Xbox launches Forza Horizon 5 with helicopter stunt

Microsoft’s latest racing game launched with Xbox ANZ performing a stunt replicating the initial drive from the game.

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Xbox launches Forza Horizon 5 with helicopter stunt

Microsoft’s latest racing game launched with Xbox ANZ performing a stunt replicating the initial drive from the game.

24 February 2022

Forza Horizon 5 has officially launched and to celebrate Bastion ExperienceBastion Amplify and Pulse partnered with Xbox Australia and New Zealand to perform an airborne stunt inspired by the game’s ‘Initial Drive’ opening sequence, dropping a Polaris buggy from the sky at a height 4500 feet; the vehicle parachuting to the ground like each of the four cars seen in the initial drive experience.

The launch kicks off a huge holiday season for gamers with the much-anticipated launch of Halo Infinite just weeks away.

Forza Horizon 5 is on Xbox consoles, PC on Windows and Steam, and Xbox Game Pass including console, PC and Cloud Gaming (Beta).

Want to read more about this stunt?

AusGamersWho Drops a Car from a Helicopter?!?! Microsoft Does, that’s who…

STACK Magazine: Xbox drop a Forza Horizon 5 vehicle from a chopper, ‘cos why not?

The Age: Xbox drops car, driver out of helicopter in Mildura

DRIVE: Forza Horizon 5 launches in Australia with helicopter stunt – Drive

GamespotMicrosoft Dropped A Real Car Out Of The Sky To Promote Forza Horizon 5 – GameSpot

NY Press News: Xbox just dropped a car from the sky above Victoria – NY Press News

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