Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels Revs up
Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels, the first expansion for Forza Horizon 5, is now available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows 10/11 PCs, Cloud Gaming (Beta) and Steam, it has been announced. Mattel partnered with Playground Games, developers of the critically acclaimed Forza Horizon series, to bring this unique experience to life alongside a brand-new story celebrating the history of Hot Wheels.
Players can get started on their journey by locating the Hot Wheels Expedition icon by Mexico’s Gran Caldera (in the north on the Mexico map). Once completed, Hot Wheels Park will be accessible through the Pause Menu or by Fast Traveling to any of the Hot Wheels Park events. Fast Traveling in Hot Wheels Park is free and available immediately.
If you have not played Forza Horizon 5: To unlock the new Hot Wheels content, you will need to complete the opening section of Forza Horizon 5. From there, you’ll receive a notification that a new park has unlocked. Once selected, you’ll instantly be transported to the new Horizon Hot Wheels Park.
What’s New:
This new adventure features Forza’s fastest, most extreme, gravity-defying tracks, new biomes to explore and tons of new cars and features including:
- A new Horizon Story: Hot Wheels: A History of Speed features five chapters, which are unlocked alongside your Hot Wheels Rank, taking you on a journey of the history of Hot Wheels. In a first for the franchise, you can now join friends and play the entire expansion from the very beginning in co-op.
- New Biomes + Tracks: Hot Wheels Park features a ton of new and diverse biomes, all brought together under the exhilarating Horizon Nexus, where the Horizon Festival is suspended among the interconnected Hot Wheels tracks.
- Create your own Hot Wheels adventure in EventLab: The Hot Wheels Creation Kit features over 80 track and stunt pieces that can be instantly snapped together. Blueprints created on the base game’s Mexico map that utilize Hot Wheels props can even be played by non-expansion owners as well
- New accessibility options to Forza Horizon 5: Exclusive to when playing on Hot Wheels Park, new camera FOV options are coming to console for the first time, including Chase Cam FOV and Far Chase Cam FOV.
