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Which one you enter depends on your current choice of car, though you can change both car and championship midway through, and the game prompts you to pick and event and buy an appropriate, affordable motor before you drive on to the next set.

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While you’re free to roam where you will, the campaign is split into a series of road trips, each taking you to several different regions, with a central hub and a choice of championships in each. Where everything in Horizon radiated out from one central hub, Horizon 2 has a slightly different structure.

Once you’ve qualified for festival entry, you’ll constantly unlock new events, giving you a chance to win credits, buy cars and unlock further races, taking you further and further around the map.

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As with Horizon, the conceit is that you’re taking part in a music and motorsports festival, where the world’s best drivers gather to race, party and share a love of all things automobile. That’s a fact the game explores throughout its many championships. As long as your car can take it, the incline isn’t silly and you don’t hit anything too solid, you can go pretty much wherever you wish. Speed through the lavender fields of Provence, or go off-roading up in the hills or mountains. Take a Pagani Huarya from Castelleto towards Nice, and your stomach will be in your mouth as you dodge other vehicles and work to navigate the bends.īut then the great thing about Forza Horizon 2 is that you’re never limited to the normal ribbons of track and tarmac. Take a hot hatch for a spin along the coast and into the mountains – a Focus RS, VW Sirocco or Alfa Giulietta – and there are serious thrills to be had in the sudden turns and sweeping corners. It’s not just good to look at, either it’s just as brilliant to drive. From picturesque mountain villages to world-famous seaside resorts, this game really does have it all, with some of the most ravishing coastal scenery you’ll have seen in a video game, and some equally lovely sights inland. Forget California, fictional cities or Horizon’s still impressive Colorado mountain country: Horizon 2 comes to Europe, and to the border between Northern Italy and Southern France. The results are pretty much irresistible.įorza Horizon 2 isn’t just a great arcade racer – it sets a benchmark for a new generation of racing games. There’s also a free-wheeling exuberance to the game, as if the team at Playground Games have been handed the keys to Forza’s supercars, then left to go crazy on the open road. There are elements here of the Burnout games, of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and even of the not always brilliant Test Drive: Unlimited 2.

Forza Horizon 2 does the same with the guts of Forza 5, while grabbing nearly every good idea from nearly every great arcade racer ever. The original took an inspired idea – take the graphics and physics engines from Forza 4 and wrap a Need for Speed game around them – and actually managed to make it even better than that sounds. We apologise if the following reads like unmitigated hyperbole, but there’s just no getting around it: Forza Horizon 2 is one of the best racing games ever made. Available for Xbox One (tested) and Xbox 360

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