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Forza Motorsports 3 First Impressions
As revealed during the Opening Day at E3:
During Microsoft’s E3 press conference, Turn 10’s Dan Greenwald took to the stage--accompanied by Audi's slick R8 V10--to show off a few new features from the latest in the Forza series of racing games, Forza Motorsport 3. Greenwald made sure to emphasize that Forza 3 is the definitive racing game of this generation and then proceeded to show a video of an in-game R8 taking some laps through a track surrounded by lush greenery. We then get a glimpse of an impressive cockpit view where the driver takes a few seconds to look over to his right and left. Shortly thereafter, one of the other cars in the race collides into the guardrail and careens into other driver, including the Audi, which then causes the R8 to flip over on its roof and skid for a few feet. That poor Audi's not so pretty no more.
After the brief video, Greenwald went onto explain that Forza 3 features a brand new engine that lets the game run at 60fps. Additionally, he said that the game will have up to 400 cars from 50 different manufacturers. Some other new features were briefly touched upon, such as the new one-button driving assist and the gameplay rewind, which would seem to indicate that you might be able to enact a mulligan in case you're involved in a major collision out on the track, but that's purely speculative. As far as Forza 3's Xbox Live interaction is concerned, customizing and modding cars will be just as prominent as it was in previous games--a video showed how various people have made a hobby of creating a variety of visual designs for their cars. And, of course, people will still be able to share these cars with each other as well as HD videos of Forza 3 races.
The presentation closed with another video showcasing what's possible with Forza 3's video editor. We got to see some pretty amazing drifting (which also shows off some of the nice driving physics in the game) as well as some spectacular stunt driving that looked as though it came straight from a Michael Bay-directed racing sequence. One scene showed two cars sliding into place and another drifting in-between them for an especially impressive bit of driving. Overall, it was decent top level demonstration of features in Forza 3, but we're eager to see it up close and person as soon as possible. Forza Motorsport 3 ships this October.
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Originally Posted by davidan
Pedals aare here already!! Awaiting the rest
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