Things i love and hate about Forza Horizon 2 #BlogPost

Forza Horizon 2 is a great game, Forza is a great series but i haven’t played anything else in that series than Horizon 2 and Motorsport 5 (which many said was a big dissapointment)

Anyway, let’s move on

LassÃ« Lund

01 Jan 2016

Forza Horizon 2 is a great game, Forza is a great series but i haven’t played anything else in that series than Horizon 2 and Motorsport 5 (which many said was a big dissapointment)

Anyway, let’s move on

Love: Rewards Every Time You Level-Up

Things i love and hate about Forza Horizon 2 #BlogPost

You can win cars and money; e.g. you don’t have that much cash but you really want that Lexus LFA, so you do enough races until you level up and you finally got that wheelspin and you won some cash! You can finally get that V10 roar from some-thing else than a Huracan

Hate: The Amount of Paid DLC

You have to pay to get the cool wagons (RS6 C7, RS4 B5 and B8, have to pay for the cool SUVs/Offroad cars (Lamborghini Urus, Jeep Grand Wagoneer, Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT, Jeep Wrangler F and F Edition, Lamborghini LM002, MINI Monster Energy ALL4 Racing X Raid) and so on with many more cars

I want to be able to say: ‘’I got a BMW 850csi in the garage’’ But you know what? You have to pay for it!
Same goes with the Tesla Model S, and the Subaru Brat, i want them, but i don’t want to pay for them!
But it’s okay that carpacks like the Fast and Furious is paid DLC

Same goes with Motorsport 5, a lot of DLC, but you can still get some of it, as some of it is free
They kind of fixed that in Motorsport 6 with +400 cars and a lot of it being available without having use your credit card

Great job Turn 10

Love: The Drifting

It’s so easy to just get a simple slide going; Steer in 1 direction (not that 1 direction), flick the handbrake, countersteer and a bit of throttle and you’re good to go

But snap oversteer can occur quite often, because you cannot upgrade the steering angle of the wheel, Forza isn’t really what you’d call a drifting game so no complaints there, although, speeking of complaints leads me to my next point:

Hate: The Necessities needed for Drifting

Yes, drifting can be so strikingly awesome, especially when you’re holding it just right on the limit all the way through the corner.
But but but, in order to get going, you do need quite a bit of power.

Not even 100-or-so horsepower will do the job, so rain aka drift lubricant is needed when you have low-power, and that was tried in an Alfa Romeo Spider with 115 hp
Alright, i did come through the bend but the slide stopped halfway, so power just is essential to have a proper drift session

Love: The Community

I play a lot of online roadtrip, and must i say, it’s great! Except for the times when 12-year old d-bags come slammin’ into you for no reason and you lose the race, that’s no fun.

But most people seem to act nice and not try to crash into you, but scratches in online racing is inevitable
I don’t drift as much as i’d want to, because every time i go on online freeroam and pull out the mic and yell ‘’ANYONE UP FOR SOME DRIFTING?’’ nobody answers

Nobody shows a sign of drifting, so i just left it and went over to roadtrips instead, not only because you get a huge amount of cash/XP, but also because it’s much more rewarding, i mean, when you have been fighting for that 1st place for the last 2 laps and you finally get it, not many feelings can over come that.

Love: The clubs

Yes i'm in [ItMe], and yes i feel damn proud

It’s a bit tied together with the ‘’Love: The Community’’ thing. It’s wonderful.
I don’t really race that much with my club, but when i see someone from there in the online roadtrips, i get this glorious feeling, for the reason that i just know that we’re a team

Hate: The missing level of customization

The ToyoBaru FRS is a great tuning platform

Hear me out before an internet war is starting:

The overall grade of customization is magnificent. But if they included tuning companies like GReddy and put their goods in the game, they might aswell put the actual wide-body stuff in it, like the fenders

But if you want wide-body, NFS is probably better

Love: The Physics

The cars aren’t difficult to control by any means, unless you got a 1200 hp RWD something and you put you’re fut down, then yes, it will come with trouble

And after you’ve played a fair bit amount of time, all the cars just handle like you’d expect them to

Conclusion:

It’s the best open-world-arcade game i’ve played so far, so if you’ve got an Xbox 360/One, go out and get that game!

If you have any questions and/or input to what i can do better feel free to leave it down below

A gallery of my favorite photos taken by me:

Comments

Agreed. I’ve sunk days in FH2 and I love every second of it. Close to 10,000 miles driven in game.

I don’t mind the paid DLC, because I normally pick up the car pass instead.

What I’d like to see is a focus on variable environments, the switch from Storm Island to the mainland is kinda silly tbh. I want more elevation changes and more off road stuff.
A better construction of what cars go with what race would be nice too. Sure, I love taking an F40 down a hilly dirt road, but there’s a limit tbh.

Also, the ability to create our own multiplayer events would be incredible. They have tons of props and fixtures to use (the storm island ones are great) yet we only see them in races. Let us play around with ramps ourselves!

It is fun taking a lowered supercar down the dirts +150 mph, but yes, there is a limit as you say

Here’s my complaints about horizon 2. 1. Where’s the cat and mouse? That was a fun game type to play online and with the team racing its similar but I still miss that piece and what happened to playground playlists? 2. Playground playlists are non existent. My friends and I often enjoy joining into online road trips but get frustrated when there are only 1 or 2 if any playground games instead of races. Don’t get me wrong the racing is great, but sometimes I (we) just want to play infection or king. 3. Separation at car meets. My friends and I have tried to get into the same car meet many times to share and talk to others about our rides and we can never get into a car meet together. 4. No dedicated drifting area. Yes the areas around the map are great fun for drifting but nothing can compare to red rock from horizon 1. I think a port of horizon 1 on the Xbox one with the horizon 2 cars would be wonderful.

What exactly is Playground games?

And there isn’t a specific drift area, but i know a spectacular route around Nice with hairpins ‘n fast bends!

You don’t need a gametype to play Cat and Mouse, just grab a good bunch of friends and play away

Hate: No 991 GT3/GT3RS

But there is a GT3 isn’t there? And the GT2 is such a beast!

Why thank you good sir

You’re welcome

But what for?

You can drift with around 200hp on Forza Horizon 2.
Since you seemed upset with paid Car Packs which help the life of the game. Here’s a Napa Chassis Car Pack code for Forza Horizon 2, first come first serve since I get sent codes.

MHF2K-3QD3D-922VP-H3JW6-CXT2Z

Tell me if you gabbed it though :)

Wow, thanks man! Did you pay for it or do you just get them send from somewhere?

And yes, i got it thanks

I need some drift buddy’s to slide with!!! I absolutely love fh2 I’m on it almost eveveryday but I have no one to slide with :( I’m on almost all the time, my gt is ongoingspace07