On anyone’s scale, Forza Motorsports 5 will absolutely be amongst the best looking games, period. Graphically speaking, Forza 5 is outstanding and the level of care put in by Turn 10 to ensure the most minute details of every one of the available cars, was absolutely astonishing. Overall Forza Motorsports 5 Racing Game of the Year is an excellent package containing all of the release content packs that will certainly provide any race enthusiast a great time. While neat, whatever happened to good ol’ CPU opponents? While it is annoying at times, the Drivatar feature is largely successful and I certain felt like I was playing in a multiplayer match even though I was simply playing a career circuit. These two factors alone were near enough to break the game for me, so bad was the taste that they left in my mouth. I assume that this is simply the algorithms that make up the Drivatar place the vehicle where is “should” be based on its program. When you drive one of these Drivatars into the grass (subsequently slowing them down to a crawl), after a few minutes/half a lap they will suddenly receive an inhuman boost in speed and accuracy and will automatically fly to the front. Now the Drivatar has to be some sort of crazy mathematical voodoo to create these persona’s that are based on real people. I have no clue why Turn 10 would feel that driving onto “pit lanes” or grass would suddenly make your car act like it was driving through the ocean rather than how it would really work. However, when you or the opponent hits the grass, your car will suddenly stop (or slow to 20MPH) this is as far from realistic as one can get, as I know from personal experience that a vehicle moving 50+ MPH and running over grass … simply continues on at 50+ MPH, though traction is lost in a wild and crazy fashion. While racing it is pretty common to periodically slide off, or drive opponents off the pavement into the grass/gravel, things like this happen in real life races as well. First and foremost I would like to explain why I see a particular issue with the Drivatar. Turn 10 introduced a feature called the Drivatar, which I mentioned earlier, and while it is a very cool feature, I did experience some rather blatant issues. While Forza Motorsports 5 is a gorgeous affair, it is a racing game. Coupled with some high quality speakers and you will be sucked right into the game and will not want to leave. As soon as I heard the deep, British accent a big grin appeared on my face as I thought “Who better to talk cars, than Jeremy Clarkson, star of Top Gear!” Along with the phenomenal voice acting, every single vehicle sounds just like it would in real life. None other than Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson. The real winner is who Turn 10 hired to narrate the circuit introductions, as he is pretty large in the auto-enthusiast’s world. One is a female and she is amazing as she narrates the majority of the game’s menus and tooltips, providing a very nice sounding voice track. On top of models and textures that are literally out of this world, the lighting is absolutely stunning, providing just the right amount of glare and realism that you will want a pair of sunglasses at times.įorza Motorsport 5 is more than just pretty graphics and a splendid addition to the gorgeous visuals is the audio. The interiors are all modeled after their real life counterparts so each model is unique and looks exactly the same as it would in real life. The cars though, oh my the cars! Each and every one of the cars is so detailed you will have issues distinguishing the real thing from a model in Forza 5. Now, that is not to say the tracks are poor, no, they are so realistic it is uncanny. Forza is not about the tracks though, as the tracks look second-rate next to the cars. Every single track is meticulously detailed, down to the last tree, bump in the road, and grain of gravel each location is gorgeous.
The Drivatar is a way to make each and every race unique and full of unexpected challenges, the question though, is whether the Drivatar, updated graphics, and higher framerate of Forza Motorsports 5 is bringing us truly to the next generation of racing.įorza Motorsport 5 is stunning.