Forza Horizon 2

 Xbox One
User Score
8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1215 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 1,011 out of 1215
  2. Mixed: 65 out of 1215
  3. Negative: 139 out of 1215
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  1. tins
    Jan 29, 2016
    5
    the game is okay. but i really wish could marry the mechanic, Ashley. she is perfect. i am very disappointed in the fact that she is not even date-able. Maybe she is already taken, but i think she has feelings for me. if the game allowed for facial recognition maybe she would know how i feel. i just want closure. i just need to know if its time to move on. please, ashley. please......
  2. West408
    Jan 10, 2015
    5
    Brace yourselves. The game has great graphics, handling is nice. The story is repetitive and gets boring really quick, music isn't as good as in FH1 and the singel player was better in that game. The drivatar feature is a bad one, its like playing online and when it comes to Forza, thats a bad thing, cmon now, the AI is ramming.

    Then we have the new features and lack there of, tuning is    Brace yourselves. The game has great graphics, handling is nice. The story is repetitive and gets boring really quick, music isn't as good as in FH1 and the singel player was better in that game. The drivatar feature is a bad one, its like playing online and when it comes to Forza, thats a bad thing, cmon now, the AI is ramming.

    Then we have the new features and lack there of, tuning is a pretty good thing, removes the tricky tuning from FH1 making it a bit simpler, but. Drivetrain swops. For some reason T10 has an odd tradition of letting players make 2wd cars into 4wd, this is a bad thing. Playing competitively in FH1, the best cars you could use were 4wd, luckily only some cars in that game had that, now anyone can have any car with it, seriously, I've seen LaFerarris 4wd. Online lobby, where are they? Road trips force you to drive the (in my opinion) extremely dumb offroad races, this is not Dirt, nor a Dakar racing game, its Forza so ill take a normal car when I'm racing, something like a 2wd sedan, hatchback or sports car. Well in Horizon 2 your gonna need a rally raid truck. The ON road races aren't great either, many corners in FH1 had walls on the inside making shortcutting impossible, not in FH2, shortcutting over 5,10 even 20 meters of grass is commonplace, another bad thing for the clean online racers.

    If your a competitive racer you'll probably dislike the game, if your a average racer using assist and goofing around in overturned cars etc, you'll probably like it. Really hope T10 can redeem itself.

    I do like the game and enjoy most of the time i play, its just lacking features to get more points, graphics can't get you anywhere.    … Expand
  3. diehard-gamer
    Apr 11, 2015
    5
    Everything you'd expect. One of the best racing/driving games. BUT. BUT. BUT ...... the install time from physical disk!!!!!!!! This game took well over an hour to install from disc, with the optical disc drive on my xbone clicking and clunking all the way through. I thought my brand new game disc must be faulty so returned it to the store and changed it. Reinstalled the game from the newEverything you'd expect. One of the best racing/driving games. BUT. BUT. BUT ...... the install time from physical disk!!!!!!!! This game took well over an hour to install from disc, with the optical disc drive on my xbone clicking and clunking all the way through. I thought my brand new game disc must be faulty so returned it to the store and changed it. Reinstalled the game from the new disc and exactly the same issue. Wondered if my disc drive was faulty so de installed and reinstalled my three other xbone games - they were all fine and reinstalled in minutes. There is something seriously messed up with the install process (or disc file structure, or anti piracy security, or whatever) of this game.… Expand
  4. Slevin310
    Oct 18, 2014
    6
    Being a hardcore fan of Forza I can't help but feel... indifferent about this. I'll keep it short. No saving replays, car classes instead of performance index, no photomode in multiplayer, the drift scoring system if faulty and rewards are ridiculous. If you beat the fastest rival time, the fastest time in the world... you get 2,000 CR (money). But if you pass a speed camera going 60mphBeing a hardcore fan of Forza I can't help but feel... indifferent about this. I'll keep it short. No saving replays, car classes instead of performance index, no photomode in multiplayer, the drift scoring system if faulty and rewards are ridiculous. If you beat the fastest rival time, the fastest time in the world... you get 2,000 CR (money). But if you pass a speed camera going 60mph you get 50,000 CR. Where's the reward for doing one of the most difficult things in the game? Players have posted some crazy times already, the Forza pros are out and they've set the bar. Should you beat these insane times you get near to nothing. Also.. maybe I'm just biased on this but Forza 4 had the best drifting mechanic I've ever seen. If you hold a long drift while keeping your speed you'd rack up some serious points. If you spun out of control or hit a wall you'll lost those current points. Here you can spin out of control and game thinks you're still drifting. The point system is odd as well, you get points based on your drift showcase points. It goes Drift > Great Drift > Awesome Drift > Ultimate Drift then if you're still drifting it will either stop or go back to Drift and continue.

