That is unless you decide to take some time for yourself, to free-roam around a world that is more lovely and truly open than ever before. The pleasure of the actual races is enhanced by the inherent goodness of the Forza guts. There are tons of side missions and mini-games to play along the way, too, but the straightforward structure of the mainline mission keeps the action pointing forward at all times. The goal of the game is still to reach the Horizon Festival final round, by way of winning some combination of 16 championships and improving your rank. There are still wristbands to win, never fear. But the thinly drawn cast of rival characters from the first Horizon game have been left home this time. Yes, you still have some kind of British guy serving as your narrator andĬolor commentator whenever you unlock something new, and there is an attractive digital lady named Ashley whom you'll get to know as your master mechanic.
This time around, the Turn 10 team has eighty-sixed all but the very most basic vestiges of a story element in favor of a simple and satisfying formula:īuy a car, race it against its peers in a championship, move on to the next town. The essential setup is that you are an attendee at the Horizon Festival (moved from Colorado to a Southern European locale for this sequel), where a collective of racers and machines have gathered to go wheel-to-wheel at every possible opportunity. Hybrid of simulation-console-racer and arcade-style, super-speedy-smash-'em-up, but also one of the best driving titles we've seen for the newestįH2 follows the same basic pattern as the first title in the series, though it has been conspicuously streamlined. Horizon 2 is not only a stealthy and entertaining And, despite millimeter-perfect car renderings and a completely lush, believable and truly open world to drive around in, a significant suspension of disbelief is required before one can sink into this gamescape. Horizon 2 – next-gen-console follow-up to Turn 10 Studios'įorza Horizon game for Xbox 360 in 2012 – is and is not.
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Oh, and most impressive? I won that race. In a point-to-point street race across a lovingly rendered, sun-dappled corner of Europe, I transitioned from a winding two-lane road to a narrow dirt, with one extended foray – at well over 120 miles per hour – through a vineyard. One of my early triumphs while playing the sparkling newįorza Horizon 2 for Xbox One came after what I could conservatively call a "non-traditional"
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