Ok, so I have all 4 Forza Horizon games. And after playing FH4 for ages, I thought I’d crank up FH2 again and complete some older achievements. After improving my driving and tuning on the newer Horizons, and now applying them to FH2, I’ve really come to appreciate the roads on FH2. Many of them are sooo much better than on FH4. Obviously, the graphics and lighting is not as good as the newer games, and obstacles are not forgiving, but oh man, carving up the countryside at speed in a well-tuned vehicle is a breath of fresh air! I really hope in FH5, they focus on making some good roads. Just my $0.02.
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FH2 still has the best Xbox One era map. It’s just so beautiful, my dream setting really. The game is a little “rough” next to the later ones but still a joy to play. Roads are killer as well and Finale is best Goliath.
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Yes, the best map indeed.
I tried unsuccessfully to join an online freeroam in it today. Found a session each time, but then couldn’t join. Will try again another time.
If any of you guys have a copy still, crank it up. It just a pity I didn’t realise the DLC was going to be removed from the store, otherwise I would’ve bought it before then.
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FH2 had some amazing driving roads, although the map was lacking in variety compared to FH1 and FH3.
Still think that FH1 was the best map overall. It had similar terrain/scenery variety to FH3, but with some epic driving roads like FH2 and even a good amount of verticality.
FH4 isn’t a bad map per se, but it does suffer from a lack of really good driving roads IMHO like the coastal road in FH2 and the red rock climb in FH1, and doesn’t have much in the way of scenery variety or particularly interesting locations like we had in FH3 with the beaches, airport, construction site, and jungle.
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I appreciate FH2’s map more now for the fact you actually have to concentrate, you could just hold RT and blitz across FH4’s without looking.
I think FH2’s map worked so well because of the France-Italy combo, going from Nice to Castelletto along that coast road really felt like going from 1 country to the other.
FH3 + FH4’s maps may have tried to put various pieces of Australia/UK together but they both end up feeling like just a lump of land in their respective places.
I’m with gamer1000k though, the original’s is still the best one.
Never played the first one but I’v grown to like FH4 map, though cities and suburbs could be bigger. Airstrip is a joke compared to FH2/3 but it’s also obviously meant to be so. We don’t have a harbour. There is sea and Derwent lake but mostly it’s green (or white during winter).
For me charm of FH2 map comes from visual stuff, instead of it actually being physics wise better. Sun, sea, old buildings, etc. It has some nice things too technics wise, but overall I liked FH3 map better. Every area had certain identity, Byron Bay suburban setting and Surfers Paradise felt larger and somehow worked for me better than their counterparts in FH4. That said, it really lacked elevation changes but that’s Australia.
I can’t understand why they didn’t add some stuff like those crazy Blizzard Mountain (FH3 expansion) downhill slaloms in FH4. Waste of map features IMO.
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