Forza Motorsport 5 Review (XBox One)

[ZB9]

Im addicted to this game. I need a Forza rehab or something.

[Sadince]

My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do,,,,,,,,,,WWW****sh64.CＯＭ

[Goodydog]

Quote: Originally Posted by VisceralBishop

It's lifeless compared to past games in the series, which is in the paragraph you quoted. It says "it lacks the overall personality of previous iterations." That is based off my time with the game, from the soundtrack to the way the career mode is setup.

Okay, I think I understand...the omissions are glaring, but to say that the game is lifeless seems extreme.

[cincy14fan]

Quote: Originally Posted by MaxAbbitt

I love the avatars and feel they make this the best playing Forza game yet. Definitely need more tracks and cars, but that is understandable for a launch title.

I agree.

And like everyone else saying how he tried to compare this to Horizon I agree as well. Although I feel he should of stated something like, "While this Forza goes back to sim, with the addition to driveatar's you will see how your friends drive, and sometimes they don't drive very sim." Although I do have one friend who basically always takes the inside route and runs into me to keep his line, or T-Bones me, it actually makes that game so much fun that any of the previous games.

I rather have that and no so perfect racers than AI that does perfect lines and such all the time. While there is only 14 tracks and 1/4 less cars than before (or however amount it is) it is not that big of a deal for me since every race is so unpredictable with the driveatar's. Every racing game doesn't have that many tracks. Yes the load times are terrible, at least I can snap or just watch TV, until the race starts.

Also have a friend who hates racing games. Mostly cause he is terrible, but some friends and I convinced him to get it, and it is now one of his favorite games on the Xbox One. Mostly cause of how unpredictable the driveatar's are.

[cincy14fan]

Although I would love to know what he means by "we expected a little more." I know mean tracks and cars, but curious what features and such. Are you saying like your driving class license? Other than that really don't know what you me. While it is your review I think most of us were taken back by the lowest score for Forza that we seen.

[lnin0]

Horizon uses the Forza branding but is not part of the main Forza series. It did some things better than the Forza series but also lacked a lot of the hard core stuff the die hard Forza fans love.

Horizon aside, Forza has always been a sterile, lifeless series. Five is no better or worse in terms of personality. Forza has always felt like part racing game part science project. It has always been a set of boring, inanimate blocks that got its real personality, not from the developers, but from the community.

Those community features feel a little more absent or incomplete in Forza 5. The ability to host custom, public rooms, the ability to shop designs and tunes in the store...even the rivals doesn't feel as well rounded as in the past and I think that makes the rest of the games dullness more apparent. I think it is a mistake to say that five isn't lock step with every other boring iteration of the game.

It is a disappointment and probably the last Forza, aside from Horizon 2, that I purchase. The developers choose to go down the exact same path as last gen only adding more pixels and pay walls. They harnessed the 'cloud' for drivatars but offer no option for private leagues, clubs or online competitions/ladders.

If 'next gen' is about little more than upping the pixel count and attaching micro-payments to everything then count me out.

[WildFan22]

I bought F5 and I usually don't usually buy racing games. My question is how can I have fun playing Forza 5? I never see any accidents, the tracks don't change lighting or weather, and if you're in first place you have nothing but a lifeless racetrack to look at.

I'm not trolling. I bought the game and I'm trying to get into it. I think I just went into it with the wrong expectations.

[TCrouch]

If you never see any accidents, that's a completely different game than I've seen. The drivatars are constantly banging into each other. And if you're in first place all the time with the drivatars on "Unbeatable", then you're just too good to have any fun, probably. Which is odd, because somebody that good would probably just be having a blast driving that fast, and I wouldn't really consider the tracks "lifeless" at all. Better than most other racing games, with fans waving their flags around, etc.

But it's a racing game. Pretty much you and the track. But if you just blow by the hardest Drivatar AI and smoke everybody, yeah...might get boring. Probably not for you. You mentioned not buying racing games, which makes me think that you probably left the drivatars on default....in which case, I'd tell you to crank up the difficulty and you certainly wouldn't be out front just bored to tears.