After a few days of playing ‘Forza Horizon 2: Storm Island’ DLC I have came to a conclusion about this DLC. Currently, Storm Island is 20$ (10$ if you own VIP) on the Xbox Store. My initial impressions of ‘Storm Island’ was “Wow this looks amazing!” and “They finally made an extension to this amazing game”. Personally, I’m more then just a general consumer of the Forza series or any racing series in general because I look for the details. Such as engines, the specs of those engines, car handling, ETC. For me the new DLC cars were outstanding choices, and I’ll list all of the cars further below. The rally upgrades are a very nice and a very needed touch to the extension, without those rally tires and suspension you will find yourself missing check points and crashing ALOT. The Rally Transmission to me was a bit wonky at first to get used to the shorter gears but of course you can always tune them to be a bit longer/shorter to your liking. The new rally parts are cool, I feel like they could of gave us that little extra more that would of given the pack more value, I am not talking about adding another car, or different types of body parts I am referring to rims. Why not add some rally type rims, something with an off road feeling to them or rally tires and off road terrain tires (like Large Truck Tires) that can be used for extra grip but they have their downsides. ‘Storm Island’ is a great extension if you have beaten the main story mode and want to try something new. Of course its not a large map like the main island that has 300+ Roads, where as ‘Storm Island’ has only 50 roads. There are also 25 ‘Upgrade Boards’ scattered through out the map, 5 new speedzones, 30 races (not including bucket list races). Lets get to some of the pro’s and con’s of the DLC.
Pro’s:
⦁ New Cars (which are free to add to your garage)
⦁ More roads to discover
⦁ New car upgrades
⦁ More Rally Races
⦁ Something new for fans
⦁ Different terrain
Con’s:
⦁ Small map with not enough roads
⦁ Races don’t seem to be a very realistic type of race.
⦁ Sometimes when the weather changes the frames drop randomly
⦁ I feel like it needed abit more tree’s/forest like areas for an island
⦁ Needs less huge air sections
The cars available in Storm Island include:
⦁ 2013 Robby Gordon #7 Speed Energy Drink Stadium Super Truck
⦁ 2013 MINI X-Raid All4 Racing Countryman
⦁ 2014 Ford Ranger T6 Rally Raid
⦁ 1981 Ford Fiesta XR2
⦁ 1992 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
⦁ Metro 6R4
At the end of the day Storm Island is well worth 20$ (10$ If You Own VIP) if you’re ready for more exciting and fast thrilling races. The new vehicles are amazing and can be very monstrous when upgraded and tuned. Beautiful scenery, car models are near perfection, and of course the new engine sounds are brilliant. ‘Storm Island’ deserves to be appreciated then it is at the moment! ‘Forza Horizon 2: Storm Island’ gets a solid 9/10. Whats bad about fast rally racing and throwing cars up and down huge inclines?
9/10
– Metrological
