Hi guys

I received Forza 3 in the post today. I have been playing it for the past 5 hours. I must say that I'm loving the higher fidelity in the feel of all the cars.

The sounds of the cars have also been improved considerably especially for the small hot hatches etc. They now sound like they do in real life i.e pokey with a great nasal punch rather than they kinda wishy washy lets just get straight onto the 500bhp cars feel of Forza 2.

I like the racing calendar which provides a focus to the game but it's good to know that you can go over to exhibition and take part in any championships that you have unlocked (you unlock far more along the way then you realise)

I'm a little disappointed in the visuals of a couple of the tracks, particularly Sebring as a few seem very much like straight ports from Forza 2 where as Maple valley and Silverstone do look a little more polished. This is only based on the tracks I have seen so far but the new ones do look fantastic.

The pricing of cars and parts have also changed and quite a few of the vintage sports and current high performance P1 class cars are now over a million credits or so which will make you feel like you have earned them! They same to be based more on real life prices now and so some real bargains can be had, especially a few of the M3 beamers one of which can be had for £18,000 which in game can beat cars costing £50k plus!

Well I'm tired now but I'll try to post some tomorrow, if you have any questions you'd like to ask about the game fire away I'll try to answer them, but don't forget I haven't been playing the game for 40 plus hours!

Apologies for concentrating on just a few aspects but these stuck in my mind when posting.

Can't wait to see a few of you online for some races!

Take care

Cool, I hope my game will show up on friday. Really looking forward to this title.

Staffan

Weird, it's not released until next Tuesday, as far as I know.

It's released this Friday in UK and Europe but next week in the US. A shop over here delivers so that you receive your game on release day but due to strikes at the Royal Mail on Thursday and Friday they posted the games out on Monday to ensure that people received the game on release. So many people that ordered from them have received there it. Yesterday evening there were about 30,000 people on the leaderboards.

should have mine tomorrow in the mail

Mine arrived today, and it is brilliant, even my wife that has no interest in cars whatsoever (planes is another story though!) has been gawking over my shoulder while I have been racing.... big thumbs up, I find it very good, and so far no issues with it.

On a more serious note, my neighbour asked me to get him a copy of the LCE versian the same as mine, I ordered it for him a week ago, and I was told yesterday by the retailer that it was on order from MS they had them all sold out for earlier preorders, thankfully a mail got in today that it is in the mail. Was told by that company that the 1000 copies they had received was sold out two weeks ago and that was just early preorders. for Denmark that is very impressive.

Staffan

Just got my copy today.

Wow, game is impressive. Very happy with it.

I hate you all! I am trying to resist buying this because I bought Aion last month, which I am plying heavily and next week Dragon Age comes out, which I preordered months ago. I was hoping to resist util Christmas, but you all are making that very tough.

Finally got my FM3 yesterday.

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