>be me
>12am can't sleep
>open up steam
>find good game to help with existential dread
>see this game
>remember playing forza on xbox 360 in high school
>buy and download game
>run game
>trying to speedrun intro & tutorial to get to driving
>finally in game world
>opens menu to autoshow to find fav car
>sees subaru wrx 04
>fav car, instant buy
>tunes car to go vroom vroom, gets best waifu decal for car
>mutes music from game
>opens up youtube
>searches "nightcall 10 hours"
>plays video, goes back to game
>"I drive"
>drives around game map, nightcall playing in background
>see time
>5am
>been driving around with the same song for 5 hours
>literally me moment
>10/10 game
>repeat when feeling existential dread

Forza Horizon 5 feels like an ordinary reskin for the first few minutes, where the game environment has just been changed. The magical, familiar and calming Great Britain is replaced by a wild, playful and colorful Mexico. The change of landscape is the only new thing you will notice at first.
But one change after another awaits you in the environment. Mexico, as presented by Forza, is an incredibly diverse place. You have sandy beaches on the western beach, rugged rocky formations with a volcano in the north, the center of the country is dominated by agricultural areas with villages, while in the southeast there is a dense jungle full of breathtaking buildings left behind by our very ancient ancestors from the Aztecs.

These ancient cities, with their faded glory, contrast wonderfully with modern homes, whose facades playing with all the colors of the rainbow immediately reveal the cheerful mood of their inhabitants. A mood that will accompany you throughout the story campaign, which is one of the novelties of the fifth part.
You are no longer completely anonymous, but a real, speaking person who is welcome in these parts and gets along great with its adventurers. You will immediately feel at home and will hit it off with everyone who takes you for a ride spiced up with more than one interesting activity.

There is everything, from various types of races to special side story lines focused on specific activities (such as crazy modifications to the Beetle) to tons of challenges. There are speed gates, ranked jumps, searching for barns with wrecks ready for renovation, knocking down hundreds of reward boards, discovering dozens of areas and hundreds of paths, unlocking new vehicles, outfits and your own houses and much, much more.
And I haven't even mentioned the multiplayer game, which has been given great emphasis from the beginning.

Just like in the previous game, we have two huge DLCs available here. In FH4 it was the Lego DLC that captured my heart and in FH5 it is the Hot Wheels DLC, which is just as strong in quality. The expansions offer their own maps, missions, vehicles, clothing and more.

After three years filled with one of the most fun racing games of all time, it is time to say goodbye and move on to its successor. Forza Horizon 4 has indelibly written itself into the hearts of not only die-hard fans of motoring, but also many other lost souls who discovered in it a charm not found in other racing games. 85%

yeah sure, this game is not perfect, however it really does feature stuff that no other horizon game has.. the best car list, the best graphics so far, the physics are no doubt amazing, and the engine sounds my god, those 4 cylinders sound like ♥♥♥♥♥ choking on an apple during lunch.. however the map isn't the greatest, it does have some good parts in it but other than that, all the other DLC maps are way better than mexico, and the story is god awful, i wish they just made this game like beamNG and would make it so that you can get right into playing with cars and collecting them... but once you passed the terrible story the game is actually pretty darn good,

7/10
the problems are completely tolerable...