It was also the largest launch day for an Xbox Game Studios title, and reached three times the number of peak concurrent players as Forza Horizon 4’s launch. One day after Forza Horizon 5’s official release, Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced that more than 4.5 million players had already played the game across Windows PC, Xbox consoles, and cloud gaming. I needed more cars with which to see more of this world as soon as possible. By the time I crossed the finish line and stumbled, dazed, into the meat of the game, with its cavalcade of activities, checklists, and challenges, I was hooked. For a solid eight out of 10 minutes, my pedal was smooching the floor. There’s a button prompt for the Rewind ability (possibly because I had smashed into a palm tree after my eyes rolled back into my head), and it tells you how to change your perspective (the first-person cameras are not welcome in my household), but by and large, Forza Horizon 5 understands that you’re mainly just here to haul ass. What’s more, it does all of this without actually saying all that much. The benefits of each camera perspective.Environmental effects (dust storm visibility, rain-slicked roads, etc.).The vast mechanical gaps between different cars.
A wide swath of the game’s gorgeous landscapes.In the same time it takes other games to wax poetic about Ayn Rand, or convince Vaas to stop talking, Forza Horizon 5 has already shown you: The raw euphoria it conveys is so impressive that it’s easy to miss how fantastic of a tutorial it all is. It drops you four times, in four different cars, into four vastly different Mexican biomes, all while the soundtrack thumps and bumps and barely lets up long enough for you to catch your breath before the next sequence begins. It’s not enough that the intro drops you out of a plane and onto the smoldering slopes of an active volcano.
Like a street performer doing something so wild you can’t help but stop, stare, and drool, the first 10 minutes of Playground Games’ open-world racing title require your attention. Such is the power of Forza Horizon 5’s intro. But then I’m whipping down a desert highway in the middle of a sandstorm guided by magical glowing arrows into the warm embrace of Hermes himself.
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