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  • Forza Horizon 2 Storm Island review

    If Forza Horizon 2 was a Bestival for cars, all sun-kissed fields and long, breezy summer days, then Storm Island, Playground Games' first downloadable expansion for its Xbox One exclusive, is their Glastonbury; where the mud churns and the rain tumbles down while the wind whistles noisily through the trees.
    Such extreme elements are all part of the fun, giving this generous extension to arguably the year's best driving game a flavour of its own. How pleasing it is, too, to see an expansion done right so soon after Destiny's The Dark Below got it all so wrong: the price-tag may be significant, but Storm Island is heavy on things to do, with some 80 new events taking in a number of different disciplines and a whole new island to explore.
    The island itself isn't really the most striking of backdrops - a thicket of dense countryside and rolling hills that clocks in at just under three miles point to point, aside from a temple atop a hill it's visually indistinct from Horizon 2's landmass - but what it enables helps set it apart. You access Storm Island by departing from Nice's port, and once you've arrived you're met with a whole new weather system that flits dynamically between murky outbursts to syrupy late-evening atmospherics.
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