{"id":6236,"date":"2025-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2025-05-01T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:22:04","slug":"forza-horizon-5-ps5-review-no-longer-only-on-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/forza-horizon-5-ps5-review-no-longer-only-on-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Forza Horizon 5 PS5 review \u2013 no longer only on Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forza Horizon 5 – now available on PS5 (Xbox Game Studios)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the Xbox<\/a>\u2019s most acclaimed exclusives is now available on PS5<\/a> and it\u2019s the best open world arcade racer ever made.<\/p>\n

Microsoft<\/a>\u2019s blockbuster Forza racing franchise comes in two contrasting flavours. Its Motorsport games<\/a> are sober, poker-faced affairs that sit comfortably alongside Gran Turismo in their dedication to simulating car racing as accurately as possible. Forza Horizon, on the other hand, is open world, centres around a colourful made-up festival of speed, and generally takes itself a lot less seriously than its sim-orientated older brother.<\/p>\n

They both feature a vast line-up of cars and tracks, fastidiously authentic car handling, and a range of different motorsports. They both also clearly want you to enjoy yourself, letting you rewind time when you mess up a series of corners or a tricky overtaking manoeuvre, but Horizon\u2019s open world and far more varied set of challenges make it look and feel about as riotously entertaining as a driving game could possible get.<\/p>\n

More important than all of that, is that alongside Halo, Forza is a founding pillar of Xbox exclusivity. The term killer app<\/em> now sounds quaintly old fashioned, but the Forza franchise has helped encourage a generation of players to buy an Xbox just to play the game. Its playful brilliance, marrying accurate car physics with an irrepressible sense of knockabout fun has been a Microsoft system seller for decades. Until now that is.<\/p>\n

Forza Horizon 5<\/a> is the first game in the long running series that you can enjoy on PlayStation. It\u2019s a momentous occasion. Like the moment you could finally play Sega\u2019s jealously guarded mascot Sonic the Hedgehog on a Nintendo GameCube, or saw Mario on your mobile, there\u2019s a peculiar cognitive dissonance that comes with playing Forza using a DualSense. Exactly how committed Microsoft is to the multiformat concept to is anyone\u2019s guess, but for PlayStation owners this is a watershed moment.<\/p>\n

Set in an artfully designed microcosm of Mexico, Forza Horizon 5 is a near perfect apotheosis of the series so far, helped by the extraordinary variety of roads and countryside you\u2019ll explore. As in past Horizon outings, roads are strictly optional, and even exotic supercars can cheerfully plough through crash barriers and small trees, bouncing across swamps and scrub land on their way to your next destination.<\/p>\n

From the azure seas of its coastal roads, through gloriously colourful jungle, mangrove swamps, desert, and, at the heart of it all, the biggest mountain the series has ever seen, Horizon\u2019s Mexico has been built purely for entertainment. There are hairpin-laden switchbacks for drifting, long straights to test your car\u2019s top speed, and the narrow cobbled streets of old towns to tear through at suicidal velocity.<\/p>\n

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