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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 “Drivatar” 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. I picked a TV series and began marathoning it. I had a lengthy “league” series of challenges to race through in FM5, so I spoke aloud, “Xbox, snap Netflix,” 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.
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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 “next-gen” experience with Forza Motorsport 5 came nearly a week into my time with the sim-racing game.