There are elements here of the Burnout games, of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and even of the not always brilliant Test Drive: Unlimited 2. Forza Horizon 2 does the same with the guts of Forza 5, while grabbing nearly every good idea from nearly every great arcade racer ever. The original took an inspired idea – take the graphics and physics engines from Forza 4 and wrap a Need for Speed game around them – and actually managed to make it even better than that sounds.
We apologise if the following reads like unmitigated hyperbole, but there’s just no getting around it: Forza Horizon 2 is one of the best racing games ever made. Available for Xbox One (tested) and Xbox 360
