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Man, tonight I had some Mad Max-esque weather to deal with while hooning around Forza Horizon 5's Sierra Nueva rally expansion!

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Posted on 8 October 2023, 21:15

Back on my Forza Horizon 5 bullshit again! I'd forgotten I bought the rally expansion and man is it fun to blast around this rally-spec Peugeot 207 without any of the usual breaking lines on and instead just getting the instructions from your co-pilot ("hard left", "medium right into hairpin right", that sort of thing). On asphalt it's pretty much glued to the road and even on dirt it handles extremely nicely.

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Posted on 19 August 2023, 21:29

A screenshot of a dust-covered black hatchback driving along a road with looming sandstone cliffs behind it.

I was a bit sceptical about the new Forza Horizon 5 DLC, it's a whole proper rally thing. By default they recommend you leave the driving line off and they have the full co-driver giving you directions ("medium right into hard left", etc.) and I gave that a go and man is it fun! I've been blasting around in my rally-spec 1990 Nissan Pulsar (the brown is actually dust, it's black underneath all that, haha).

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Posted on 2 April 2023, 22:11

A screenshot showing a hotted-up (pun unintended) red 1970 Datsun 510 driving along a road with rolling sand dunes behind it and clouds in the distance, and the sun blazing down. Just looking at it, it feels HOT.

Another screenshot of the same Datsun 510, this time in a different spot. There a bunch of foliage and palm trees on the side of the road being buffeted by extreme winds, the entire scene is yellow and the visibility is extremely low because I'm in the middle of a huge dust storm.

It's the hot season in Forza Horizon 5, and it feels like I'm driving on Tatooine. And then a dust storm rolled in!

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Posted on 1 January 2023, 22:26

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, it's a sunny day with cobblestone streets and obviously-Mexican buildings, and there's a massive Christmas tree in the middle the section where a road is splitting apart. On the other side of the road is a huge yellow building that I think is a church.

Another screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, showing my red Datsun 510 with big rims zooming along the road in the middle of the desert, there's lots of cactii and scrubby bushes on the side of the road.

Haha, Forza Horizon 5 is getting into the Christmas spirit as well: there's a giant Christmas tree in the middle of the city, and various other places have big candy canes lining the side of the road. In related news, still having a ton of fun in my hotted-up Datsun 510.

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 22:34

My favourite thing to do in the Forza Horizon games is to take an old car and just entirely hot it up. Witness my 1970 Datsun 510 that has an inline four turbocharged rally engine in it, along with full rollbars, weight reduction, and slick racing tyres. In related news, I am absolutely incapable of playing racing games without leaning my entire body to one side or the other as I go around corners.

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Posted on 11 December 2022, 20:41

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 5 of a black 1972 Ford Falcon GT-HO muscle car with the engine poking out of the bonnet, looking like something directly from Mad Max. It's got mud spattered on the front and along the sides and is parked on a bleak-looking bit of sandy desert.

Forza Horizon 5 is out and I'm back on my Mad Max bullshit. But because it's set in Mexico, I've got an actual desert to photograph the cars in now. 😎

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Posted on 25 November 2021, 20:51

A screenshot of a very 1960s-looking little white hatchback that's been lowered, and has big deep dish rims, a front spoiler, and an internal rollcage. It looks simultaneously cute but also mean.

This is a screenshot of the 1968 Abarth 595 Esseesse that I've turned into an UTTERLY INSANE MONSTER in Forza Horizon 4. It's been converted to all-wheel drive with a inline-4 turbocharged rally engine and weighs only 545kg, but puts out 498kW and 926Nm of torque, and has a top speed of 327km/h which it reaches ALARMINGLY quickly. 😂

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Posted on 13 June 2021, 21:49

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 4 showing a pale baby blue Morris Minor sitting on a beach in front of a row of those weird little beach hut things the Poms love. The car has been lowered and has big shiny chrome rims to go with the shiny chrome front and rear bumpers.

And in the total opposite of American muscle cars, I've also done up a 1958 Morris Minor 1000. It weighs 680kg and puts out 171kW and 320Nm. 😂 I thought the setting for this screenshot was quintessentially British too: a beach with those little beach houses in the background, but it's overcast and feels like it's about to rain.

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Posted on 5 January 2021, 23:18

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 4 of a black American muscle car with the engine poking through the bonnet, driving down a snowy road.

Still having way too much fun hotting up old muscle cars in Forza Horizon 4. My latest is a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T, also made over in the Mad Max style (and like the Falcon GT-HO, I've managed to make it handle pretty nicely too).

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Posted on 5 January 2021, 23:13