Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels Critic Reviews

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels has again found a way to raise the bar for the Forza Horizon franchise and, in general, DLC. Its speed, races, and varied tracks almost make the base game not nearly as fun to experience.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels is a fantastic expansion. The small gameplay additions make it a really fun experience, with a beautifully designed scenario and a gameplay experience that's different enough from the base game to justify the purchase.

Few games have made me feel a true sense of nostalgia. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Hot Wheels growing up, but I had my fair share. Seeing Bone Shaker and Rip Rod in full-size as I jump 2000 feet through one of if not the best-looking video game landscapes of all time is everything I could have ever dreamed of. If you enjoyed the base game at all then you owe it to yourself to play this expansion.

The Forza Horizon 5 Hot Wheels expansion is really easy to recommend if you enjoy Forza Horizon 5. It adds a brand new, Hot Wheels-themed region and 10 new Hot Wheels cars that you can earn for your collection. You’ll get hours of playtime from Hot Wheels park, from ranking up to Legend status to developing your own tracks in the creator. It’s worth noting that this Hot Wheels expansion is also quite a bit more enjoyable than the recently released Hot Wheels Unleashed game, which makes me wonder… when Playground Games are done exploring the world of Fable, maybe they should be tasked with a full-on Hot Wheels game. At any rate, I would highly recommend the Forza Horizon 5 Hot Wheels expansion.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels is a worthy addendum to one of the best racing games ever made.

Apart from little issues that you can learn to drive around, Hot Wheels is a worthy addition to the greatness that is Forza Horizon 5.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels made me feel the joy of toys again, and I fully enjoyed the charm of racing culture in the repeated rotation and fall.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels expansion offers extreme speeds on dangerous courses with turns and loops that will keep your head spinning. Despite the name, there are very few Hot Wheels cars though.

Hot Wheels is just another excuse to prove the excellence of Forza Horizon 5. More hours, more content and more fun for everyone.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels is a thrilling ride that pushes the boundaries of physics and even allows you to build and share your own tracks. It's a great example of an expansion that mixes up the gameplay of the base game enough to make it worth owning as well.

If you enjoy Forza Horizon 5 and want more, this Hot Wheels expansion comes highly recommended. The track-based antics here are more restricted, which may put off players who enjoy the off-roading freedom that the base game provides, but in turn it’s a whole new experience with a completely different feel. As long as you like driving really fast and performing insane stunts, you’ll love Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels. You don’t even need to be a fan of actual Hot Wheels cars to appreciate it.

It isn’t as surprising and novel as it was the first time around, but Forza’s high-speed brand of life-sized, toy-themed stunt racing is still a riotous good time.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels is a delightful DLC pack for the core game. It doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it does provide some extremely fast racing and a fresh enough energy to ensure that racers are happy. Adding something onto a game as impressive as Forza Horizon 5 is always a challenge, but this content pack does the trick.

If you are new to Forza Horizon's Hot Wheels expansions, you’ll likely have a blast with the latest one. It's once again a nice change of pace from the main game – with cars reaching all-new top speeds. For returning players, you can go into this paid DLC knowing what to expect, although it may not be quite as thrilling as the first time for some veterans. At the same time, you could say the Hot Wheels expansion for the Forza Horizon series has now been fully realised thanks to the power of Xbox Series X|S. It’s got us excited to see what’s next for the fifth entry in terms of future expansion content. So go on, get out there and burn some rubber.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels is the expansion par excellence to take the crazy and fun driving model of the saga to the extreme. Playground Games, now an expert in this field, perfects additional content that can excite and keep us glued to the wheel once again.

Forza Horizon 5 Hot Wheels builds an epic new setting for the iconic orange track and racing to take place in, and it's a lot of fun to take in the stunning vistas as you race through the dramatic twists and turns. It gives a good counterpoint to the instant gratification of the main game with a more defined progression, but can feel a bit too rigid in some ways.

Through more cars, challenges and a new map, Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels becomes a fun DLC that all lovers of this racing game and toy cars should not miss.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels is what we expected of racing these type of cars: adrenaline given by the mechanics of the game and an exorbitant show. All this makes up a package that can be taken very seriously by scale model fans and enjoyed in the most arcade-like way possible by newcomers of the hobby.

Forza Horizon is such a strong brand name and has always offered so much quality and innovation in a very limited genre that people just can’t expect anything less, and even though Hot Wheels is a solid DLC that can easily blow many full fledged arcade racing games out of the water, the fact that it’s not “innovative” enough compared to previous entries in the series.

Bigger, better, funnier: Forza Horizon 3’s Hot Wheels expansion was already a success and this one exceeds the expectations. Similarly to Mexico, this new map is beautiful and has some spectacular panoramic views. Unlike what the licence has been adopting for the past few years, this expansion offers a satisfying progression system that gives a real sense of evolution and that is truly a blessing. Cruising around is still pleasing, but the absence of a new type of event truly is a shame. Forza Horizon 5: Hotwheels is a great addition and we are eager to discover what is next.