If it were another Hot Wheels expansion, I’d be excited. But the apparent mundanity of it puts me in a “ho-hum, more racing I guess” frame of mind. Hopefully the second expansion will be something more interesting (not necessarily a Hot Wheels sequel, mind).
It’s a pity they’ve moved away from the U.K. theme. Would’ve been interesting to drive round the capital city of London or Blackpool and the sandy beaches at Southport.
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Looks a lot closer to UK theme than Blizzard Mountain did to Australia…
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Because there isn’t actually a mountain range in Australia called the Snowy Mountains, or Australian Alps?
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As an Australian who has hiked the Australian Alps (albeit in the middle of summer), about the only thing “Australian” about Blizzard Mountain were the snow-gums. Yes they are mountains. Yes they get snow. Yes they occasionally get blizzards (my brother was actually caught up in one at Charlotte’s Pass back in the summer of '98, the same storm that wrecked the Sydney to Hobart fleet). Just about everything else felt wrong or out-of-place.
It really wouldn’t have been hard for them to call the village Thredbo or Jindabyne, call one of the main roads the Alpine Way, chuck in Tumut 3 as one of the beauty spots, have a hillclimb-like twisty road to Charlotte’s Pass or Mt Buller etc etc…
Aussie here who buys season passes to the Snowy Mountains snow resorts every year and has driven his Megane RS250 all over the mountain roads around that range (and an R33 Skyline GTS25t before that).
I’ll repeat what I wrote when Blizzard mountain was released. It’s a shame that nothing from the real world was incorporated into Blizzard mountain and the entire expansion was fictionalised and not even inspired by real locations.
I expect Fortune Island will be the same just like Storm Island before.
Missed opportunity in all three cases.
I’m happy about the long paved mountain road nonetheless. It’s my favourite kind of driving in real life and in the virtual world.
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Sadly all the expansions have taken place in imaginary places.
I was hoping for an expansion that goes to the Isle of Mann myself.
Glad to finally see the production Urus in the game. What a great car and hopefully the other cars are just as great.
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Looked like a viking ship, northern norway?
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Viking ship is probably a reference to Shetland’s Up Helly Aa culture and festival
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Hoards of viking went to the British Isles all the time
Damn, that road looks like the Transfăgărășan in Romania! So is this going to be another separate map? I was hoping they would just expand the map North. How do you have bridges there teasing us and not use it?
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You know you can drive the actual Transfagarasan in RFactor 2 and Assetto Corsa right?
The track has existed for years.
That said, I would love to drive the car rosters we see in a typical Forza game up and down the Transfagarasan.
It’s maybe their take on the Bealach na Bà (Pass of the Cattle) in the Highlands. Infact also in the teaser is the Old Man of Storr (Isle of Skye), Eilean Donan (Kyle of Lochalsh), there were probably others that i missed 
It would be amazing if this expansion allowed you to cross the bridges (north of Edinburgh on the map) to access even more northerly parts of the UK!
Some amazing scenery and roads up there and some great feature locations they could incorporate into the map!
The mountainscape is reminiscent of The Cuillin on the Isle of Skye.
They’ve never done it differently before, so not getting my hopes up now. Then again I’ve been wrong many, many, many times before lol.
looks interesting. hopefully as good as blizzard mountain. wasnt a fan of the hot wheels expansion
too much to hope that the proper solo online championship returns or at least no collision racing to avoid the griefers???
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Looks interesting so far.
If Route Creator comes to this expansion, if there isn’t one already, I’ll make a race exclusively using that twisty road.
Just be sure that if you have ultimate edition you DO NOT buy the expansion or the bundle as the Microsoft store would NOT warn you that you already OWN that content. And they will NOT refund you for content purchase in duplicate even if it is their system allowed so. Instead you will have endless template response that the product is not eligible for refund.
This apply to any product they bundle into other product, their store does not seem to recognize that and warn you of the fact that you may be buying a license for something you already own. So not just Forza, but I know someone who got had on this one.
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I’d say I won’t let T10 fool me a 3rd time after FM7 and FH4 disaster but I bought ultimate edition so I’ll try it out but I assure you I’m skeptical. Feels kinda rushed to me but then it my be a CYA decision. I was actually more interested in the announcement SOD2 did at the expo. They are a smaller studio but still under Microsoft but at least their devs communicate more with their community and they don’t even have a forum on their website.