Forza Horizon 5 is the Highest Rated New Release of 2021 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 November 2021 / 3,033 Views
Forza Horizon 5 will officially launch next week on Tuesday, November 9 for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC, as well as on Xbox Game Pass.
Reviews for the game have started to drop and the game has quickly become the highest rated new release of 2021, according to OpenCritic and Metacritic. The open-world racing game as of the time of this writing sits at a score of 92 on OpenCritic and 92 on Metacritic.
Here are the five highest reviewed new games of 2021 according to Metacritic:
- Forza Horizon 5 - 92
- Psychonauts 2 - 91
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale - 90
- Dusk - 89
- It Takes Two - 89
It should be noted there are five games listed above Forza Horizon 5, however, they are all re-releases. This includes Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, The House in Fata Morgana, Tetris Effect Connected, and the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 versions of Hades.
Forza Horizon 5 will launch for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on November 9. It will also be available on Xbox Game Pass.
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Forza Horizon series continues to set the bar for racing games.
Great news for Playground. The quality of their craftsmanship bodes well for Fable, too. Serious game of the year contender.
Now if the engineers at T10 would kindly restart the Forza 6 servers, or at least give an explanation for their sudden shutdown, I could go away and game in bliss
Highest rated for a reason!
Remember how revered Gran Turismo was back in the 90's/early 2000's? Well, Forza is quickly becoming this generations version of that. It's no wonder the scores piling in are reflecting that.
Making an amazing driving experience for car enthusiasts while giving fans jaw dropping visuals is by far a for sure path to victory.
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Pretty sure Forza become revered last gen too.
It did, lol.
I guess I should have specified better. What I meant by generation wasn't "generation" in the sense that we all use it here as gamers (ex: consoles generations) but rather generations in terms of people growing up.
It seems like gamers in the last gen (in the 90's to early/mid 2000's) were primarily focused on Gran Turismo as THE defining racing game of their time whereas Forza since the mid to late 2000's up until now seems to have taken up that mantle; or at the very least made a very strong case that it is now the premier racing game.
Oh, and you are absolutely right about Forza being revered last gen too. It's an amazing franchise.
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And not just Forza, but specifically Forza Horizon. I think Forza Horizon has left both Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo behind. I know I wouldn't play either of those if I could instead play Horizon.
ive said this before, Grand Turismo 2 blew me away, endless hours. today its all Forza for me.
Who else pre-installed this game already?
Surprise surprise.
I wasn't that impressed with Horizon 4, but I loved Horizon 3. Curious to see how Horizon 5 raises the bar.
So, how badly do you guys think this game is going to get review-bombed by users?
The Xbox One version has a perfect 10 user score currently and the XBS version has a 9.0 user score.
None of the others got review bombed either.
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Dusk isn't a new game
It's a 91, not a 92, so tied with Psychonauts 2.
Btw Dusk is also a rerelease.
How dare you state facts
You are right about Dusk, however the time of this article, FH5 was sitting on a 92, and its Opencritic with 99 reviews still sits on a 92.
Flight Simulator is at 90 (Xbox Series X) and 91 (PC), so it also should be on that list (even if you count Xbox only)
https://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-series-x/microsoft-flight-simulator
PC version released in 2020 and re-releases didn't count.
FS is a 2020 game, not 2021.
It is a 2021 Xbox game and it got 90.
Barozi already pointed out that the list it was not including re-release tho, so that's why it is not on the list obviously; which makes sense.
Games lauch 2020 = 2020 game, simple.
Doesn't matter if it came later to xbox, it came in 2020 for PC, than later ported to xbox!
It's a fact!
Are you okay? I mean, it is CLEAR that I was talking about the Xbox release which was in 2021 and not PC. And it also CLEAR that this post was not about re-release, and it has been clarified already, which was my mistake. What is your problem for coming back with your non-sense about facts and PC release. w/e, makes you happy, this is just a videogame, chill lol
ok good sir, as you wish.
I was surprised to see Psychonauts 2 this high, but that's because you took the Xbox One version which has only 10 reviews, not a good metric
EDIT: Let me explain/rephrase this: for eg, currently the best Switch game of 2021 is The House of Fata Morgana, which is at 97/100 on Metacritic, with just 9 review, that puts its at the same level as BOTW, that doesn't make any sense
Yes always use the version with the most reviews for multi-platform games.
