Forza Motorsport 2 (2007) Review #blogpost

Forza Motorsport 2 is a circuit based racing game. It was developed by Turn 10 studios for the Xbox 360 and came out in 2007.

When you start your racing career in Forza Motorsport 2, you are given a choice of what region (Europe, North America and Asia) you want your first car to be from. You have 11,000 credits to buy your first car, and as you’ve probably have guessed, that won’t get you very far, and you’d be right. You can only buy something like a 2004 Audi TT Coupe 3.2 Quattro or a 1995 Volkswagen Corrado VR6. Those cars are alright, but there’s one car that stands out. That car is the 1996 Nissan Silvia S14.

Forza Motorsport 2 has 349 cars (according to Wikipedia) from car manufactures such as Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche. There is a huge range of cars, but there’s no really small cars like the Citroën C1 that the newer Forza Motorsports. Small cars make for really fun racing and the smallest cars that I could find were the 1995 Honda CR-V Del Sol SiR, and that’s a little bit disappointing.

Forza Motorsport 2 has a really stupid levelling up and unlocking system where if you win races you level up. That’s all normal and how it should be, but as you level up you gets to purchase more cars that were previously locked before. I’m glad that racing games aren’t like this anymore, because it doesn’t make sense. The other way to unlock cars is too win them in races.

Upgrading and tuning a car isn’t as it is in the newer Forza Motorsport games. You have all parts and features that 3 and 4 has but engine swaps and drivetrain swaps are together, so the engine that you put into a car also has the drivetrain from the car that the engine originates from. I’m not really a fan of this, because I like the amount of options and odd combinations that I can come up with, such as a Ford Focus with a V8 from a mustang and front wheel drive. It’s that kind of thing that you can’t do in Forza Motorsport 2.

To sum up this review, there are not enough cars, the upgrading needs more variety, the levelling up system is incredibly stupid. There are a few good points, like the racing is not bad. Overall I would give Forza Motorsport 2 a 7 out of 10.