Forza 3 Discussion...

[Flawless]

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So you cant pit in Forza during the long races?

No there's pits, they just aren't animated nor have any real depth to them.

[garnettrules21]

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33 minute "quick look".
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[Joey]

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The replay of the guy drifting towards the end of the vid looks pretty sweet. I'm anxious to see what kind of vinyls & designs people are going to be creating & selling online, too. I must say though, I don't think there's any way I could race using bumper cam like that dude was doing. Just watching that gave me a headache...maybe I'm just getting old!

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[ZB9]

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here's a Motor Trend review of the game

http://www.motortrend.com/features/c...360/index.html

[TCrouch]

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I honestly think it may be the best bang-for-your-buck that I've ever seen in a racing game...even at full $60 retail.

[ZB9]

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I honestly think it may be the best bang-for-your-buck that I've ever seen in a racing game...even at full $60 retail.

great to hear TCrouch. The rest of my games are probably going to be collecting dust when this one comes out. Im going to have to drop some extra on the LCE and a wheel

[TCrouch]

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I honestly don't know how you can blow through career mode in this one in a week or two. Somebody else said that they beat Forza 2's in 2 weeks. I'm curious to know how long it takes them to actually complete this one.

I mentioned in the review (no idea when they're going to finalize and post it), but I got about a week with the game before I had to write the review. Now, I don't play 24/7, but I play quite a bit.

I logged over 120 races in that time, grabbed 30 cars and 25 levels, as well as over $1,000,000 in winnings...and got 6.2% through career. (I did race in all classes up to the R1's, though. You aren't limited to class or series at any point).

With 220 events (some consisting of 5 to 7 races or more), it's just got a staggering amount of racing content in there. Let alone if you choose to paint or edit replays...or venture online.

[garnettrules21]

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I honestly don't know how you can blow through career mode in this one in a week or two. Somebody else said that they beat Forza 2's in 2 weeks. I'm curious to know how long it takes them to actually complete this one.

I mentioned in the review (no idea when they're going to finalize and post it), but I got about a week with the game before I had to write the review. Now, I don't play 24/7, but I play quite a bit.

I logged over 120 races in that time, grabbed 30 cars and 25 levels, as well as over $1,000,000 in winnings...and got 6.2% through career. (I did race in all classes up to the R1's, though. You aren't limited to class or series at any point).

With 220 events (some consisting of 5 to 7 races or more), it's just got a staggering amount of racing content in there. Let alone if you choose to paint or edit replays...or venture online.

Sounds beautiful. Can't wait for the review!

[lnin0]

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23 venues and 133 layouts.

13 of the venues are from Forza 2/DLC and 1 new track back from Forza (although heavily improved). Many of the remaining new ones are very long and have a lot of ribbons. Some, but not all, tend to be more reminiscent of the classic NFS country side loops than race specific circuit courses.

Perplexed by the lack of Circuit de la Sarthe? Laguna Seca is listed as Catalunya and Tsukuba as Shimotsuma so it seems like they messed up a few but a French site missing the most well known French track? Am I just not seeing it?

Other notable MIA tracks include - NY Long, Blue Mountain Raceway and Alpine Ring from Forza. Everything from Forza 2 looks like it is back.

Things I wish were MIA - the Sidewinder track...hopefully it is at least MIA from career mode.

http://www.xboxlive.fr/news_affiche_10500.html

[Flawless]

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This ODST livery this person did is awesome.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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33 minute "quick look".
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I actually watched that whole video. I'm not a dude with a lot of previous anticipation for this game, but it looks pretty good. I love the clean looking menus and the time they spent showing the customization stuff. I already have some graphic ideas I'll be working on.

[garnettrules21]

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Well two new things have popped up that have me very disappointed.

1. Photomode shots are nowhere near the quality of shots that turn 10 has posted due to the extreme image compression it has to go through like FM2 did.

compared to


2. Drag mode has autorev as well.

Not cool.

[DocHolliday]

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Hay Crouch where is the review? Wasn't supposed to be posted last night?

[TCrouch]

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It was, yep. Not up to me, I posted it 2 days ago. For some reason it's still sitting on the editing board. Has to go through the site editor.

[DocHolliday]

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Cool. I'm looking forward to reading it.