
5 access is available via the $100 Premium Edition.
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The Xbox app on iOS and Android also boasts similar functionality for Xbox console users.
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The preload is available to anyone with a Forza Horizon 5 preorder, plus those with an active Xbox Game Pass subscription, granting access from launch day. Preloads will also follow for Forza Horizon 5 on Steam at a later date. Forza Horizon 5 clocks in at 103GB on the latest Xbox Series X|S consoles and Windows PCs, while the Xbox One version climbs to 116GB. 9, 2021, release date.Ĭrossing the finish line has seen Forza Horizon 5 preloads follow on Xbox consoles and Windows PCs, providing an opportunity to download the title before release. While work on the title remains underway, with Forza Horizon 5 slated to receive updates for months to come, the title appears to be locked in for its Nov. Despite the next games being technically superior in every way and even with the next game being so local to Britain, I think I’d still class this game in my top five all time racing/car games.Forza Horizon 5 developer Playground Games recently announced the project had "gone gold," an industry milestone denoting the end of development. It curated a list of fabulous cars, an excellent soundtrack (the background is a festival after all) and a host of enjoyable races, challenges and showcases.
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But Forza Horizon 2 went that little bit further and created a wonderful fictional area out of a real world drivers dream. You’ll find more than a few DriveTribe staff who will place Need for Speed Underground very high on their all time list. You’re possibly in love with open world racing games thanks to the success of the Need for Speed series. This game captured that feeling perfectly, where you were in its world.īut here’s the thing.

Much like when you drive to the coast and go over a crest that reveals your first glimpse of the ocean on the horizon. It's not a hidden town but a gleaming gem that gets closer and closer as you approach.

As you approach Castelletto, you can see it for miles. It wasn't just that this world existed, but that it so perfectly replicated the feel of driving around the wonderful landscapes. Something that I fell utterly in love with and became quickly addicted to showing off using the in-game photo mode (which you can all access on Forza’s website if you upload your images). The Acropolis at the top of Storm Island, the bars and cafes of Castelletto, the golf course just outside of Saint Martin - everything in this game was just an incredible visualisation of one of the oldest and most beautiful parts of the world.

As the world becomes more accessible thanks to the different cars and the much bigger and more open map compared to practically any other game at the time it was released four years ago… Time flies, right?Īnd the world of Forza Horizon 2 was somewhere you just wanted to stay, visit to escape the real world, take a virtual holiday.

It’s the game that wonderfully captures something obtainable, that tour of some of the most beautiful places in Europe, while also giving you something less obtainable to do it in like a Ferrari F40. Maybe that’s why I hold this game in such high esteem. That’s when the harbour at Castelletto comes in to view and you embark down the ocean road to the festival - it’s the stuff of dreams.
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A whimsical, poetic, if not entirely full of sense, monologue (friends do not rattle and if they do they should see a doctor) that shows some of the joys of trekking across Europe in fast cars and music festivals. As the game loads and the camera pans down to show the light reflecting off the Lamborghini Huracan, and the beads of water that sit on the Ferrari Laferrari at night, you knew that you were in line for something utterly stunning.
