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| Forza Motorsport | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 3964
Platform: Xbox
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: P74028
Model: 805529944466
UPC: 805529944466
EAN: 0805529944466
ASIN: B0006BK58U
Release Date: May 5, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Forza Motorsport revs up gamers who are passionate about cars andracing. It's the ultimate car-lover's playground, letting gamers buy, sell, trade, tune, modify and race their customized car collection. On the track, players experience an impressively accurate simulation, putting their performance-tuned creations to the test against the best the online world has to offer on Xbox Live! Take online racing from intense multiplayer wheel-to-wheel racing to challenging individual bests and beyond Gorgeous graphical showcase -- well-balanced reflections, lighting, and shadows; Real camera effects like blooming, lens flare, heat shimmer, light rays, depth of field, and haze create TV-quality presentation
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In Forza Motorsport, it's all about you and your car. With over 250 of the baddest racing machines imaginable, an infinite number of ways to customize them, and all the tools you need to tune them to perfection, you'll find yourself behind the wheel of the slickest vehicles on the planet. With Forza Motorsport, you'll be able to own cars from the world's most recognized manufacturers. Get behind the wheel of the Enzo Ferrari, Porsche 911, Ford GT, or the Audi R8, to name a few. The physics model of each car is based upon actual car data, so your driving feels like the real deal. Plus, Forza has taken meticulous steps to design each car's visuals according to exact specifications. Teams of artists have worked to reproduce the surface properties of materials in an ultra-realistic fashion -- the painted metal is shiny with gloss, the glass reflects light, and the car's rubber is rich with texture. You can trick out every car with real-world body parts, such as rims, wings, side skirts, bumpers, and hoods. At the advanced paint shop you can pimp your ride with phatty decals and classy custom paint schemes. But don't stop with looks alone -- Forza also lets you upgrade your car with suspension kits, turbochargers, superchargers, intercoolers, brakes, and racing slicks. It's your car, and Forza gives you the tools to make it your own. And once your ride is ready, you can immerse yourself in 17 different environments that deliver challenging tracks textured with accurate, photo-realistic graphics. Slip on your driving gloves, get behind the wheel, and rev your engine as you ready yourself for the world-famous Nring Nordschleife, the corkscrew turns of Laguna Seca, the urban jungle of New York City, or the lush Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro. Each location has been recreated with detail matching the attention given to the vehicles -- the total package of fast cars and exotic locales makes the racing experience of Forza Motorsport totally awesome. Take your powerful, new creation to cyberspace, and challenge the globe's toughest drivers on Xbox Live. Once you've built your vehicle and mastered all the driving nuances, you'll be ready to burn some serious rubber.
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 THE PREMIERE X-BOX RACING GAME May 4, 2005
40 out of 44 found this review helpful
Forza Motorsport is Microsoft's grand attempt at breaking the strangle hold that Grand Turismo has had on the racing simulation. The attempt is certainly a very impressive one and quite welcome as well. First of all we start with vehicle selection of over 200 cars from Ford, Nissan, Porsche, Mecedes and more that will be available through content download off X-Box Live. With this many cars to choose from, it makes for great replay capability. The game features several different modes of play including Arcade, career and of course multi-player online, also greatly adding to the replay value.
In Arcade mode you can compete in six different vehicle classes. Most of the cars are selectable but many have to be unlocked through gameplay. In all the arcade mode offers 186 races in 31 different events making it a tremendous challenge. But Forza Motorsport really shines with the tremendous career mode option. You start by selecting your home region which dictates the cars that are available for use with a starting number of six in each region. From there you start your career at the bottom in the amateur circuit to race and build credits towards buying new cars, buying parts or making modifications to your existing ride. Just the paint and decal selections to modify your car's look offers hundreds of options. Credits are also used to unlock higher levels of competition to get more challenges. There is also a pretty cool reward system where you can gain discounts on parts from certain manufacturers. When it comes right down to it, the sheer number of option and modifications that you have available to you can be pretty overwhelming, but if you're looking for depth in this department then this is the game for you.
The graphics and sound are just fabulous and top Grand Turismo in every way. The cars look showroom accurate and the various tracks and locations you race on are just stunning! The music offers several options including adding your own custom soundtracks. With it's sheer number of options and great play Forza Motorsport is a fantastic race simulation.
Excellent graphics, car details, and racing feel! September 6, 2005
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I just recently picked up an X-Box, and I bought several games to start playing. All of the others are still in the wrappers, as I cannot put this one down. I love racing games, period, so this review is a bit biased. That said, here is what I love about this game:
The car options are first rate. Everything from VW to Lemans Racing Cars, and everything in between. Try racing street car, the switching on the same track to a race car. The differential between the speed and handling ability is amazing.
The track options are first rate. With multiple tracks to choose from, they are all excellent, with good graphics. My favorite so far is Rio.
The driver controls are also exceptional. I notice several reviews here are stating that there is no "driver's view". I found it one certainly seems to be that view out the front. I personally prefer the "just behind" the car view however to get a better feel for other cars.
The "damage" setting is a blast. I like the "cosmetic" setting so I can ram the corners flat out and bounce through the hairpins. The other damage settings are great though too with two people racing as your car begins to pull to the left, wobble on the straights, etc., as it gets knocked around. It would be even better if a pit stop would repair the damage; so far I have not found this option.
The only complaints I would have are around the options for single player. It would be nice to have any car, any setting, available from the start. Also, it would be great to have some Formula One car options available.
Great to "plug and play". I have little patience or time to be sifting through complex manuals, or trying to decipher complex controls, so this game works well just by plugging it in, and driving off.
