Already the best game of 2021?

It will be released on November 9th Forza Horizon 5 for PC on SteamAnd in the Microsoft Store, on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. All Xbox Game Pass subscribers can play the open-world racing game from launch day at no additional cost. If you’ve purchased the premium version of Forza Horizon 5, you can already race across Mexico. On Metacritic, the racing game from British development studio Playground Games is already the highest rated video game of 2021 so far.

What makes Forza Horizon 5 good and what makes it bad?

No matter if you are watching an arcade racing game on PC or Xbox Series X | S, the average rating is In 91 out of 100 possible points. The freely drivable world offers a number of racing events, new exploration missions and smaller missions to master. All Horizon Festival outposts are only present after completing expeditions with expeditions. For example, at the La Gran Caldera volcano, a sample of water must be taken from a thermal pool. So there are smaller stories in Forza Horizon 5 that provide entertainment. If you wish, you can ignore the unpopular types of racing like drift thanks to the global progress bar and continue to advance in the game. In addition to the scope, testers also found words of praise for the fact that Forza Horizon 5 frequently rewards players with points for successful actions in the game. Instead of just completing all events of some sort in order to progress, there is now a comprehensive progression system called Accolade Points. When you fill the entire progress bar with enough points, you can add one of the 21 Festival expansions and continue that in the game. Each listed vehicle has a vehicle mastery level that can be achieved by driving the vehicle and performing actions. In addition, each vehicle can be adjusted to a wide range. The setting in Mexico ensures diverse landscapes and weather effects.

There are criticisms of bugs. For example, friends can no longer be found if you go hunting for barn finds with them, even though all the drivers are in the same world. At some point the friend reappeared. In addition, the convoy may be disassembled at random. By the way, barn finds can no longer be simply discovered. You first have to unlock clues before you can start searching within an area. For some testers, Broken sunlight blocking the driving line on the roadSo it can be difficult to keep your own streak. Gamepro testers criticized it Very few scenes in the game world Give. In principle, Forza Horizon 5 is just a continuation of Forza Horizon 4, as one of the tests criticized. Either way, critics are enthusiastic about the looks, driving behavior, and scope of the racing game.

Forza Horizon 5 has 4K UHD on Xbox Series X and PC

Forza Horizon 5 offers both performance and quality mode on Xbox Series X and Series S. If you want to drive through Mexico at 60 frames per second, you have to activate the performance mode, in quality mode the frame rate is only 30 frames per second. However, the Xbox Series X offers native UHD resolution in both modes, which are designed, however, as dynamic resolution. The differences between the two painting modes lie in the quality of the ground texture. In Quality mode, 30fps is enriched with motion blur effects to mask the fact that you are traveling at only 30fps. Motion-dimming shutter speeds are now longer than in other parts of the Forza series. As a result, a graphic effect from the PC version has now found its way to the console. Steering wheels are of course also supported.

There is no FPS lock on the PC and widescreen monitors are supported as well as mouse and keyboard. The Steam version – in relation to the console – provides haptic feedback, so that you can, for example, feel a pulsating shoulder button to assess the amount of acceleration. Raytracing effects are only available in Forzavista mode for taking photos and not while driving.

Also worth reading: Forza Horizon 5: Here’s what it looks like on Xbox Series X | S.

Forza Horizon 5 Collection:

• In the meantime, Premium users can play Forza Horizon 5, and all other players have to wait until November 9.
• In the first reviews, the arcade racing game got very good reviews. So far, it’s the best game of 2021.
• In addition to optics, driving behavior and a phenomenal range are praised.
• There are criticisms of some minor bugs, such as the disappearance of friends on the map, which suddenly appear somewhere.
• Forza Horizon 5 is available on Steam and the Microsoft Store as well as on Xbox Series X | S and Xbox One.

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