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    SuperSkyline89 posted on Oct 08, 2009 9:23:29 AM - Report post
     
    In the Storefront, you can purchase designs for specific cars or decals usable on any vehicle you own. Prices are set by the designers, as are the number of copies for sale. If someone wants to make a unique piece of art and sell it for 30 million credits, they can. And if someone wants to sell a limitless supply of Autobot decals on the cheap, that is also their choice. A ratings system helps create a leaderboard for designers, which you can search to find the biggest stars in the community. You can flag anyone as a favorite so you can easily browse their store for the latest designs.

    Tuning is just like art design in Forza 3. Can I get a "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout Willis?" Seriously, tuning has been transformed into an artform and has similar functionality to liveries. Great tuners can create tuning sets and sell them on the Storefront. For those used to doing their own tuning, a word of warning. It is possible (even easy) to manually upgrade and tune your car in a way that actually worsens its performance. Basic tuning is easy to do, but delve deeper and you better know a lot about cars. That also means great tuners can help you maximize your car's performance better than you could ever manage.

    And if all of that is too intimidating, you always have the option to auto-upgrade before a race. These upgrades will tune and upgrade your car to fit the track and race parameters. A great tuner can do even better by manually adjusting everything, but most gamers will find the auto-tune option good enough. The point of all of this is that the hardcore have a ton of ways to bury themselves in Forza 3 and the rest of us can click a few buttons and race. After all, isn't that why you bought a racing game?

    The focal point of racing is the career mode. Forza's career mode is a series of seasons, each one longer than the last. The core career lasts six seasons, though you can continue on long after that. Each season has a bi-weekly championship race. These races are set for each season and are waiting for you every other Sunday. The rest of your career is completely dynamic.

    For the two weeks between each championship race, you'll choose one event. Each event is broken up into a series of races. Some as few as three, others can be around a half-dozen races long. You are always given three event choices, but these change based on a number of factors: The cars you own, the car you're currently driving, and the race types you play the most. No two careers are alike. Having played deep into two different careers, I've seen firsthand how much seasons can change. Through six seasons, you'll race 55 events. There are more than 200 events in total. After powering through about 50 hours of gameplay to "beat" the career mode, you still have well over 150 more events to beat if you want to master Forza 3. It's insane. Because there are so many events (and a great variety at that), it's very easy to have two seasons turn out quite differently.

    Completing races earns your driver experience points. For each level you're gifted a car. Free. No strings attached. The idea is to reward you for playing and encourage you to try new cars. Unlike the seasonal calendar, the car gifting is not dynamic. That means everyone who plays Forza 3 gets the same cars. You're free to buy any other cars you want (remember, nothing is locked), but certainly you will get behind the wheel of many of your gifted vehicles.

    Each season gets exponentially longer. Season 2 is about twice the length of the first season and season 3 is the length of the first two put together. By the time you get to season 6, you'll be spending hours upon hours to beat each event. For me, this began to become a bit of a drag. As much as I enjoy Forza 3, I found the final season to be a real struggle to complete. What was joyous and new in the earlier seasons felt tedious by the end. Granted, many will never play long enough to reach this point and some will be thrilled at the endurance races that await, but for me, it wasn't as rewarding as the earlier seasons.

    Of course, you won't be driving alone. Up to seven AI drivers will challenge you on the tracks. Forza 3 uses Turn 10's Drivatar system, which basically teaches the AI based on a player's driving style. It creates a dynamic AI that learns from you. That was in Forza 2. What is new is the AI pressure system. Get behind an AI car and, depending on the driver, they might make mistakes. You may see the AI spin-out on a turn, take a bad line, or make other noticeable errors. There are times when I play Forza 3 and forget that the AI is controlled by a computer. Often it feels like I am racing against real people, which I appreciate immensely.

    The AI elements aren't perfect, however. One of Forza's biggest drawbacks is in its AI settings. There are numerous assists to alter how your car performs, but there are just three AI difficulty options: Easy, medium, and hard. Even for average drivers, medium will quickly prove too easy. But, for me, hard can be really hard at times. It leads to too many races that are either far too easy to win or seem almost impossible to compete in. If Forza 3 had one more setting between medium and hard, it would be perfect. But it doesn't and, for me, it hurts the balance over the course of the career mode.

