Forza Horizon 2 announced.

[Mastodon2]

I had a go at the Xbox One demo for this the other day, and I must say the whole festival thing is dire. That whole "I will count to 10" intro sequence had me wishing she'd just get to 10 already and shut up. The driving was fun, although the rubber banding wasn't but Forza Horizon 1 lived on rubber banding and this will be the same. The off road destruction derby section was a bit naff, seeing a road going Evo X doing 110mph over farming tills in the fields like it was nothing, er, ok.

[kowalski655]

If that mountain road is included I will be one happy bunnyy

[Chicken Chaser]

The off roa
ring through vineyards is a joke but the other bits seem fun. I always use bonnet view and couldn't see where I was going.

[Heliocentric]

I played the demo.

Utter sh ite.

[TimmyWimmyWoo]

Just starting my third go on the demo - I'm rather enjoying it! Have found all the billboards, just want to try the Evo now.

I've found that you can put simulation steering on and actually drive with a pad – can't manage that in Forza 5!

[24lemons]

Not normally in to this type of game but I thought I'd give the demo a try. Well it hasn't converted me.

If the festival setting is your thing then fine but for me it was massively irritating. Chavving around in cars doesn't do much for me either. Theres not much of a challenge in hooning around with the throttle nailed the whole time. I'm just going to wait until project cars Comes out!

[pigeonskirt]

I first played this the other night and I really didn't like it at all. It felt totally unrealistic and the whole festival thing was corny. I wasn't a fan . Despite this, I thought I'd give it another go today. This time around, I adjusted all the driver aids and put everything on simulation. I also adjusted the volumes, turning down the SFX, tyre squeal, DJ etc along with turning the engine noise up! I turned the speakers up and jumped straight into it and I have to say I felt totally different about it. Yes, the festival thing felt corny, but everything else was great. I was totally immersed! I'm definitely going to get the full version now!

[Mini1275]

[kowalski655]

Looks nice,this is the free Day 1 pack. Like the Landie
And I want the VIP edition for the Donkervoort D8 GTO,a car I had neverheard of before

[ajprice]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Donkervoort thread

[westtra]

I like it. like first one and not as serious as forza 5.

[Chicken Chaser]

Saw Forza 5 pre-owned for £30 today and was tempted to pick up a copy seeing as many PHers seem to play this on an evening. Still worth a punt or should I just wait and get FH2?

[kowalski655]

Definitely,its a good game

[NateWM]

The FRS and Clio Williams have just made me pre-order...

[Les84]

NateWM said:

The FRS and Clio Williams have just made me pre-order...

Shame they are not for FM5 as everyone thought.

[Baryonyx]

Of all the cars I want to drive, it's the Alpine A110 I really want to try. Looking forward to this now as I am very much bored of Destiny.

[TimmyWimmyWoo]

Eurogamer's review (and most other sites' reviews) is up. 9/10.

Eurogamer said:

It's going to be a busy season for racing games, with sim hopeful Project Cars, ambitious online "CarPG" The Crew and the social score-attack of DriveClub all jostling for attention. Horizon 2 sets an intimidatingly high bar for those games to meet on every front, but in one aspect it seems unbeatable. I can't imagine any of them are going to feel this happy.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-09-25-forza...

[ConcreteBuffalo]

Encouraging! Release date is 3rd October?

[kowalski655]

In the Uk,yes. Yanks get it Tuesday the bds

85 score on metacritic..its gonna be great

[SwissJonese]

I really enjoyed the demo, so looking forward to the full release. I found it a cross between Colin Mcrae game that codemaster used to do and Test Drive Unlimited 2. More arcadey than Forza 5 but then I found that game so dull.