Simply excellent, if you enjoy the likes of Test Drive Unlimited 2 then this game is a must for your collection. Impressive graphics and plenty of hours of gameplay.

I've always been a fan of the Forza franchise...well, not always. I started out as a die-hard Gran Turismo fan. GT3 was a spectacular game with more cars than I had ever seen in a single title. The controls were terrifically accurate, and the integration with the steering wheel was spot-on.

Fun gameplay; sim-style that isn't quite as technical as actual sim; interesting world; expansive free-roam area

Half the cars are DLC and cost extra; repetitive car-specific challenges; limited control config; no split-screen racing

This game is a joke. The worst insult to the forza name possible. Terrible physics, no tuning, ruddy need for speed toolbag characters and graphics are terrible (i know it's open world, don't care, it's just another thing that sucks about his game).

" … we were lucky enough to use the Turn Ten Forza Motorsport codebase for Horizon so we started with that. Doing that meant the physics system, the way the cars handle and the way they react to the road is exactly the same.

This is a stunner of a game; pushing the Xbox 360 to its limits; The car selection includes some tasty cult classics; Handling on wide open roads feels good; Night racing is good fun

No mechanical damage promotes rough racing with no penalty; Every vehicle has chronic oversteer issues; sliding all over the place; At every turn the game tries to force microtransactions down the user's throat; Much smaller roster of cars than prior Forza games

By combining open-world thrills with simulation racing and letting you customize the experience to your liking, Forza Horizon 2 is an excellent entry in the series.

Southern Europe is gorgeous in game; Driving is constantly exciting; Experience is hugely customizable

Eventually runs out of new stuff; Story is ludicrous

Mature-Gaming reviews Forza Horizon and explores whether this open world experience stands up to the quality of its predecessors. The Forza Motorsport franchise has become synonymous with pure racing, taking Turn 10′s passion for cars and speed and providing, through its four, releases a package...

Fast paced and addictive. The selection of cars to drive is amazing and each provides a different experience. Would have given 5 stars but maximum multi-player is 2 on same console. No online play available.

The GPS in this game is actually quite good. It's a little annoying listing to the turn-by-turn directions when a good song is on that you are trying to listen to, but the GPS does a great job if getting you where you need to go.

Forza Horizon is a game that showcases perfectly the positive side of the importance of a brand name, obsessed as it is with brand identity. If Resident Evil 6 gave us a glimpse of the negative effects of forgetting just how important a name can be, then Forza Horizon provides a textbook example of...

Those refined Forza handling models; A huge variety of events to take part in; Appeals to both newcomers and the sim crowd

Awful story; Open world perhaps not quite used to its fullest potential; Slingshot AI on higher difficulty settings

Cars are sexy. Festivals are cool. A car racing festival must then be cool AND sexy, right? Such cynical logic has been the downfall of many creative efforts smashing two disparate elements together but in the case of Forza Horizon, it actually works.