If you look at games like NFS Most Wanted from 2012, it is safe to say that they intentionally downgraded the graphics and sounds on the X360 version. The console could definetly cope with more.
I dont think it was intentional, but it was capable of more. The issue is that Horizon 2 360 use the same engine as Forza Motorsport 4, which is a game that is intended for track racing. Track racing have the advantage of being very good by design to abuse culling, which many times can't be done on a open world game. The actual car models are good and match FM4 ones, which make me think that the modelling budget (I am not saying about money, model budget means the amount of textures and polygons it is allowed for any element of a game, for example, cars on Forza Motorsport 3 have around 45000 polygons) of the engine is way higher on cars than the scenery. Horizon 1 was a bit clever being made with the limitations of the engine in mind, with a lot of roads stitched together and not a lot of open scenery. H2 on the other hand, is made with Forzatech in mind, so to make Italy/France work on FM4 they had to make a very simplified model of the scenery. They could had remade car models so it would take less polygons but I think they just wanted to copy and paste the cars that already existed and just focus on adapting the new stuff.
@@lazymonster2784 cuz rivals was meant to be played on xbox 360 and ps3. That means they build it from the ground up specifically for those consoles and then just bumped up more graphical details onto next gen consoles.
Man I played this game on an original X360 back in the day in a Cyber cafe lol. Safe to say I was shocked at how bad it looked in comparison to FH1 lol
as a fh2 xbox 360 player, i don't remember it being that bad and the ai wasn't that bad for me it was completely normal for me. Maybe that emulator has to do something with it
@@Shockload due to the limits of the hardware of the Xbox 360 E (in my case) of course the game couldn't look as good as the Xbox One version, since that's what they were focusing on more, not the 360 version, so therefor the game wasn't optimized properly. There were a few bugs when at the festival you'd fall out of the map, and sometimes the game crashing at the end of a race, but i didn't have the issues that are in this video, other bugs are simply because of the emulator.
@@mystic4l "due to limits of Xbox360" and "not optimized properly" are 2 different things, people were shitting on FH2's x360 because of how bad it looks COMPARED to FH1 If you told me FH1 was actually released on Xbox One and FH2's 360 was actually some super optimized classic Xbox game from 2006, I would've totally believed you, because it literally doesn't look that much better than xbox's Project Gotham Series
When I decided to buy all of the Horizon games after loving and enjoying 4, I got the 360 version of H2 because from the small research I did, people said it was fine(it is not). I played it for maybe 30 minutes to test that it worked and didn't have any issues but because I needed a XBONE for H3, I also bought H2 again for it. Wow it's certainly something. Part of me wants to play it again for this experience but a larger part of me doesn't. Especially since I won't get to listen to Hospital Records.
The only problem i had with Horizon 2 on the 360 was that the top 2 drivers in a race were always way ahead of the rest of the field and that it was a bit of a struggle to catch up to them
it's the game i beat h2 on i had fun, some crashes, some unloaded textures, infinite loading it had the same damage model as h1, which h2 for one doesn't, because it's on another engine
I manage to download this on my 360. Great game, despite its flaws. Onenof the Bucket list events, which involves a Lancer, was notorious difficult to beat, since the car is too slow to drift, and I had to get 20K to beat the challenge. Other than the game running the first game's engine, it was decent.
Never owned a 360, but i did play it in a friend's house back in 2016, that was my only experience, and i will say that it was a very good experience, i loved the handling physics, the vibes of the festivals, the late night drives, and the roster of cars, i never actually noticed it looked so empty lol but this video still doesn't change my mind though, i do believe it's an amazing game.
