Forza Horizon 5 is Stunning - Xbox Series X/S Hands-On - A DF Direct Special

We've been hands-on with the beginning of Forza Horizon 5! Rich, John and Alex share their impressions on the game, the technology, the scalability and the ray tracing. Series X and Series S comparisons and much, much more.

[frankie]

I’m not even a car guy but I’ll always jump into Forza, it’s so good.

[ruprekt]

Another amazing showing from Series S. The value for money of that machine coupled with Game Pass is quite astonishing.

[goob]

Knew this was gonna be fantastic when the devs showed off so much gameplay so early. You could tell they were proud of and confident in their work

[theworldeatswithyou]

Astonishing what you can get out of Series S

[LOSTBHOY]

Sony really need to invest some money into making this sort of game. We have nothing like this on PS unfortunately. It’s the reason I bought an XB1 years ago just to play Horizon. Will be picking up a Series X for this too, it looks astounding

[exiledrabbit]

I cannot wait to see what these guys and girls do with Fable.

[selnor]

When Digital Foundry use the words "I'm totally blown away" you know we are looking at something truly special.

I can't believe the visual density and fidelity of this game. And it's completely locked framerate.

Welcome to next gen finally.

[davidlr]

Very glad to see that the Series S version retains the 60fps option

[gustavomoraes]

Playground Games is Microsoft Game Studio nº1 by far!! Horizon series is a masterpiece!

[rcng]

Playground games is the best developer Microsoft has right now. I'm anxious to see what they can do outside of racing

[Lord_ofcinder]

ps5 fan here and man oh man this game truly is beautiful

[SpagmanAus]

This looks simply stunning. Can we start talking about how much more excited for their Fable game this makes us??? 😀

[antbrooks]

PS5/4 needs something like this. Call it Gran Turismo World or something lol.

Anyways, this is incredible. Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios deserves a round of applause.

[Tyranniod]

This game looks absolutely amazing. I don't even really like racing games but it just looks so good.

[lorankatoran]

Really like how they used the Series S here. Well done Playground

[Kielyoutube]

So good that the X is native 4k and S is native 1080p. Should be how all games are optimised for both systems. Not everyone has a 4k TV

[sokol]

4x MSAA at 4K? Damn that Xbox is a beast.

[iris]

looking forward to an indepth video on the pc version with optimal graphics settings. but very happy to see the frame rate is perfectly stable on the consoles, makes me less worried about whether my pc will keep above 60fps minimum at 1440p.

[coleG]

This game is proof that as long as you do things right, all you need to do is pull back the resolution and the Series S is right up there with the X. Any dev that says otherwise just doesn’t want to/hasn’t put in the work to do it.

Density was great, frame rate was great. All it needs is scaled back resolution (and I’m sure there’s other things under the hood that change).

[rotaryperfection]

The level of detail and lack of pop-in is next level.