There you go. I wouldn’t go crazy with scaling, as that can be tricky, but I think the takeaway is there’s a significant portion of the world we have yet to see.
Really though, I don’t think most people are going to care about the map size. It may not be as big as some people think, but it’s an open world free-roam game with endless possibilities in terms of online activities.
I have over 2000 hours in TDU2, and while the entire world is explorable, a very small fraction of those hours were spent climbing mountains and jumping off cliffs, they were mostly spent cruising with my friends, chatting and enjoying the scenery.
Not to mention those planning on getting The Crew as well will have another game to go to if Horizon 2 ends up not being their cup of tea.
Which ironically is why a lot of people are concerned, that after ‘three times the drivable area’ is put into all these hills and off-road areas, we don’t get many more roads. But I’ve addressed that up the page of course. =)
Kudos for the map comparisons also, very intriguing.
I went back to provide a link to the vidoc so people can look at the map in motion and noticed that an area called San Giovanni is visible (as is “Zona Industriale” for that area above the car) so I recaptured the image in HD. Click on this image to get a large png, captured at 1:01 from this video
Also, with roads leading off to the left but not to the right of the image I wonder if the Festival hub is located in the SE corner of the Horizon world.
No matter how hard I look at that area in the southwest, I am not seeing a race track there. Would be nice but unfortunately it’s most likely wishful thinking. If a track were to be involved, I’m sure it would be one of the advertised features, and would appear within the demo videos.
-k
always a opportunity to make a own race track 
i know its not the same thing but it is possible… would be great if it comse a feature that allowes you to mark your own “track” or rally stage on the map and then driving it as a time attack or with other players
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You can make showdown races from Car Meet lobbies, but that’ll likely be a race with only the start and finish points selected. Although making your own race checkpoints is a really good idea, and can add lots more user-created content 
I only have one worry about Horizon 2 and that goes for both the One and 360 version… map size. We all recall that when Horizon 1 was announced they kept on telling us how MASSIVE the map was, while in reality it’s tiny. I don’t think the Horizon 2 map is any larger at all, they keep on stressing there’s 3 times at much roads and driving space, that doesn’t mean the map is any larger at all. I don’t expect the 360 version to have a much bigger map then is in Horizon 1, just more space to drive and so will the Once version have. Removing barriers will give more space, not a bigger map.
We will only know how the map will be when the game is released, but for now I stick to one thought… not a bigger map, but more space to drive. That will keep me from behing highly disappointed again. They’re wording this whole map thing so odd, that I do believe they don’t have a much larger map at all.
Y’all wanted another game… now we’re getting an entire new map and some new cars. I think its time to stop complaining and embrace it. Why worry? Regardless of the size, we’ll have an entire new world to explore. If its at least the same size as FH1 then it’ll be fantastic.
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Couldnt agree more!!
Same seems to happen with everything though these days. As a group we seem to want everything, but when we get it we want even more!
If Horizon 2 is no better than Horizon 1, this is one gamer that will still be glad to own it!! Who cares about map size? As long as I can have some fun playing a game, thats the important thing.
Fantastic sure… but also too small and that was a real pity. It would be kind of strange to go on a road trip and run out of road in 10 minutes wouldn’t it?
As long as I get a long freeway and some fun roads in the foothills of the Alps, I’m fine. I looked at the part of the map that was unveiled earlier this week and I was so glad to see so many secluded, curvy roads.
I care about mapsize. I don’t want to run out of road in 10 minutes.
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Well I do think you should care about map size, since it’s a huge part of the game. This is a driving game and with driving games you need roads… lot’s of them and roads need space, lot’s of it. Besides this is 2014, the year when games like The Crew are released which set a new standard. Not just a state, an island, or some provences, no a complete country where it takes 40 minutes to drive from one end of the other if you take the shortest route possible… even on the Xbox 360. If Horizon 2 has the same map size with some more roads they sure fall short of the mark.
You really want the same game with the same map size on the next gen console? I would expect a little more then that. Oh and don’t tell me weather is next gen, since it’s not. So far I’ve seen next gen grahpics, but old gen features I’ve seen many times before. Oh, I’m not a multiplayer, so all the social stuff I couln’t care less about, I only play single player and if you cut away all the social online stuff Horizon 2 doesn’t have anything to show for that we haven’t seen before.
Well let’s hope they will reveal some more about the map, but so far it has exactly the same pattern as Horizon 1 and that’s not a good sign. At any rate, if Horizon 2 turns ou to be just a tiny as Horizon 1 I only have to wait a month for a game that allows me to drive for ages, just for fun with a special road trip mode allowing you to just shut out everything else and just have fun cruising. Sounds great, let’s hope Horizon has something to show for in this department as well.
But please, don’t say that in a driving game a map size doesn’t matter, because it really does
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So, it’s not a state, it’s a “complete country” that’s smaller than a state.
Although, maybe you could drive across Rhode Island in 40 minutes, if there’s no traffic at all. But that’s a state. And an island.
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THIS!!! People act like map size doesn’t matter when that’s almost all I care about! Weather should be on the 360, a good 95% of people aren’t gunna give a shhhhh in the end whether it is dynamic or not. If you read my other posts I agree with you about multiplayer. I don’t have live, and even if I did to me SP is more important. It kinda seems like they are pushing single-player out the window, which, believe me, is not a good thing. Truly next gen is online in an instant like they HAVE BEEN SAYING, so spending 5 min. on that is extra.
Now onto the crew. The graphics are terrible, let’s be honest, but the map size and customaztion are to die for. It takes 90-ish min to drive? Now that’s NEXT GEN or if not, then it’s still great. This is a driving game, not a racing game. For races & handling, forza has proved it’s self time & time again. We need map to drive on, that’s what Horizon is about.
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LOL! 90 min to drive across a map is NEXT-GEN? Have you ever seen Fuel? That’s last-gen and it takes over 2 1/2 hours to drive across the map. Luckily, the people that made that game can now put their giant map-making skills to the test, because they are the guys making The Crew for 360, let’s see how that turns out!
Also, Horizon 2 doesn’t need to be a map where you drive in 90 min from one side to the other, it’s about how long it takes to drive on EVERY road in a single session. If going from one side to the other takes 10 min but driving across every road takes 75 min, who cares about driving from one side to the other?
I believe Codemasters made Fuel,not the people making the Crew!
Codemasters only published FUEL if I remember rightly. Besides, FUEL’s map size was all the game had. The physics were pretty bad, the world lacked detail and bugs were everywhere.
I will admit though, completing the two acheivements for driving from one corner of the map to the other was surprisingly satisfying. =)
Yes, it was published by Codemasters, but it was created by Asobo Studio. They will now build the map for The Crew so hopefully it won’t be scaled down too much, probably not as seen by the awesome Fuel map that they made before.