Forza 2 PAL release in May

By Tom Bramwell Published 16 February, 2007

More cars unveiled, too.

Forza Motorsport 2 is due out here in May as well as the US, Microsoft said today, and we now know a bit more about the cars you'll be driving, too.

In the first of a series of "car reveals", we're told of a bunch of Ferrari, Maserati, Porsche and Lamborghinis that are available to buy up and customise. There are 15 Ferrari models, 13 Porsche, five Lambos and a pair of "Mazzas". We're making these nicknames up, obviously.

The full list of confirmed cars and a couple of handsome images have popped up on the well-maintained official website. Good to see the 1987 Porsche 959 in there. That's the one we were waiting for.

In all seriousness though, Forza Motorsport 2 is looking sharper and sharper with every update, and should build considerably on the success of the first game when it spins into sight a few months from now.

It will also be one of the few games to take full advantage of the Xbox 360 steering wheel, released at Christmas. And if you didn't think Force Feedback was that big a deal, game director Dan Greenawalt has more than a few words to convince you otherwise.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • ishigo #1 5 years ago

    DO WANT.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #2 5 years ago

    Any infos on a bundle with the wheel?

  • ChrisBen #3 5 years ago

    Can't wait. The first one was awesome, so I'm expecting big things from number two!

  • #4 5 years ago

    Already have the wheel, now I just need the damn game!

  • bioreit #5 5 years ago

    Never played the first. I was deeply scarred playing Grant Turismo 1, 2 and 3.

    Metropolis Street Racer and PGR 1, 2, and 3 have healed that for me somewhat over the years, so will at least download the Forza 2 demo when it pops along.

  • chronom4n #6 5 years ago

    all his talkof aligning torque has got me thinking. i need to aline my talk.

  • AtomicBanana #7 5 years ago

    The 959 *is* an awesome Porsche! :p

  • Yossarian #8 5 years ago

    allllrrright, Crackdown, Halo 3 beta, Forza 2, Bioshock

    now all I need is a 'Mass Effect in first half of year' confirmation and it will be a good, uh, first half of year

  • BadBoyBonner #9 5 years ago

    Dan Greenawalt - is probably the most talented Xbox 360 steering wheel salesman in the world.

    Thinks it's about time I dug out PGR 3 an traded it in for the wheel.

    Bought Viva Pinata for the GF gotta buy Excite Truck today, my fav car is in for the MOT, gotta buy Crackdown, this bloody wireless 360 wheel as well, need a new bulb for the projector.

    Seems a drugs habit rather than a gaming habit would be cheaper in the long run (as obviously I'd die from it an thus save loads of money! )

  • SBfistfun #10 5 years ago

    zzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Agent_Llama #11 5 years ago

    I'm trying to get excited by Forza 2 but after a while I found the first one painfully dull - like Gran Turismo, it's more of an 'upgrade-your-car-'em-up' than a racer.

    *shuffles away*

  • chronom4n #12 5 years ago

    still not that impressed by the screenshots. they still have a sort of unrealistic look to them. Still reminds me of Forza1

  • Darren #13 5 years ago

    I'm hearing muttering about this game running at 1080p @ 60 fps as well it having 4X anti-aliasing (although I suspect that's for 480i/480p/720p only). If that's true and FM2 doesn't suffer from the dreaded "v-sync issue", something that affects just about every other Xbox 360 game to varying degrees, then it'll be the most impressive racing game out there technically. I mean PGR 3 looked great but it only ran at 1024x600 @ 30 fps with 2X AA.

  • Macross #14 5 years ago

    I dont have massive patience for games like these. But Im really really looking forwards to this, I have specifically avoided PGR3 so Im not fed up with the whole thing and im nice and fresh when this inevitably epic game flies onto the shelves :)

  • AtomicBanana #15 5 years ago

    I'm trying to get excited by Forza 2 but after a while I found the first one painfully dull - like Gran Turismo, it's more of an 'upgrade-your-car-'em-up' than a racer.'

    There's plenty of races with tight restrictions that are often more fun, so upgrading isn't a part of it really. Anyway, having decent racing simulation and a decent upgrading system is wrong how? :p

    'I have specifically avoided PGR3 so Im not fed up with the whole thing and im nice and fresh when this inevitably epic game flies onto the shelves :)'

    It's not really anything like PGR? (save for the base engine iirc)

  • BadBoyBonner #16 5 years ago

    Darren - hope thats true

    PGR3 while looking very nice dosen't scale too well - at 50" the Jaggies are horrendous on all slight angled lines relative to the horizon. Here's hoping no vysnc issues in FOrza at 1368x768 through VGA for me.

  • kissthestick #17 5 years ago

    hope all the cars can fit on the disc

  • cyacomini #18 5 years ago

    @ Yossarian

    check here for Mass Effect release date news - 1st half of the year? Granted.


    http://ww w.xbox360wire.co.uk/2007/02/02/...

  • cyber_nicco #19 5 years ago

    Forza 1 is still my most played Xbox game. I play it almost every day, at least a little. No where else have I ever found a more realistic and satisfying console racing experience. If only it had a proper cockpit and/or hood camera view...

