I don't normally leave a rating on games I immediately bounce off of but this one deserves it.

The gameplay is mindless with surprisingly unresponsive driving and tracks with few obstacles or interesting terrain. I thought these arcade racers were supposed to make up for this by being fun in other ways but I couldn't figure it out.

If it was pure gameplay only, this game might be fun enough for a chill podcast game but there's so much timewasting with the constant interruptions and unskippable cutscenes. Why this game needs a cringe ass story I have no idea.

On top of that there are major performance issues, the game runs well generally but there are consistent stutters and FPS drops where my GPU usage would drop to 10%. This is a AAA game that's been out for 2 years already so it's not acceptable for me.

Tem gráficos lindos e a jogabilidade dos carros é muito boa. As corridas do jogo são muito boas e bem balanceadas. Porém a ideia geral do jogo pra mim é bem estranha e sem sentido. Me parece que a ideia do jogo é um RPG em que você participa de corridas para conseguir dinheiro para comprar carros melhores. Porém a dificuldade do jogo não tem relação com o carro que você está. E você pode com pouco tempo de jogo pegar o melhor carro do jogo, mas se você escolher esse carro, todos os adversários terão carro parecido, de forma que a dificuldade é sempre a mesma, porém para mim tira o motivo de lutar por um carro bom. No geral o jogo é sobre coleção de carros, e de fato é bem fácil ter vários carros, mas não me parece muito divertido. Eu fiquei enjoado de passear no open-world para encontrar novas corridas, apesar de as corridas serem boas.

Beautiful and fun racer with a couple of caveats that pretty much destroy it for me as a game to be enjoyed and finished.

1) Complete absence of progression as a game design principle. H5 hands out cars like dirt. In the first couple of hours, I had maybe 10 of 'em, many of which were the types of cars you'd only see in the final hours of other (good) games. At some point there are so many cars, that you are no longer able to care about anything.

2) The cringiest writing and annoying amounts of it. H5 feels the need to push a variety of insufferable individuals in your face at every turn, all the time. It'll make you feel like Daniel Plainview! (put that on the box)

3) The single most uncool goody two shoes vibes I've ever felt while playing a racing game. In this game everyone is a tool, you are a tool, and nothing is cool! You will yearn for the 00's edge lord street racing culture like it's a woman you loved and lost to a terrible car crash.

Fun to race but full to the brim with AAA shlop-design:
- Unskippable cutscene hell
- Unskippable tutorial on how to hold RT hell
- Hand-holding on by default
- Obnoxious voice over I don't care about
- The Spanish in the game being translated right in the subtitles with big < > markers instead of just having it as it is, at least it's not [SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
- Content DLC

Other than that, car selection is nice and I appreciate a more arcade racing game with simulation elements.