Comments on: Forza 3 reviews go live, all looking rosy

By: JonFE

JonFE — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:09:07 +0000

Eurogamer’s review is finally up (better late than never): 9/10
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/forza-motorsport-3-review

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:59:02 +0000

Ta.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:54:09 +0000

A late one…

1UP : A-
http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3176412

Who knows when EG will get theirs done. Also looking forward to seeing the SimHQ review.

By: Jadeskye

Jadeskye — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:50:41 +0000

Why do people hate forza? XD it’s a good game!

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:25:45 +0000

Related to the game… just saw these smoking hot designs done by m0dus over at Neogaf:

http://neogaf.net/forum/showpost.php?p=17944555&postcount=11359

I can’t wait to see the variety of madness we’ll get when the game gets released.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:28:13 +0000

Not everyone knows the history of everything you know.

By: awesome_gamer

awesome_gamer — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:15:34 +0000

why would anyone put GameReactor review? when it’s a site created by one of Sony’s employee named Wollan, who used to be a viral on NeoGAF Boards.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:05:34 +0000

@ik
Fair enough I just thought it sounded sarcastic

RE: Funded/Bought. Essentially the same but I take your point.

By: Quiiick

Quiiick — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:04:27 +0000

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By: Gadzooks!

Gadzooks! — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:57:49 +0000

@Gekidami

“Atleast my trolling has wit”.

Ironically that’s the first funny thing you’ve said.

By: sel

sel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:29:19 +0000

lk: no problem, mate.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:21:53 +0000

C&VG 9/10 : http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=225057

By: lk

lk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:18:16 +0000

sel: I just wanted to drop a quick apology, I did skim your article a little too fast it seems. something about forza 3 just gets my blood boiling. must be dan greenawalt. >:(

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:17:05 +0000

Another foreign one:
http://gamer.no/article.php?articleId=23782

9/10

By: lk

lk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:10:56 +0000

Gekidami: that’s pretty much what I was implying

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:03:40 +0000

Atleast my trolling has wit Gadzooks, unlike the ignorant things you say.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:59:34 +0000

"Lot of studios can spend that money on things they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford." Yep like PS3 versions If rumours are anything to go by.

By: lk

lk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:57:53 +0000

and I always thought GAF was the place for the cool kids…

By: Gadzooks!

Gadzooks! — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:56:06 +0000

@Gekidami

Go do your weak trolling at GAF. They like your single-digit braincell ‘wit’ there.

By: lk

lk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:53:39 +0000

MS has bought in a lot of exclusives

I would say funded, rather than bought. I think that due to the relative ease to make nice looking games on the 360, a lot of studios can spend that money on things they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford. Hell, everyone should be somewhat thankful for MS throwing all that money around. Who knows if we had a PS3 version of Fallout 3 if it wasn’t for the moneyhats Bethesda got to release the DLC on 360 first.

By: lk

lk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:49:25 +0000

DrDamn, can I still love my 360 why being a bit skeptical about Forza 3?

By: lk

lk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:48:47 +0000

More Halo. Splinter Cell. Alan Wake. Gears 3?

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:48:38 +0000

I think given his previous post the latest one from lk was dripping with sarcasm. It does highlight a key differentiator between MS & Sony approaches this generation though. MS has bought in a lot of exclusives, Sony concentrated on internal development. Very different approaches but arguably in sales terms MS has worked best so far. Sony’s may well reap more benefits longer term. Sony also went for a lot of new IP and neglected big franchises it should have been more focused on. Going for new IP is laudable but they should have ensured the big hitters like God of War and GT were out last year at the latest.

I think given the difficulties in getting the most out of the PS3 the Sony approach was possibly the best for them though. Assuming there is a lot of collaboration and communication between the internal teams.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:33:05 +0000

“You just KNOW microsoft is going to do something amazing or reel in an awesome exclusive.”

Like what?

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:28:22 +0000

GameReactor’s given it a 7.

By: lk

lk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:27:24 +0000

I shouldn’t have sold the thing tbh.

selling a 360 is downright crazy. you just KNOW microsoft is going to do something amazing or reel in an awesome exclusive. that’s what endless money does.

also, points. never forget the points.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:26:00 +0000

I wanted to post some sense to the first kind of fanboy post here….

But it seems worthless now.

Just recognise that Forza does things differently to Gran Turismo. It’s just different. And it’s great by the sounds of it. It’s a much more Western experience. Taking the some difficulty and frustration out of the experience, and streaminglining it. Also highlighting user expression.

It’s not worth comparign it to GT5 right now, becuase a bit of competition might have chnaged their tactics, but goign by older GT’s, it’s a much more archaic and Japanese experience. Highlights on the looks, the car library, the collect-a-thon.

Neither has more of a highlight on the ‘sim’ aspect, they just do it differently.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:25:59 +0000

@RoarrrUK
I’m a big fan of the immersion in NfSShift and thought Forza 3 would leave me cold as a result. From demo play I’d say they’ve certainly worked on this area, it moves around a bit more than Forza 2 and as such feels a lot more lively. Even the slower cars have a more immersive feel to them.

By: davidkenobi

davidkenobi — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:25:51 +0000

Jv.com review is laughy

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:24:42 +0000

@27

Coming from you Gadzooks the irony is deadly.