  • MaxiSleep #20 5 years ago

    "the dreaded "v-sync issue", something that affects just about every other Xbox 360 game to varying degrees"

    I have to say that v-sync is the pits on the 360. The idea of not locking this when the thing is played on large screens just beggars belief. I tend to play games with v-sync issues a hell of a lot less then ones which get it right. And surely they can put in a vsync override on the system prefs, like pretty much all pc drivers. (any in case they are afraid of joe public being scared by the option stick it under "super duper advanced options or something.

    It is the issue most likely to force me onto the Ps3 bandwagon - tho not till they launch the 20 gig or cut the price.

    Anyone listening at Microsoft?

  • Hughes. #21 5 years ago

    Dan Greenwalt has more than a few words to lead up to a piece of PS3 bashing based on a lie, which was disproven quite some time ago, that the PS3 would not support force feedback.

    He's also still trying to pass off having lots of physics calculations as being more important than being stuck at a crappy 30fps, when the game it's supposed to beat runs on a console with half the power, at twice the speed. He also has the temerity to accuse OTHER games of handling like molases, when that is the exact term I and a lot of others would use to describe the leaden handling of Forza.

    If Polyphony are going to be forced into improving their flawed series, this game needs to be substatially better than its predecessor.

  • king_skins #22 5 years ago

    @ Hughes.

    It's Forza2 is 60fps ;) And the physic update rate is important

  • DUFFKING #23 5 years ago

    Have there been any gameplay videos around yet? I've seen one or two screens but not much otherwise.

    I got to level40 in the first game and got so bored I gave up, was good till then. No single race mode either :(

  • DrunKao #24 5 years ago

    FTA - "With the addition of tactile feedback such as rumble and Force Feedback"

    mmmmmmmmmm rummmmmmmmmble! I'm so glad I don't own a certain other console right now.

    For all the Hughes and JediMasterMaliks out there. I can almost understand the general public's desire for the PS3, but when you're an informed gamer that browses gaming websites and are aware how bad Sony is to their consumers, especially European consumers, it looks really bad on you. As long as there are enough Europeans willing to support Sony no matter what, Sony will continue to treat European consumers as they do and things will never change. It's a never ending cycle. It has to end some time right? Why not now? I know the PS3 will have some really great games eventually, and it would be nice to own a PS3, but it's simply a matter of principle for me. My conviction is stronger than my desire to play a few great games. If you have no self-respect then go ahead and bend over for Sony. And don't forget to say Thank You!

    /end rant
    Edited by 2 at 17/02/07 @ 00:56

  • DrunKao #25 5 years ago

    Me too. It's like I always say, "Either you're for Europe, or you're against Europe." LOL :)
    Edited by 1 at 17/02/07 @ 02:36

  • chronom4n #26 5 years ago

    @DrunKao, very well made point. As much as I would love to get as PS3 as well, my conviction for the fact that sony did not include rumble in the pad beggars belief. At least Microsoft and/or Nintendo seem to have the gamers best intentions at heart and know that what gamers want. How on earth is a racing game meant to be enjoyed if there is no force feedback of sorts?

    Sony cut their own nose off to spite their face or so the saying goes.

  • lotteryman82 #27 5 years ago

    ...so i m not gonna play action games on PS3 coz i wont feel the bullets with rumble ....so i won't play racing games on PS3 coz i wont feel the tyres against bumps...so i m gonna miss many games but i don't mind i ll go bitch around the net feel better and be a better gamer.

    the other side of the coin is ...oh my god is it gonna really be 60fps
    if its still 30fps is so lame microsoft should die Polyphony rules sony is the king blah blah blah

    and if the coins falls in the middle you can always happily Wank ur Wiimote

  • SomaticSense #28 5 years ago

    I seriously hope there are more variety to the cars than that. The only real problem I had with the first was that there was nowhere near enough choice when it came to the lesser cars, and I was hoping that this one would resolve that. Not looking too good to be honest going by the apparantly near infinite number of Ferraris/Porsches/Lambos that are in EVERY other driving/racing game.

    Imagine playing a bunch of different platform/FPS/RPG games, but with all having the exact same characters. Yeah, it'd get fucking boring after a while.

    I really would love for some of the amazing warm/hot hatches currently being released to in there, as well as the new Audi R8, but going by this I'm not to hopeful of it to be honest.

  • effinwooly #29 5 years ago

    looking good !

  • Hughes. #30 5 years ago

    Dear Drunkao, what the fuck has what I said got to do with your bizarre rant?

    Greenwalt was making sly digs based on factually incorrect information and trying to make it sound like all those extra physics calculations that you could neither see nor feel made the original Forza feel silky smooth, when the fact is it stodgily clunked along at a frame rate GT1 was managing on the PS1 back in 1997.

    As for your opinion that Sony somehow have it in for Europe, I could go into details about "successful" worldwide launches with months of stock shortages, but none of that has anything at all to do with this article. If you have an axe to grind, grind it on someone else. I'm not buying a launch PS3, and when I do eventually get one I won't need the approval of a whining twat like you.

    If you want to transpose some wanky idea of ethical consumerism into the gaming market, that's your own look out. When I buy a new machine I'll do it based entirely on how many games it has that I like, not some fabricated fury over a console that people who actually wanted one had to wait a few extra months for it.
    Edited by 1 at 18/02/07 @ 19:53