This is the true definition of "we had Horizon 2 at home" 😂. To this day, this X360 Horizon 2 is the only version of Horizon 2 that I ever played, because I didn't have an Xbox One console. The first time I played it I thought the 360 version has the same beauty of the graphics and visuals as the Xbox One version, but oh boy it's really underwhelming. The gameplay is a mess and the driving physics is really wonky considering the 360 version used the FH1 engine and it's noticeable from the offroad physics and the grip handling, and true tho as you said the map is empty and low quality because of the hardware limitation but probably the devs are too lazy to make the world feel more alive like FH1 does. The funny thing is because FH2 on 360 runs on the same engine as FH1, both of the game files are actually identical and you can add or enable FH1 Traffic cars and other hidden cars by modding the content of the game files, I'm not sure about the Fast And Furious DLC cars, because the Fast And Furious FH2 DLC on 360 version is a separate game. Love your great content man!
I was like: " Why does this look worse than Horizon1" ? As a PC- gamer I think Horizon1 runs great on Xenia emulator and I wont waste tme with janky H2, feels great to play that nostalgia trip for the first time since ive never owned any console and I can see why back in the day it was a pretty big talk :) Horizon1 is much more basic game than H4 or H5 BUT it has very good core elements, great atmosphere and stays with its basics. And the technical limitations back then meant that you couldnt fly your 1mill hypercar cross- country through bushes, trees and walls :)
@@maszkalman3676 I heard an Xbox ONE emulator is in the works and already boots into the game. Getting the game and its DLC´s wont be hard after that. Also if its delisted, its technically not stealing if a random download gets me the files :)
@@Rockport1911 I commented the same you can add outside files form an external hdd into the xbox file system. The problem is you need a physical copy for that because in case of emulators and cracked files not all builds compatible with it...
For me there was about a 50/50 chance that whenever I tried to switch car the game would crash no matter where I was. I always had to go back to the festival to make sure the game doesn’t crash
@@Akotski-ys9rr yeah I was at a buddies house, and I played it on his old 360, and every time I tried changing car at the airport the entire console would crash, everywhere else was like a 1/4 chance it would crash.
@@nateye2450 maybe the chance of it crashing depended on how new your 360 was. I think on the newer 360s they made they increased the performance slightly. I think I had one of the newest 360s before they stopped making them
Idk why your Forza horizon 2 on Xbox 360 is so weird but I don't have any problems with it at all and there are hidden functions like lunch control and even roof opening
It actually wasn't a backwards-compatible version. Microsoft focused the game on the Xbox One. Since they had spare money or some other reason, they got a company called Sumo Digital on the 360 version. They didn't do a good job of it. And since the X360 isn't too powerful, the graphics and the game aren't as good and plus, the game is 8GB while a huge 40GB on the Xbox One. Sadly for now, Forza fans won't be able to play Forza Horizon 2 on PC till the Xbox One has a game dumped, all we get it the unfinished 360 version.
I remember when FH2 was announced and i really wanted it but at the time i only had the 360 so i was forced to get it thinking it was going to be the same as the xbox one version and man was i disappointed and disgusted lol. Like its crazy that FH1 is a million times better somehow than fh2 on 360 like how. also for some reason FH2 on xbox 360 is currently $30-40 CAD used now wtf.
I like to consider this to be the worst Forza title we’ve ever gotten, since it’s just FH1 but worse in every way possible. The only thing it has on the other games is a cosmetic damage system that’s still somewhat borked.
I'm going to pre-guess... preeeetty broken. Well, doesn't look as broken as my experience with MW2012. I actually snap the disc in frustration over how broken it was... then I made the stupid decision to buy it again and had the same experience.
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If you look at games like NFS Most Wanted from 2012, it is safe to say that they intentionally downgraded the graphics and sounds on the X360 version. The console could definetly cope with more.
I dont think it was intentional, but it was capable of more. The issue is that Horizon 2 360 use the same engine as Forza Motorsport 4, which is a game that is intended for track racing. Track racing have the advantage of being very good by design to abuse culling, which many times can't be done on a open world game. The actual car models are good and match FM4 ones, which make me think that the modelling budget (I am not saying about money, model budget means the amount of textures and polygons it is allowed for any element of a game, for example, cars on Forza Motorsport 3 have around 45000 polygons) of the engine is way higher on cars than the scenery.
