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[bigfnjoe96]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

E3 Game Play Video...

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[totalownership]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

They said the game will be released in October not December.

[ExtremeGamer]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

Gamestop Collector's Edition $79

The Forza 3 GameStop Exclusive Limited Edition comes with:

• Forza Motorsport 2GB USB Storage and keychain: Show off your Forza pride with these specially branded items.
• Forza Motorsport VIP Membership* and Exclusive Car Pack*: Want to be a top painter, tuner, driver or just more active in the community? VIP membership is the way to get yourself noticed. Includes special treatment within the online Auction House, Community Storefront and on the Forzamotorsport.net forums. Also includes 5 of the hottest cars from the roster of Forza Motorsport 3, available only through your VIP membership.
• Exclusive Collector’s Edition Car Pack*: This one is for the fans. This pack includes 5 cars that have been hand tuned and hand painted by the developers at Turn 10 to fly the Forza Motorsport colors.
• Exclusive Forza Motorsport 3 Theme:* Customize your Dashboard experience with this limited availability Xbox 360 theme.

[baumy300]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

Gamestop Collector's Edition $79
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I am getting this one!

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

Not anything I really want from the CE.

[Kruza]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

That's a pretty good movie showing the yellow Porsche 911 GT2 in a race. However, I would like to see a movie where someone would race with Traction Control and Stability Control assists off just to observe how realistically the cars behave on the track while being pushed to its limit. Can't tell much from the handling of the car while seeing it constantly wiggling around like it was in the movie.

Kruza

[Flawless]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

Gamespot stage demo

http://e3.gamespot.com/video/6211099/?tag=top_stories;title;15

[Kruza]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

Good find, Flawless.

Sounds like October 27th is the release date.

Kruza

[Flawless]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

Wish I had this setup:

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[totalownership]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

Wish I had this setup:

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Video Games | Forza Motorsport 3 | E3 09: Arcade Walkthrough
XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

I'm going to try to build a hydraulic system if it's at all possible. Yes you heard it first. lol

[Kruza]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

That setup is without a doubt inspired by the 3-screen arcade cabinet of Sega's Ferrari F355 Challenge. Still a great game, by the way.

And that's awesome news the guy brought up confirming clutch pedal + gearbox support for Forza 3. That Fanatec wheel is mine!

Kruza

[Hooe]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

This game is definitely shipping on two discs.

Not a huge deal for me, since I have a hard drive for my 360, but this will be an issue for anyone who doesn't as they won't be able to access all of the game's cars and tracks.

[bigfnjoe96]

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Suxs for those without HDD...

[Flawless]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

Autoblog

Just like there are individuals and groups whose only interaction with Forza is to create custom paint jobs, now for tuners there are more upgrades on offer and tuner files can be downloaded. If you want your Ford GT optimized for Laguna Seca, you can hop on Xbox Live and download the file that will turn your car into a Corkscrew killer. If you want to turn your Honda into a Ferrari, there's a tuner out there that can do that, who knows how to reinforce the chassis and change every number and part necessary to go from red "H" to black horse. "You have to know tuning," Greenwalt said, "but we want to call those guys out as the best tuners."

Turn 10 also availed itself of one of the world's heavyweights in the arena of car technology. McLaren F1 makes a standardized electronics component for all the cars on the F1 grid called the black box. Microsoft is associated with McLaren in the development of that black box software, and that led to Greenwalt going to McLaren's Technology Center and crunching numbers on the same aero simulator built for McLaren F1 driver Lewis Hamilton. Even though there are no F1 cars in Forza 3, the lessons Greenwalt learned about aerodynamics in one of its highest temples have been used to improve the gameplay for the guy in Topeka. "We learned things about aero that mean you get a multimillion dollar simulator for $60."

Still, he admitted, "Eventually you run out of things to simulate."

While Audi's R8 V10 is the marquee car and Turn 10 had near total access in order to recreate it, the dedication to verisimilitude runs throughout. It was said that 9,000 data points were used to model the vehicles. The Audi R8 V10 car, in real life, has twelve vents running down both side of the engine cover, together representing the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The engine centerline is slightly to the left of the centerline of the car in order to package the quattro system most efficiently. The car's two inboard headlights are bracketed by curved bits of metal that take their inspiration from the sail forms of the Sydney Opera House. The LED strips underneath the headlights each have 24 LEDs in them, also in celebration of Le Mans. The dash information display contains a lap timing function that can display three laps at a time. The car's top speed is 196 mph.

All of those features have been recreated on the R8 V10 in the game.

Forzamotorsport.net

Xbox and Audi also announced they will host an exciting and exceptionally unique AXF-24 Audi-Forza Challenge, which will take place June 13-14 at the Audi Forum in New York City. Xbox has selected nine of its top North American Forza competitors as determined by rankings on Xbox Live to converge on New York to compete in a 24-hour endurance competition in “Forza Motorsport 3” running concurrent to the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France. The gamers will be split into three teams of three drivers, just like Le Mans racing teams on a yet to be announced track debuting in game upon release in October. The winning team at the end of the 24 hours on Sunday morning will win an all-expenses paid trip for them and a guest to the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans race where they will be hosted by Audi.

[Kruza]

Re: Source: Forza 3 Will Release This Christmas

Nice gesture on the part of Xbox and Audi for hosting that Le Mans competition among top ranked Xbox Live players. It should be a good one.

Kruza