Everything from winning your first race in a D-class car, to completing the Showcases, to pulling off certain feats like slipstreaming enough times in a road race is counted and you get awarded Accolade points. The career progress is now centered around earning Accolades, by completing a wide variety of tasks. These challenges are brief and the cutscenes are still of very low quality, with some characters standing around - quite the same as FH4. You could be racing against a club of rich people, trying to convince them to join the festival, or helping local university gather data by going really fast into a sandstorm. Horizon Stories also return these bite-sized adventures offer you a few races or challenges, under the guise of a thin narrative thread. However, it's a fake out - the cutscenes are still almost non-existent, those that do happen are of very basic quality, and you don't even get one for beating the career mode and entering the Hall of Fame. The opening cutscenes make it seem like there is a renewed focus on the story, as you observe characters drive up, get out of cars, and have conversations. You also get to pick a voice this time, so whenever other characters talk to you in cutscenes or via radio, your avatar will have a brief conversation/response.
When players first arrive, they can customize their driver's avatar, and aside from a few new options - such as being able to buy clothing items for money and picking a pronoun - not much has changed here. It doesn't affect the roads, or car handling, so it's not exactly all that impressive, and could be comparable (albeit at a smaller level of detail) to the Forza Horizon 2 Storm Island DLC, or perhaps the better (but of course scripted) Forza Horizon 4 Treasure Island intro.Ĭareer mode has been slightly refreshed, but in general follows the same path of progression. These weather events look impressive on the horizon as you approach them, but inside the storms it's largely just very limited visibility and small debris flying everywhere. Storm season can bring in a Tropical Storm event, while the drier seasons may have a dust storm on the west coast of the map, and some seasons may also cause the top of the volcano to become active. There is still an option to equip winter tires for some reason, as well as dirt, drift, drag, offroad, and others. Aside from a higher possibility of rain and puddles forming on roads, there's not much gameplay difference between the seasons. There's obviously no snow, so instead the seasons are Hot, Wet, Storm, and Dry. Like its predecessor, the game world has four different weather seasons that will change on a weekly basis (or at any time if you create your own challenges), but the differences are minimal. Those huge jumps, and some tunnels, also cause some texture flickering/disappearing, but that is a minor issue. There are also some mountain tunnels across the map, which have no lights and so you are blinded by the contrast upon exit.
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It contains a confusing maze of split roads, elevation changes, and a few very annoying tunnels that are full of protruding wall edges that are bound to instantly end your race (you might get some flashbacks to the tunnels in Forza Horizon 2). The game lacks any notable urban settings - the biggest city is not that large and is not fun to drive around in.
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There are also multiple drag strips to push your tunes to the limit, and some of the longest jumps that the series has ever offered at the end of them. As always, the map is very well designed from a functional perspective, though the central volcano is quite a pain to get up to - but perhaps your reward is driving down the fastest and highest cliffs in the franchise to date.
The roads intertwine and mix between paved and unpaved, from the long highway stretches to the twisting jungle paths that mix in some Mayan ruins. It's a typically varied map for the series, offering players a few different but fairly traditional environments to race around in. The new large open world map has east and west coast lines, a jungle area, a desert area, swamps, a few small towns, and a large volcano. The fifth entry in this racing franchise takes players to its interpretation of Mexico.
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