This allows you to choose your next car from a list of more than 200 and get some drive time with your new ride in a non-challenging casual drive. You’ll embark on numerous Road Trips to reach these destinations, but in a stroke of genius you actually get to pick the type (car class) of event you’ll be racing before you leave. Once again you are taking part in the Forza Festival, only this time, rather than a single hub location you also have six destinations, each serving as its own mini-hub and host to its own series of events. I was duly impressed with the Colorado setting from the first game, but my jaw found a permanent home on the floor as I explored all 315 discoverable roads on my European tour.įans of the original will find a lot of similarities in design and content.

There are nearly 800 events that make up the Forza Horizon 2 experience all set within the stunningly beautiful backdrop of a fictional hodgepodge of France and Italy that takes you from the winding mountain roads to the rolling hillside vineyards to the gorgeous coastal highways. The game is massive and not just in the map size and total mileage of roads paved and otherwise. How enjoyable? Enough that my review is three days late because every time I sat down to record game footage or make notes, I would end up playing for 2-3 hours minimum often going for as long as 5-6 hours. But for now, rest assured that if you own an Xbox One you won’t find a more enjoyable racing (or even a casual driving) experience than the new Forza Horizon 2. When it comes to open-world racing games nobody does it better than the Forza Horizon franchise – assuming two games constitutes a “franchise”, and I can safely make that claim at least until Driveclub and The Crew arrive later this year.

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