(I won.) It’s also how you find some of the more infuriating ones, including a stressful string of missions wherein you need to maintain speed above a certain threshold. Going through the motions here is how you come across some of Forza Horizon 5’s more creative events, like a headlong sprint against a freight train. Once you’ve established a stage, you can continue to unlock bespoke missions, called showcases, related to that stage’s discipline. Those outposts correlate to a specific event category in the game earn, say, the Apex stage on the east coast and you’ll get access to road racing events put up the Rush stage in the northern canyons to get a bunch of high-wire stunts, and so on. Your initial goal is to accrue enough accolade points, earned by completing events, to establish five new “outposts,” shown as Coachella-like concert stages on the map.
The Horizon Festival itself, meanwhile, is no longer fully centralized. The setting this time-a coast-to-coast recreation of Mexico centered around the city of Guanajuato-is divided into 11 wanderlust-inducing biomes. We all have.įorza Horizon 5 largely fits into that framework, with some welcome tweaks. That said, perhaps the lack of ceaseless thrill is because, really, I’ve been down this road before. The rest of the game doesn’t quite capture that magic-after 25-odd hours, I’ve yet to see another sandstorm, for instance-but it admirably stays the course. A fourth, and you’re barrelling down beachside highways, culminating in a drag-strip sprint against a neon-speckled airplane while hot air balloons soar overhead and heart-pumping electronica plays in the background. Another smash cut, then you’re crashing through the jungle in a custom coupe. A few minutes later, you’re in a more sensible car, sure, except you’re driving through a dust storm so colossal it obscures the entire horizon. You start in a four-wheeler, parked in the hold of a cargo plane that drops you on the side of a volcano. The opening sequences rank (no exaggeration here) among the most preposterously thrilling moments I’ve ever played in a game.
Yes, Forza Horizon 5 is more than happy to embrace its silly side, an ethos that’s apparent from the jump.
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