mardi 3 juin 2014

Taking a Sunday Drive With Forza Horizon 2

We’re poised on the start line of our first race in Forza Horizon 2 in the very latest mad minotaur out of Sant’Agata Bolognese, the new Lamborghini Huracán. The replacement for the best-selling Gallardo, the Huracán cuts a menacing shape across the screen. Its 5.2L naturally aspirated V10 protests as it snarls through its rev range. It’s like a lion on a leash, straining to set off.


The warm Italian sun overhead bakes the bright yellow bodywork of the Huracán as a quintet of aerobatic jets streaks above the assembled grid, belching fingers of green, white, and red smoke behind them – the iconic tints of il Tricolore.


The racers hit the gas and, almost instantly, the bulk of them divert through a nearby field of crops in a desperate scramble to save a few seconds on the way to the first checkpoint. It’s a brief but frantic off-road stampede as cars jockey for position while hurtling across the bumpy paddock. Fences splinter. Plants are scattered and threshed by the screaming pack of supercars bearing down on them.


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