Race through a wide-open world featuring dramatic weather and day to night cycles. Instantly connect with friends in the ultimate celebration of speed, style, and action-packed driving. Explore beautiful and exotic locations in more than 200 of the world's greatest cars, all created with precise detail in 1080p. Race through a massive wide-open world featuring dramatic weather and day to night cycles. To order this game please select one of the editions from the Xbox Store.
A world of beauty and freedom awaits in Forza Horizon 2! Explore a beautiful open world with dynamic day, night and spectacular weather effects in stunning 1080p. Drive 200+ cars in epic road trips through a massive, wide-open world of freedom. Action-packed driving gameplay rewards you for showing off your style as well as your skill. Instantly connect with friends online with no lobbies and no waiting.
Race through an open world featuring weather and day to night cycles. Explore beautiful and exotic locations in more than 200 of the world's greatest cars. Forza Horizon 2 is a racing video game, featuring an open world environment. The player participates in the Horizon Festival, a fictional racing competition set within Southern France and Northern Italy. The game has approximately three times more drivable area than that of its predecessor Forza Horizon, with events set in Provence, Liguria and Côte d'Azur, among other regions. Players can explore the region, taking part in races and special events in order to advance through the game.
Events can take place at day or night, and a dynamic weather system was added for the first time in a Forza-series game. Connect with friends in this celebration of speed, style, and action-packed driving. Explore exotic locations in more than 200 of the world's greatest cars. The standalone expansion of the game based on The Fast and the Furious franchise, Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious, added nitrous oxide boosts to the Forza series. Unlike other racing games however, nitrous can only be used during most of the game's events, and only replenishes at the very start of said events.
GenreRacingModeSingle-player, multiplayerForza Horizon 2 is a 2014 racing video game developed for Microsoft's Xbox One and Xbox 360 consoles. It is the sequel to 2012's Forza Horizon and the seventh instalment in the Forza series. The Xbox 360 version is also the final Forza game released for the platform. The game received positive reviews from critics and a sequel, Forza Horizon 3, was released on 27 September 2016.
Forza Horizon 2 is the second game in the series to be developed principally by a studio other than Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios. Playground Games, the lead developer for Forza Horizon, focused on the Xbox One version, using the graphics engine from Forza Motorsport 5 as their starting point. While the engine is capable of displaying content 1080p and 60 frames-per-second, the game was locked at 1080p and 30 frames-per-second, which was deemed necessary because of the game's open-world nature. Among new features in the game are "Bucket Lists", three groups of timed challenges for the player to complete, similar to the 1000 Club in Forza Horizon. These challenges are continuously updated to provide new challenges throughout the map.
Car Meets are an online mode where players can meet up online and compare their cars, similar to "Forzavista" mode in Forza Motorsport 5. Players are also able to interact with each other in Car Meets, including sharing tuning setups and liveries. In the online version of the game, races such as circuits, sprints, and cross country are playable against other players, along with other game types such as Infected and King. Race through a massive wide-open world with friends in the ultimate celebration ofspeed, style, and action-packed driving. Explore beautiful and exotic locations in morethan 200 of the world's greatest cars, all created with precise detail.
The races are challenging and intense, full of hairpin turns and Terminator-like Drivatars. The game's also a grogeous European road trip where you can calmly drive around the highly detailed French countryside listening to radio stations full of excellent synthwave, rock, and classical music. All this adds up to a Top Gear fanatic's dream game and an Xbox One owner's next likely purchase. Forza Horizon 2 is PCMag's Editors' Choice for next-generation console racing games on the Xbox One. You should pick this up if you are into arcade racing.
There is a option to make it more realistic where you can't use your car if you take too much damage, but they should have given you more credits for even attempting it. There's a lot of repeated tracks but it feels like a new track because of the wide range of cars you are required to race on it. Besides the shadow popping that you see everywhere. Sometimes I switch to POV just to see the window wipers move.
