Forza Horizon 5's second expansion Rally Adventure arrives in March

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Forza Horizon 5 is revving up for a different kind of driving experience courtesy of its newly announced Rally Adventure expansion, coming to Xbox and PC on 29th March.

Rally Adventure, if you hadn't already guessed, is all about bringing what developer Playground Games calls the «rally experience» to Forza Horizon 5, and that will take players to a rugged new map (nominally located north of the existing one) known as Sierra Nueva.

Here, racers will experience's the expansion new deformable terrain and kick-up effects system, and enjoy new landmarks including new towns, a quarry (complete with overhead conveyor belts to drive on), and Forza Horizon 5's first completely smash-able forest.

To match the expansion's new rally focus, Sierra Nueva introduces significantly more extreme terrain compared to the base game, with a focus on undulating, tightly packed tracks both on and off the asphalt. That makes for more perilous navigation, and Rally Adventure adds a new rally callout/pace note system to keep drivers alert to the obstacles that lie ahead on the road. These are both voiced by your co-driver (situated in the helicopter that flies alongside you) and as icons flashed up on-screen during a race.

Playground Games calls the new tracks — which will be featured across 27 new races — «more challenging» than the base game, but it's offering new assists, including launch control and a blue rally specific racing line, to make things more approachable.

Despite the shift in focus, the studio says there's still a lot of flexibility in how you approach the expansion, with players able to choose between two modes — Horizon Race and Horizon Rally — for all races, and even take any car they want, rally or otherwise, onto the track.

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