Forza Horizon 5 marketing stunts are getting out of control
(Windows Phone Central)

Cowabunga. What you need to know Forza Horizon 5 has released for Xbox and PC. Xbox Australia & New Zealand celebrated by dropping a real man and car from a helicopter hovering 4,500 feet in the air. This is the latest in wild Microsoft-funded marketing stunts, hot off the coattails of the company`s Windows 11 PR antics. You know what`s cooler than playing Forza Horizon 5? Playing Forza Horizon 5 after you received your physical copy as a reward for jumping out of a helicopter at 4,500 feet. The Xbox Australia & New Zealand team decided to get a little crazy with its marketing efforts and thought dropping a man and car from a 4,500-feet-in-the-air helicopter would get us all in the mood to play Forza. The Xbox ANZ team knew what it was doing. A man and a Forza Horizon 5 Polaris both took the plunge, in a video you can watch over on the XboxANZ YouTube page. At the end, the helicopter-abandoning, death-defying man receives a crate of physical Forza Horizon 5 copies...