Forza Motorsport 3

Date Added:Fri 13th Nov 2009 12:42

360 gamer gave it 10/10 only a handfull of games have ever achieved this score (please note this magazine only reviews xbox 360 games its not a multiformat magazine like EDGE)

Date Added:Tue 10th Nov 2009 14:04

Forza 3 Review part 2 of 2...

                Onto upgrading, there are different sections now to select. A new feature with it is a “quick upgrade” where you can instantly just pay up front and get your car up to a certain class for races. When you do conversions for engines, you can now change aspiration, and if available you can change to twin-screw superchargers or dual-turbochargers. Now to change driving conversions you don’t have to change the engine along with it. You can just select the driving conversion or engine swap and leave the others alone. Roll cages are now able to use with different sections of roll cage, you can install smaller versions of them. Rim selection has grown slightly more and now you can change the rear and front sizes of your tires instead of all together. Body kit parts aren’t much different from the last game; sometimes when you go to paint an aftermarket wing you can’t for some reason. Maybe a glitch they will have to fix. That is really the only glitch I have seen besides the one-time corrupt file I bought. The driving physics in this game have got better overall. It’s not very simple to have a car tuned to run easy 8’s in the quarter, unless you go for the Datsun 510 or Bugatti Veyron. With the film and photos you can do a little more than the sequel. Now when you have a film clip you can upload it from 5 to 30 seconds at a time up to the website, and put it onto your computer 720p quality. Doing the high quality 30 second clip took me 5 minutes to upload it to the site but keep in mind that you can only upload one at a time so make sure to download the one you put up before you load the other one. Online game-types have got better. Now you can drift, drag, circuit race or just have fun doing other fun events like capture the flag, tag and cat ‘n mouse. Drag racing was a nice feature to be put onto this game. I’ve heard a lot of complaints about the launch being wrong and no burnouts. To me, at least they tried to put it in and it’s better than not having any at all. Drifting has a nice point setup but the only thing wrong is when drifting the straights you can rack points unless at Fujimi. The “fun” games are pretty good but kind of confusing to set up. While drifting now if you spin out you lose points, as well as having to keep 3 tires on the track. This is the many options in Forza Motorsport 3. It is a very good game, I recommend it to all Car enthusiasts.

                My overall rating is a 9.5. The reason being is mostly because of all the options boosting up that score for me.

Graphics: 10

Gameplay: 9

Features: 10

Date Added:Tue 10th Nov 2009 13:59

To all of you who won't shutup I'm going to type my opinion on here of what I think about NFS: Shift, Gran Tursimo and Forza Motorsport 3. Go ahead and argue about what I say, I won't even remember this site tomorrow and don't plan on it, so yeah. Also the funny thing is, you say I can't wait for GT5!!! How long has that been waiting to come out? Forza 1(1 kinda came along facing GT4), 2 and 3 came out during their span, so we stayed occupied, buddy. :) Also, yes some say the backgrounds in GT4 are better than Forza 1, but I'd rather have pretty good backgrounds and awesome wrecking physics, than no wrecking and a beauitful background. Makes you feel like you're playing bumper cars.

Gran Turismo - (mainly based off of GT4) Good driving physics, it had very good physics and was really the only good circuit car racer when I grew up. Wrecking, has none as of yet. Drving physics equaled up well. What some of you failed to realize, GT4 NEVER had online, only LAN. Gran Turismo never has body kits, tint, OR paint after bought! (don't forget no VINYLS) They however had wings, oil changes were cool, car washes kinda got annoying. Game got old after a while.

NFS: Shift - It is "okay" but did not deserve a 10 from game reviewers. Majority of game reviewers don't know anything about cars, so therefore they go by how fun the game is. First of all on note, in real life do we watch the 24 hour: Le Mans race with cars wrecking into eachother to earn badges? The point of circuit is to win the race without your car hurt, because in real life, your car is worth millions of dollars in circuit, so you don't want to damage it. It seems like every car in the game is all-wheel drive and takes of no problem. This game has like 67 cars and 18 tracks compared to Forza's 400 cars and 120 tracks.

Forza Motorsport 3 -  One of the best racers of this year. With all of the options, not one car is the same. 400 cars, 120 tracks, fully customization on ALL 400 cars. Realistic engine damage. Still has kinda fake wrecking looks. Now drifting and dragging. I choose Forza 3.

NFS Shift = Arcade (racing, not damage)

GT4 = Arcade completely

Forza Motosport 3 - Realistic, fun, options.

Date Added:Mon 02nd Nov 2009 21:18

continued from post 132 i defended this game for ages only now i see little point as it as just an extension to forza 2 i cant see it as a new game so now i like many will wait for a truely new racing game only its on ps3 (sorry to any 360 fans but GT5 will crush forza 3) yep GT5 is the racing game im waiting for and im hopeing its nothing like forza 3 (better graphics, better cars, better choice of cars, better priced cars, better looking environments ect ect) forza 3 reminds me of playing vrally 3 on the dreamcast the sceenary by the side of the track surrounded by a wall disguised as trees. 60fps is nice but not if it means less cars on track or limited graphics, turn 10 need to make a new game engin for forza instead of useing one from the first xbox and just upscaling it.

Date Added:Thu 29th Oct 2009 00:05

sorry but it looks to me that there are just to many GT fanboys that just wont accept that forza 3 is a great racing game and i havnt heard or seen any commnets from microsoft or turn 10 stating that forza 3 has better physics and graphics than GT but to say no one pays better if any attention to detail than what GT does is clearly dumb GT has great physics and yes there is lots of detail in there but turn 10 hasnt just bolted a small amount of detail, at least they have tried to make a comparable racing simulation rather than a complete copy.

instead of defending GT and slating any racing sim that comes close to GT in terms of detail and physics accept the fact that as one game pushes closer to GTs depth and detail GT will just get better and better other than the fact that forza 3 is only on the 360 and GT is only on the playstation so whats the need for all this debate about physics and detail when the two games are not even on the same console.