It's summer in-game right now, which means it's the wet season in Horizon's Mexico. Each week takes place in a new season and offers a variety of events and challenges, usually with restrictions to class, type and difficulty. The seasonal playlist is the heart of Forza Horizon 5's live service.
But, thanks to the restrictions present in the seasonal playlist, you're encouraged to chase many different makes and models. You'll likely get an S2 class car-one of the best and fastest-in your first hours. Difficulty too is fully customisable, with assists and 'drivatar' difficulty options carrying over from previous games-as does the cash bonus for making things harder for yourself.Ĭollecting new cars, then, is more about broadening your options than upgrading to newer and better vehicles.
Serious attention has been given to accessibility options with scalable colour filtering, subtitle size and keyword highlighting and screen reader, text-to-speech and speech-to-text options. I haven't been able to test on less powerful cards, but Forza Horizon 5 offers a highly customisable suite of graphics settings, from regular options like shadow quality, reflections and anisotropic filtering, to more granular settings such as environment geometry quality, deformable terrain quality and SSR quality.īeyond graphics, it's an impressive suite of options on offer. Perhaps unsurprisingly, performance was smooth on an RTX 3080Ti-achieving 94 fps in benchmarks on the highest, Extreme, settings at 1440p.