The game is absolutely packed with little challenges. While this is theoretically an open world title (when players aren't in a race they can drive anywhere around the map they'd like), things are kept moving forward with the inclusion of ‘road trip' competitions that make driving from one hub to another an event rather than a chore. These championships all take place in one of six hub areas of countryside that tracks are constructed around. The game's career races are broken up into dozens of 'championships' in which players select from a particular class of cars to face off in three or four races. While that might sound like a daunting task, the game's greatest strength is its use of addictive gameplay mechanics to keep players laser-focused on their goals, always striving to improve their skills a little bit at a time. Set at the titular Horizon Festival, the game asks players to work their way through a series of championships until they've accumulated the roughly 100 race wins necessary to be crowned victor. While the setting may not be as impressive as Hawaii or Ibiza, the game truly makes the genre its own with its addictive 'rival' system and daringly crafted off-road tracks. Microsoft's answer to the Test Drive Unlimited series, Forza Horizon 2 puts players in a miniaturized version of Southern Europe and offers an opportunity to compete in hundreds of different races with an eye towards collecting an exhaustive variety of cars. WTF Apparently people leave extremely valuable cars to rot in barns all the time. LOW Gosh, that photography mode couldn't load slower, could it?

HIGH Being allowed to try drifting a hairpin turn over and over again until I get it just right.

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