Forza Horizon 2 Xbox 360 review

[nakamura]

Thank you sir. And I take it that performance on the 360 is good?

Rock solid 30fps. Great lighting. Lovely car models.
Worth a purchase I would say.

[Yakumo]

What time are the members of the BDF team on line? Everytime I play there's no one from the team playing. It would be great if we could get together and go on a road trip.

[QualityChimp]

Is this worth a purchase, then? You got hold of a 360 specifically to play it, didn't you, Nakamura?

Do you have to race? Can you just explore the map?

[nakamura]

The first is a lot better on 360 and I even prefer it over 2 on the XBox One, mainly down to a better location design.

It's open to explore and you can challenge racers driving around but the vast majority of races on pre defined routes.

[QualityChimp]

That's a good shout, thanks.

I can pick the first one up for around a fiver.

I want to drive that new Lamboghini in the sequel though!

[nakamura]

The sound is crap on the second one too. You can tell a different team did it. It is decent overall.

[QualityChimp]

Oh yeah, the original team made the sequel for the One, but someone else made the 360 version.

I really don't like the way they handled DLC (rally mode stripped out), but I don't mind having a blast on a cheap second hand copy.

[nakamura]

The Rally mode was completely new content with all new tracks specifically for it.

Sumo Digital made 2 on 360. Hugely overrated dev.

[Bassman]

A 4 car pack (free I think) of Mazda MX-5's is available. One of each generation.

[VR46]

Yes, grabbed it last night, not so sold on the look of the latest model, even when it was on Top Gear couple of weeks back.

The stand alone Fast & Furious games is out in ten days which is great. The hopefully some more DLC for the main game will follow in the summer.

[dvdx2]

being playing this on the one - stunningly beautiful game.

[VR46]

Yes, is probably my favourite One game, certainly the one I've put most hours in to.

[MartyG]

The season car pass is discounted to ?10 this week if you're a Gold member: https://store.xbox.com/en-GB/Xbox-On...b-1cd17c11b6ca

[Bassman]

Having read about the forthcoming Focus RS, I have tried to emulate it in the game. The actual car has 4WD, a 2.3 litre engine and around 320 HP. I suppose the specs of the actual car may differ from that.

My "RS", based on the 2013 Focus ST has 4WD and a 2.3 litre engine with 319 HP and 342 lbs ft of torque. Its performance seems to exceed the figures for the actual car (it may need some extra weight!).

I fitted...

4WD conversion
Race Intake
Sport Fuel System
Race Engine Block
Race Turbo
Race Intercooler

I did manage my highest (so far) skill chain with the car of 219K... ish!

[Bassman]

So, a Porsche Expansion for ?7.99. You get 10 (fairly) iconic Porsche cars... 918 Spyder, Carrera GT, 959, 1982 Turbo, Macan Turbo, 914/6, '14 Turbo, '12 911 GT3 RS 4.0 (I think), Cayman GTS and the 944 Turbo. You also get a Porsche Bucket List and some new Achievements.