Playground Games has shown off the typically spectacular intro sequence for Forza Horizon 5 in a new gameplay video, confirming the game’s cover cars as it did so – but had little in terms of concrete new detail to share on the open-world racing game.
The sequence sees the player air-dropped from a cargo plane, by parachute, in a series of signature cars, all over the game’s Mexico map.
First up is a 2021 Ford Bronco Badlands, a rugged, retro-styled SUV that is dropped right next to a smouldering volcano crater, dusted with snow. It’s winter up here, but a vertiginous descent takes us down into a baking desert and a brief glimpse of a Baja rallying circuit.
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Next we are dropped in a 2020 Corvette Stingray sports car and plunged into an impenetrable dust storm; these storms can appear in scripted events like this, but also crop up organically in free-roam. Then a Porsche 911 “Desert Flyer” – a 1980s model of the classic sports car that’s been modded into a Baja endurance rally car, with some success in Mexican racing – gets to explore the palpably humid climes of a muddy jungle track.