    But if you're looking for points why bother drifting when you could just go as fast as you can while passing cars... getting Speed and Pass points that can rack up nearly 10,000 points. Or just hold the stick left and get Burnout points. It's too easy to manipulate the game. Want 4 million CR? Go to a speed camera and go through 60mph then do it at 62mph then 64mph, as long as you beat the next rival which is usually 1mph off you get 50,000 CR for each time you beat someone. Do it over and over till you've reached your top speed and there you go, you're rich. The car classes are also annoying as all hell. This is one of my biggest issues. If you like racing muscle cars with a few upgrades you'll be somewhere in A class or B class... but that doesn't matter anymore because muscle cars are in a class now called Classic Performance where your rival time will go. So if someone has a fully upgraded S2 (or R1 for old school fans) car, their time will be up against your B class car. So of course you'll want to just get the best cars in the class and fully upgrade them. Taking any and all personality out of the game.

    I miss drifting rivals too... Forza 4 had an entire section of rivals just for drifting. Drag rivals too. I know it's not Horizon, but this is a new Forza game which means it's supposed to surpass the previous titles. And yet Horizon 1 still feels like the better game. Replays is a big miss out. I remember this video of a pro Forza drifter made a replay of him doing the most insane drifting down Fuji mountain and he was drifting backwards... that video got millions of views on YouTube. Things like that are the reason people love the game so much.

    If you just want to race and you don't care much for the extras it's a good racing game. Everyone always says "OMG look at these graphics!' but I don't care too much for graphics, even though they are nice. I just feel... disappointed.    … Expand
  5. Daelus
    Apr 2, 2016
    7
    First racer I have ever played, so I am not rating on a curve. The game was fairly good, but it did not persuade me to want to buy a sequel when it comes out. I appreciate the steps they took to change it from a pure racing sim, but thye need some serious help on that front if they intend to broaden the appeal to non-racing gamers.

    Pros: They made an easy difficulty that allowed even a    First racer I have ever played, so I am not rating on a curve. The game was fairly good, but it did not persuade me to want to buy a sequel when it comes out. I appreciate the steps they took to change it from a pure racing sim, but thye need some serious help on that front if they intend to broaden the appeal to non-racing gamers.

    Pros:
    They made an easy difficulty that allowed even a noob like me to find the game accessable and enjoyable. For the first 1/3 of the game I used the easy mode and then gradually stepped up the challenge. Really well done.

    Pretty looking game; not the greatest graphics nor the most scenic settings but better than average.

    Car sounds were very realistic and enjoyable....easy to find immersion just cruising down the road.

    Cons:

    Biggest single player gripe is the radio stations. I get it that songs people know are expensive to license, but everyone else seems to do it. I see fanboys positing that it is done purposely for this reason or that but it is obviously a money issue. The most popular music of the people your games a geared to is pop, rock and hip hop and yet we get 1 station of classical, and 6 stations of indie house music garbage. Neddless to say I, and I imagine the vast majority play with the radio off.....at least allow us to customize a playlist.....huge fail in a driving game.

    Largest gripe in the online play is there is no penalty for damaging your car....sure it looks damaged, but it doesn't impact performance, so every race turns into a smash and crash.....like laying Hold'em with no stakes....every fool goes all-in every time.....another huge fail.

