Desert Flyer Bataling in the jungle with the mud and the puddles. And to close the introduction and enter over the high at the Horizon Festival, which on this occasion moves to Mexico, the accelerator thoroughly on a road by the desert on the impressive Mercedes AMG Project One.

Basic information

DEVELOPER: PLAYGROUND GAMES Editor: Microsoft Platforms: X / S Series, One, PC

Proven version: X Series Availability: 09/11/2021

All this happens within a period of a few minutes, but it is an authentic declaration of intent by Playground Games, a British study that would dare to say, is now the most in shape within Xbox Games Studios. A statement that undoubtedly works with the accuracy of a Swiss watch as a testament of that immediacy and spectacularity that has always characterized this SPIN-OFF Arcade of Forza and as an appetizer of an audiovisual forest, although also as a perfect presentation letter of the Great protagonist of this new delivery. But let us go back later.

A new delivery that, being sincere, I did not expect myself for this year. The logic dictated that now he touched Turn 10 Back with Motorsport, but post-pandemic paths are inscrutable; Instead we have a new horizon that, in the absence of infinite halo, is found not only before the trial of being that exclusive that demonstrates the benefits of Xbox Series X / S, but also to go on stage to play after a forza Horizon 4 that he already left the feeling of being perfect and unbeatable, of erecting as a delivery in which he touched the roof and could only go down. It is one of those situations that others would have a mountain, but Playground seems even comfortable at the game of pressure and expectations.

I imagine that much of that trust is based on knowing in possession of an infallible formula that, at this point, already has little improvement margin. Forza Horizon, delivery after delivery, has been polishing a style that has always been able to combine the accessibility of arcade driving with the variety of different types of tests and events, porn for the devotee of the automobile (represented on that occasion for a garage with more than five hundred cars, from electric hybrids to V8 engines, from very expensive prototypes to daily cars, from sporting speeds to versatile aspects) with the breadth of looking to be the racing game for those who do not like the racing games or The culture of the engine with the urban and musical scene. And Horizon knows, like few, encourage you to participate in one more race, to find another car abandoned in a barn, to beat the record of a speed radar, to challenge another player, to complete one of the hundreds of awards, to Chain more combos to overcome your maximum score (heiress of the Kudo system of the Project Gotham Racing), to tune your car to extract from it a little more power or travel a road that you still did not enter. It is a game with a diabolically addictive playable loop, with constant rewards and a quantity of content that can be even overwhelming, where after the first time of hours you have just started to scratch the surface... and that playing alone. In the multiplayer, or in the editor, there is virtually no limit.

While that formula is the one that is, and of course Forza Horizon 5 it does not intend at any time altering it in excess, there are small changes and iterations that improve what is seen in the fourth installment. To begin with, there is now a higher level of personalization, both at Avatar and control level, with options that try to get closer to the requirement of simulation (although I will not be deceived, always from the arcade prism and before Fun to realism; Forza Horizon 5 has nothing simulator and never intends it). And that, despite being relatively subtle, the fans of the franchise will recognize immediately. The interface and, especially, the structure of progression is more ordered and clear. There is also a new way to advance the story (light, but there is: the goal is to expand the festival throughout the territory) through expeditions, special events that allow us to discover new areas with Ramiro s company (maybe my only one Paste with FH5, because the boy, the truth, is a bit heavy and does not shut up or under water). And a handful of new modes, highlighting a casual forza arcade that brings together some evidence as funny as naughty.

But the great novelty and the great protagonist of Forza Horizon 5 is Mexico, because the change of location is the fundamental factor that really makes the difference and achieved that this new delivery is so bright. The North American country opens a huge range of possibilities - many more than those who had the United Kingdom of Horizon 4 - some designers who give free rein to their creativity with up to eleven biomes that provide a huge variety of scenarios and give the game of great personality. There are humid jungles, there are mountains surrounded by zigzagging roads, there are beaches with crystal clear waters, there are villages with narrow streets, there are arid forests, there are temples and Aztec ruins, there are extensive fields and even a volcano. Forza Horizon 5 always has something new to show you, you are always saved in the sleeve a recondite place to which you can go to compete or simply to admire the views (or capture spectacular snapshots with a photo form that will delight the fans of the photograph virtual). He does, in addition, soaking up from Mexican culture, giving him the protagonism and love he deserves.

With so many possibilities, it is not surprising that the forza map Horizon 5 is the largest to date within the saga, and that size of the scenario is accompanied by a number of tests accordingly. Whether they are competitions in asphalt, racing field, acrobatics, exhibition events or challenges in the Forzathon, for putting some examples, the game has something for everyone and to keep us hooked for months. And even though it was not like that, that would also be fulfilled: another great novelty in Forza Horizon 5 is the Eventlab, an event editor that leaves Horizon 4 Super7 diapers and that allows modifying from tracings to characteristics of cars, passing through Own modes. The ball is now in the hands of the community and we will see to what extent it is used, but the possibilities are almost infinite. Repeat, in addition, the system of stations of the previous delivery, with specific events and weather conditions that replicate those of the real terrain, another perfect excuse to return every few days to see what new rewards we can get and in what events participate.

Horizon has always been characterized by its multiplayer proposal, and this fifth delivery is no exception. The basic pillar, races with other players, works perfectly, and is accompanied by piles of additional options, from sharing creations (not only of EventLab, but also designs for cars or complex settings and tunnels) or the To form or join clubs, passing through the caravans with friends, the piques with classifications and times in rival mode or even a peculiar battle royale in the elimination. I also like that Forza Horizon 5 has understood as well how to implement the social facet of the multiplayer without being tired. It has a quick and concise communication system, with short phrases that is accessed with the D-PAD, and quite sympathetic options such as giving away random players or prestigious system. Horizon, base, distilled good roll, and Playground tries to encourage the same with a multiplayer who generates community and eliminates the asperities inherent in this way.

I do not forget the graphics, but it is that it is perhaps it is too complicated to do justice with words. Just look at the trailer that there are some paragraphs above and assume that the game is like that, when not better at certain times (the drawn distance, specifically, it is amazing). As such, without trap or cardboard; Forza Horizon 5 is a gluly visual deployment, of those that are difficult to believe, a photorealistic representation of cars and scenarios that sponsor the perfect technical demo of the new generation of Microsoft. Stay with that. In Xbox Series X, the game has a performance mode to 60fps and another 30fps, both with 4K and HDR resolution (in Xbox Series S repeat both modes, but at 1080p). Honestly, after playing the first, I do not conceive anything other than the fluidity and sensation of speed that has forza Horizon 5 to 60FPS, but the quality is appreciated to stitch with the photo mode and to admire the cars in the Forzavista with effects of Ray-Tracing. And one last note: Although the sound section can happen more unnoticed, it is also worthy of all kinds of praise. The soundtrack in its different stations is still impeccable (which will not surprise anyone, because it is already a brand of the house), but it is also effects - those of the engine, mainly - that have gained several integers in spatiality and realism.

Forza Horizon 5, in my opinion, represents as few videogames the milestone of overcoming. In a saga that has never raised the foot of the accelerator and that has never lost positions in the race for excellence, it is little less than portentous not only keeping the level after five deliveries, but again overcoming oneself once again, when it seemed that it already He had touched roof. Combining a superlative playable formula with a scenario that is discovered as the perfect playground, Forza Horizon 5 is, once again, that title that sells you an Xbox (or a new graphics card for your PC) and that elevates the bar of the gender. That title that seems impossible to overcome. Until he arrives forza Horizon 6, I suppose.