Forza Horizon 5 ‘Winter Wonderland’ brings back Secret Santa and adds 23 new cars (including from Fast and Furious)
The latest Forza Horizon 5 update is here, and it celebrates the holidays with lots of new cars.
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A new month, a newForza Horizon 5update. Everyone’s favorite open-world racing game is celebrating the holidays with its latest content update, which is now rolling out to players across Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC, and the various Xbox Game Pass services. Dubbed “Winter Wonderland,” the update brings new and returning features, lots of new cars, and another optional car pack DLC to expand your garage.
Let’s not waste any time. You can catch up on all the exact fixes and changes in this update atForza.net, but I’ll summarize all the biggest features you need to know about below.
Most people really just want to know about the new cars, and theForza Horizon 5 car listis absolutely expanding by a fair amount with this update. Here are the 15 new cars coming to the game in the Winter Wonderland update, from four different sources.
Playground Games also revealed the 8 new cars being added to the game with thenextFestival Playlist, “Community Choice,” which seemingly is included in this update and won’t have its own content update. The Community Choice Festival Playlist kicks off on Jan. 4, 2024.
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Whoo, that’s a lot! The Forza Horizon 5 Winter Wonderland update is just another stop in a long line of improvements for thebest Xbox racing gameyou can play, and it’s available now to download. The Winter Wonderland Festival Playlist starts on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, while the succeeding Community Choice Festival Playlist starts on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024.
Oh, yeah, Playground Games also revealed what’s coming with that Festival Playlist. The studio asked FH5 players to vote on what they wanted to see return to the game from previous updates, so expect the return of Neon decorations in the world, 16 different PR stunts, community-chosen activities and events, and the addition of 10 cars to the Autoshow that were previously exclusive to a Festival Playlist.
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