Horizon 1 was a bit clever being made with the limitations of the engine in mind, with a lot of roads stitched together and not a lot of open scenery. H2 on the other hand, is made with Forzatech in mind, so to make Italy/France work on FM4 they had to make a very simplified model of the scenery. They could had remade car models so it would take less polygons but I think they just wanted to copy and paste the cars that already existed and just focus on adapting the new stuff.
Even NFS Rivals looks good on a xbox 360
@@lazymonster2784 cuz rivals was meant to be played on xbox 360 and ps3. That means they build it from the ground up specifically for those consoles and then just bumped up more graphical details onto next gen consoles.
Ikr
This was the version I played as a kid and after I found out about the Xbox one version I realized how broken it was
Man I played this game on an original X360 back in the day in a Cyber cafe lol. Safe to say I was shocked at how bad it looked in comparison to FH1 lol
as a fh2 xbox 360 player, i don't remember it being that bad and the ai wasn't that bad for me it was completely normal for me. Maybe that emulator has to do something with it
This guy plays in emulator and calls the games buggy🤦🏻♂️
@@Punkingamesss exactly
Lol no go to any video from 2014 and you'll find people shitting on fh2 360 and how it looks like a mobile game even back then
@@Shockload due to the limits of the hardware of the Xbox 360 E (in my case) of course the game couldn't look as good as the Xbox One version, since that's what they were focusing on more, not the 360 version, so therefor the game wasn't optimized properly. There were a few bugs when at the festival you'd fall out of the map, and sometimes the game crashing at the end of a race, but i didn't have the issues that are in this video, other bugs are simply because of the emulator.
@@mystic4l "due to limits of Xbox360" and "not optimized properly" are 2 different things, people were shitting on FH2's x360 because of how bad it looks COMPARED to FH1
If you told me FH1 was actually released on Xbox One and FH2's 360 was actually some super optimized classic Xbox game from 2006, I would've totally believed you, because it literally doesn't look that much better than xbox's Project Gotham Series
2:00 It looks like those free roam driving games in mobile lol
When I decided to buy all of the Horizon games after loving and enjoying 4, I got the 360 version of H2 because from the small research I did, people said it was fine(it is not). I played it for maybe 30 minutes to test that it worked and didn't have any issues but because I needed a XBONE for H3, I also bought H2 again for it. Wow it's certainly something. Part of me wants to play it again for this experience but a larger part of me doesn't. Especially since I won't get to listen to Hospital Records.
I wish to play fh2 on xone but i never got it
The only problem i had with Horizon 2 on the 360 was that the top 2 drivers in a race were always way ahead of the rest of the field and that it was a bit of a struggle to catch up to them
First Occurrence of Forza AI
to me it was the p1 mclaren😂😂😂
in mine it was only 1 car
it's the game i beat h2 on
i had fun, some crashes, some unloaded textures, infinite loading
it had the same damage model as h1, which h2 for one doesn't, because it's on another engine
I still play forza horizon 2 on the XBOX 360, it feels so plain and lonely now…
Doctor: Don't worry, Doofenshmirtz Supra isn't real, it can't hurt you.
Doofenshmirtz Supra: (5:04)
if you uninstall the title update and fast travel you get 1 billion credits lol
"I want Forza Horizon 2"
Mom: "We have Forza Horizon 2 at home"
Forza Horizon 2 at home:
4:12 drift on the grass , works everytime 👌
I have a physical copy of this game, and i remember those “invisibumps”. And the fact it make my 360 scream in agony everytime i played it
The countdown is the only thing I loved about the 360 port
2:13 a lot of racing games on the PS2 had rain, its baffling that this game only has a single weather
Not that baffling if it was intentional...
I manage to download this on my 360.
Great game, despite its flaws.
Onenof the Bucket list events, which involves a Lancer, was notorious difficult to beat, since the car is too slow to drift, and I had to get 20K to beat the challenge.
Other than the game running the first game's engine, it was decent.
