Forza 3

A 2nd title update was made available today (Thanksgiving) for Forza 3. Here are the details:

Comin’ at you with a quick studio update before we take off to enjoy the Thanksgiving long weekend. We’ve been moving quickly to get a few things wrapped up this week, and I've been busy working on a new video for our Hot Holidays car pack. Che's hinted at our next installment of Downloadable Content (DLC). Every car is a heavy hitter folks! The Hot Holidays car pack will be available for download on December 8th, but check back soon for the official video and car list.

The rest of us here at Turn 10 have been crunching away on our second title update that will hit an Xbox 360 near you later this evening. Besides what you see below we’ve also patched a few holes to maintain equilibrium in our online economy…something we take very seriously.

This new title update contains:

• Fixes to all known glitches.
• The addition of cockpit view driver shift animations.
• Fixes for all known Time Trial and Leaderboard exploits/bugs.

New title update aside we’ve also updated our Matchmaking list with some new additions you’ll want to check out this long weekend. The major addition you’ll notice is our all-new “Playground” category that will be used to host alternative game types like tag, and more restrictive racing such as our “A Class Expert” hopper that is currently live. For tag we’ve added an A Class “Keep the IT” game type where the winner is the person who’s been “IT” the longest after 5 minutes. Expect to see this section in flux more often than our other general categories. Have a look!

Our lucky LCE owners got another special treat as we’ve sent out the latest VIP car earlier today. Check the in-game message center to receive your copy of the Halo Waypoint Lambo (shown above), painted by community MVP “m0dus”!

Source: Turn 10 Studios Blog

It's still in the Q.  I need to send Fifa 10 and another game back.

I'm totally hooked. I'm currently in my 4th year with a driver rating of 24 and just bought the Forza 3 Hyundai Genesis Coupe for my R2 class races. It lacks a high top-speed but handles great and has exceptional acceleration and braking.

Originally posted by JasonSGN BTW, I'll list some cars that I'll be giving away (Class A and B) if anyone is interested.

Here's the list. Send me a PM if you're interested and I'll gift you the cars through the game:

1. 2005 Honda NSX-r GT Class B
2. Jaquar XKR-5 Class B
3. BMW Motorsport M3-GTR Class B
   
4. 2007 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Class A
5. RVR Sagairs Class A
6. Porsche 911 GT2 (997) Class A

Ted,

Right now I'd choose Forza. NFS: Shift is still a lot of fun and the patch (coming this Tuesday) should make it even better, but it feels more like Forza's little brother. Dirt 2 is a completely different type of game, but right now I'm enjoying Forza more than I liked Dirt 2 a few weeks ago. I guess the simple answer is that I'd go with Forza over the other two, even though all of them are great games. It's simply the most polished and complete game.

I was caught off-guard with Forza 3 because I didn't really like Forza 2, so I'd suggest you not have any preconceived opinions on Forza 3 based on Forza 2 - to me, they're completely different games.

Ted, the career mode is 6 years long. Each year consists of more races and faster cars. For example, my first year consisted of 9 races with a championship race after every 3. My 3rd year consisted of 32 races and it looks like my 4th year will have about 45+ races. There are different races to choose from so everyone can follow a different path in their career.

I like how the car classes work too. You can upgrade cars so that they can race in higher classes instead of having to purchase a new car. I've actually done this with my 2010 Audi R8 Quattro. It was originally a class A car that I upgraded to a class S and now currently a class R3. I did it for 2 reasons:

1. I like the car and how it handled
2. It was cheaper to upgrade than buying an R3 car.

I've been using the automatic upgrade, which you can accept or cancel after seeing what improvements will be made to the car and how much it will cost. I've done some minor manual upgrades too, but I've been satisfied with the automatic upgrades for the most part. To be honest,  I've ever spent so much time upgrading and tuning cars in ANY racing game before and in case I haven't made in clear in all my babbling in this thread - Forza 3 is damn good game.

Here's a pic of my car using the in-game picture gallery: