They’re all games I can appreciate but not necessarily find myself obsessed with.

As for racing games, I’ve mostly stuck with the karting variety, occasionally dipping my toes into more authentic experiences with Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2, Need for Speed: Most Wanted on the Wii U, and Burnout Paradise on Switch. Even when I’d meet people who were really into cars, I’d just mindlessly nod along as they talked about installing new brake systems or valves that do whatever it is valves do for a vehicle’s engine. I’ve always owned commuter cars, so the call of the open road never spoke to me. For the longest time, I didn’t particularly enjoy driving. I am not a car person, neither in gaming nor in real life. As somebody trying out the Forza series for the first time, it’s a hell of an opening that’s really forcing me to look at racing sims in a new light.Īdmittedly, I’ve never been one for the genre. All in less time than it takes me to make my morning cup of tea. In just the first eight minutes, I barrel down a snowcapped volcano in the new Ford Bronco, drive straight into a sandstorm in a Corvette Stingray Coupe, navigate a rain-soaked jungle in an off-road Porsche, and fly by the sunny sands of Baja California in a Mercedes AMG-1. It’s meant a be a grand spectacle to kick off the festivities, but it’s also a showcase of the types of environments and roads you’ll experience in the latest from Playground Games. Arriving in the sunny stretches of this microcosmic Mexico, vehicles are dropped out of a cargo jet, parachuting down to the ground to make their grand entrance to the big Horizon festival. The opening moments of Forza Horizon 5 are like something out of a Fast & Furious heist.

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