{"id":65449,"date":"2014-06-02T15:39:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65449"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:42:45","slug":"forza-horizon-2-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/65449-forza-horizon-2-announced","title":{"rendered":"Forza Horizon 2 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that Forza Horizon 2 will be released for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One before the end of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The game is the sequel of <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/47187-forza-horizon-review-xbox-360.html\">Forza Horizon<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/60490-forza-motorsport-5-roundup.html\">Forza 5<\/a>, and is being made by the folks at\u00a0Playground Games &#8211; the same team that delivered the previous Horizon &#8211; and Turn 10 Studios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Turn 10 and Playground] share this belief that we can create a true home for racing fans on Xbox One,\u201d said Forza Horizon 2 creative director Ralph Fulton.<\/p>\n<p>Forza Horizon 2 will include hundreds of cars, according to Playground Games, headlined by the 2015 Lamborghini Hurac\u00e1n. A weather system will also make its Forza debut, while Forza 5\u2019s Drivatar system is also being adapted for Horizon 2.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be set in southern Europe and promises\u00a0\u201cincredible diversity\u201d and \u201camazing vistas&#8221;, with events revolving around a huge music festival.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65451\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Forza-horizon-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65451\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Forza-horizon-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Forza Horizon 2\" width=\"610\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Forza-horizon-2-1.jpg 610w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Forza-horizon-2-1-439x600.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forza Horizon 2<\/p><\/div>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2014\/06\/02\/ign-first-forza-horizon-2-announced\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65361-gaming-publications-axed-cvg-edge-online-and-more.html\">Gaming publications axed: CVG, Edge Online, and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65117-the-evil-within-gets-new-release-date.html\">The Evil Within gets new release date<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64691-eve-online-the-space-opera-perspective.html\">Eve Online \u2013 the space opera perspective<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fancy a spin in the 2015 Lamborghini Hurac\u00e1n? Then strap yourself in, Forza Horizon 2 is coming soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":65455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2606,12527,21],"class_list":["post-65449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-forza","tag-forza-horizon-2","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}