The game itself is insane, probably the one arcade racing game to play if you are into racing games. I do say arcade racer but its not like NFS or The Crew which are hardcore arcade racers. This is somewhat in between arcade and sim but can be more arcadey if you want.

There's a wide variety of cars to choose from so no one is left out (although could use more SUVs). Very in-depth tuning and a lot of performance upgrades for most cars. This time some performance upgrades affect the sound of the car as well.
Visually, the game is insane...if it works on maxed out settings. I have a 3070 and still cannot get it to work at 60FPS maxed out at 1440P (even 40FPS is not very stable) but it looks so much better on Xbox sadly which is a weaker system. Hopefully they optimize it.

I usually don't care about the single player of games like this where multiplayer is an option and in FH5 as well, I don't care about the single player. They tried for a story or dialogue but its just cringey and would be better off with just one person telling everything to us rather than having multiple characters repeating the same dialogues over and over again. But hey its a racing game with multiplayer so for me that's not a downside.

The online is well, its great when it works. The leaderboards are filled with hackers so have fun trying to get a legit score on there. But playground games cannot let people use most of the custom designs because its a kids game and ban the creators indefinitely. Mind you that on kid accounts for Xbox, most of the online content is disabled unless parents enable it. Considering how big tunes, liveries and tracks are in this game its really detrimental for the community. The devs are just on a power trip on banning people.

Even after the patch the performance is horrible for the game (I've reset my PC so that is not at fault here). FH4 ran much much better and looked better too (since I cannot play above the high preset very well). The roads randomly turn into rainbow and black boxes. The foliage is just TV static and tons of bugs like suddenly stopping the car and falling out of the map.

TL;DR: One of the best if not the best open-world racing games but can go downhill real fast if the devs don't patch the major issues like hacking, online disconnects and performance. All they do right now is ban people randomly for sharing a spongebob like livery. I wish I could give a neutral rating on Steam but for now a negative will have to do.

The game itself is insane, probably the one arcade racing game to play if you are into racing games. I do say arcade racer but its not like NFS or The Crew which are hardcore arcade racers. This is somewhat in between arcade and sim but can be more arcadey if you want. There's a wide variety of cars to choose from so no one is left out (although could use more SUVs). Very in-depth tuning and a lot of performance upgrades for most cars. This time some performance upgrades affect the sound of the car as well. Visually, the game is insane...if it works on maxed out settings. I have a 3070 and still cannot get it to work at 60FPS maxed out at 1440P (even 40FPS is not very stable) but it looks so much better on Xbox sadly which is a weaker system. Hopefully they optimize it. I usually don't care about the single player of games like this where multiplayer is an option and in FH5 as well, I don't care about the single player. They tried for a story or dialogue but its just cringey and would be better off with just one person telling everything to us rather than having multiple characters repeating the same dialogues over and over again. But hey its a racing game with multiplayer so for me that's not a downside. The online is well, its great when it works. The leaderboards are filled with hackers so have fun trying to get a legit score on there. But playground games cannot let people use most of the custom designs because its a kids game and ban the creators indefinitely. Mind you that on kid accounts for Xbox, most of the online content is disabled unless parents enable it. Considering how big tunes, liveries and tracks are in this game its really detrimental for the community. The devs are just on a power trip on banning people. Even after the patch the performance is horrible for the game (I've reset my PC so that is not at fault here). FH4 ran much much better and looked better too (since I cannot play above the high preset very well). The roads randomly turn into rainbow and black boxes. The foliage is just TV static and tons of bugs like suddenly stopping the car and falling out of the map. TL;DR: One of the best if not the best open-world racing games but can go downhill real fast if the devs don't patch the major issues like hacking, online disconnects and performance. All they do right now is ban people randomly for sharing a spongebob like livery. I wish I could give a neutral rating on Steam but for now a negative will have to do.