Yes, if you exclude the lack of weather conditions. Surely that'll make any next-generation sequel.

Beautiful visuals; Hours and hours of content; Superb Handling; Excellent soundtrack

Micro-transactions abound

Forza Horizon was the driving game released into the wild, its cars cast off into the fun and fury of the untamed open road. It makes sense that its first substantial add-on takes to the wilderness, then - although the Rally Expansion Pack initially feels tame.

Forza Horizon is a wild, almost reckless departure for the precision engineered racing series.

Get beyond the cynical positioning of Forza Horizon and you'll find a racer that is, ironically, as efficient and refined as it's older, more mature, siblings. Whether it can build a community as effectively as the Motorsport games is unlikely, but Horizon, for all its familiarity and reluctance to...

Although this Forza is unlike any Forza you've played before, it will feel familiar to anyone who's played Smuggler's Run, Fuel, Test Drive Unlimited 2, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Burnout Paradise, or Driver. Basically, there's a lot of driving between the driving.

Forza Horizon combines Forza authenticity with a festival atmosphere and the freedom of the open road. It offers an immersive pick-up-and-play, open-road racing experience and features realism, diversity and innovation.

Forza Motorsports is Xbox 360's answer to the PlayStation 3's Gran Turismo series, and although Gran Turismo has been around for many more years, the developers behind the Forza franchise have managed to surpass its predecessor in every way imaginable in their newest release, Forza Horizon .