    If, while playing through a season, you long for the company of other gamers, you can give the multiplayer a shot. Turn 10 went out of its way to offer a staggering level of customization. Multiplayer may be Forza 3's crowning achievement. This is the most robust multiplayer offering ever for a sim racing game. You can customize every aspect of a race, allowing you to easily create your own game types.
    I don't want a big car, particularly. I have no need for acreage, and I don't like the fuel bills. But I don't want a small one because they're all like supermarket own-brand cola: weedy imitations of the real thing - Jeremy Clarkson

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    SuperSkyline89 posted on Oct 08, 2009 9:24:19 AM - Report post
     
    You can determine if cars get a head start, which car classes can be used for a certain team, and the qualifications for winning a race. This makes it very easy to set up a great game of cat and mouse, where the mice are trying to get to the finish line and the cats are out to take them down.

    Closing Comments
    Forza Motorsport 3 is an exemplary racing game. It's beautiful, the controls are spot-on, the career mode is satisfying, and the multiplayer component is awesome. But there's still room to grow. The visuals could be even better, the career mode sags at times, and there needs to be at least one more option for AI difficulty. Even with those concerns, Forza 3 is a big step forward for sim racing games. Turn 10 has thrown down the gauntlet and it will be a real challenge for Polyphony Digital to deliver a superior racer with Gran Turismo 5. After all, this is the best racing game of this generation. Good luck topping it.
    I don't want a big car, particularly. I have no need for acreage, and I don't like the fuel bills. But I don't want a small one because they're all like supermarket own-brand cola: weedy imitations of the real thing - Jeremy Clarkson

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    Telapicus_old posted on Oct 08, 2009 9:26:14 AM - Report post
     
    i want to see the car designer on forza 3 forza 2's one was so slow and bulky it took a while to do anything but once it was done on one side you had to do the other side and it didnt go over so well everything is back to front and looks horrible i hope they found a way to fix that beacuse im really just a designer i dont like to race even tho thats what the game is about
     
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    HAWK33 posted on Oct 14, 2009 4:05:18 PM - Report post
     
    NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT is Better.. Better physx,Graphics,and car Info, try to find HP,time 0-60 0-100 or any other specs when looking to buy the car in Snorza 3 there aren't any. all ya get is a cheep bar graph .ZZzzzz compare the 2 and you will see the light, Peace
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    SuperSkyline89 posted on Oct 15, 2009 7:52:28 AM - Report post
     
    quote:
    originally posted by HAWK33

    NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT is Better.. Better physx,Graphics,and car Info, try to find HP,time 0-60 0-100 or any other specs when looking to buy the car in Snorza 3 there aren't any. all ya get is a cheep bar graph .ZZzzzz compare the 2 and you will see the light, Peace

    1. Forza is a simulator, it's physics are the best you can get on a 360, period.
    2. If you press Y you can see the horsepower, torque, and weight of a car.
    3. Those bar graphs tell you more than a 0-60 time. You only accelerate from 0-60 once in a race, at the start. And I guarantee you'll never accelerate in the time a 0-60 stat says you will, because that's with an expert driver.

    I don't want a big car, particularly. I have no need for acreage, and I don't like the fuel bills. But I don't want a small one because they're all like supermarket own-brand cola: weedy imitations of the real thing - Jeremy Clarkson

    /--\ - Lance Corporal

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    Telapicus_old posted on Oct 15, 2009 8:30:54 AM - Report post
     
    quote:
    originally posted by HAWK33

    NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT is Better.. Better physx,Graphics,and car Info, try to find HP,time 0-60 0-100 or any other specs when looking to buy the car in Snorza 3 there aren't any. all ya get is a cheep bar graph .ZZzzzz compare the 2 and you will see the light, Peace

    need for speed shift is the most unrealistic game i ever played i played forza 2 since its release and i was amazed of how better it was than forza but the realism is what i fell in love with obviously you have no paitence.

     
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    shianova posted on Oct 15, 2009 10:11:18 AM - Report post
     
    Now now, the games comes out in a couple of days so we will decide if it's better than shift. Obviously it will.
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    pinky129 posted on Oct 18, 2009 1:18:18 AM - Report post
     
    lol i get it in 5 days
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