Let’s be direct. The websites ranking for these keywords are not your friends. They are often hosted in countries with lax cyber laws. Here is what happened to a user who ignored this advice:
"I downloaded a '500MB FH2 setup' from a site with a green download button. My antivirus caught three threats during install. After ignoring it, my PC slowed to a crawl. Someone had used my machine to mine Monero cryptocurrency for a week before I wiped my drive."
Risks include:
If you are interested in "highly compressed" games for storage saving (not piracy), here is the safe method:
Use Official Repackers (who compress legal demos or free games) or Steam Backups: forza horizon 2 pc download highly compressed
For the Forza games specifically: Use the Microsoft Store’s “Select Drive” feature to install to a larger HDD. Do not risk compressed repacks from unknown torrent sites for this title.
There is one narrow, technical path to playing Horizon 2 on PC: Xenia, the Xbox 360 emulator. Let’s be direct
The Xbox 360 version of Forza Horizon 2 (developed by Sumo Digital, not Playground Games) is a stripped-down but still enjoyable title. In theory, you could rip your own Xbox 360 disc, download the Xenia emulator, and play.
However:
The Xbox One version has no functional PC emulator (Xbox One emulation is still in infancy). So any search for "FH2 Xbox One PC compressed" is literally chasing a ghost.