![]() I encountered some game-breaking FFB bugs during my first week of play and waited on publishing this review to see if they were fixed. I run a Thrustmaster T300RS set to 100% force in the wheel drivers and 110% in WRC 10 settings, and I feel fairly well-informed about what my tires are doing when I’m driving. When it works right, the force feedback feels pretty decent. There are not enough significant changes to distinguish it from last year’s entry. ![]() Yay, every team has a new pixelated JPG of the IRL drivers - maybe that floats your boat. The lack of a license for Lancia in Forza Horizon 5 hurts, and it definitely leaves a hole in an experience so overtly inspired by the likes of Sega Rally, but there are plenty of other rally legends that can be built to tackle this new map.I love rallying, but I don’t love it enough to pay $50-$60 a year for what amounts to a few new cars and tracks. On top of that, the incredibly talented community has whipped up excellent replica liveries for all of them over the past few years. There’s an argument that the 10 new cars are too heavy with trophy trucks and buggies over traditional rally cars, but keep in mind the latest update to the main game just added a host of new rally parts for pretty much every traditional rally car already in the existing garage. It’s especially serendipitous here considering the Scumbug was literally built by the Hoonigan team to rally in Mexico. It’s not quick, but lower-powered cars are regularly a lot of fun to use as it’s all about pushing them up to their absolute limit and keeping them there on the brink of losing control in order to maintain your momentum. I also love the Hoonigan Beetle, affectionately nicknamed the Scumbug. I’m an enormous fan of the iconic 2001 WRC Ford Focus RS of Colin McRae and Nicky Grist, and it’s a perfect fit as essentially the hero car of this expansion. In Rally Adventure, the curation leans entirely into rallying and off-roading. It doesn’t just look slick, either – it’s also a smart solution to explain why you’re still receiving co-driver audio in single-seater vehicles. ![]() Having your co-driver soaring over the stage above you in a helicopter is a cool touch, too. It’s not a particularly demanding simulation (and its straightforward pace notes crib plenty from the pick-up-and-play pleasure of genre granddaddy Sega Rally) but it’s absorbing, arcade-inspired fun. ![]() I don’t think there’s anything to be gained by blazing through everything in your fastest hypercar, unless you’re only here for a short time rather than a good time.Įach event can be played two ways – either as a single car rallying against the clock or a standard race against a pack of opponents – but the proper rallying is the highlight. This is how I played, changing cars for each of the nearly 30 events to keep things varied. Of course, you can still use any car you want to enter events and the AI will adjust class accordingly. In a somewhat unfortunate step back, things have reverted to a bit of a free-for-all rather than the gated class system that gave the Hot Wheels expansion a nicer sense of progression. – Luke Reilly, NovemScore: 10Īfter a strong opening drive, where the route into the festival is clogged with campers on the way into the main hub, Rally Adventure breaks the racing up into three threads – each with a slightly different take on rallying. Above all, however, it is the result of a racing studio at the peak of its craft and the best open-world racing game I’ve ever played. It looks beautiful, it sounds magnificent, and it is glorious to play. It never locks you into something you don’t want to do and steadily rewards you for however you choose to play it. It’s a long haul, MMO-inspired racer that’s exploding with more races, activities, and event types than can comfortably fit on some parts of the map – and yet it still always feels relaxed rather than daunting. It’s an occasionally goofy but always earnest Valentine to Mexico’s world-famous culture, and a romantic ode to the magic of road-tripping through postcard-perfect vacation vistas. It’s also an extremely accessible buffet of racing spectacle open to everyone, from Deluxe Edition diehards to Game Pass nomads – no matter their driving skill or mechanical knowledge. Forza Horizon 5 is a deep and nuanced car nirvana for revheads and auto geeks to endlessly collect, tinker, and experiment.
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