One of Forza Horizon 5’s newest additions is its Events Lab mode, giving you the creative freedom to craft new tracks and game modes. The way it all works is so unrestricted that the team at Playground Games can’t predict how fans will use these tools. That seems to excite the devs—and make them a little bit nervous.
Forza Horizon 5 creative director Mike Brown spoke with IGN on the new creative elements, revealing the dev team is feeling good about the mode and “a little bit nervous because you can create basically anything with it.” During the reveal footage, Playground Games showed off a few examples, including a car bowling competition. Of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Brown stressed there’s a “real capacity to create modes that make absolutely no sense,” so some players may be confused when they try to participate in Horizon 5's more ridiculous creations.
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Events Lab's freedom is opening doors for the Forza Horizon 5 community with its totally unique adventures and party game tools. “You create rulesets where it’s, 'If this happens, then this other thing happens.' So when trigger occurs, action should happen. And you can combine these rules in ways that are kind of limitless,” says Brown.
And just as you may expect from a service racing game, Events Lab will constantly evolve after its initial launch. “As soon as players are saying, 'Hey, it would be really great if we could do this,' then we can just go and unlock that, and throughout the Horizon 5 live program, we’re going to be listening to those creators, and just responding and unleashing more power to them,” Brown explained.
Horizon 5 is shaping up to be the biggest Forza to date, packing an astonishing amount of content. Plus, Forza Horizon 5’s Mexico map sounds like it will be a massive one, since it's one-and-a-half times larger than Forza Horizon 4’s Britain. Fans of the driving genre will surely find plenty of sightseeing adventures ahead—whether it’ll be a winding road leading to a volcano for drifters or a straight highway for speed junkies.
Forza Horizon 5 arrives on November 9 for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. You can also grab it via Xbox Game Pass on day one and will support cross-play and cross-save features.
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