{"id":3807,"date":"2021-11-26T10:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T09:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/mexico-is-ridiculously-beautiful-how-forza-horizon-5-drove-fresh-sights-into-living-rooms\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T09:36:50","slug":"mexico-is-ridiculously-beautiful-how-forza-horizon-5-drove-fresh-sights-into-living-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/mexico-is-ridiculously-beautiful-how-forza-horizon-5-drove-fresh-sights-into-living-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mexico is ridiculously beautiful\u2019: how Forza Horizon 5 drove fresh sights into living rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK developers at Playground Games explain why they cut no corners in creating the latest Forza game, and wanted to ensure it gives players an authentic and cliche-free view of the Mexican landscape<\/p>\n

There is a moment all Forza Horizon 5<\/a> players will experience when they first venture off road into rural Mexico. They will bust through a wall, or reach the summit of a steep hillside, and then, spread out before them as far as the eye can see, will be fields of the most glorious orange flowers. These are Mexican marigolds, or cempas\u00fachil<\/em>, which are closely associated with the country\u2019s D\u00eda de los Muertos festival. It is believed their vibrant colour and heady scent help to guide the spirits of the dead back to their graves and altars.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at the flowers you can see the individual petals,\u201d laughs the game\u2019s art director Don Arceta. \u201cWe love doing farmland \u2013 it\u2019s a real opportunity to show the native agriculture that makes each landscape unique. This is the first Horizon game in a while that doesn\u2019t have canola growing everywhere. That was really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe UK developers at Playground Games explain why they cut no corners in creating the latest Forza game, and wanted to ensure it gives players an authentic and cliche-free view of the Mexican landscape
\nThere is a moment all Forza Horizon 5 players will experience when they first venture off road into rural Mexico. They will bust through a wall, or reach the summit of a steep hillside, and then, spread out before them as far as the eye can see, will be fields of the most glorious orange flowers. These are Mexican marigolds, or cempas\u00fachil, which are closely associated with the country\u2019s D\u00eda de los Muertos festival. It is believed their vibrant colour and heady scent help to guide the spirits of the dead back to their graves and altars.
\n\u201cWhen you look at the flowers you can see the individual petals,\u201d laughs the game\u2019s art director Don Arceta. \u201cWe love doing farmland \u2013 it\u2019s a real opportunity to show the native agriculture that makes each landscape unique. This is the first Horizon game in a while that doesn\u2019t have canola growing everywhere. That was really nice.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UK developers at Playground Games explain why they cut no corners in creating the latest Forza game, and wanted to ensure it gives players an authentic and cliche-free view of the Mexican landscape There is a moment all Forza Horizon 5 players will experience when they first venture off road into rural Mexico. They …<\/p>\n

\u2018Mexico is ridiculously beautiful\u2019: how Forza Horizon 5 drove fresh sights into living rooms<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}