I think there was 1 or 2 bucket list challenges that were almost impossible if not completely impossible. Seems like there was no game testing
I didn't know, that the two versions were actually that different. Damn!
Loving the TH-cam videos since I can't catch you on the streams! keep them up they are great.
Never owned a 360, but i did play it in a friend's house back in 2016, that was my only experience, and i will say that it was a very good experience, i loved the handling physics, the vibes of the festivals, the late night drives, and the roster of cars, i never actually noticed it looked so empty lol but this video still doesn't change my mind though, i do believe it's an amazing game.
5:16 Thats when Toyota decided to stop giving out licenses :)
2:57 the AI is me when I played a racing game at the age of 7 😂😂
I have like 120 hours on FH2 Xbox 360 version 💀💀💀
This is the true definition of "we had Horizon 2 at home" 😂.
To this day, this X360 Horizon 2 is the only version of Horizon 2 that I ever played, because I didn't have an Xbox One console. The first time I played it I thought the 360 version has the same beauty of the graphics and visuals as the Xbox One version, but oh boy it's really underwhelming. The gameplay is a mess and the driving physics is really wonky considering the 360 version used the FH1 engine and it's noticeable from the offroad physics and the grip handling, and true tho as you said the map is empty and low quality because of the hardware limitation but probably the devs are too lazy to make the world feel more alive like FH1 does.
The funny thing is because FH2 on 360 runs on the same engine as FH1, both of the game files are actually identical and you can add or enable FH1 Traffic cars and other hidden cars by modding the content of the game files, I'm not sure about the Fast And Furious DLC cars, because the Fast And Furious FH2 DLC on 360 version is a separate game.
Love your great content man!
Always wanted this one as a curiosity. Just got my copy in an auction on eBay.
I was like: " Why does this look worse than Horizon1" ? As a PC- gamer I think Horizon1 runs great on Xenia emulator and I wont waste tme with janky H2, feels great to play that nostalgia trip for the first time since ive never owned any console and I can see why back in the day it was a pretty big talk :) Horizon1 is much more basic game than H4 or H5 BUT it has very good core elements, great atmosphere and stays with its basics. And the technical limitations back then meant that you couldnt fly your 1mill hypercar cross- country through bushes, trees and walls :)
You can't play the xbox one version either since it's delisted...
@@maszkalman3676 I heard an Xbox ONE emulator is in the works and already boots into the game. Getting the game and its DLC´s wont be hard after that. Also if its delisted, its technically not stealing if a random download gets me the files :)
@@Rockport1911 I commented the same you can add outside files form an external hdd into the xbox file system. The problem is you need a physical copy for that because in case of emulators and cracked files not all builds compatible with it...
Fun fact: if you try to change you car at the airport, it freezes not just the game, but the entire console
For me there was about a 50/50 chance that whenever I tried to switch car the game would crash no matter where I was. I always had to go back to the festival to make sure the game doesn’t crash
@@Akotski-ys9rr yeah I was at a buddies house, and I played it on his old 360, and every time I tried changing car at the airport the entire console would crash, everywhere else was like a 1/4 chance it would crash.
@@nateye2450 maybe the chance of it crashing depended on how new your 360 was. I think on the newer 360s they made they increased the performance slightly. I think I had one of the newest 360s before they stopped making them
You can compare this to vanilla Undercover just to compare how broken they are
Idk why your Forza horizon 2 on Xbox 360 is so weird but I don't have any problems with it at all and there are hidden functions like lunch control and even roof opening
Microsoft should give the xbox one version with smart delivery if you have the 360 disc and put it in a xbox series x
I loved the king exploit on one of the maps
Feels like playing FH5 on the xbox one fat
The town part for 360 looks like an axesinmotion game.
like extreme driving simulator
I still play this game to date lol
All these issues didn't stop little me from spending everyday on this game
I remember playing the fh2 demon on the xbox 360
Quality content early in the morning, thank you Dove
My first forza horizon game
Love your videos Dove_7 🙂
It actually wasn't a backwards-compatible version. Microsoft focused the game on the Xbox One. Since they had spare money or some other reason, they got a company called Sumo Digital on the 360 version. They didn't do a good job of it. And since the X360 isn't too powerful, the graphics and the game aren't as good and plus, the game is 8GB while a huge 40GB on the Xbox One. Sadly for now, Forza fans won't be able to play Forza Horizon 2 on PC till the Xbox One has a game dumped, all we get it the unfinished 360 version.
