Forza Motorsport 3

[andygti]

finaly got round to playing it today and played it for 2 hours and was about to drive my rocco for the first time and bang!!! 3 red lights of death! feking thing! so no more forza for 2 weeks!

[Treza360]

finaly got round to playing it today and played it for 2 hours and was about to drive my rocco for the first time and bang!!! 3 red lights of death! feking thing! so no more forza for 2 weeks!

Mate that sucks so badly. I've read about a couple of people on OCAU who've had that happen to them as well.
Touch wood it doesn't happen to me.
Cheers,
Trent

[Preen59]

Playing it at the moment. Whipping my beasty Ford Fiesta up to level 5 before I move onto bigger, greater and faster things.

Having AI that makes mistakes and a proper damage model is awesome. There hasn't been this kind of proper racing since the TOCA2 days. Seeing the leader of the race fly into a barrier because you were closing in on him and he pushed too hard is great.

Unless they introduce this kind of AI into GT5 I can't see how it will be better at all no matter how many cars and fancy the graphics are. They've already dropped the ball by not implementing a full damage model.

Cheers,
Trent

I trust your opinion, Trent..

I might have to go and make a purchase. Hell, I don't know when i'll ever get to play it, but it sounds like it should be a good investment.. I have Forza 2 which is pretty awesome. The suspension physics etc etc were pretty spot on. The only thing i hate about games in the lack of feel (which, short of a fully mechanised simulator is pretty hard to replicate..). Everything is visual so it's much harder to set a car up neutral and be fast..

[Treza360]

I trust your opinion, Trent.

Thanks mate.

The game is definitely a step up over Forza 2. Has more feel to it but will never be as good as the real thing (of course).

Still excellent fun and I'm definitely going to pick myself up a wheel and pedals in the future. Probably just the MS wireless setup though.

On another note a Renault Twingo Sport I was running against went way too hot into the last series of corners on the Motegi West Circuit and flipped his car over. The AI whacks into you, tries to spin you around through the corners. This is great fun.

Can't wait until I move up and get into the proper race cars

Cheers,
Trent

[Treza360]

My little lawn mower.

Cheers,
Trent

[Mrk_Mickey]

GOT RICE!! hahaha Trent your car is the rice extraordinairre but I love it

Wish I had the platform for Forza...sounds good!

[Treza360]

GOT RICE!! hahaha Trent your car is the rice extraordinairre but I love it
Wish I had the platform for Forza...sounds good!

Unfortunately they're the only front and rear wings that are downforce adjustable.
That's one of the things that annoyed me in FM2 and now FM3, if you want adjustable wings you have to install hideously rice wings.
Oh well, grip trumps looks any day (at least when it comes down to racing games and track work). Everyday real driving is another thing...
Cheers,
Trent

[Preen59]

That's not rice.. Those wings actually work!

[Steve88]

finaly got round to playing it today and played it for 2 hours and was about to drive my rocco for the first time and bang!!! 3 red lights of death! feking thing! so no more forza for 2 weeks!

u can send it off to microsoft and get it fixed for free, same thing happened to me ages ago

[MattyT]

Treza whats ur xbox name???

The AI is much much better then FM2, im being a real bastard to it and its biting back, perfect Havent seen a car roll it yet tho... yet...

Bit annoyyed you cant search the car list by body type when buying. Have wasted a few thousand on cars that i thort were coupes, etc when they werent.

The handling, physics etc seem to have been tweaked too. I'm lift-off oversteering in the E and F class fwd cars, that never happened before :O