The only thing I wish they had was more on the custom option. More body kits, rims, and a easier why to custom your design. When choosing the locale for Forza Horizon 2, the developers investigated over 30 locations around the world, including California and Australia, ultimately choosing Southern Europe. Fulton also noted that most of the recent open-world driving games were set in North America and that Southern Europe "just felt fresh, it felt different, it felt new, and it was a gimme for us". Forza Horizon 2 takes its time doling out its more than 200 beautifully rendered cars. You start with a choice between a BMW Z4 SDrive35IS, Toyota Supra RZ, or Chevrolet Camaro SS Coupe.
After the opening races, the choices gradually expand to Ferraris, Audis, Aston Martins, and to vans and trucks, too. You can win them as prizes in Wheelspin, a roulette wheel you spin after gaining a level. You can also buy cars or stumble upon them as Barn Finds (junkers or gems scattered about the game's open world). You can collect the heaps and bring them back to your garage to tune up, paint, and decal to your heart's content.
The open world gameplay allows players to seamlessly challenge opponents. Also, the developers of the game have added active weather simulation with realistic rain effects which affect the handling model of the cars. Players will also be able to dial in realistic damage and turn off driving aides, etc. IGN recently got an exclusive peek into the upcoming game. Take a look at the first gameplay videos and tell us what you think.
The next great automotive adventure begins with the Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious standalone expansion for Xbox One! You can shift the difficulty to your heart's content before each race, but it may take a few retries before you find the right combination of easy or hard, manual or automatic, clutch or no clutch. You can "race clean" or smash into your opponents, barrel through street signs and lampposts, and perform stylish moves during races like drifts and jumps. You chain these moves together to the gain experience points necessary to unlock Skill Points to buy Perks. Perks can increase the amount of XP you gain while performing drifts and clean races.
The most disappointing thing about Forza Horizon 2 is how little it's improved since the first Horizon. There is still no meaningful career progression or economy. The career is quite literally running a circle around six chunks of Europe, over and over and over again, in the pursuit of colored bracelets with, as far as I can tell, no significance. Canned bucket list challenges and barn scavenger hunts supposedly break up the action if you feel like heading off in that direction.
On 27 August 2014, Microsoft announced that a demo version of the game would be made available on Xbox One on 16 September 2014. On the day of the demo release, Microsoft confirmed that the game had been declared gold, indicating it was being prepared for duplication and release. The standard "10th Anniversary Edition" of the Xbox One version was given to Xbox Live Gold members for free throughout August 2018 as part of Microsoft's Games with Gold program. Forza Horizon 2 and its downloadable content were digitally delisted on 1 October 2018.
Those who already own it can still download and play the game and its DLC. An epic road trip career mode adapts to your car choices with hundreds of events across a beautiful and diverse European landscape. Other social aspects include the usual online competitive multiplayer, a Free Roam mode that lets you enjoy relaxing road trips, and Car Clubs, where you compare car specs with other players. You can even buy another driver's car if you like the way it's tuned.
It is one of the most anticipated releases of the year. Forza Horizon 2 features a whole new range of supercars to choose from. This time players drive around southern Europe on the continents best roads with the finest backdrop one could imagine. Forza Horizon 2 is also a truly open world game with large swathes of land, fields, dust and dirt, even vineyards to plough through in your fancy sports car. Forza as always go forward and make me be just without words. Horizon 2 a must have game for who love races games.
Join friends online and free roam together, compete in races and team modes, or take part in fun co-op Bucket List challenges. However you like to play, there is an endless variety of free-roam driving fun. Whether you're racing, hunting hidden treasures like exotic barn find cars, or showing off your customized rides at car meet locations spread across the world, the choice is yours. Whether you're racing, hunting hidden treasures like exotic barn find cars, or showing off your customized rides at car meet locations spread across the world, the choice is yours.
