Forza for the Xbox [Archive] - Sports Car Forum

666fast

06-02-2004, 07:04 PM

I'm surprised there hasn't been a post about this yet. Either that, or I'm dumb and couldn't find it.

Trailer- http://movies.teamxbox.com/forza/forza_feature.wmv
E3 Trailer- http://movies.teamxbox.com/mspress/forza_e3.wmv

Make every car yours: Collect models from more than 60 top car manufacturers, including Mazda, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Porsche, BMW, and Dodge. Trick out sport compacts with real-world body kits, rims, spoilers, decals, side skirts, fender flares, and hood scoops. Add motorsport decals and team paint-schemes to supercars, GT racers, and exotics. Transform production cars into racetrack monsters.

Tune it up: Take your car to the garage and install alternative engines, suspension kits, bolt-on superchargers, brakes, rims, racing slicks, and more. Fine-tune gear ratios, fuel-mapping, forced-induction pressure, tire temperature and pressure, and ignition timing for the ultimate setup.

Experience the most technically advanced driving simulation on Xbox: Top automotive engineers teamed with experienced programmers to create an advanced physics engine for Forza Motorsport, designed to simulates authentic car performance. Cars incur damage and wear, which affects car performance. Advanced tire and suspension models respond to heat and pressure changes as well as weight transfer and aerodynamic load.

Drive in gorgeous track environments: From the famously challenging Nurburgring Nordschleife to the spectator-lined streets of Rio de Janeiro, race on meticulously designed tracks with an incredible sense of speed and realism.

Check out the revolutionary A.I. Drivatar™ technology: Train your own A.I. “Drivatars” to use the same racing techniques you do, so they can race for you in competitions or train new drivers on your team. Drivatar technology is the foundation of the human-like A.I. in Forza Motorsport.
Take online racing to the next level: From intense multiplayer wheel-to-wheel racing to challenging individual bests and beyond, Forza Motorsport’s Xbox Live gameplay will deliver innovations that reinvent the online racing experience.

Enjoy a graphical showcase on the most powerful console: Well-balanced reflections, lighting, and shadows tie together highly detailed cars and smooth-edged environments. Camera effects like blooming, lens flare, heat shimmer, light rays, depth of field, and haze create TV-quality presentation. Unique road textures, surface irregularities, persistent oil and skid marks, and scraped walls deliver an incredible sense of speed.

Sounds pretty damn good to me! Should you choose to do so, you can build yourself the ultimate ricemobile or a monster. Hopefully, by the time this comes out, there will be a proper forcefeedback wheel worth a damn for the Xbox.

EDIT- forgot screenshots
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0001.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0002.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0003.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0004.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0005.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0006.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0007.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0008.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0009.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0012.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0015.jpg
http://www.xbox.com/media/games/forza/sim-forza-0016.jpg

gis

06-02-2004, 07:54 PM

this game does look great and interesting,but after playin the GT4 prolouge thats the only car gaem i cant seem to get out my mind,lol

Sachmo12345

06-02-2004, 08:18 PM

now that looks like a good racing game when is it coming out

vv1s34ss

06-02-2004, 08:23 PM

wow, look/sounds good. too bad i only have a GC

Sachmo12345

06-02-2004, 08:29 PM

i only have a GC

HAHAHA what on earth made you get one of those

T-Bird

06-02-2004, 09:19 PM

hey I've got one but then again I have every nintendo system since the original including all the game boys. And PS2 and X-Box. I might just invest in this one.

vv1s34ss

06-02-2004, 09:32 PM

Quote:

i only have a GC

HAHAHA what on earth made you get one of those

I gotta stay loyal to Nintendo, that's what. Plus, I love the Resident Evil series

666fast

06-02-2004, 09:50 PM

now that looks like a good racing game when is it coming out

There isn't a release date yet. Next summer of fall most likely.

Plus, I love the Resident Evil series

You'll get along with gis just fine then! LOL

I've wanted a GameCube for quite awhile. I plan on getting one eventually.

RC45

06-02-2004, 10:59 PM

All this with a game pad. :roll:

I will spend no more on X-Box car games until they begin supporting decent wheels and pedals.

Sachmo12345

06-02-2004, 11:01 PM

ive never used a wheel i cant imagine it actually working that well

T-Bird

06-02-2004, 11:14 PM

they work pretty well if you have a really good one and a decent place to sit with it.

I was given this one: http://gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=801681

Overpriced but quite nice 8)

666fast

06-03-2004, 01:38 AM

PATo355

06-03-2004, 01:42 AM

Very nice graphics and it looks very interesting , there is a Gumball game for the PS2 , so that leaves the question ... im not really fan of videogames , but at 149 dollars i think i might get one of those

gis

06-03-2004, 07:30 AM

Quote:

i only have a GC

HAHAHA what on earth made you get one of those

I gotta stay loyal to Nintendo, that's what. Plus, I love the Resident Evil series

well done :D
the only reason i have a gamecube is because of the resident evil games

Squeek

06-03-2004, 11:10 AM

hehehe omg resi evil sucks donkey balls...............hehehe kiddin people! ive got a gamecube ps2 xbox n pc n love all of them except the gc!! i think its a bit crap 2 b honest! anyone wanting one? lol. forza looks alrite but the game looks a bit slow. :(

RC45

06-03-2004, 03:03 PM

All this with a game pad.

