Digital Foundry: Forza Horizon 5 is Stunning!

As if you didn't know that 😉 but damn, this looks good! Preload ready!

Thoughts, SW? Will you be doing quality or performance mode? Quality mode looks really good!

Always performance mode. Damn, Lems are spoilt for choice with GP these next two months; fh5, The Gunk, Halo and now this….

Very nice will check out the video later on. I don’t have an Xbox Series X yet so will just be playing this on the Xbox One for now but it’ll definitely be something to look forward to when I do get one. I’m sure I’ll still thoroughly enjoy this on the Xbox One though. 😁

Gonna play this beast. Thank you GamePass.

I'm playing on PC eventually, no performance mode needed 😋

Poor cows,having to zoom in on the Xbox one version running at 720p on YouTube to get to sleep at night.

10 out of 10 GS and 92 meta,and a waterfall of fanboy tears

Curious to see how it runs on Xbox one x. With how playground seems to have handled 30fps on the new machines, hopefully it will be just as smooth on a One X, with a few less visual tricks of course.

I was always gonna get it on PC/Steam so no performance mode needed since that's for current-gen consoles. Despite I have GP, I still want to own FH5 into my library.

Lol at PC gamers 🤣

I wish I enjoyed racing games. It looks beautiful. Good for you Forza fans 😉

How can it be stunning without the animals running in the wild? Feels very last gen to me.

@Jendeh: I love racing games, sadly I can't stand open world racing games.

talk about a weird complaint (but FH4 had animals in it so who is to say this one does not?)

@SolidGame_basic: going to play this on PC so settings cranked with 144fps if it supports it.

It's looking sweet. It's interesting they are so favorable on the 30fps mode because I gotta say - in the side-by-side the better framerate leaves an overall much better IQ impression on me than the little details gained at the lower framerate. It just looks so much smoother and sharper, even if the microscopic details are degraded in stillframe

I need some proof. All i saw are flamingos.

It is a last gen game. Wait until Microsoft starts making next-gen only games.

@xantufrog: I feel like for me it can go either way depending if I'm in the mood for 'filmic' or 'gamey' lol

I'd have both quality and performance on PC. No in-betweens.

I’m kind of the opposite, shockingly. The image quality takes a big hit imo. And it looks so damn good, I’m gonna give the 30fps mode a serious shot. If it feels too gross, I’ll go back to 60 I guess

This game might be a PC game for me just to get the best experience. Thanks AMD 🙄

Someone complaining because the game has no animals.. but plays a remake that has 3 enemies on screen at once with mostly empty environments😆

so now you are saying it does have animals

don't be pathetic with this "it doesn't have animals so it isn't next gen" stupidity

😆

Of course it will look awesome & appease the Forza fans with it's style of gameplay. These developers are great at making this type of racing game & they haven't faltered so far, so I don't expect them to now, with one of MS's biggest releases in a while.

The game should kill it on all fronts, from reviews, to player base. This is MS's GT!

The game is absolutely stunning.

@hardwenzen said:"How can it be stunning without the animals running in the wild? Feels very last gen to me."

That made me lol. XD

First with the "fruity physics", now the wild animals... Cows man... Cows. XD

then get the latest cpu and gpu then.

the term next gen nothing more then a pr talk now.

@SolidGame_basic: "Lol at PC gamers 🤣"

We don't have to choose from either quality mode or performance mode, buddy. This PC gamer will be experiencing this in ultra at 240fps.

@theam0g: Correction you might not, but there are TONS of PC gamers who have crap rigs that are going to have to dial this game down and down and down...

@theam0g: oh yea? So you're saying any PC can run the game at max settings at 4k?

@firedrakes: It means that the game is an Xbox One game, so it needs to run on an Xbox One. It can’t fully take advantage of the CPU of the Series S because if it did, the Xbox One wouldn’t be able to run it.

In case you want to see the recommended specs are: (Taken from Forza Horizon twitter)

I surpass the recommended specs but I edge out of the Ideal specs.

Okay, now I'm hungry for Fruity Pebbles lol. (I'm a cereal man)

"Never Give Up"

:-D

Great environment level design but that’s about it, if it was some open world game and looked like that i would be more impressed

@HalcyonScarlet: 😎😅

@HalcyonScarlet: don't worry the game he hypes as the best looking game ever doesn't even have half of the shit he cries about .

Quality GamePass game fancy that.

Some said it wasn't possible.

@davillain- said:

@Zero_epyon said:

@SolidGame_basic: going to play this on PC so settings cranked with 144fps if it supports it.

In case you want to see the recommended specs are: (Taken from Forza Horizon twitter)

I surpass the recommended specs but I edge out of the Ideal specs.

@HalcyonScarlet said:

@hardwenzen said:"How can it be stunning without the animals running in the wild? Feels very last gen to me."

That made me lol. XD

First with the "fruity physics", now the wild animals... Cows man... Cows. XD

Okay, now I'm hungry for Fruity Pebbles lol. (I'm a cereal man)

I'm in between Ideal and Recommended.

@theam0g: 240 fps? So you'll be playing it in 900p? *pukes*

Thought about trying it out, just to marvel a bit at the graphics, but the game looks a bit too boring.

@davillain- said:

@Zero_epyon said:

@SolidGame_basic: going to play this on PC so settings cranked with 144fps if it supports it.

In case you want to see the recommended specs are: (Taken from Forza Horizon twitter)

I surpass the recommended specs but I edge out of the Ideal specs.

@HalcyonScarlet said:

@hardwenzen said:"How can it be stunning without the animals running in the wild? Feels very last gen to me."

That made me lol. XD

First with the "fruity physics", now the wild animals... Cows man... Cows. XD

Okay, now I'm hungry for Fruity Pebbles lol. (I'm a cereal man)

while not a racing game fan i do plan to dl just to see how it runs on my pc. might even set up my ff wheel which has been collecting dust.

other then gpu am way above the rest of the specs.

@mane_basic said:

@davillain- said:

@Zero_epyon said:

@SolidGame_basic: going to play this on PC so settings cranked with 144fps if it supports it.

In case you want to see the recommended specs are: (Taken from Forza Horizon twitter)

I surpass the recommended specs but I edge out of the Ideal specs.

@HalcyonScarlet said:

@hardwenzen said:"How can it be stunning without the animals running in the wild? Feels very last gen to me."

That made me lol. XD

First with the "fruity physics", now the wild animals... Cows man... Cows. XD

Okay, now I'm hungry for Fruity Pebbles lol. (I'm a cereal man)

while not a racing game fan i do plan to dl just to see how it runs on my pc. might even set up my ff wheel which has been collecting dust.