Forza Motorsport 3 Review

Forza Motorsport 3 is seemingly realistic. From the moment the demo loads, the screens are soothing in colour and cars are presented in a showroom pose fashionably dressed in racing decals. Xbox have really spoilt us, for the choice of supercars in Forza 3. A Lamborghini, a Porche, an Audi R8 provide the favourable cars in game.

The backgrounds look REALLY sharp, graphics cutting-edge 60fps and it shows! Engines make familiar tuned sounds, exhausts roar, the Porche power-curve actually feels like it should? Pumping the accelerator button produces engine like power to weight gee-force. The cars in Forza 3 really feel like they are made of something other than pixels; something not 2 grams light, with no “floating on the moon effects”, unlike many other games which have produced terrible physics systems if the vehicle leaves the ground and floats away unaffected by gravity. Never mind the fancy ultra carbon copy dashboard details Xbox360 went to great lengths to recreate in HD pixels, I dig that driving the Lamborghini does feel as wide as two cars and  Forza 3 captures Motorsport disadvantages a wide supercar has, as just one example of a problem relevant to that car on narrow race circuits. In fact the game is so realistic I might want to get 25 year finance deal for an Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro to do a full comparison of the lifelikeness. On seconds thoughts I’ll buy the full game first. 

…and now I don’t have any reason to buy a PS3 (again). by Xbox Live gamer tag: VGP07

Check out the Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360) Limited Edition Pack. It comes with 2GB USB Storage and keychain + 5 Tuned Cars + Theme. The best price online was £29 yesterday.

See also the newer Forza Motorsport 4 Xbox 360