I recognize that the game is over 30GB in size, but the load times between races are too long. Perhaps it's a tradeoff for the more tolerable, consistent loading while playing in the game's vast, open world. Still, I wish that even simple actions like opening a menu or closing a race didn't take so long. Showdowns are Hollywood-style races against other vehicles, such as Italian stunt jets or trains, while Bucket Lists are challenges like time trials or air-jump contests. The Bucket Lists are pretty basic, but they're not without charm. A favorite challenge had me speed a Ferrarri to its destination as quickly as possible as sunlight gleamed off the red paint and a synth-heavy soundtrack played in the background.
It was as if SEGA's OutRun returned from the 1980s. Instantly connect with friends – jump between solo and online play instantly. I love Horizon 2 but I have no friends to play it with. Try heading over to ForzaMotorsport.net and accessing the community forum. You're bound to meet plenty of like-minded players to share your Horizon adventure with. On 22 July 2014, Turn 10 Studios revealed the first 100 of over 200 cars to be featured in the open world game, from exotics, rally cars, trucks, hot hatches, among others.
Many cars from the Forza series return, including many cars from the original Horizon game. The list includes the 2014 Lamborghini Huracán LP610-4 and Veneno, the McLaren P1, the LaFerrari, the Agera, and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. Another new car that they had released was the Ford Capri RS3100 which is a barn find.
All ten barn finds can be found off-road, usually in hidden places. Sumo Digital took the lead for the Xbox 360 version, starting from the original Forza Horizon graphics engine. As with the original game, Turn 10 Studios provided support to the primary developers. The Xbox 360 version does not include the weather system such as rain or "drivatar" A.I. Found in the more-powerful Xbox One version, and also omits tuning and the free-roam open-world , with Playground Games calling the two versions "different games". Join or create your own Car Club of up to 1000 members to expand your network of friends and rule the leader board.
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A diverse collection of amazing vehicles ranging from extreme off-roaders to modern supercars, classic muscle, and much more. Join or create your own Car Club of up to 1000 members to expand your network of friends and rule the leaderboards. What's the point of an open world when you're stuck inside a car?
On that note, the graphics were also disappointing, not much better than the 360 version. Sound design is also lacking compared to other racers, overall a very disappointing package. There are better racing alternatives out there on all platforms.
To start an Event, drive to an event activation, choose your settings, and wait for other players to join. The next evolution of the best-in-class Forza graphics engine delivers full day and night cycle with spectacular weather, lighting, and visual effects. Almost the complete package, but lengthy load times and a steep learning curve hold it ever so slightly back from racing perfection.
There's another caveat to this otherwise excellent game. Seasoned Forza drivers should have no problem with Horizon 2, but newcomers may find it difficult to get around the sensitive controls. If you're used to SEGA All-Stars Racing or Mario Kart you may be in for a humbling ride.
There are no tutorials, and getting the hang of drifting around corners can be the ultimate test of patience. It will be some time before you're driving like Ryan Gosling or Vin Diesel. Forza Horizon 2's open-world design lets you cruise through the rainy streets of Nice or go off-road and plow through somebody's field. If you have Kinect you can ask A.N.N.A., an Automated Natural Navigation Assistant, for suggestions on where to go. The fancy GPS informs you of the Career Mode races in your vicinity, as well as where Showdowns and Bucket Lists are located. Forza Horizon a popular gaming franchise will release their latest edition later this year.
Forza Horizon 2 builds on to the open world racing simulation genre and will be available to the public in September, 2014. The game is exclusively for XBox One for it requires the high levels of computing power that the next-gen consoles have on offer. Graphics are amazing and every detail is just so nice . Online play is unmatched by any game or console . Take your pick from a diverse selection of over 200 of the world's greatest cars, from off-roaders to modern supercars.
Enter the open-world of Forza Horizon 2 and take part in the ultimate celebration of speed, style, and action-packed driving. Rivals Mode allows you to compete against your friends, Club, and the world to set the best times on every track in Europe. Car Meets allow you to interact with the larger Forza community.