Forza 3 Discussion...

[Kruza]

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

[Krioniq]

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]

Suxs for those without HDD...

[Flawless]

Autoblog

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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."

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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."

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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

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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]

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

[Flamehead]

From what I can tell of the gameplay videos, it looks like 8 cars only on the grid. Haven't seen anything yet to the contrary.

[Kruza]

And not only that. It's also surprising to me that not one member from Turn 10 has brought this issue up in any of the E3 demonstrations or presentations. We get info on all this extra stuff like customization options and access to a bunch of tuning/upgrading files, but not a peep on whether it's possible to have more than 8 cars in an online or offline race. I have a feeling we're going to be disappointed at the answer we're eventually going to find out about.

Kruza

[Hellisan]

In a perfect world, you'd have more than 8 cars in a race.

But to be totally honest, in the various "communities" I've been involved with, you rarely have more than 10 people that can join in at any one time. We did have a race series with like 24 guys but that was an exception.

Overall, if you take a game...

Add a ton of cars, all at 10x the polygon count (they claim anyway)
Add a ton of tracks
Add interior views, etc...

I doubt you're gonna ALSO be able to double the amount of cars on the track at the same time. I just don't see that happening, and frankly it will not kill the game experience for me. I understand some people will feel that way and that's totally valid but I'm happy with the new features/news I've seen.

[Flawless]

The Turn 10 Studios Blog

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Besides the consistent line of showgoers wanting to try their hand at this rare spectacle, we also had quite a few celebrities come through to play the Forza 3 ride-of-show cockpit. The list is as surreal to me now as it was when I saw (some of) them with my own eyes: Steven Spielberg, Victoria Beckham (with her little boy), Incubus drummer Jose Pasillas, DJ and Turntablist Chris Killmore, folks from LA Galaxy, Aisha Tyler, some dude who came by to shoot a segment for the Jimmy Fallon Late Night Show, and more. Perhaps the most surprising to me was when a couple developers from Gran Turismo makers Polyphony Digital came by to personally get hands-on with Forza 3, all the while taking careful notes, examining our UI system, shooting photos, and directly asking us some pretty interesting questions. The reason I say I was personally surprised was because PD aren’t generally known as a studio to acknowledge that there are racing games that exist beyond their own.

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So what can we expect now that E3 is behind us? To begin, we’re about to embark on a long summer where each week we’ll be discussing new Forza 3 cars, tracks, and features in our Pitpass Reports. There are some surprises down the road and of course, a regular cadence of gorgeous, mouth-watering screenshots for your daily, weekly, and monthly consumption.

[allBthere]

I dl'd the stage demo and noticed something that will get me to buy the game.

Alfa Romeo is represented this time! I'm a huge alfa fan, and my family owns a '76 spider.

I saw the back of the 8c competizione, the most beautiful car in the world imo.

I hope they have all the new 2009 alfa's because they're all great and very unique this year.

I hope to be wealthy enough one day to have a couple alfa's of my own.