Open-world racing games have never appealed to me. I've always been a fan of racing games that involve tracks that you can learn and get better at. The older Need for Speed titles and games such as Forza Motorsport 5 , DIRT , GRID , Project Gotham Racing and Gran Turismo 6 have therefore been my...

Drive anywhere and everywhere you want to | A Kinect feature that actually works | Lots of extra events

More cars would be great

When it comes to open-world racing games nobody does it better than the Forza Horizon franchise – assuming two games constitutes a "franchise", and I can safely make that claim at least until Driveclub and The Crew arrive later this year.

Positives Stunning graphics; detailed car models; perfect mix of arcade and sim racing; great social elements; endless supply of content

Negatives Random load-time delays

Kato lowballed this game big time. It's about as perfect as an arcade racer can get, and is easily one of the 3 best games of 2014. The driving is excellent. Huge collection of cars. Beautiful graphics. Excellent reward system. When it rains, it actually looks like legit water on the cars and roads.

Forza Horizon 2 is a great racing game for the people who aren't into the realism present in Forza Motorsport 5 , but the best part of all is likely just driving as fast as you can off-road. It's just a shame there isn't more to do out there.

Driving across country is fun; racing is less punishing for less seasoned players

Open world could use more variety; not all that much to find while exploring

Forza Horizon 2 has quickly become one of my favourite Xbox One games. From the beautiful graphics to its very intuitive open-world gameplay, Forza Horizon 2 is just a lot of fun to play.

- fun; open-world gameplay; - constant feeling of progression; -unbelievable graphics

- drivatar AI still leaves a little to be desired; - hokey story

Forza Horizon is one of the best racing games from the ‘last' generation of consoles in anyway you want to slice it. Bright colours, satisfyingly chunky arcade-style car handling, a good sized open world, and that all important XP system for those that need to see the numbers as a quantification of...

Microsoft's answer to the Test Drive Unlimited series, Forza Horizon 2 puts players in a miniaturized version of Southern Europe and offers an opportunity to compete in hundreds of different races with an eye towards collecting an exhaustive variety of cars.

Being allowed to try drifting a hairpin turn over and over again until I get it just right

Gosh; that photography mode couldn't load slower; could it

Fantastic game. I prefer this game out of the Forza franchise. Easy to drive and easier to upgrade the cars.

Forza horizon 2 is so much better then the first one. the graphics are much better and the racing is at its best. I liked the first one,but this one is really great. its 100% better then forza 5, I hated that game. overall this is the best racing game of the past few years.

a great game, lots of fun