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The game runs at a crisp 60 frames a second without noticeably degrading car details even when the track is full of vehicles. Under the hood, FM5 can still claim dibs on the sim-racing crown. AdvertisementД®nlarge / Just another boring race through a realistically rendered paradise. The game's few false visual notes, like the crowds made of 2D sprites and the flat-looking foliage on trees, stand out even more among the rest of the pristine content.

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But Turn 10 deserves credit for putting cool structures and effects in racers' direct field of view as well, like the reflections off windows on Le Mans' viewing platforms or the quaint, antique homes that line the roads of Spa, Belgium. In some ways, FM5 is as guilty as other racing games for sticking its best racetrack details in far-off distances it's hard to appreciate some of the looming structures and over-there forests until you load a race's replay. This ignites the intangible feeling of a sunny, speedy drive couple that with real-time interior shadows, blocked out by the car's structure, and the combined trick never really gets old. Beyond every car enjoying spot-on translations of steering wheels, logo divots, door handles, gear shifts, and even stereo consoles, there's also the matter of FM5's reflections, which bounce the image of cars' interiors, and racers' hands, onto the windshield. To be sure, both of those boons are crucial for rendering every curl on a car's body, every chrome grill, and every headlight smothered in layers of glass that reflect off of each other.Д«ut FM5's spit-shine is perhaps even better appreciated in the interiors, where you'll spend most of your racing time, anyway (unless you change the camera angle to trail behind the car like a goof).

It's not just the high polygon models that impress, nor the fact that you'll never spot old annoyances like blurry textures. Start with the cars (duh), because here, the lowly Mini Cooper and the top-end Mercedes-Benz SLR receive equal levels of love.

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The good news, for car freaks at least, is that Turn 10 Studios has smothered its tried-and-true Forza series with as much visual sparkle and glitter as could be expected from a 2013 console. For this game, at least, that's the Xbox One difference that lingers. It was watching Glenn Close raise hell in the series Damages in the top-right corner of my screen, without the slightest effect on the frame rate, detail, or high speed of my races. But here I was, playing through yet another incredibly long, badly paced league series, and the thing that staved off my boredom-the feeling that I have played this exact game before, only in a less-polished form-wasn't adjusting FM5's challenge sliders, pulling up more difficult вЂњDrivatarвЂќ adversaries, or even hopping into more of the game's nearly 200 automobiles. Until that point, FM5 had conjured a lot of not-so-bad adjectives in my mind: solid, lengthy, stunning, robust, realistic.

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I picked a TV series and began marathoning it.

I had a lengthy вЂњleagueвЂќ series of challenges to race through in FM5, so I spoke aloud, вЂњXbox, snap Netflix,вЂќ which brought the video app to my TV's sidebar. On my final day of play, before sitting down to type my review, I saw that Netflix had unlocked on my console. An app here, a downloadable game there, a last-minute tweak over there. Over that span, while I blew through gorgeous worldwide racecourses in lavishly rendered sports cars, Microsoft unlocked many of the Xbox One's various system features on my pre-release hardware, piece by piece. My favorite вЂњnext-genвЂќ experience with Forza Motorsport 5 came nearly a week into my time with the sim-racing game.

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