"Forza Motorsport 3"

Because of who created the last thread it seems likely 90% of the forum wont see it... so here's a new one now it's been officially announced.

Site: http://www.forzamotorsport.net
Images: http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/media/images/default.htm
Video: http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/media/videos/default.htm...
Hands on: http://e3.gamespot.com/video/6211099/

Over 400 cars and over 100 tracks, 60fps, and the trailer showed you can roll your car. Also, there's a video editor.

Release Date: October 27th 2009

Press Release

Experience over 400 of the world's greatest cars, each rendered inside and out with exquisite detail.
Launching this October exclusively for Xbox 360, "Forza Motorsport 3" unites the racing game genre making it possible for everyone to experience the thrill of the world's most exotic and exquisite cars. Live the most realistic racing experience ever as you take the wheel of more than 400 of the most-beloved cars on over 100 renowned real-world tracks and exotic road courses from around the globe. With breathtaking HD graphics and the most advanced vehicle performance modeling in a video game, "Forza Motorsport 3" includes a host of driving assists and adjustable skill levels to make the game a gripping pick-up-and-play experience for audiences of all ages and skill levels.

Your escape into the world of car culture in "Forza Motorsport 3" doesn't stop at the track. Turn 10 is a proven leader in user-generated content creation in games. "Forza Motorsport 3" further fuels the imaginations of its evergreen community of painters, tuners and photographers with improved customization tools and brand new ways to share creations with the world via Xbox LIVE*. Xbox LIVE makes your journey into the "Forza Motorsport" community and the world of user-generated content easy and fun.

A love of cars lives in all of us. "Forza Motorsport 3" is the automotive playground we've all been waiting for.

World-Class Cars and Tracks
Featuring the latest and greatest production offerings as well as the world's fastest and most exotic street cars, "Forza Motorsport 3" offers more than 400 fully customizable and tunable cars from over 50 of the world's leading manufacturers. Whether your passion is classic American muscle cars, European roadsters, purpose-built race cars or high-tech Asian imports, "Forza Motorsport 3" puts you in the cockpit of the cars you love. In addition to the return of world-famous tracks from previous "Forza Motorsport" games, including Suzuka, Nürburgring Nordschleife and the Sebring International Raceway, "Forza Motorsport 3" invites you to conquer the corners on more than 100 tracks, including some of the most beautiful road courses in the world. New environments like the gorgeous mountainous Montserrat region in Spain, the rugged Amalfi Coast in Italy and the American Southwest are presented in such majestic detail that you might find yourself pulling over just to take it all in.

Redefining the Modern Racing Game
"Forza Motorsport's" appreciation of the automobile is due in large part to the team's attention to detail. This is why automotive engineers from manufacturers like Audi and champion race teams like Peugeot as well as experienced computer graphics specialists from across Microsoft have all teamed up with Turn 10 to make "Forza Motorsport 3" the most beautiful and realistic racing game ever made. All 400-plus cars in the game have been built with more than 10 times the amount of polygons as "Forza Motorsport 2." This includes painstakingly researched cockpits and interiors for every vehicle. But realism isn't just about pretty graphics. Turn 10 takes realism to new heights, leading the industry with the most advanced physics model, artificial intelligence and damage calculations.

Forza is for Everyone
It's easy to go for a spin: "Forza Motorsport 3" redefines the racing genre by blurring the definition of simulation and arcade. Simulation games can be too hard for some players. "Forza Motorsport 3" rises above the distinction between simulation and arcade games by using a myriad of cutting-edge driving and gameplay assists such as auto-braking, gameplay rewind and auto-tuning. "Forza Motorsport 3" delivers an experience where everyone can have fun behind the wheel, regardless of your skill and dexterity. Whether you're a newcomer or a seasoned racing game pro, "Forza Motorsport 3" caters to how you drive and the game evolves with you over time as your skills develop.

Express Your Car Passion
Painters and tuners will once again be able to showcase creativity through the celebrated Livery Editor, Auction House and deep tuning garage in "Forza Motorsport 3." The car is literally the artistic canvas as some of the world's most creative car painters and designers find new layers of depth and freedom to create shocking visual masterpieces before sharing them with others over Xbox LIVE*. Each car in "Forza Motorsport 3" is fully upgradable, allowing gear heads to take on the challenge of turning a Honda Civic into a supercar killer. New Xbox LIVE scoreboards celebrate not only the greatest racers but also the most prolific car tuners and painters in the community.

Play Your Way with All-New Game Modes
"Forza Motorsport 3" is an epic racing game featuring more content and more ways to play than any racing title today. An innovative single-player season mode puts you through a completely personalized racing calendar that includes more than 200 different events, including Circuit, Oval, Drag, Drift and Timed Events. No two calendars are the same; they react to the cars you love and the races you enjoy most. In addition, the online multiplayer mode* gains an all-new game rules editor. This gives players a never-ending variety of ways to play with friends. Whether you're a speedster, dragster, drifter, painter, tuner or just a lover of cars, "Forza Motorsport 3" is the definitive racing game for you.

Edited by Psychotext at 10:26:21 03-06-2009

DEFINITIVE

Psychotext wrote:
Because of who created the last thread it seems likely 90% of the forum wont see it... so here's a new one now it's been officially announced.

