Product Description

• Where dreams are driven: More than 400 fully customizable and tunable cars from over 50 of the world's leading manufacturers, the return of world-famous tracks including Suzuka, Nrburgring Nordschleife and the Sebring International Raceway along with new environments like the gorgeous mountainous Montserrat region in Spain, the rugged Amalfi Coast in Italy and the American Southwest.
• The look and feel of a modern racing game: With more than 10 times the amount of polygons as Forza Motorsport 2, enjoy painstakingly researched cockpits and the differences in how each car handles through the corners, how the engines sound at top speed or how different tires and upgrades impact your car's performance.
• It's easy to go for a spin: Using a myriad of cutting-edge driving and gameplay assists such as auto-braking, gameplay rewind and auto-tuning, enter an experience where everyone can have fun behind the wheel, regardless of your skill and dexterity.
• Express your car passion: User-generated content and Xbox LIVE. Painters and tuners will once again be able to showcase creativity through the celebrated Livery Editor, Auction House and deep tuning garage in "Forza Motorsport 3." The car is literally the artistic canvas as some of the world's most creative car painters and designers find new layers of depth and freedom to create shocking visual masterpieces before sharing them with others over Xbox LIVE. Each car in "Forza Motorsport 3" is fully upgradable, allowing gear heads to take on the challenge of turning a Honda Civic into a supercar killer. New Xbox LIVE Leaderboards celebrate not only the greatest racers but also the most prolific car tuners and painters in the community.
• Play your way: An innovative single-player season mode puts you through a completely personalized racing calendar that includes more than 200 different events, including Circui

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2009-10-23
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Format: Unknown format
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Xbox 360's answer to Gran Turismo returns in the most complete driving simulator yet. This sequel's goal isn't just realism though but accessibility, with plenty of features to suit every kind of gamer and car enthusiast.

Rival cars react to your every move, particularly if you get too close

The new rewind option makes a perfect lap a lot easier

Car models feature 10 times the detail of previous games, at 4 times the resolution

The new in-car view is just one of the new features

With hundreds of cars and tracks on offer the amount of choice could be daunting if not for the newly improved career mode. The game is able to analyse the way you play and the kind of cars and races you enjoy for the ultimate personalised experience.

The artificial intelligence of your rival racers is just as advanced, with some panicking if you get too close and all racing according to their own styles - not just staying stuck to the racing line. With an even more expansive suite of online options, all filtered according to your skill level, this may be the only racing game you'll ever need on Xbox.

Key Features

• Real driving simulator: The most realistic driving experience ever, with amazing new features such as an in-car driving view and vehicle rollovers.
• Garage greed: Over 400 cars from 50 different manufactures, all rendered in greater detail than ever before and moving at a super smooth 60 frames per second.
• Track events: Over 100 tracks to race on, including the Le Mans course, and over 200 different events from circuit and drag racing to drift and timed events.
• Chauffer driven: Optional driving aids include automatic-braking and a rewind feature - which lets you retry a section of a lap whenever you want.
• YouRace: New online modes including in-game videos you can create and upload and extra livery customisation options and rewards for the best creators.

About the Developer: Turn 10 Studios
One of Microsoft's few remaining internal studios at their Washington HQ, this team was set-up specifically to create a Gran Turismo style game exclusively for the Xbox 360. What they came up with is the critically-acclaimed Forza Motorsport series, currently on its third iteration.

Manufacturer's Description
Whether it's an exotic sports car like the new Audi R8 V10, a classic American muscle car like the Ford GT or a hot Asian import like the Nissan 370Z, everyone has a dream car. Now you can drive that dream with Turn 10's latest racing epic. Launching this October exclusively for Xbox 360, Forza Motorsport 3 unites the racing game genre, making it possible for everyone to experience the thrill of the world's most exotic and exquisite cars. Live the most realistic racing experience ever as you take the wheel of more than 400 of the most-beloved cars on over 100 renowned real-world tracks and exotic road courses from around the globe. With breathtaking high-definition graphics and the most advanced vehicle performance modeling in a video game, "Forza Motorsport 3" includes a host of driving assists and adjustable skill levels to make the game a gripping pick-up-and-play experience for audiences of all ages and skill levels.

Your escape into the world of car culture in Forza Motorsport 3 doesn't stop at the track. Turn 10 is a proven leader in user-generated content creation in games. "Forza Motorsport 3 further fuels the imaginations of its already thriving community of painters, tuners and photographers with improved customization tools and brand-new ways to share creations with the world via Xbox LIVE. Xbox LIVE makes your journey into the Forza Motorsport community and the world of user-generated content easy and fun.

A love of cars lives in all of us. "Forza Motorsport 3" is the automotive playground we've all been waiting for.

Bonus disc:
Forza Motorsport 3 is shipped with one game disc and a bonus disc filled with additional content, including cars and tracks. If you see cars and tracks greyed out it means that you have not installed the second disc. To install the second disc of bonus content simply navigate to the main Forza Motorsport 3 menu. Select "Install Disc 2" at the bottom of the menu and follow the prompts on screen. Below is a list of content included on the second disc.

