Forza Horizon 5

[Maf]

DF preview

 

 

Can’t lie, getting pretty hyped about this game now it’s getting closer. Only 2 weeks away!

[Nag]

The first update is live, 20GB... I hope to god there isn't another that size before Friday as I'm away until then and won't be able to keep on top of the updates.🤣😢

[DisturbedSwan]

Downloaded that update last night whilst playing through a couple of other games. 
 

Also, I’m weak and bought the Premium Edition upgrade for this as I would’ve had to wait until the 12th Nov to play it if I didn’t. Friday can’t come soon enough.

[DisturbedSwan]

 

Lovely stuff for franchise Vets, I should get most of those apart from the Porsche 911 and maybe the Ford GT.

[retroed]

I should receive all of those. 😁

[Maf]

I played most of those but how does it work? Do you have to log in to some car club or some shit or can it just read the gamer tag? 

[DisturbedSwan]

2 hours ago, retroed said:

I should receive all of those. 😁

 

 

10 minutes ago, Maf said:

I played most of those but how does it work? Do you have to log in to some car club or some shit or can it just read the gamer tag? 

 

I think it just reads your Xbox ID but I've no idea.

[Nag]

Yeah, I'll be missing the Motersport cars...

[DisturbedSwan]

 

[Maf]

Am I lame enough to say the reviews are ‘off to the races’? 🤔

[Nag]

I was wondering if we'd see them this week or next... glad it's today by the sounds of it.

[bellow]

I thought this released on the 9th. Is it tomorrow now?

[Nag]

It is if you've bought the Premium add on.

[bellow]

Interesting. So you can pay to get an early 'day 1'.

 

Not exactly the terms Microsoft have set out in their gamepass spiel.

 

Excuse me while I contact my lawyer.

[Nag]

You're paying for the expansions more than anything, early access is just a little bonus.

 

This is killing it with reviews, sitting at 92% on OpenCritic at the moment.😁

[DisturbedSwan]

Reviews:

 

OpenCritic

 

Metacritic (XSX Version)

 

 

[Maryokutai]

Guess it won't be long before we see this running on Xbox One. Will be interesting to see how big the gap is, because the previous Horizon games still hold up really well visually.

 

Edit: they're there already:

 

 

Looks absolutely fine.

 

[DisturbedSwan]

 

[Maf]

Think it'll be 60fps mode for me. Missing a little bit of extra debris and draw distance is easy trade off. 

[DisturbedSwan]

I'm not sure yet, before I watched the DF preview/tech analysis I would've definitely chosen 60fps but you can notice the terrain pop up quite clearly in 60fps whereas in 30fps it's all seamless. But then you're only playing at 30...decisions decisions.