Forza

[aoe_viruz]

WOW, Forza is such an awsome game. I've had the demo for a month now and have been playing it with the view over looking the car. I had no sence of speed when I played like that so I would always go in the turns way to fast and just spin out.

Last night I tried it with the bumper cam and man what a difference that makes. You actually feel like your driving the car. You know when your coming in too hot or not. I know this isn't anything new, but wow! If they come out with a good FF wheel for this game I'm going to be one busy mofo for several years.

GT4 and Forza = Kick A$$ games. It's a great year for all of us. So quit your *****in about which is better. There both amazing games.

 

[tha_con]

In-Depth Feature: Part One

Career Mode -

This is the core of Forza Motorsport (FM). It is how you will earn anything and everything you own in this game. You begin with a limited amount of credits (CR) in order to purchase your first car. Throughout your progress in career mode, you will be able to earn more credits, and in turn earn and tune more cars.

Before you do anything, you must chose a Home Region. Your home region determines the cost, availability, and rarity of the cars available to you in career mode. Initially lower class cars are very common in all regions, such as the Honda Civic, or Ford Focus. The upper class cars, like Nissan Skylines and Chevy Corvettes are much more common in their home region, and are rare to others. Any supercar you look for in your quest, for the most part, is going to be extremely rare to all regions. Supercars like Ferrari’s and Porsches are among the few that will be hard to come by. Your region will also determine what kind of relation ship you will build with your aftermarket part dealers throughout your career. Once you chose a region, that’s it, there’s no turning back from this point. Keep in mind, that though you may chose a certain region, cars from all regions will eventually be available for you to buy.

As you progress through career mode, you will unlock different relationships with parts manufacturers and car manufacturers alike. Unlocking a relationship with a parts manufacturer will grant you certain privileges, such as discounted tires, etc. As for car manufacturers, building a relationship with a manufacturer will grant you access to cars that were not initially available for purchase.

Aside from the single player aspect of Career Mode, there is also an online side. There are many races that are strictly available only to online career mode. When racing online, you will be automatically matched with players of equal level and skill, so as not to be blown away by any competition, and make things a bit more challenging on all sides of the spectrum. You will also be able to trade, sell, and buy cars online.

Bangin Body? –

Tuning is also taken to a new level in FM, as you can not only buy engine upgrades, but you now can purchase body upgrades, which can effect your car in positive and negative ways. In addition to body modifications, you can also purchase aftermarket wheels, as well as place decals on your car to create a completely custom car that reflects you and your tastes. Decals can be placed on the car in up to 100 different layers per side (6 sides total), allowing you to get a look that is completely unique to your car.

The core of the custom design feature is the decals and vinyl’s in the game. You can create different decals and vinyl’s by stacking different shapes, patterns, and decals together to create your own look. You will be able to layer and stack as many as 100 different elements on one of the six given sides. The six parts are the top side, right side, left side, front bumper, rear bumper, and the rear wing. This allows you to place up to 600 total layers of custom greatness to your ride. You can also create custom skins that can serve as standards for your Online Car Club.

As for the body modifications, you can chose from a plethora of different front bumpers, side skirts, rear spoilers, and hoods. Each of these modifications will effect the cars down force, as well as the cars overall weight. In addition to standard body mods, you will also be allowed to paint your car in many different ways. You can paint the body, mirrors, hood, and wing any different color, to ensure the look is completely you.

Overall the appearance and aero tuning in FM is the most advanced car customization option on a console racer to date. Is someone else driving a car that looks exactly like yours? More than likely, you’ll never find out…yes there are that many options.

Stay Tuned as we keep you posted with the second half of our in-depth Forza Motorsport Preview, with details on Drivatar, multiplayer, and the down and dirty tuning aspect of FM.

 

[McLaren]

Great review.

So what do you mean, its hard for Porsches and Ferraris to come by? Is it hard in Europe?

Can you start racing tracks in other regions?

 

[tha_con]

Preview

And What I ment by Porsches and Ferrari's being "hard to come by" is that no matter what region you are in, it isn't easy to get them. Not saying they are going to be a hard find, however, it works like this.

Road Cars = Civic, Focus, Neon, etc. Pretty common in any region.
Sport Cars = NSX, Skyline, Vette. Only common in their specific region, rare in others.
Super Cars = Porsche, Ferrari, etc. Rare, and not "common" in any region.

And yes, tracks in other regions are open in all the race events. My favorite races right now are the point to point races, they are short and fast, usually fun. Though, in my opinion, I like the Mission based races in GT4 just a tad more, but these by far are my favorite part of Forza, I just love the pace of them (though it's not too challenging, lol, but still fun).

The nurb is a pretty cool track in Forza, I'm just not sure if I really like the art direction it has...the fall is just a little different, but still it's a neat track none the less.

 

[kinigitt]

Preview

And What I ment by Porsches and Ferrari's being "hard to come by" is that no matter what region you are in, it isn't easy to get them. Not saying they are going to be a hard find, however, it works like this.

Road Cars = Civic, Focus, Neon, etc. Pretty common in any region.
Sport Cars = NSX, Skyline, Vette. Only common in their specific region, rare in others.
Super Cars = Porsche, Ferrari, etc. Rare, and not "common" in any region.

And yes, tracks in other regions are open in all the race events. My favorite races right now are the point to point races, they are short and fast, usually fun. Though, in my opinion, I like the Mission based races in GT4 just a tad more, but these by far are my favorite part of Forza, I just love the pace of them (though it's not too challenging, lol, but still fun).

The nurb is a pretty cool track in Forza, I'm just not sure if I really like the art direction it has...the fall is just a little different, but still it's a neat track none the less.

so does the damage do anything?

