Impressions of “Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure”

Forza Horizon 5 is an open world racing game set across a vast map in Mexico. Not only paved roads, but also unique “roadless roads” in the open world, there are many racers who are captivated by the delightful graphics and realism.

It’s been about a year and a half since this work was released in November 2021, but the second large-scale DLC “Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure” was released today, March 30th. As the name suggests, the content focuses on “rally”, a time attack on public roads between car races, and the race will be more difficult than you can imagine.

Rally Adventure will be available on Xbox One / Xbox Series X | S / PC, priced at 2,090 yen. The main game is required to play, and if you want to play with the ‘Xbox Game Pass’ subscription service, you need to purchase it additionally.

In this article, we play the build before completion and give an impression of the big “Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure” DLC. Located in the new area “Sierra Nueva”, we will tell you the attraction of this content where you can have a complete rally experience.

Rally modes and user interface! “Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure” that can do more than just real action

First of all, I would like to briefly introduce “Forza Horizon 5 (FH5)”. This work is an open world racing game released in 2021, and it is the sequel that was first released two years ago since the previous work “Forza Horizon 4”. In this article, I will tell you about the additional charms of the “Rally Adventure” DLC, but I would like to know more about the main part of the game! For whoever says, please refer to the review article in our magazine.

“Rally Adventure” is the second content after the first large-scale “Hot Wheels Expansion” delivered in July 2022. Users who purchased the “Forza Horizon 5 Premium Edition” or the “Premium Add-on Bundle” already include the DLC, so please Be careful of repeat purchases. I played the Xbox Series X version this time around.

Once installed, a symbol called “Rally Adventure” will appear on the world map, so if you drive to the symbol point, the “Rally Adventure” will start. “Sierra Nueva” which will be the stage of this time, is a new map, a different map than the campaign mode. When you select the start of the event, a movie will start playing, and you will be able to “flip” the car that the player will drive. This is Ford’s first electric pickup truck, the 2022 F-150 Lightning Platinum, which serves as a cover vehicle.

Although it’s DLC, the first car is an EV, which sounds dated, but this F-150 boasts incredible performance, maxing out at 563 horsepower and accelerating to 60 mph (about 96 kilometers) in 4 seconds on the record’s fastest lifetime. It is impossible not to be excited that you will be driving through the unseen stage of Sierra Nueva in such a car. When the car is actually driving, the speed increases steadily with the acceleration sound that is unique to electric vehicles.

In the “Horizon Badlands Expedition” educational event, you can “ignore which way it should be there” and jump hard, crossing a river in an “F-150 Lightning Platinum” that costs about $100,000, and a boardwalk. Actions that can only be done in “FH5”, such as jumping over overlapping planes. The magic of “FH5”, which allows you to drive in a way that cannot be done in the real world, is still very much alive in “Rally Adventure”.

Once the first event is over, you can drive freely around the map like a regular FH5 and take part in the races you want to challenge. In “Rally Adventure”, a new mode has appeared in this race, and in addition to the “Horizon Race” where multiple cars race as usual and aim for first place, a new racing mode called “Horizon Rally” has been added.

Horizon Rally is a time attack mode in which drivers compete for time while running a predetermined course, similar to the World Rally Championship (WRC). Only one car runs on the track, and there are checkpoints and “split gates” in the middle of the track, so you can’t “cheat” like shortcuts. It is a situation where pure driving skills are contested.

If you are familiar with “FH5” and racing games, you may feel lonely because there are no other cars, but when you play it, you can see that your mind is “serious”. Just like real world races like WRC, this mode competes in split seconds, so even the slightest mistake can lead to lost time. “Horizon Rally” maximizes all driving-related elements, such as acceleration, deceleration, handling, and the eyes for assessing road conditions.

In addition, Sierra Nueva, the stage of the Adventure Rally, has many unpaved roads and many winding roads. Therefore, in real-world rallying, in addition to the driver in charge of driving, there is a “co-driver” who is informed of road conditions such as curves and slopes ahead, but the role of the co-driver is the “horizon”. Rally HUD” is also a high point for this DLC.

“Horizon Rally HUD” is a user interface that displays course status in audio and visual form. For example, even on the same right-hand curve, it will tell you according to phase “easy light,” “medium light,” “hard light,” and “apex” which means an uneven road and a “sharp turn” which requires slowing down in a U-shaped curve And other information about the track ahead while running. In particular, the sharp curve after the “Crest” is often not visible, so driving along the user interface can sometimes create a few seconds of advantage. It is one of the indispensable functions of the rally .

Uneven roads are also a daily occurrence in the rally. In such a scene, a “summit” sign is displayed in the top center of the screen.

The U-shaped “hairpin” requires driving skills. I want to drive carefully

Of course, “Rally Adventure” also includes additional car models. In addition to the tutorial-driven “F-150 Lightning Platinum” electric truck, the rally car “2001 Ford #4 Ford Focus RS” with a 2-liter turbocharged engine, and the custom car “Hoonigan Volkswagen Baja Beetle 1973 Class 5/1600 Scumbug” total will appear. 10 new models.

There is also a new radio station to get you in the mood while driving and racing in Sierra Nueva. I would like you to listen to the perfect rally driving punk music.

2001 Ford #4 Ford Focus RS

The Volkswagen Beetle, which has become a popular car in many countries, has also been customized by Hoonigan. Cool retro look!

Enjoy the ultimate rally experience with the FH5!High expectations for the “Forza” series that is about to release the latest “Motorsport”.

So far, we’ve provided impressions of the second “Rally Adventure” DLC for “Forza Horizon 5”. As the title suggests, a specialized “rally” racing mode and the “Horizon Rally HUD”, playing the role of co-driver, gave the “FH5” a full rally experience. In addition, one of the features of “Rally Adventure” is that it is a unique racing game that combines open world and rally.

In addition, this year we plan to release a new series of “Forza Motorsport” for the first time in six years. The previous work “Forza Motorsport 7” has already been discontinued, and at present the “Forza” series is the only one in the series, so while warming up the body engine with “FH5”, “Forza I want” comes to prepare for motorsports!