I’m not quite playing it just yet as it is still downloading, however since there was a deal going on Game Pass ($1 for 3 months, at least here in my region!) I’m about to dive in to some Forza Horizon 5.
I loved Forza Motorsport 2, 3, and 4; I had a group of friends that were all fairly in to it and we had a weekly race night which was a blast! The last one of those was probably close to ten years ago by now, at a guess. The generational change from 360 to xbone broke everything up – most people did not want to buy the xbone, plus the FM games on it were disappointing anyway!
I played a little bit of the earlier Horizons, but the online never quite worked right. It was fine for the Burnout Paradise style of group up with whoever happens to be in the same area, do an ad-hoc event, and move on; it was impossible to organise a group of friends in to the same game and schedule an event together. As such, I messed around with them a little, had some fun, and never really thought too much about them again.
I’m no longer really looking for organised race nights with a group of friends, and it seems like I’m getting away with something by being allowed to pay $1 and just download it. It should run ok enough on my PC if I mess around with some settings, so I figured I might as well give it a go.
At the very least I’ll go drive a stupidly expensive car in to a volcano and call it a day.
I’d buy that for a dollar