

This last race is played at night under Mediterranean tropical cyclone setting, making it very difficult to distinguish the road ahead with poor visibilityīut the game adds more than a stormy setting, with a full changeable weather, rotating from a bright sun to fog, passing by torrential rain. They consist of 4 events, each containing several races, and end with a Gauntlet event. The game system is similar to Forza Horizon 2’s core, except that the number of championships are called Tiers. I set off to the port of Nice, and catch the first boat to the Isola Della Tempesta (Storm Island in Italian), an Island with harsh terrain and steep roads made especially for all-terrain vehicles. So there’s no wonder that the first DLC for Forza Horizon 2 is played, in part, in a pouring rain environment, with high intensity off-road vehicles. If we were to look at our real life events, The Mediterranean coast of France and Italy has undergone large and heavy periods of rain as well as impressive storms in the past years. It's around 3.5 Gbytes of download and well worth it.Welcome to the Isola Della Tempesta, an Island based on the Aeolian Islands of SicilyĬontrary to popular belief, it is not always nice and bright in the Mediterranean sea. If you have Forza Horizon 2 I reckon you really should get this.

The Storm Island add in brings the same quality of experience (driving narrative, excellent graphics, fantastic in car view, plenty of cars) to the off road experience. Gran Turismo had some fantastic rally stages and while the cars in Forza Horizons 2 are all lovely and shiny I really missed the chance to sling them around in mud during a tropical rainstorm. Along with some suitably lumpy environments to drive them around. For sixteen pounds you can have access to trucks, rally cars and all kinds of exotic off-roaders. This is an add-on pack that rights one of the few wrongs with the original game. The environments are very well realised and there are tons of different ones.Īnd now we have Storm Island. If you are the kind of person that doesn't like racing on the same track every time it is well nigh perfect. And I know that I wouldn't even get around the first corner in a properly accurate driving simulation.įorza Horizon 2 has a great narrative that has you driving from town to town taking part in racing events as you build your reputation as someone who's good with a steering wheel. I reckon it has the slightly "floaty" handingling reminiscent of Burnout and Need for Speed. It's probably not one for purists, I think that Forza does that better.
