Well, yes and no. Basically if you haven't played Forza Horizon, go play that. If you're done all you want to in FH, it might be worth a cheap pickup. Considering I'm "done" with FH5 for now, I'm ok with it.
My big gripes:
-Even on PS Pro, the graphics are not good. Lots of jaggies and textures that just feel dated. I wasn't expecting it to look like FH, but this is miles off. It is supposed to be PS5 Pro enhanced, but not sure what it is doing (or if it just looks worse on base PS5).
-Some of the missions are really bad. I got a mission where you have to drive to a point in a specific time. Standard racing game stuff, but they turn off the map and just give you a point on the compass. I spent 20 minutes looking for something and never found it. The map is complicated and not having any map makes it difficult (there's normally a map and a guide telling you where to go, so just a bad mission type).
-The game puts you in this hotel/apartment where you start the game every time. To drive, I have to go down an elevator and through this lobby, out to a garage, open the car door, start the car, then drive off. There's no shortcut for this. I think they wanted the hotel lobby to be like a multiplayer meeting place, but obviously there's nobody around.
-It is basically a copy of FH while being inferior in basically every way.
-Story is very boring. You go race with a bunch of rich people.
The good:
-The driving feels great on a controller. A nice "sim-cade" model. I can weave through traffic without over-controlling. This is the saving grace with the game. It is fun to drive. The racing is fun and the missions that aren't frustrating are good. I can throw a Mustang around a corner with some drift without needing a wheel. They capture the fun of it without becoming a sim.
-The map is pretty good. Basically not quite open world, but it works.
But yeah, my expectations were low for the cost and maybe not low enough. Still though, I'll probably keep playing it simply because the driving is fun.