You can play through the whole game on disc one. Even on a single disc, Forza Motorsport 3 is already the biggest racing game on any console this generation, with more cars and tracks than anything out there this holiday. With both discs, "Forza Motorsport 3" is an epic automotive experience.

Disc 2 contains hundreds of bonus cars and tracks that are in addition to the multitude of content in disc one - one could think of disc one as the game and disc 2 as a year's worth of Game Add-ons.

The Contents of Disc 2:
• Asian Car Pack featuring 37 cars from Asian Manufacturers
• European Car Pack featuring 39 cars from European Manufacturers
• American Car Pack featuring 28 cars from American Manufacturers
• Road Racing Track Pack that includes 3 Racing Environments (Rally di Positano, Fujimi Kaido and Nurburgring Nordschleife)

VIP Program:
If you've already installed disc two but there are still cars and tracks greyed out in the menus, these 5 cars are only available to members of our VIP program. In order to be considered a VIP you must purchase the Limited Collectors Edition (LCE) of Forza Motorsport 3. The exclusive VIP cars are:
• 2008 Aston Martin DBS
• 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
• 2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
• 2007 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera
• 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997)

Box Contains

2 x Game Discs

Manual

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Customer Reviews

Spoiled by online play
I looked forward to this game, played the demo, parted with my cash, even bought a steering wheel.
The game is good fun to play. The graphics and sound are good and there's more than enough cars. You can pick any car you want to drive and just dive in or you can go into career mode and work your way up through the classes.
Apart from some of the worst AI drivers thinking the back of my car is for use instead of brakes there's not too much wrong at all UNTIL you play online. I've seen several reviews recently claiming it's a backward step from where previous versions were. I've not raced online before so I can't confirm that, but it is awful. You can't race 'normal' cars, you can't set up to race with damage options turned on (unless you do it just with friends, so it's like going on the dodgems because there's no deterrent to stop people bashing into you.
A good game spoiled by terrible online options.

The racing game I have been waiting for.
Firstly, I'm pretty naff at racing games. I bought Forza 2, and couldn't get on with it, then tried Project Gotham 4 which I also found very frustrating. Which is, as I said, because I'm naff at racing games and nothing to do with the quality of either Forza 2 or PGR4.

I have been searching for a racing game which can give a novice like me a chance to have a laugh zipping round a few tracks without crashing every 3 seconds, and give me at least half a chance to win a few races. And then, if I want to make things a bit more challenging, I can up the difficulty when I'm more confident.

I wasn't really all that bothered when I heard Forza 3 had been released. I just thought, ah well, another racing game which will be completely out of my league. I downloaded the demo from Xbox live just out of curiosity and was pleasantly proven wrong.

I switched to cockpit view and was bowled over at how accessible this game is, even to a lightweight like me. Gaming for me is about having fun. This game, with it's awesome graphics, excellent frame rate and addictive gameplay, is what makes video games great in my opinion. I cannot speak for the die hard racing game fans who want racing games to be as difficult as possible, but I'm sure the makers have tried to cater for all types of gamers.

I rarely buy any other type of game than shooters, but I'm really glad I went for this one.

Gran Turismo meets its match - it's only taken 12 years!
The Gran Turismo series nailed car handling from day one and in this respect; everyone else has been playing catch up for a long time now. Finally, Turn 10 have produced a game that not only has the polish and class of Gran Turismo, it's got one hell of a simulation engine and will have you hooked from the first corner.

Presentation is impeccable, from the first load screen to the chequered flag FM3 oozes quality, car models are beautifully realised and the track detail is equally impressive. So it's got the looks, it's got the moves, but where it leaves Gran Turismo trailing in its wake is the single player mode. Turn 10 have gone to great lengths to make this game accessible to everyone, from the seasoned pro to an absolute beginner, there really is something here for everyone. Newbies can turn every driver assist on to guide them round the track safely, and seasoned pros can rejoice at how much extra experience they gain turning everything off to progress quickly up the experience ladder (I'd keep ABS on, because, well you never know....)

Cars are divided into class, ranging from Fiat 500s to Le Manns rocket ships like the Nissan R390 and they're all a hoot to drive. After every race you collect experience depending on your performance and every time you level up you'll be gifted a new car. Each one will lead you down a new road, i fell in love with the tail happy Masserati only to be dragged away to enjoy the thrills of the awesome Ferrari Testarossa.

A calendar forms the basis of your schedule which keeps the game flowing and will always allow you to swap to another car to enter whatever race comes up, and will even allow you to upgrade or downgrade at the push of a button.

There are only a couple of annoyances, kiss goodbye to 2GB of dish space on install and the tracks will still take up to a minute to load. But factor into the package the powerful 'Photoshop' editing tools, online store, online play and you have a vast, engrossing racing game which has the honour of being the first racing game this millennium to steal my heart without using the words Gran Turismo.