I’ve been talking a lot about how much fun it is to just go off the beaten path in Forza Horizon 2, and that’s because I feel like this is sort of the main focus of the game.
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When you start these events you’ll usually try to do the natural thing: drive in a straight line, but soon you’ll learn how to terrain to your advantage. It’s up to you, the knowledge of your car, and your knowledge of the terrain to make it there. As you would expect, these races are simply a mad dash to get from point A to point B. The differences in terrain in Forza Horizon 2 are most apparent in cross country races. In a way, Forza Horizon 2 actively seeks to reward you for seeking out the type of gameplay that you enjoy the most. The cuts and drifts of a winding country road provide a gameplay experience with a completely different tempo and feel to driving through an open lot trying to get the most air off a ramp. Combined with the aforementioned elevation tricks, Forza Horizon 2 basically makes each different locale in the game a different driving experience. Cars handle completely different on dirt as they do on asphalt. Road type is also a big area of variety in this game. The up and down jostling of your car, and the control compensation you’ll have to allow for as a driver, makes simply driving through each location a different beast, let alone racing through them. Even flat fields have more variations in their elevation than simple roads. Racing on a mountain road always slopes your car slightly to one side. Racing through a forest will face you with tons of dips and hills for you to contend with. One of the primary ways they do that is by playing with elevation. The Forza team really knows how to make each of these locations feel completely unique. You just want to see what location you’ll be able to drive through next.Īnd these locations aren’t just aesthetic. There is always something new to find, and that is the main reason for going off road in this game. You can race alongside a train, under a hot air balloon, around an air-plane and so much more. You can absolutely ruin the majestic beauty of a bright and colorful field of flowers by plowing a van through them. You can head to abandoned air-field and ram yourself off shipping containers. You can head to farms and tear your own crop circles in fields of wheat.
There’s tons of other locales for you to experience. How about tearing tracks up and down the coastline.
Maybe driving through swamp is more your speed. Maybe your thing is driving through nearly haunted woods at night. While you will have more than your fair share of asphalt roads to tear up, Forza Horizon’s small strip of Europe offers so much more. The reason why going off the beaten path is fun is because of the variety it offers. It was as if the open world existed as little more than a way to travel from one actual race to another.įorza Horizon 2, however, understands the actual spirit behind open world games. In other open world racing games, this meant you’d drive on a road, go through a field somewhere, then get to another road. No matter how far off the beaten path you travel, you are just going to be doing more driving. This is actually why I have always been skeptical of the open world driving genre. While the programmers might be telling you “the game is this way” open world games reward you for wandering off into a field for hours, trying to make your own fun. The concept of the open-world game is the ability to basically do whatever you want.
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