Forza Horizon 5, Call of Duty Vanguard, Age of Empire IV: The 3 video games of the week

Fora Horizon 5 is a racing video game created by Playground Gaming and released by Xbox Game Studios. It is the 5th Title of Fora Horizon and the twelfth primary distribution of the Fora series. The game is embedded in a fictitious representation of Mexico. From November 9, 2021, the computer game is currently offered at Xbox Game Pass. He was crowned at one of the most anticipated game at E3 2021 Honors, as well as will certainly have a considerable open globe to discover, from crossbreed communities ranging from coastlines, marshes, canyons, tropical shores, all with atmosphere in Mexico.

Fast and Furious Fora Horizon 5 certainly is. This exclusive Xbox and PC, is displayed as THE game this year-end for watch aficionados and those who want to enjoy exhilarating sensations. In this fifth installment, the studio Playground Games transports us under the sun of Mexico and offers us a huge playground for the rocky paths of the caldera of a volcano to the idyllic sandy beaches, through muddy roads a humid jungle and dense.

The idea here is to provide a pretext to step on the gas through different races. As one of the finest games of the moment in its version 4K Series X on Xbox and PC, Fora Horizon 5 is above all an invitation to the realm of fun. A place where you never get bored, and where you can drive the most expensive cars in history with a smile. There is finally no need for long speeches to enjoy this title to its fair value. While some bemoan a form of redundancy since the third opus which attacked Australia, there is in this FH5 a willingness to entertain the crowds constantly. And his gargantuan content invite to come back regularly throughout the coming months or even the next few years with additional content that is sure to offer new challenges. Probably the ultimate racing game arcade typed (up Fora Horizon 6).

5 Fora Horizon, Microsoft, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One and PC.

As every year, the new Call of Duty happened. Dubbed Vanguard, this sequel takes us, once again, during the Second World War before expecting a more contemporary episode that could happen next year. Remote so with a campaign that puts us in the skin of allies in different sequences of the conflict. We pass through Hamburg, Stalingrad, or Bougainvillea, we participated in the battles of Midway and Altman to suit new missions in which it embodies different fighters and where the Nazi snuffed it with clockwork regularity. Quickly curly (quickly forgotten), this story has no other interest than to take control of the game for half a dozen hours before tackling the serious things.

Besides a zombie quickly dispatched mode and that (hopefully) will soon be expanded, we go to different online multiplayer modes. The heart of the Call of Duty experience for several years had even told his publisher Activision Blizzard in 2018 with Black Ops IV that the solo was useless. Besides the traditional and always fun Matches Team Death or domination, two newcomers are emerging. A patrol mode where you must defend an area and moving Champion Hill where teams of two or three players compete. Fun, especially as the parties keep this pace a little crazy and surreal own Call of Duty where it connects recurrences (respawns) and fatal shooting (frags) in such a fun ballet frantic. The formula still works even if it is renewed ultimately little. The destructible doodads bring a touch of novelty, although we would have liked that American developers Sledgehammer push the slider further. No doubt he will wait a bit to find an episode that operates in terms of technical and game design capabilities of new Xbox and PlayStation X Series 5. In the meantime, we play to Call of Duty as all other with an unchanging pleasure. But without doubt this is also where, paradoxically, its main flaw...

Vanguard Call of Duty, Activision, PC, PS4 and 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S.

More than twenty years after Age of Empires (1997), the strategy game (RTS) star at Microsoft back in a fourth installment. In the footsteps of Age of Empires II (1999), this new episode opts for culture and accessibility. It is not here follows the history of a people. Age of Empires is not Civilization. In this game the player will power alone or face human opponents, choose 8 different tribes: English, Chinese, French, Holy Roman Empire, Mongol Ru s, the Delhi Sultanate and Abbasid Dynasty. All have their own strengths and allow for some of them to make some changes to the gameplay (the Mongols, nomadic and can move their camp). Once the game started, you must collect resources, develop its people, its troops, its buildings. Here there are three ways to win: Destroy all enemies monuments, sacred places control or build a wonder. The action focuses primarily on fighting and not trade and diplomacy. The nature of deployed units but also the relief play a decisive role in the clashes.

Against artificial intelligence, four levels of difficulty are proposed. What to reach out to beginners who can also discover four historical campaigns: the Normans, the Hundred Years War, the Mongolian Empire and the Ascension of Moscow. True history courses accompanied by thirty video documentaries of a few minutes. Very didactic these explore some themes like the construction of strong castles, the use of trebuchets, fire shots... A skillful and rather welcome way to enrich the historic background and try to interest the players at the time. Story. In terms of gameplay, we will admit that the experience remains very (too much?) Faithful to that of the second episode even though the graphics have obviously jump forward. Without being the ultimate in real-time strategy game, Age of Empires IV remains an attractive, intelligent and especially accessible title. Here again the brand of the series of the series which has never aspired something else.

Age of Empires IV, Microsoft, on PC included in the Xbox Game Pass.