Unforgivably, when you finish Fast & Furious, you’re invited to click through to Microsoft’s store and buy a digital download of Forza Horizon 2, the cheapest version of which is on offer for £44.99. As you will find out when you finish playing through it, it’s a sort of Trojan Horse designed to suck you in with its Fast & Furious branding, show you the charms of Forza Horizon 2 and then sell you that game, like some sort of very elaborate advert. Well, it’s another movie-game crossover whose raison d’etre is distinctly questionable. What, then, could possibly go against it? And it will never cost more than a few quid. Since, essentially, it’s an item of downloadable content for Forza Horizon 2 but, unusually, is designed to operate even if you don’t own the original game. At launch, at least (until April 10), it is a free download, and there’s nothing gamers love more than free things. So it’s refreshing, at least, to see Microsoft and Universal trying something different with the clunkily titled Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious.Īt least it avoids the most obvious movie tie-up trap, since it is based on the thoroughly excellent Forza Horizon 2, rather than being cobbled together from scratch with the backdrop of an impossibly tight deadline. Over the decades, games-of-films have become synonymous with hopelessly rushed development periods and a general lack of any reason to exist other than as box-ticking exercises for film company marketing departments with too much cash to burn. Many of the most heinous crimes in the history of games development have been perpetrated in the name of tie-ups with films. Available on Xbox One (reviewed) and Xbox 360
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