For the information of those that are a tad sceptical. Over the years I've built and driven many a beast. such as a Standard Ten ( http://www.motorbase.com/pr... which had a Holden Red Six which had ford pistons 198 Cu-In, 3x 1.3/4 SU's, GTR XU1 rear end shortened, Home made stub axles with disc brakes. The first two carbies had to be adjusted from the passengers seat inside the car, ...
No disrespect meant mate, but have you actually played Forza 3? . .I've played both GT5's Prologue and also the final finished code of Forza 3. And, having had years of experience behind the wheel of real race vehicles, building vehicles, painting them and owning some bloody quick beasts over my 57 yrs, I can tell you from that experience, that this current iteration of Forza 3 is damn fine and closest I've felt to the real thing in a game - ever.
My son, who's 33 love GT series,...
you just have to admire the amount of detail that is going into this game. Not only from a visual standpoint, but from an engineering point of view as well.
The amount of work in creating just ONE of these cars, the audio required, the crash recordings, tyre deformation and noise . . .it's doubtful you'll find that in any other console game currently on the market, or due to hit soon.
While I'm not a huge fan of the Zune, I have to say it is finally starting to both look and sound half decent- after 3 years of fine tuning that is.
If they can get more decent games and make inroads with publishers, they could have something finally.
Not that it has a hope in Hades to shift or even dent the iPod or iPhone, it will offer users something different.
I have to say I'm a sucker for any LE or CE - so long as it contains viable gear, not simply a game in a tin-case like some are passed off as.
Look at the Batman Arkham Asylum Collectors Edition, for the money, it's well worth it, as is the Modern Warfare's Prestige Edition. The Night Vision goggles alone are worth more than the kit they are in, let alone having the game, art and other gear.
Halo 3's Helmet was/is awesome, even though I have the standard edition, I s...
Half the time the avatar's and Kurt are performing without an instruments whatsoever. Now that is sloppy design work at its worst.
Activision should be ashamed to put the game out with such flaws in it, let alone the huge gaff they have done with Kurt Cobain.
Seeing a skeleton playing 'air drums, and Cobain using an invisble mic, while others use invisible guitars is one thing, but if you notice at the end, there's multiple Cobains, that would never be tolerated by a...
It's a hard world out there when trying to match the AAA titles when it comes to publicity. A single AAA title can have in excess of $US10 mil spent on it, which is outside the cost of the games development. Halo 3's promotions etc were in excess of that figure, as is Forza 3 currently.
The smaller studios simply can not match that, sadly, and thus get far less public or gamer awareness in that mainstream areas. Only the dedicated followers really take an interest, and unfortunat...
No probs mate . .(just Oz will do)
I'm trying to finish the vids from the other day at the V8 Supercar announcement with the drivers going head-to-head on the game, looks and sounds GREAT, and the V8's have their own distinct sound that is unmistakable.
We have to re-think our OXCGN - Fantec Livery contest, as it looks like transferring Forza 2 art to Forza 3 is a "no-go" sadly. So the comp will have to run post release." SO keep and eye out for it whe...
It's a bugger when SO MANY great games are released around this time of the year. I can understand why publishers do it this way, but it sure as heck annoys the livin' daylights out of me anyway.
Both games look great in their own unique way.
GN tries to maintain a close 'personal' link with MS and thus Turn 10 to give its readers more than just apress release, or 10 lines of words that simply are repeats of other news elsewhere.
If you do a google for Forza motorsport 3 or forzamotorsport 3 and you'll find OXCGN right up there as one of the most google site (un-offical forza site) on the net currently. So we try and give readers something other than 'just news'
@ Uncle Rico
No, just the no...
Well that's one thing you can do in the game that you simply couldn't - or wouldn't do in real life. Bugatti have strict guidelines as to what their owners can and can not do to such $US1,000,000+ vehicles.
Not that you'd want to mind, as the car is 'perfect' right off the one car production line.
Who'd want to play with perfection and the screw it up, not me. especially with 1000bhp at the tap of your right foot. You need to view the vid to appreciate the detail t...
It took the third iteration before Bugatti agreed to put their prize and joy in the game, any game, but they did it with Forza 3 . . and Turn 10 have done an excellent job of detailing every square milliometer of the car, inside, and out. As have they done with the other 400 cars (plus additional cars in time to come)
Having played the most recent code possible before it went gold this week, (played latest code last week, I can say the game looks crisp, detailed and handles extre...
And a rarity in the fact it's the very first 10/10 from OXCGN in the last 2 years of its life. We've never awarded a game that honour, but it would be impossible not to give it full marks, the Beatles simply rock, no matter what age, or what music style you follow, they were the cornerstone of rock really.
Even brought back memories of my long-haired youth in a small band in Liverpool (Australia - not UK), velvet bell-bottom pants, paisley shirts, vests and John Lennon Glasses et...
It SURE is, finally a developer that understands that not EVRYTHING is about MP online experiences. We Single Player gamers would like some solid DLC more regularly p[lease.
You sir, are an "idiot" . . seriously .. We had a high speed Nikon digital camera taking a single shot of a flickering LCD screen without flash and low lighting . . and you say there's jaggies . . sheezzes . .
In fact, if you look carefully, the shots are blurred . .not because of the game, it looked brilliant, but because it's basically impossible to capture a shot "off-screen" while in gameplay without blurring or freezing images and thus getting jaggies. ...
The small percentage of this game that I have played so far I like, so it will be a game I'll play through to the end - at some stage.
Well he did say if you had a cheque book big enough, with lots of zeros, then they could build you one . . . they'd even like to make it a production vehicle, but some major changes would be needed for rego rules etc.
Was great experience riding in it, that's for sure.
I love how fanboys are just plain idiots and ignorant on anything "real".
If you check the vid, you'll see the hog smashing through a brick wall and coming out the other side still solid as a rock. Plus, having driven in it myself, I can tell you for FACT that it's basically like a rolling brick wall.
Stop being so childish and actually accept that games are not about which one wins platform wise, but about how one has fun and enjoys ones self.
While discussing such things with Alex and Tim, such as no Halo Movie, - at the moment- they did say that there are times when in the movie business, changes happen that often get turned around several times and have ended up working on movies that were once cancelled some time ago.
So who knows, perhaps now with District 9 doing so well, and being a stand-out in its genre, the powers-to-be might just re-think the Halo movie idea after all.
One would hope so. The tra...
WHich is why Forza 3 has the dumbed down arcade style now. Even one-fingered racing - no brakes. Look maa, no hands ( well you do have to steer . . )
The AI looks after that, and if you check out one of the vids on the site, they show just how well that works actually . . No, it doesn't use other cars to slow you down hehehe, but judges the speed, terrain, angle weight etc of the vehicle and brakes when it needs to and to the level needed. So that the casual driver can simply hav...