    Outside of racing there is very, very little to do......even the road trips are a race...sure, it says take your time, enjoy the scenery and yet you add dozens of AI vehicles all around you going your exact speed, no matter what it is, and smashing into you.

    Finally, for as expensive as it is to make these games, adding a few extra towns so you aren't asked to take road trips to the same 6 spots over and over again would be relatively inexpensive and yet would go a long way to cover up the monotony.    … Expand
  6. breakbacon
    Oct 1, 2015
    7
    It's a simulation racing game, you do events, collect faster cars and race them against tougher opponents. Liked the off roading aspect but the story line was kinda iffy and the premise was not immersive. There was no objective other than more cars or any kind of real endgame pulling me along.
  7. Locke_Cole
    Dec 13, 2017
    7
    La primera entrega de esta saga me encantó, sin embargo, me demoré bastante en hacerme con esta segunda parte. A grandes rasgos me ha gustado, aún así le tengo algunos peros a esta segunda entrega. Técnicamente es impecable, aun tres años después de su salida, el clima dinámico, los viajes transnacionales y los desafíos son agregados que me han encantado. La jugabilidad es excelente, elLa primera entrega de esta saga me encantó, sin embargo, me demoré bastante en hacerme con esta segunda parte. A grandes rasgos me ha gustado, aún así le tengo algunos peros a esta segunda entrega. Técnicamente es impecable, aun tres años después de su salida, el clima dinámico, los viajes transnacionales y los desafíos son agregados que me han encantado. La jugabilidad es excelente, el manejo es específico según el modelo de automóvil y lo mismo ocurre con los sonidos que emite.

    Hay dos grandes errores que me han molestado, el primero es que eché de menos un poco de historia, en la anterior entrega habian "rivales" que te picaneaban y eso invitaba a comprar mejores automoviles y vencerlos, las victorias se sentían como eso. En ese sentido esta entrega se acerca mas a Motorsport, compites solo por ganar. Al menos yo echo de menos esas interacciones con mas personajes, en general.

    El segundo punto tiene que ver con lo insidiosos que son los micropagos, al entrar al menu de compra de autos en el taller se te presentan varios modelos, y al intentar comprar algunos de ellos con la moneda del juego te aparece un mensaje de que solo se puede comprar con dinero real o comprando un pack de automoviles, lo mismo ocurre con la expansion, despues de un par de horas de juego inmediatamente se te ofrece la compra de Storm island. Este tipo de politicas de i
    nmediatome hacen valorar de peor manera el juego, ya lo he comprado, si quiero expandir mi experiencia eso lo vere terminarlo    … Expand
  8. SKSK
    Aug 8, 2018
    7
    yet to come -----------------------------------------------------------------
  9. notbradyn_YT
    Jul 7, 2022
    7
    Forza Horizon 2 is definitely better than Horizon 1 in some ways but prefer the others. Maybe it's because I haven't spent as much time with it but I don't know. Forza Horizon 2 is a really good game and is beautiful to look at. There are a lot more cars than Horizon 1. I don't like how you have to choose a car class for the championship instead of what ever car you want. I think that'sForza Horizon 2 is definitely better than Horizon 1 in some ways but prefer the others. Maybe it's because I haven't spent as much time with it but I don't know. Forza Horizon 2 is a really good game and is beautiful to look at. There are a lot more cars than Horizon 1. I don't like how you have to choose a car class for the championship instead of what ever car you want. I think that's why I don't like it as much.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#8 Best Xbox One Game of 2014
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#8 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2014
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#7 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2014

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Metascore
86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 85 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 85
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 85
  3. Negative: 1 out of 85
  1. GameCritics
    Jan 4, 2015
    90
    With a huge map, hundreds of cars, and countless racetrack possibilities, Forza Horizon 2 is a stellar open world racing game.
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  2. CD-Action
    Dec 13, 2014
    90
    This game convinced me to buy Xbox One and for me FH2 is the only racing game that should be taken into account this year. [Dec 2014, p.54]
  3. Hyper Magazine
    Dec 2, 2014
    80
    Cherry picks the best parts of a number of other racing games to wonderful effect. [Issue#255, p.72]
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