I remember when FH2 was announced and i really wanted it but at the time i only had the 360 so i was forced to get it thinking it was going to be the same as the xbox one version and man was i disappointed and disgusted lol. Like its crazy that FH1 is a million times better somehow than fh2 on 360 like how. also for some reason FH2 on xbox 360 is currently $30-40 CAD used now wtf.
A 90 mph hit to the wall is not a light hit
No dude, its not because of the 360 hardware, in any aspects. Especialy the graphics too.
For those who say fh5 feels ded in grand jato. This video. Thats all i have to say
I can confirm as 360player its puggy
Hey man do you know what canary version you used? Because the latest one I’m using freezes my game after selecting a car just before free roam.
I used an october build
@@DoVe_7 Alright thanks! It turned out I just needed to mount_cache to true but thanks for replying!
you should play it on Real X360
I don't know about that I recently got one of the disc and it seems it doesn't even work
I have this same version, even Test Drive Unlimited 2 looks better than this, it even had rain!
having played both versions, neither game has amazing handling when compared to fh3 or 4.
FH2 shxts on FH4 lol
@@dtxspeaks268 i guess.
I only played FH2 on 360 and I can safely say that the handling in there is one of the games made of all time
@@thatboyakira4202 one of the one? what?
@@kasumisman fixed. Sorry for misspelling.
Press f for people who bought this shit at full price like me
Forza Horizon 2 on Xbox One still miles above the Xbox 360 version. Its broken. ITS BROKEN! 😂
Great video. Keep it up!
Thank you a lot man!
I played it on a 360 s long ago, i think the newer 360 has better graphics
Did you smoke the funny stuff before making this video? You giggle and laugh at everything. Everything is just hilarious......
Sorry, next time I'll try and be completely dead inside before playin this game 👍
I actually play fh2 on my xbox 360 pretty much and its actually decent
I don’t remember the 360 version being this bad lmao
I like to consider this to be the worst Forza title we’ve ever gotten, since it’s just FH1 but worse in every way possible. The only thing it has on the other games is a cosmetic damage system that’s still somewhat borked.
its a 360 game so dont expect much when it comes to graphics ... look at forza motorsport 4! ;) .....
These times you need to learn how to drive in games i can drift easly in forza 2 x360 but cant in forza 4-5
I am an active player of this, and I can say the graphics are pretty bad
I'm going to pre-guess... preeeetty broken.
Well, doesn't look as broken as my experience with MW2012. I actually snap the disc in frustration over how broken it was... then I made the stupid decision to buy it again and had the same experience.
Has anyone been able to get online with this game?
why does it look like a unity game you can buy on steam for 2.39?
Why u have a Chad face pillow in the background? 8:02
Because why not lmao
Well of course you're not going to be able to drift with traction control on! Smh
brother i tried it with TC off aswell , it wont budge lmao
I used the handbrake and chained drift tactics.
7:22 thats rude I live in Bosnia
and It not true
so do I lmao
@@DoVe_7 sry I just noticed youre Bosnian too.Keep up your work love your content.
No problemo , hvala na komentar!
@@DoVe_7 ništa 😁
Well my brother had to pay R800 for this game!
Quick, port it to xbox!... You do know what an xbox is, don't you...?
what is this
Worst forza ever (Only the 360 version), worse than Horizon 5
Ur laugh sounds like goofy 💀💀
Yes and I love it
I was excited to watch your video, you inspire me!! This channel needs 'promosm'!!!