If you like racing games, then give this one a try. It is too much fun, and hard to put down.
Best. Racing. Game. Ever. June 11, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
There is something that has taken over my life and slowly but surely sucked all productivity and responsiveness out of my overwhelmed mind.
No, it's not the latest reality TV show.
It's this game.
"Forza Motorsport" is simply phenomenal in every way. I have eight other driving games for the Xbox, from arcade racers like "Burnout 3" to more realistic ones like "Sega GT". "Forza" kicks all their butts eight ways to Sunday. It's the Dodge Viper to everyone else's Geo Metro.
Okay, that's unfair to titles like "Project Gotham Racing 2", which are excellent in their own right.
But "Forza" takes the racing game formula, bolts on an intercooled turbocharger, limited slip differential, cat-back exhaust and racing slicks, and pumps up the gameplay to a whole 'nuther level.
The level of detail and realism in this game is stunning. The graphics are excellent, with the car models resembling those in "PGR2", and the environments better than anything out there.
But where "Forza" really shines is the gameplay. It simply grabs hold of your lapels and yanks you into the cockpit of your latest ride and leaves you panting for more at every turn.
An example: Most racing games revolve around unlockables, and "Forza" is no exception. There are hundreds of vehicles to unlock, and each one can be upgraded and modified in many ways. But whereas other games usually require you to place in the top three in a race or even win it outright to advance, "Forza" takes a different approach. Unless you come in dead last in a race, you will earn money for having completed it. You can then spend that money on upgrading your car. Repeat this process until you win. It's a much better system than the winner-takes-all formula, because it gives you a stake in completing your current race even if you aren't going to win.
"Forza" has incredible depth and breadth, as well. There are hundreds of cars and dozens of tracks. You start winning some pretty cool cars quite early in the game, too, unlike others where you start with sub-compacts, move on to compacts, and maybe 20 hours later you're driving a Ferrari.
There is a great variety of races, too. For instance, one may be open only to mid-engined cars, while another may be restricted to cars under 200 horsepower.
"Forza" has also packed enough techincal stuff under its hood to keep car geeks happy for a long time. Apart from upgrading the cars with high-performance parts, you can actually go in and tweak various settings of the suspension, tires, etc. You can then test drive the car to see if your adjustments translate into better performance on the track.
Another sweet feature is, when you replay a race, you can cycle through all kinds of telemetrics that continously show you things like g-forces, power generation, tire camber, and much more. I don't understand half of it, but it is impressive to watch and drives home how seriously the design team took the creation of this game.
I unequivocally recommend this game for anyone who loves cars and wants an unparalleled driving experience on the Xbox.
Move over Gran Turismo May 4, 2005
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
GT4 is dead, there is a new king in town and its Forza. This game smokes GT4. Better graphics, better AI, better money/reward system. I bought GT4 on opening day and have played it maybe 6 hours total. Just since buying forza, I have probably played it more then that. You can google search it if you want screen caps or full reviews, but if you want the best racing simulator, go and get forza. it even has autocross tracks.
 A complete and unexpected disappointment compared to GT4 July 2, 2005
7 out of 18 found this review helpful
I cannot believe what a hunk of junk this game is compared to GT4. My level of disappointment far exceeds the whopping $50 I spent of this game. Let's be specific. Here are quantitatively some of deficiences of this game compared to GT4:
1) Engine sound is absolutely muted and unrealistic. A porsche and a Ferrari sounds remarkably similar. I have no good sense of how fast I'm going by the engine revs, unlike GT4 where I can clearly hear the demarcation of when the engine is approaching the redline
2) The car visuals are completely 2-dimensional. One of the greatest innovations in GT4 is the car dipping that occurs when you slam on the breaks. This really gives you a wonderful sense of how fast you are going on a track and how hard you are breaking. I get none that with this piece of crap Forza game.
3) The road texture in Forza is completely non-distinguishing as a function of speed. In GT4 the road texture becomes rich and more detailed when you're at slow speeds, and becomes more blurred and smoothened out at the higher speeds. Just like R.E.A.L.I.T.Y. Again, this gives you a wonderful sense of how fast you're going. In Forza the texture is pretty much the same no matter how fast you're going... so again, you have no feel for how fast the car is going.
4) The gravel in Forza is ridiculously unrealistic. When you hit the gravel sections your speed drops ridiculously abruptly... which makes no sense. Also, in GT4, when you hit the gravel, your car bounces around like your traveling over... gravel! There is none of that bumpiness in Forza
5) The scenary in Forza, although better detail than GT4, looks completely CARTOONISH. Looks like something out of a Japanese animation movie. There is absolutely no sense of being immersed in a real environment, like in GT4.
6) The controller feedback vibrations in Forza is, for one nearly non-existent. Going over a candy-cane is about the same as getting into the gravel areas. In GT4, the feedback when you hit the canes is so in tune with the visual feedback of "bumpiness" and the auditory feedback of tires running over those canes. Forza has none of that, again, giving you no sense of speed, excess of speed and a general feeling of how the car is handling the road.
Overall, even without the GT4 comparisons, this was a highly unsatisfying and unenjoyable experience. After a number of hours playing this game, not only did I find myself not ever wanting to master any of the tracks, I found myself never wanting to drive any of these tracks nor any of the cars again. When I fired up my PS2 and ran GT4, I can't describe in words the exhilaration I felt when my passion and interest for driving simulation games was instanteously restored...
Save your money and your frustation. Pass on Forza, and get yourself GT4.
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