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Forza Motorsport 3 | 
| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  146 reviews
Sales Rank: 277
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: car_and_truck_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 65H-00004
Model: 65H-00004
UPC: 882224866484
EAN: 0885370002607
ASIN: B002BSA2LQ
Publication Date: October 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New game modes such as single-player season mode which puts you through a completely personalized racing calendar includes 200+ different events, including Circuit, Oval, Drag, Drift and Timed Events. | | • | Something to match every car lover's dream including more than 400 fully customizable and tunable cars from over 50 of the world?s leading manufacturers and 100+ international tracks. | | • | Look and feel of a modern racing game built from the ground up using with the most advanced physics models, artificial intelligence and damage calculations. | | • | Gameplay assists including auto-braking, gameplay rewind and auto-tuning that cater to how each individual drives and evolves with you over time as your skills increase. | | • | In-game elements such as Livery Editor, Auction House and Deep Tuning Garage that along with content via Xbox LIVE, allow players to express their car passion through user-generated content. |
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Product Description
FORZA 3 XBOX 360 NTSC DVD DVD
Amazon.com Product Description
Whether it's an exotic sports car like the new Audi R8 V10, a classic American muscle car like the Ford GT or a hot Asian import like the Nissan 370Z, everyone has a dream car. Now you can drive that dream with Turn 10's latest racing epic. 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. 
400+ customizable cars.
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100+ international tracks.
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Amazing in-car detail.
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New game modes & events.
View larger. | 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 high-definition 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 already thriving 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. Key Game Features - Where Dreams are Driven: The 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. - The Look and Feel of a Modern Racing Game
Forza Motorsport 3 is the definitive racing game. The appreciation of the automobile in Forza Motorsport 3 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 Corp. 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. Whether it’s the differences in how each car handles through the corners, how the engines sound at top speed or how different tires and upgrades impact your car’s performance, you’ll find yourself leaning into your turns as if you were really behind the wheel of your favorite ride. - It’s Easy to Go for a Spin
Forza Motorsport 3 redefines the racing genre. Simulation games can be too hard for some players. Forza Motorsport 3 rises above the distinction between simulation and arcade games. 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 evolves with you over time as your skills increase. - Express Your Car Passion
User-generated content and Xbox LIVE. 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 Leaderboards celebrate not only the greatest racers but also the most prolific car tuners and painters in the community. - 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. * Xbox LIVE Gold account required for online multiplayer gameplay. |
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 Excellent racing title - A Single Player Perspective August 11, 2010
A. Bush (Newberg, OR USA)
I'll start by saying that I have never played this or Forza 2 online. My online experience is limited to Call of Duty. If you're looking for a review of the controversial multiplayer mode, there are plenty of good ones from other gamers.
That said, in single player mode this game is amazing. Not perfect, but very, very good. I absolutely loved Forza 2, so I was concerned that Turn 10 might alter the new game in ways that would be frustrating. Well, they did...but they made up for it (mostly) with lots of great new features. I am a hard-core driving simulator enthusiast; except on the most frustrating factory stock races, I play everything with the AI difficulty on "hard," stability control off, and manual transmission mode. Despite this, Turn 10 has provided options to make the game EVEN HARDER or considerably easier. In fact, this is one of the biggest new feature sets, which allows a player with just about any level of experience to set the game up to their liking. While I won't use things like "autobraking" or the recommended racing line, I don't have to.
Of course, Forza is all about cars, and Forza 3 delivers tons of them. Counting the DLC, which keeps coming out, there are well over 400. Chances are, unless you are a huge fan of Japanese "kei" cars or obscure pre-war European roadsters from long-disbanded manufacturers, you will find your favorite automobile in this game. (Gran Turismo should cover you in the cases I mentioned).
Forza 3 also improves upon Forza 2 with its selection of tracks. The classics are still here (including my favorite Maple Valley) and with lots of new details thanks to the improved graphics, but new tracks debut as well, including the beautiful and extensive Amalfi Coast and the fictional series of Spanish tracks billed as "Camino Viejo de Montserrat." Additionally, the gorgeous Fujimi Kaido from Forza 1 makes a reappearance.
Forza 2 had tons of customization, and Forza 3 has even more. While everything is just about the same, there are a few new things you can do such as adding oil coolers. On the other hand, it has also been simplified a bit; you can't choose what brand of tires you install, for example.
Gameplay is just as good as before, with an improved physics engine that allows rollovers. The graphics are phenomenal, each car is exquisitely detailed, and there is a full cockpit view from which you can drive. If you are an extreme hard-core racer, you can even choose to drive with a button for the clutch. This is beyond me because in real life I use feet to operate the gas, brake, and clutch while my hands can concentrate on steering and shifting. Doing it all with my hands is too confusing.
Now, the negatives. No game is perfect, and Forza 3 has its share of flaws. The first thing that annoyed me was the "race announcer." He won't shut up. His bass-rich, nostalgic easy-listening voice can be heard any time you try to enter a car into a race for which it doesn't qualify (which I often do in order to quickly see which ones I own that DO qualify).
Another big problem is the acquisition of cars. In Forza 2, you got cars for leveling up via XP, and you received a car for each race series you won. In Forza 3, you do get cars for leveling up, but you stop leveling up about 1/4 of the way through the game; meanwhile, winning race series only gives you money...not enough money. I decided that I wanted to own all the cars in the game, since I did pay real money for this opportunity to virtually drive them, and so with 3/4 of the races completed, I tallied up the cars remaining and found I still needed $110,000,000 to buy them all. Considering that a typical, mid-length race at my advanced level of difficulty only nets about $18,000, that was going to take a while. Part of this is due to a single vintage Ferrari priced at $20,000,000. The cars are just too expensive. It's my own fault for wanting them all, but hey, I should be able to do that.
