Thanks to a well-chosen bunch of unprecedentedly lavish car models and the help of all three hosts of the UK’s Top Gear, Forza 5 is a virtual love letter to every vehicle it contains. Forza 5 clearly wants to be the defining cocktail of global car culture and it’s a philosophy that’s extends from Clarkson’s slightly wistful opening montage to deep within the guts of career mode. The cars here aren’t just thumbnails in a scrolling menu every one has a history and a reason to admire it. Superficially speaking Forza 5 is just looking to turn us on before we even turn a key, but once you’re inside it’s instantly clear that Forza 5 is here to accelerate Forza’s transition from a series that simply features cars to one that truly celebrates them. “Cars are some of the most intoxicating, most beautiful things ever forged by mankind,” he muses. He explains how they mark the moments by which we define decades, as on-screen a set of keys is wedged into the palms of a grinning teenager. He describes how they represent both the glory of technology and the essence of freedom. But in a monologue not dissimilar to the one he provided to open Forza 4 Clarkson goes on to describe why cars are far more than this. To some, they’re just transport a convenient alternative to highly flammable dirigibles, or walking,” says Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson in Forza Motorsport 5’s pensive intro.
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