Classic Muscle will put you in Charger R/Ts and the Regal GNX, whereas Modern Muscle will put you in vehicles like the Corvette ZR1 or Dodge Charger SRT8. There are ten race types in Horizon 2, but that isn’t to say that is all you’ll be doing. Starting off with decent, if basic cars, Ben will enroll you in your first race series. Ben’s Horizon Festival is a neon-colored cross between Electric Daisy Carnival and an international auto show, complete with fireworks, cars to buy, and events galore.
When I said that Horizon 2 is a driving title at its heart, it’s the way the open world is absolutely full of things other than racing that brings it to life. It’s what it does outside of this that makes Horizon 2 special. With 15 championship events, culminating in the Horizon finale, each racer will earn points in their race brackets, levelling up with earned XP, and picking up colored wrist bands for event wins. You aren’t the only racer in town for this event, and Ben has devised a system to see who’s best. Driving the new quarter-million dollar Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 through the winding Italian roads, it was very clear that Horizon 2 has a mood it’s trying to set, and I was excited to be a part of it. As your supercars leave the ferry, host Ben (played by Sean Maguire) thanks you for helping him get his rides to the Horizon celebration for what he calls “the summer of our lives”.