"Braking" the Event Horizon

As a gamer, I know that I must subscribe to a lot of different genres.  Action, puzzle, adventure, platformer, fighting, but one genre that I almost exclusively ignore is sports games.  It is no surprise, sports games are known for being extremely generic and they usually suck.  Also, I normally like to play games that allow me to do something that I am otherwise incapable of doing in the real world.  I mean I am certainly capable of playing football or basket ball, not so much slaying dragons with swords or shooting people in the face without risk of being shot myself.  There are a few sports games however that do intrigue me a bit more.  Racing games in particular definitely have things I cannot perform in reality (like drifting without fear).  Racing games also tend to suck apart from the party style of Mario Kart or the crazy arcade antics of Burnout.  Luckily, Forza Horizon has something much more to offer than simple realistic racing.