 

[tha_con]

so does the damage do anything?

I haven't turned on sim damage, however, thus far, on cosmetic, it has little to no effect that I can notice. I haven't been able to play it for three days, been playing GT4 and Tekken 5 lately, so my time has been pretty much sponged. Hopefully I can play more tomorrow night or sometime in the following days.

 

[kinigitt]

I haven't turned on sim damage, however, thus far, on cosmetic, it has little to no effect that I can notice. I haven't been able to play it for three days, been playing GT4 and Tekken 5 lately, so my time has been pretty much sponged. Hopefully I can play more tomorrow night or sometime in the following days.

hmm

off topic, but how's tekken 5? I liked the PS1 tekkens, but tag tournament and 4 didn't float my boat.

 

[tha_con]

Well, my roommates are HARDCORE tekken players, i.e. they go to national tourney's etc. So to them it rocks. To me? I enjoy it, just because King got upgraded, character design is cool, and you can customize your characters. The gameplay is no where near 4, i.e. it's better This is more like Tekken 3 with upgrades galore, lol. See there was a different guy heading up Tekken 4, now he's gone, and the original guy is back. So this is a great tekken, IMO. I like it a lot.

Plus the console version has MORE characters...though I am not at liberty to say, but I know....muahahahaha.

 

[kinigitt]

Well, my roommates are HARDCORE tekken players, i.e. they go to national tourney's etc. So to them it rocks. To me? I enjoy it, just because King got upgraded, character design is cool, and you can customize your characters. The gameplay is no where near 4, i.e. it's better This is more like Tekken 3 with upgrades galore, lol. See there was a different guy heading up Tekken 4, now he's gone, and the original guy is back. So this is a great tekken, IMO. I like it a lot.

Plus the console version has MORE characters...though I am not at liberty to say, but I know....muahahahaha.

cool. tekken 3 was my fave. for me, SC 2 is the reigning champ (until I get my paws on this game...)

 

[JasonX]

3 more months now...delayed again!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess it will be just like GT4

source

 

[Swift]

Well, my roommates are HARDCORE tekken players, i.e. they go to national tourney's etc. So to them it rocks. To me? I enjoy it, just because King got upgraded, character design is cool, and you can customize your characters. The gameplay is no where near 4, i.e. it's better This is more like Tekken 3 with upgrades galore, lol. See there was a different guy heading up Tekken 4, now he's gone, and the original guy is back. So this is a great tekken, IMO. I like it a lot.

Plus the console version has MORE characters...though I am not at liberty to say, but I know....muahahahaha.

Cool, I didn't even know that Tekken 5 was out in Japan already. I won a few tournaments in Tekken 3. Never did the national thing though.

Oh, thanks for the info on Forza as well.

 

[cpl_richie]

Wow, they really do want to make Forza like GT4.


..............and i just pre-ordered yesterday

 

[RazorDK]

3 more months now...delayed again!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess it will be just like GT4

source

Relax the game is only delayed 1½ week.

 

[tha_con]

Cool, I didn't even know that Tekken 5 was out in Japan already. I won a few tournaments in Tekken 3. Never did the national thing though.

Oh, thanks for the info on Forza as well.

Tekken 5 isn't out in Japan yet, we have both an arcade cabinet courtesy of Namco, as well as a preview build. Details are not allowed

 

[Swift]

Tekken 5 isn't out in Japan yet, we have both an arcade cabinet courtesy of Namco, as well as a preview build. Details are not allowed

That's cool. I used to get hooked up with stuff like that back in the day. Enjoy it bud.

 

[tha_con]

That's cool. I used to get hooked up with stuff like that back in the day. Enjoy it bud.

mine is less of a hook up and more of a job kinda takes the fun out of it sometimes....

 

[cracra]

hello

thank IGN,Team XBOX,Game spot, OKI ......

 

[Gek54]

Beautiful game...except for the barbie camero

 

[drprince89]

noice except the people on the grass look like complete crap.

 

[kinigitt]

noice except the people on the grass look like complete crap.

yeah. why bother with spectators that look like that?

 

[McLaren]

This is what I love about Forza. There is an awesome selection of cars not seen any in game.

 

[cpl_richie]

nice except the people on the grass look like complete crap.

Seems like a waste of time, I wonder if you would even see them from the track.

 

[kinigitt]

Seems like a waste of time, I wonder if you would even see them from the track.

I hope you can't.

 

[godzilla_GTR]

this will have been asked but i am at school on a detention and the teacher is out of class so can sum1 tel me da release date?

 

[AZ_Sidewinder]

may 3

 

[code_kev]

New preview on IGN, sounding even better then before tbh.

 

[kinigitt]

New preview on IGN, sounding even better then before tbh.

the one about the career mode? that's more than a week old isn't it?

 

[Safe Speed]

This is what I love about Forza. There is an awesome selection of cars not seen any in game.

Yeah well, PD has a selection of cars not seen in any game also.....POS cars that is. I mean in the Honda section, there is even a freakin van in there. I can understand some of the cars in GT4 but some are just flat out ridiculous and are a waste of space to more important cars. Why does PD have to do that to us?

 

[kinigitt]

Yeah well, PD has a selection of cars not seen in any game also.....POS cars that is. I mean in the Honda section, there is even a freakin van in there. I can understand some of the cars in GT4 but some are just flat out ridiculous and are a waste of space to more important cars. Why does PD have to do that to us?

in a recent interview, Kaz said that many of the cars in GT4 are there because manufacturers often ask to have them included (read: japanese manufacturers). Free advertising?

 

[HYBRIDLVR]

From the way those Graphics look, I'd rather have GT1 than Forza!