Playground Games has announced the latest expansion toForza Horizon5,Rally Adventure. The announcement comes nearly a month afterForza Horizon5’s JDM updatewhere players saw the addition of new cars such as the Nissan Z, Toyota Sports 800, and a host of others. But the new update will be a much wider DLC expansion for fans.
TheForza Horizonfranchise has grown to be one of the most popular open-world racing titles around, particularly due to how the games often incorporate visually stunning environments with their racing mechanics. Even as the series crossed a decade of existence, the developers have continued to offer numerous content updates and quality-of-life changes post-launch, ranging from new cars and cosmetics toraytracing inForza Horizon5. Its latestRally Adventureexpansion marks another intriguing addition to fans of the franchise.
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Forza Horizon5 Rally Adventuremarks the second expansion for the title and will be centered around Sierra Nueva, “home to the dustiest and dirtiest races” in the game as per the company’s announcement. Players will have the option of going through three teams, each offering a variety between offroad events, street-style rallies, and asphalt rallies. Each of these teams will include eight races before the final event and players who manage to take the lead in all three teams will unlock a special “Goliath route.” The new expansion is scheduled to launch on March 29 and will be included with the existing premium add-ons bundle forForza Horizon5.
Apart from the selection of new locations,Rally Adventurewill also feature new rally parts, an anti-lag system, along with launch control that comes as a new assist for all cars. Further, the expansion will add new cars in line with its rally theme, similar to last year’s slew ofnew cars with theForza Horizon 5 Hot WheelsDLC.
But theForza Horizon5 expansion isn’t the only thing fans can look forward to seeing from Playground Games. Early this year at Xbox’s Developer_Direct event, the studio unveiledForza Motorsport, the latest racing simulation entry under the franchise. While more details are yet to be released in the coming months,Forza Motorsportwill include over 500 cars at launch. In any case, the addition of the numerous post-launch content updates toForza Horizon5 like itsRally Adventureexpansion as well as the new racing simulator will be welcome news for fans of the series and the racing genre alike.
Forza Horizon 5is available now for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. TheRally Adventureexpansion launches March 29.