I will spend no more on X-Box car games until they begin supporting decent wheels and pedals.

There is always one! :wink:

I somewhat agree. I'd love a good forcefeedback wheel, but I'm not gonna deprive myself of a great game because I have to use a gamepad.

Well - my though is that there are so MANY sorta-decent games - why not have a slightly higher criteria to use to make the final choice... ;)

666fast

06-03-2004, 03:20 PM

Well - my though is that there are so MANY sorta-decent games - why not have a slightly higher criteria to use to make the final choice...

Umm........ :? ........Shut Up! :wink:

/starts running for the hills

vv1s34ss

06-03-2004, 05:24 PM

well done
the only reason i have a gamecube is because of the resident evil games

right on, I can't wait til RE4 comes out, it looks awesome.

gis

06-03-2004, 09:05 PM

RE4 is gonna rule indeed.the trailer for it is amazing if u seen it

666fast

06-03-2004, 10:12 PM

the trailer for it is amazing if u seen it

Incase he hasn't, go here: http://www.gametrailers.com/vault-r.html
It has all the videos that were released for RE4.

RC45

06-03-2004, 10:12 PM

vv1s34ss

06-04-2004, 04:31 PM

No, 666fast, I hadn't seen all those trailers. Absolutely amazing....

sameerrao

06-04-2004, 07:18 PM

This would be something that might force me to buy a Xbox. I like the realism of my GT3 but don't care for over 50% of the cars offered. There is too much bias toward Japanese cars with endless variants of Skylines and Evos and the like. Sure they are nice cars but who needs 10 of them...

The PGR2 has an interesting mix of cars and looks like Forza does too...

I alsolike the fact that they have Nurburgring circuit...

HoboPie

06-05-2004, 12:52 AM

Enzo vs Carrera GT vs SLR vs Mclaren F1(apparently is in) at the Ring in likely the most accurate racing sim on a console to date.

Sounds good to me.

sads

06-05-2004, 01:05 AM

It will probably look better then GT4 but with the sheer number of cars in GT4 plus online play theres realy no contest is there? GT4 all the way!
As for other hot games at E3 what about Juiced from Activision that looks damn hot as well! A nice mix of NFS Underground and GT4

HoboPie

06-05-2004, 03:39 PM

Forza is going to be fully online, and considering the way Xbox live is setup it will probably be a better experience if the gameplay was identical.

Also the sheer number of cars is not that great an advantage. I do enjoy a lot of cars, but you could drop GT4 from 500cars to 250 cars(keep in mind that would be made up of mainly civics, eco cars and the odd 100hp concept) and if I could just get a few Ferraris I would be happy.

I do realize there is a difference between evos from different years and that is good, but in this case there is going to be a tradeoff, and in the end I'm going to get more out of Ferraris, Porsches, and others including the Koenigsegg and Mclaren F1(road version).

sheruken

06-05-2004, 09:16 PM

Yes Forza is going to be a great console game, specially it having more exotics than any other racing game yet. But only time will say whether it lives up against the Mighty GT4 or not?
I personally don't have Xbox/GC. I play games on a highend - PC and a PS2..
So please tell me if a game is so worth, that causes u to buy the console. Coz after watching trailers of Resident Evil / Zelda / Metal Gear Solid : Twin Snakes, I was almost ready to buy a GC, but will change my mind if Forza turns out a GT4 beater..

crazidude

06-05-2004, 09:31 PM

Man the graphics look sweet on this. I hope there's a long list of tracks, cars and mods in this.
I still have to get my ass an xbox for pgr 2.

FoxFour

06-06-2004, 07:15 PM

I'm all into sim games. Right now ToCA Race Driver2 is what I have been playing a lot of. Finally, a game developer using real auto engineers to design a game. Nice to know that this game has real-life consequences if you drive too hard. Brakes fade, tires wear, damage;etc. Will even up the playing field online. It sucks to play Project Gotham2 online and some 13 year old kid walks by you in an Enzo that more than likely doesn't drive like that in the real world.

husyk

06-06-2004, 10:05 PM

The game does look promising, better not have shallow gameplay and short. It was cool when I saw it via LIVE coverage from E3. I also liked he XNA demo they showed with the Saleens on a head on collision.

666fast

06-07-2004, 10:46 PM

http://previews.teamxbox.com/xbox/761/Forza-Motorsport/p1

Pretty good article. the best part is they say it'll come out this year around Christmas time! :shock: I did not expect it so soon. I figured next summer at the earliest.
It also mentions a prototype Steering wheel from Madcatz. Please let it be true and good god it better have force feedback!

I can't wait to stuff a high powered supercar engine into something small like a Neon. just for shits and giggles.
I want this game now.