In their attempt to make the game appeal to a wider range of players, Turn 10 also added some unnecessary drama. There is an entirely repetitive animation at the beginning of each race depicting your car rolling up to the line and revving its engine. While they do stick to realism here (old cars with soft suspension will bounce when they stop at the line), the revving is tacky, and more critically, it removes your opportunity to bring your RPMs to the correct level for a good launch. A successful launch off the line is often the key to getting ahead of rivals who may be hard to pass elsewhere. Forza 3 made this impossible, which is extremely ridiculous considering that an all-new race type is drag racing. The launch is the MOST critical part of a drag race!!
The rewind feature has drawn some criticism from die-hard gamers, but I think it's good. You really don't have to use it, but I certainly have. It's easier than restarting a race (which takes a long while) and in long, tedious races it can save you a ton of headaches. However, it doesn't always work. Seriously. Sometimes, when you need it most, it just isn't an option. The most notable time for me was in the third-to-last lap of an endurance race. At the end of the long straight, I got incredibly distracted by something else (perhaps my own thoughts) and failed to brake. Instead of immediately braking and swerving when I realized this, I moved my hand so that I could hit the rewind button. It did nothing, and by the time I figured that out and got back to the brakes, my car had covered the sand beyond the track and smacked the wall, wrecking its front. Fortunately, the engine was OK, and I still won the race, but it's good to know you can't always rely on the rewind button.
The addition of lousy in-game music is simply a waste of disc space (which is an issue, since you have to install almost 2GB of data on your hard drive in order to play all of the game).
Overall, Forza 3 makes some great improvements (rollovers, more cars, awesome graphics, new tracks) over its predecessor, but it is not perfect. However, it does allow novice and experienced racers alike to jump in and play, and completing the game will take hundreds of hours, making it just as much of a total immersive long-haul experience as its prior installments.
Best Racing Game Ever Hands Down! August 11, 2010
Michael D. Nichols (Pikeville TN USA)
This is the best racing game I've ever played. However; that said, it has some of the same old flaws that exist in all racing games I have played like Gran Turismo 2,3 4,the NFS games and Test Drive to name just a couple. It doesn't take long for an intelligent person with some experience to figure out that whoever created the simulation for the speed, acceleration, and handling of a 1979 Chevy Camaro obviously never drove a real one. In reality, these cars (and many others) run and handle FAR better in real life than they do on the game. I also wish each race would not have its own favorite car and you can hardly keep up with it even though the car you are driving is smaller, lighter, with more acceleration and much better handling but the car driven by the simulator can fly around corners much faster. It is easy to win but not so well balanced with respect to the various aspects of the cars performance. They need to improve this. Everything else is fine but I would really like the in-game picture adjustments from GT-4. I miss those.
 For the dreamers August 8, 2010
Robin Solsjö Höglund (Skellefteå, Sweden)
If you've ever dreamt of owning a gorgeous sports car, this is the game of you. If you want thrills and absolute extreme speed, destruction and absurdity (like in Burnout Paradise), it isn't. It's a very good looking racing simulator, with emphasis on owning, styling, tuning and racing as in real life. The amount of detail is striking (cars look to be modeled down to the nuts and bolts), but it isn't the greatest "party" game, when (locally) only two players race around in a lifelike environment. It's very simply about creating a dream garage of nice cars, taking good care of them and putting them on the track. The cars are all yours just as you made them, but if you aren't a car or racing aficionado, it does become a rather dull experience. The strongest side of the game is playing it on a big high definition television, and watching the sun shine off the chassi of your very own Ferrari, not any overtly thrilling racing matches.
It's cool August 6, 2010
yune (ohio,usa)
the game is ok its just u play so many races it gets really reallyreally boring it just like rolling on a blank track nothin else to do but race and the cars aarent really cuztomizable...
Buy It Used July 26, 2010
Thomas O. Fort (SC)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased and played Forza II and was aggravated by a few things. I was really aggravated by the Nurburgring track. On Easy this thing was near impossible to win.
To me "easy" means over half of those who try succeed.
I don't see how that could have been the case with this track.
What do you do when programmers deliberately put you through this kind of "fun"?
I say buy their next game used, so they don't make anything off of it.
That's what I did with Forza III. I waited for the price to drop and for a used copy to be available, so Turn 10 wouldn't benefit from my purchase. If buyers take this approach on a large scale then programmers and developers will take notice. They may not care what you think but they do want your money.
I found Forza III to be more fair and less aggravating than Forza II. It's still true that If you choose "easy" you win by over five seconds a lap, but if you choose "medium" you will barely win, if you win at all. You cannot manage to get seperation between your car and the one behind you. You may be ten or fifteen seconds ahead of the third through eighth place cars but that second place car will be stuck to your bumper.
Isn't it possible to make something in between these two extremes? Of course it is! The question is: Why didn't Turn 10 make anything in between?
They could have simply added a slider from zero to one hundred percent that cut the power and/or traction of the computer controlled cars to 50 percent if you chose 50 percent. Then you could have set it exactly where you wanted it.
They chose not to. I think you should remember their choice when you make your purchase. I chose to buy used, I think you should too.
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