Forza Horizon 5 Accessibility Features to Include Sign Language Support During Cutscenes

Forza Horizon 5 will feature an interpreter on screen during cutscenes.

By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 9 November 2021 12:22 IST

Forza Horizon 5 Accessibility Features to Include Sign Language Support During Cutscenes

Photo Credit: Playground Games

Forza Horizon 5 is now available to all players

Highlights

Forza Horizon 5 has been developed by Playground Games
Forza Horizon 5 is available on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X
Forza Horizon 5 will suppport both ASL and BSL

Forza Horizon 5, the critically acclaimed open-world racing game developed by Playground Games and published by Xbox Game Studios, is adding American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL) support to make itself more accessible. The Microsoft-owned studio said there were about 400 million gamers with disabilities worldwide and it was important to enable everyone to play the game in a way that suited them best. The exciting new features have been developed in consultation with players from the gaming and disability community.

Players can turn on and off the features as per their wishes. When enabled, an interpreter will appear picture-in-picture at the bottom right of the screen during cinematics to explain the nuances. Xbox explained the accessibility features of Forza Horizon 5 via a blog post last week.

A video was also shared where the studio offers an in-depth look at the new accessibility settings.

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“We partnered closely with both the disability community and Xbox and used the Xbox Accessibility Guidelines to implement the accessibility features in Forza Horizon 5,” said the studio.

Forza Horizon 5 is launching today, November 9, for all. Here's everything you need to know about the latest Forza Horizon title.

All You Need to Know About Forza Horizon 5

You can also check out our review of the game. Here's our final verdict on Forza Horizon 5:

Forza Horizon 5 is a game made for everyone — but annoyingly, there's not many games like it. Need for Speed is the only other franchise I can think of that bothers with open worlds, but NFS ran itself into the ground a long while ago. Its new cousin, Dirt, has never ventured into that domain. Could that change with EA's ownership of Codemasters? It's sticking to the whole route-based thing with its next game Grid Legends, though it will offer more of a narrative. Essentially, there's a lack of competition — which inevitably results in a lack of innovation. Playground Games can offer up an iterative experience and rake in the money, because Forza Horizon 5 is in a world of its own. It's wonderful, but it's also sad.

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Forza Horizon 5

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Good
Mexico looks beautiful
Varied regions, better with weather
Looks and performs great on Xbox One X
Hundreds of cars
Driving mechanics are refined
Easy to pick up, but with depth
Less demanding PvP multiplayer
Deep co-op support
EventLab is promising
Diverse character creator

Bad
Lack of innovation
Iterative update
Horizon Arcade is hit-and-miss
Expedition collectibles are meh

Read detailed Xbox Forza Horizon 5 review

Genre Racing

Platform Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PC: Windows

Modes Single-player, Multiplayer

Series Forza

PEGI Rating 12+

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