"Forza Horizon 2 Is The Project Gotham Racing Game You've Been Waiting For"

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PGR might be dead, but it certainly isn't forgotten

Forza Horizon 2 is the next-gen racing game we’ve been waiting for.

There’s something super satisfying about taking to the open road with one finger on the brake and one on the gas.

Drifting around corners in beautiful cars, weaving through traffic without a care in the world, and tearing through fields and vineyards as we please. There’s no set destination, it’s all about the journey, an adventure to see where the road might lead.

Forza Horizon always felt like a spiritual sequel to Project Gotham Racing, but Horizon 2 feels like a step beyond that. It’s the sequel we’ve been waiting seven years for.

It actively encourages you to get creative with your racing. Horizon 2 wants you to cause chaos by heading off the track whenever you choose to. It wants you to burn rubber and flex your racing skills at every opportunity. Everything you do in Horizon 2 brings a skill counter into play; it tracks your various feats of awesome, and combos them together for massive rewards.

These rewards come in the form of new perks that are unlocked during your time in Horizon 2. These perks can do everything from giving you discounts on new cars, to letting you fast travel as you please around Southern Europe. Your skill points are also tracked via leaderboards, letting your friends and rivals see how bold you’re getting in some of the world’s nicest and fastest cars.

It’s the natural evolution of the well-loved Kudos system from Project Gotham, only it now comes packaged inside one of the tightest racing games we’ve had the pleasure of playing so far this generation.

“Freedom is one of the fundamental principles that we always talk about. That word is written on the walls of our studio, literally on the walls of our studio, because it is just a part of our DNA,” says Fulton. “We want to give you a game that’s full of experiences, full of cars, full of content and say, knock yourself out. Do what you want, in the order that you want.”

With original developer Bizarre Creations but a distant memory, the chance of Project Gotham Racing 5 ever appearing is unlikely. But Forza Horizon 2 is the next best thing.

The beautiful 1080p open world, the super slick 30fps racing, and the tight racing mechanics have all come together to create something quite unlike anything else on the shelves.

Forza Horizon 2 has successfully merged the previously unrivalled fun of PGR with the insanely fine-tuned mechanics of Forza Motorsport. The game is due for release on Xbox One on 30 September 2014, and if our recent hands-on is anything to go by, it's going to offer the drive of a lifetime.
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Source: http://www.nowgamer.com/features/25...otham_racing_game_youve_been_waiting_for.html

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I think such a bold statement deserves a new thread. Don't forget to get the demo September 16 :)
 
I think it will be an amazing game but Forza Horizon and PGR are two different things, control your hype.
 
Didn't they play the first game? That has kudos-style rewards for hard driving too.

Can't wait for this one, everything about the game just screams 'awesome'.
 
MoeB said:
why do they have to compare it to PGR? why not coattail the success of the first FH?
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As someone who has not played the the first Forza Horizon, my interest is piqued much more by the Project Gotham comparison than by simply saying it is better than the first game.
 
Adry9 said:
I think it will be an amazing game but Forza Horizon and PGR are two different things, control your hype.
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Easy to say, but do remember that Playground Games is home to plenty of ex-PGR developers. PG was formed after Bizarre Studios was shut down and plenty of the PGR DNA still lies in Playground Games. The fans system in Horizon is direct proof of that.
 
Forza Horizon always felt like a spiritual sequel to Project Gotham Racing, but Horizon 2 feels like a step beyond that. It’s the sequel we’ve been waiting seven years for.
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What? I didn't get a PGR vibe from playing FH, at all, and I don't get one from FH2 either. Strange.
 
Guess I'm going to have to get an XB1 at some point. That looks great. Hope it is like PGR and that isn't lip service because the first FH didn't feel like it.
 
HHHHHHNNNNNNGGGG.

Man, this plus that free Forza 5 weekend (great game, had a lot of fun) reeeeeally makes me want to buy this game at launch. Forza Horizon 1 was fantastic and PGR is just amazing.

Thank god there's a demo on the horizon.

...pun absolutely intended.
 
The beautiful 1080p open world, the super slick 30fps racing, and the tight racing mechanics have all come together to create something quite unlike anything else on the shelves.
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Too bad I just got fucked with an Xbox One with "coil whine" GPU noise. I have returned the XBO. Ain't gonna buy another XBO until there is a slim version.

I will miss Forza Horizon 2 at the end of this month, not cool. FH2 looks like the ultimate racing game.
 
bryanee said:
Not once while playing Horizon did I ever think you know what this feels like? PGR.
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The kudos systems is pretty much 1:1.

And the whole "joy of driving" atmosphere reminded me of PGR. I just hope Horizon 2 has more city focused races.
 
SmokyDave said:
Didn't they play the first game? That has kudos-style rewards for hard driving too.

Can't wait for this one, everything about the game just screams 'awesome'.
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I posted way back when in the FH1 thread that it felt like a PGR spiritual successor to me. I see no reason to doubt FH2 being the same.

PGR for me was never about the city tracks, it was about the kudos and more importantly, the perfect sim-cade handling model.
 
fresquito said:
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Percy said:
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They wanted to point out that it feels very good for a 30fps racing game.

Before horizon 1 I told myself i would never ever play a 30fps racer in my life anymore.
Especially all the Need for Speed games felt like crap with 30fps.

I don't know exactly how they managed to make horizon feel so good but i read something about that the controller Inputs were recognized at a much faster rate than usual for a 30fps game. So it felt alot more responsive.
 
A lot of what I'm hearing about DriveClub seems to suggest that it is a PGR successor.

Two PGR successors?

Glad to be a multi console owner.
 
DoctorWho said:
A lot of what I'm hearing about DriveClub seems to suggest that it is a PGR successor.

Two PGR successors?

Glad to be a multi console owner.
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DriveClub looks to be more of a spiritual PGR successor than Horizon 2, which is seems to be a tad more Need for Speed or Midnight Club if anything, with the crazy off road stuff, following trains and planes, on-coming traffic, doing jumps and all the rest. PGR was never that random, nor was it ever open world.
 
abadguy said:
You do realize that former PGR devs are at Playground right?
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And? If they wanted to do a new PGR then do a new PGR, not just reference something. This is like Activision riding in on Destiny saying "From the makers of Halo" or EA with Respawn "From the makers of COD4".
 
nib95 said:
DriveClub looks to be more of a spiritual PGR successor than Horizon 2, which is seems to be a tad more Need for Speed or Midnight Club if anything, with the crazy off road stuff, following trains and planes, on-coming traffic, doing jumps and all the rest. PGR was never that random, nor was it ever open world.
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That's sort of how I feel. I'm more than fine with it being a Forza Horizon 1 successor considering that game was fantastic.

It's good to hear PGR comparisons with anything though.
 
DoctorWho said:
A lot of what I'm hearing about DriveClub seems to suggest that it is a PGR successor.
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Yup, I feel they've got it ass backwards here. DriveClub, apart from the city street racing, is pretty much exactly what I'd expect out of a PGR game, both in terms of handling model but also style of action and an emphasis on making things very pretty.

Horizon is more like Test Drive Unlimited, but even then, I wouldn't really say Horizon is a 'spiritual successor' to anything. Its just a massively improved sequel to Horizon 1, which kind of paved its own path by merging the established Forza franchise with an open-world game design.
 
Me thinks Nowgamer is just fishing for hits by throwing in a popular dormant franchise as a random comparison.

Horizon 1 never did it really feel like PGR. Not that it needs to.

Horizon 2 is very focused on off-roading, so I don't see how it is relevant to the urban-based PGR
 
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