What makes you think most of them will be able to see this one either?

DDevil wrote:
What makes you think most of them will be able to see this one either?

Because I'm not on global ignore.

Errr... Neither is captaineurogamer.

I reckon everyone should make new threads for everything.

What if someone has absolutely everyone else on global ignore? How will they see threads then? Eh? Eh?

That 'communitiy-vid' thing is just pre-rendered right? Not the actual output from in-game driving put through the in-game vid editor?

Still, looks beautiful.

Psychotext wrote:

DDevil wrote:
What makes you think most of them will be able to see this one either?

Because I'm not on global ignore.

so why can i see the other thread then?? /o?

DDevil wrote:
Errr... Neither is captaineurogamer.

Really? Meh, well either way that was a "leak" thread with inaccurate info... this is an announcement thread.

Sounds like someone wants some attention.

foreverafternothing wrote:
Sounds like someone wants some attention.

didn't you create a L4D2 thread about three microseconds after the announcement

foreverafternothing wrote:
Sounds like someone wants some attention.

/pat pat pat

Gremmi wrote:

foreverafternothing wrote:
Sounds like someone wants some attention.

didn't you create a L4D2 thread about three microseconds after the announcement

Didn't at least 2 people say I'd just beaten them to it?

I did that because I was excited.

This is clearly the much better thread to talk about Forza.

If anyone's interested about the game here: You can get a Forza 3 themed Audi for Forza 2 over at forzamotorsport.net by simply posting a comment while being logged in.

Looked great but it'll be no GT IMO.

LetsGo wrote:
Looked great but it'll be no GT IMO.

Still trying...

meggsy wrote:
That 'communitiy-vid' thing is just pre-rendered right? Not the actual output from in-game driving put through the in-game vid editor?

Still, looks beautiful.

I don't see why not. It looks no better than GRID or GT5P. Although the actual driving in the vid makes me wonder if it was a heavily choreographed AI performance because it would take one hell of an effort for human players to put together a sequence like that.

steoc4 wrote:
Although the actual driving in the vid makes me wonder if it was a heavily choreographed AI performance because it would take one hell of an effort for human players to put together a sequence like that.

Yeah, I reckon that was scripted.

steoc4 wrote:

meggsy wrote:
That 'communitiy-vid' thing is just pre-rendered right? Not the actual output from in-game driving put through the in-game vid editor?

Still, looks beautiful.

I don't see why not. It looks no better than GRID or GT5P. Although the actual driving in the vid makes me wonder if it was a heavily choreographed AI performance because it would take one hell of an effort for human players to put together a sequence like that.

It did look very, very cool. I love the community element I just wish the game was on par with GT.

GT + Forza community/custom stuff = cool.

LetsGo wrote:
It did look very, very cool. I love the community element I just wish the game was on par with GT.

So you want them to take the opposition AI out then? Should be easy enough.

Any rally cars?

This game looks sexy, can't wait for it.

I've seen the trailer in HD, and I can't believe they are doing this at 60fps.
Must be some kind of rendering just for the movie mode.

Holy wow.

Was that Spain in the gameplay footage? It was jaw-dropping.

FeZZ wrote:
I've seen the trailer in HD, and I can't believe they are doing this at 60fps.
Must be some kind of rendering just for the movie mode.

Replay modes frequently add extra graphical bling, because they don't have to do AI and physics and shit.

dfua wrote:
GT5 Prologue did nothing more for me than make me want to go back to Forza 2. I'd never played a GT game before I played GTHD and GT5P and I wasn't really impressed. The graphics are decent but you can clearly see the corners they cut, and the gameplay was utterly sterile. I wan't to feel like i'm racing more than just BMW M5 for a rough example. Bouncing off or using walls to help lap times has no place in a racing sim.

I'd much rather they put GT on par with Forza than the other way round.

I used to think GT5 Prologue looked 'alright' but not much better than Forza 2. I used to think that prior to downloading the Forza 2 demo to compare the two...

It surprised me just how naff Forza 2 looks next to GT5 Prologue.

Saying that. Forza 2 'feels' better than GT5 Prologue so maybe there's more physics and whatnot going on under the hood.

I just read the press release at the start of this thread and I am more excited about this than any other game this year. I consider the first two Forza’s as coming close to GT overall, exceeding it in some areas (handling, damage, AI) but lacking in others (track variety, graphics), but this is looking like it could be a GT beater (apart from lack of Logitech support)

But I have one worry, are the 100 tracks just different variations of the same few tracks we saw last time. I think Forza 2 claimed to have about 40-50 tracks but in reality it only had about 10, and of those 10 a couple of them were crap any way (Speed way, New York, what is it with Americans and their aversion to corners?). The lack of tracks really killed Forza2 for me.

But for Forza 3, the screenshots look beautiful though (regardless 60fps is the most important thing), the career mode sounds like an improvement over Forza 2’s rather dull career, it sounds like point to point racing has returned and you can now roll cars.

We know the handling model will be good, so I just hope there are more tracks, track varieties, improved AI, night races and variable weather conditions. (shiny graphics are a bonus but not the most important thing and hardly register when I’m actually playing any way)

I want insanely detailed car interiors.