You might not think a racing game could be game of the year, but judging by its reviews Forza Horizon 5 very well could be.

November is in full swing which means everyone who has been busy gaming throughout 2021 is currently deciding which games have been their favorite. There are going to be a few that make it into more top fives than most. The likes of It Takes Two, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Metroid Dread are all up there.

There are obviously countless publications and organizations that give out game of the year awards. In 2020, The Last Of Us Part 2 took home more than 300 of them However, the biggest one is arguably given out by The Game Awards, one of the many organizations that awarded its GOTY to TLOU2 in 2020. The Game Awards has never crowned a racing game GOTY, but it very well might do in 2021.

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That's if Forza Horizon 5's review scores are anything to go by. The reviews poured in for the game, which launches tomorrow, earlier today, and all of them have been glowing. So much so that Forza 5 is currently the highest-rated game of the year on OpenCritic, and the highest-rated new game of 2021 on MetaCritic.

Forza 5's rating on the former is 92, and 91 on the latter. There are actually four titles with higher ratings than Forza 5 on MetaCritic, including the Series X and PS5 version of Hades and Tetris Effect Connected. All four are re-releases of games that originally launched prior to 2021. In terms of new games, Psychonauts 2, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Dusk, and the aforementioned It Takes Two are its closest competitors.

Not all of the reviews for Forza 5 are in just yet, and there's a chance its score could drop in the coming days. Considering what has been said so far though makes that extremely unlikely. There's actually a chance that a title's aggregate score can drop years after its launch. Just ask Citizen Kane. A review of the movie from the 1940s resurfaced this year which resulted in the iconic movie losing its 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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