The “Forza” series can be regarded as the ceiling of racing games.
Forza” is a traditional racing game with a realistic feel, while the “Forza Horizon” we are talking about today is a countryside racing game with a sunny view, which is less difficult to get started, but playable and watchable.
Let’s take a look at the new series “Extreme Racing: Horizon 5 (Forza Horizon5)” how it really performs.
game introduction
Forza Horizon 5 is set in Mexico, where you can experience the fun of driving in complex terrain and enjoy the scenery along the way.
Explore the vibrant and ever-changing open-world landscape of Mexico and enjoy a fun and unrestricted driving experience in hundreds of world-class cars.
Game features
The “Extreme Racing” series is currently a very mature racing game, so let’s take away its gameplay and driving feel, which are almost flawless parts, and focus on the biggest highlights of this game and the changes and progress compared to the previous one.
I think the most significant improvement of this game is the leap of scene presentation. Although the previous game’s scene performance level is not low, but this game’s progress can be described as a leap.
During the game, due to the loading of UI and LOD may let you feel a hint of broken, but if viewing the game’s still images, it is almost difficult to facilitate the difference between them and photos. It can be said that “Extreme Racing: Horizon 5” has the top realistic style of scene expression in the current racing games, or the entire video game industry. And this work compared to its predecessor reduced part of the color saturation, so that the sensory experience presented by the game screen is closer to reality. The reflections of the car, the effect of water on the ground, the hazy effect of light, etc. are all visible to the naked eye compared to the previous one. Although the light chasing effect can only be turned on in the car appreciation session, the game still surprises people with its expressive power without the light chasing part.
This game has another excellent selling point: the excellent scene design. The first and most intuitive thing is that the map size of this game is 1.5 times larger than the previous one. Unlike England’s green land, this game is set in Mexico, the scenery style is more varied, desert, wilderness, forest, town, beach, mud, jungle everything. Whether it is the continuous drifting route that emphasizes the sense of operation or the long straight line that emphasizes the performance of the vehicle, there are enough in the map to give the player, and definitely let you race an addiction.
Of course, we also to pick a nit. The debut of this work, although a lot of cars, but the producers may consider the game’s long-term operation, removed a lot of popular cars. Although in the follow-up will certainly be released one after another, but as a player, we would prefer to see new cars added during the long operation of the game, rather than the return of old friends.
Game Review
I always remember the shock of the sudden appearance of several speeding cars in a scene as still as a photo, and I have been looking forward to the release of this game.
I recommend the game “Extreme Racing: Horizon 5” to fans of the series, but also to players who want to see the strongest graphics performance of the game today. Of course one thing must be stated in advance, if you are a PC gamer, then you want excellent graphics, you first need a device with enough performance. (In the highest quality of 4K resolution, 3080Ti is also very difficult to maintain at 60 fps at all times, more vegetation or light reflections more complex scenes will still have dropped frames)
