E3: Forza 3 officially unveiled

By Dan Pearson Published 1 June, 2009

To feature 400 cars and 50 marques.

Dan Greenwalt, boss of Forza Motorsport studio Turn 10, has announced the third instalment in the racing series, calling it the "definitive racing game of the generation", "memories of first cars" and the "glamour of the Hollywood chase".

The game will feature 400 cars from 50 different manufacturers, all running at 60 frames-per-second.

"One button drive" was also mentioned, which is presumably a mode for children and idiots. Another feature, familiar to players of GRID, is the gameplay rewind function, which will presumably allow mistakes to be rectified with a snazzy bit of time-manipulation.

There was a hefty community element to the presentation, with much being made of the ability to design and share liveries, as well as a pretty useful-looking HD video editor, enabling uploads to the community. Choreographed cars were seen dancing about on an open, countryside track, as well as a more traditional racing environment, with damage modelling in clear effect.

Forza Motorsport 3 is touted for an October release this year .

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Comments (19) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • evild_edd #1 3 years ago

    Shame I find Forza an utterly soulless series as some of the features sound interesting. Sure it'll be slick, but in a Gran Turismo boring kinda way. Will pass in preference of the PGR spritual successor, Blur! :0)

  • coolbritannia #2 3 years ago

    Sounds good to me.

  • Rash' #3 3 years ago

    in the space it has taken MS to release two forzas Sony still won't have managed one GT. Polyphony have a lot to live up to.

  • Mordum #4 3 years ago

    Bring it on, the Forza series hasn't disappointed me so far... October can't come soon enough, along with Modern Warfare 2 in November it's gonna be a good end to the year for me, gaming-wise.

  • MonkeyMagik #5 3 years ago

    cant wait for this - will be awesome

  • Tetsuo_Shima #6 3 years ago

    I said a while back there was no way Forza 3 would come in 2009 ... thankfully, I was wrong. Looked quite nice, and hopefully it'll come with at least a half-decent number of tracks this time (25-30 would be good). Doubt it'll top GT4, but should tide me over nicely til GT5 comes out next decade.

  • yagadoor #7 3 years ago

    Looking forward to playing it!

  • dsmx #8 3 years ago

    So it still has less cars than GT2 and GT4?

  • Darren #9 3 years ago

    Forza 2 was a bit disappointing IMO since it was too similar to the Xbox original and had underwhelming visuals. Forza 3 looks more like the game Forza 2 should have been. Love the visual upgrade and dashboard view. So long as it has lots of tracks and new ones then it's one I'll be keeping my eye on. Could be a GT5 beater... well it'll certainly beat that game to the shop shelves, that much is certain.

  • Numbat #10 3 years ago

    Have completed Forza 2 ages ago and have probably still only driven a quarter of the cars included. I reckon 400 is ample. Also GT2 had about 10 varients of every Japanese car ever made, all looking exactly the same.

  • themorganator #11 3 years ago

    @dsmx

    you chimps do make me laugh. Keep posting fanboy garbage little boy, you do nothing but reinforce popular opinion that your just that little bit retarded.

  • brainbird #12 3 years ago

    The video showed cars rolling over.
    /drool

  • TheEnd #13 3 years ago

    Just as long as they don't screw up the beautiful driving physics. As long as they have that over GT, it's enough.

  • milky_09 #14 3 years ago

    id not say it was true sim at all. is that the best they can do with damage? its not particularly accurate for a sim...

    same for gt i guess. but id rather it wasnt in at all... than being a half arsed attempt. or the best attempt but not very convincing at all...

  • JensonJet #15 3 years ago

    milky_09, you want a racing game without damage? Try MarioKart. The rest of us are happy Forza's attempting to recreate realism.

  • Rodney #16 3 years ago

    I dont know much about this, are there any screenshots up?

    cars rolling sounds great. I'd be happy with better graphics and more tracks, the car selection and handling was perfect in the original it was just let down by too few and boring tracks and dull graphics.

    excited about this, its one of the rare games I'll buy on day one and not wait a few months for the price to come down. if only my friends werent all sony/GT fanboys with PS3's I'd have someone to race against as well.

  • dsmx #17 3 years ago

    I only said forza has less cars than GT2 and 4 why does that make me retarded?

    The fact is that GT4 had 51 tracks and over 700 cars to drive, regardless of if they were slightly different japanese models it's still a hugely impressive number.

  • zzzrByte #18 3 years ago

    ForzaMotorsport3.com has a whole bunch of screenshots and videos from it. Looks pretty sweet.

  • myke6699 #19 3 years ago

    Only 8 cars online and offline that's less than Mario Kart. I guess Turn 10 forgot that the indusrty norm for console is now at 16 (and even more for PC).
    Edited by myke6699 at 03/06/09 @ 21:50