FORZA HORIZON 2 FREE DOWNLOAD FOR PC SERIES
A map filled with more icons than a Ubisoft open world, each denoting a race event, a PR stunt, a rumour about some vintage car, a series of challenges organised into a handful of stories. If you have played any previous Forza Horizon game you already know what this means. It’s not being forced to reinvent the wheel, and so it’s content to just hone and refine-to be the best Forza Horizon it can be.
Forza Horizon hasn’t so much pulled ahead of the pack as it’s already finished the race and is now free to amuse itself. Dirt is similarly confused the strength of its Dirt Rally spin-offs leaving the parent series unsure of what it’s meant to be. The Need for Speed series ping-ponged between varying degrees of arcade and simulation for years, never carving out a singular identity for itself. Burnout Paradise showed the promise of open world racing back in 2008, but, for whatever reason, EA never followed it up. In a world where the only way to play an old game is to pirate it, all players will be pirates.Sim racing is a competitive field, but on the more arcade side it’s not looking so healthy. Bennett Foddy, who teaches at New York University’s Game Center and is the developer of games like QWOP and Getting Over, told Motherboard this amounts to "massive cultural vandalism."īy removing Forza Horizon 2 from its digital store, Microsoft is setting itself up for a similar showdown, perhaps years from now. In that process, it hurts its biggest fans and denies future game developers access to essential learning materials.
Since some of those game can't be acquired and played legally, Nintendo essentially puts itself in a position where it has to erase its own history in order to protect its copyrights. That's what Nintendo did recently when it took down websites hosting decades-old copies of NES and SNES games. If emulation of the Xbox 360 ever becomes as accessible and accurate as emulation of the Super Nintendo, finding and playing a version of Forza Horizon 2 will be trivial, but would technically be breaking the law and run the risk of prompting Microsoft's lawyers to act. That's not an easy thing to acquire at the moment, but hobbyists are already working on emulating the Xbox 360. If Microsoft stops selling digital copies and you can't find a hard copy (and remember that hard copies have limited lifespans) you will not be able to legally acquire and play Forza Horizon 2 unless you pirate a copy. Forza Horizon 2 is just one, but still important chapter in how this came to be. Today, the Forza series is one of the most successful racing video games and a showcase for the entire genre. While Gran Turismo's developer Polyphony digital was obsessing over the details of super car interiors and delaying releases, Forza's developer Turn 10 kept releasing sequels, iterating, growing an audience, and even launching the more accessible offshoot Horizon series. Over the years, Forza managed to lap Gran Turismo. PlayStation had the hugely popular Gran Turismo racing game series, Microsoft offered Forza as competition. The entire series was positioned as Xbox's flagship racing franchise. The original Forza Motorsport launched on the original Xbox in 2005, but really took off with the release of Forza Motorsport 2 for the Xbox 360 in 2007. This might not seem like a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but if the history of video games has taught us anything so far it's that big publishers don't care about video game history, and that it's now up to users to preserve Forza Horizon 2. We asked Microsoft if it had any plans to make Forza Horizon 2 available to purchase by other means in the future, and it referred it us back to its original announcement. Similarly, in 2016, Microsoft stopped selling the original Forza Horizon right before the release of Forza Horizon 3. Forza Horizon 4 comes out the day after Microsoft plans to pull Forza Horizon 2 from its store. That’s all great, but it’s cold comfort for anyone new who wants to buy the game after October 1. Microsoft is giving away the DLC for free, has put the game up as part of its subscription service (meaning subscribers can grab for no extra charge), and given the community advanced warning.
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