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Top Gear and Forza Motorsport join forces for multi-year collaboration and Forza 3 Ultimate Collection

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Microsoft has announced the Forza Motorsport 3: Ultimate Collection, which is to be released next month, along with a multi-year collaboration with Top Gear.

The deal will see BBC’s Top Gear brand integration in future versions of Forza Motorsport products while delivering a number of co-promotions that will provide fans of both to engage in both brands.

“Bringing together Top Gear and Forza Motorsport is a natural fit,” said Dan Greenawalt, franchise director at Turn 10. “Top Gear is all about automotive passion and playing around with cars which is exactly what we deliver with Forza Motorsport games. We are looking forward to collaborating with their team to bring some of what they do so well on television to our game design process.”

“It’s incredibly exciting to be teaming up with such a big name game,” added Andy Wilman, creative director at Top Gear. “I fear we’ll have to be a bit more ambitious and a bit less rubbish when dealing with these chaps.”

The first part of this collaboration will be through 90 minutes of specially edited Top Gear TV content plus access to the Stig’s Garage Car Pack, all downloadable exclusively through Xbox Live, as part of the new Forza Motorsport 3 Ultimate Collection.

Here’s what’s all included:

  • The original Forza 3
  • All previously released add-ons bringing the total car count to 500 along with 100 track configurations
  • Xbox Live downloadable content card with three new cars as part of Stig’s Garage Car Pack (Koenigsegg CCX, LEXUS LFA, Mercedes Benz SLS-AMG)
  • A 90-minute Top Gear video with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May
  • Xbox LiveTheme featuring Top Gear.

Forza Motorsport 3: Ultimate Collection will be available in the UK starting October 29.

71 comments

#51

theevilaires
01/10/10, 3:19 am

Sad that you just admit you can’t take me down with your stupidity :D …a month ban….yea cause everyone will flock to your comments and give a fuck what your opinion on things are LMAO!

#52

DarkElfa
01/10/10, 3:19 am

Bullshit Spider, how long to we have to listen to TEA’s never ending shit parade? He’s a fucking death troll and its his only existence here. He turn’s nearly every 360 story into a flame war due to his fanboy trolling and when he’s not doing that he spurns these never ending thread conflicts which always involve at least one hysterical “HAHAHAHA”. When is it going to be enough?!

*edit* see above for further reference of douche baggery.

#53

theevilaires
01/10/10, 3:58 am

well you don’t have to worry about reading anything I post anymore DarkElfa. I’m done posting. Tired of the constant BS and you fools trying to have me banned. Consider this an early Christmas present.

#54

DaMan
01/10/10, 4:07 am

if you weren’t such an attention seeking dick, you would just fuck off without posting all the melodrama.

you’re delusional again, I was commenting on what spider said, I don’t care if your sorry ass is here or not. I can’t remember the last time I was talking to you until today, I’ve learned to skip trolls’ comments long ago.

#55

spiderLAW
01/10/10, 4:21 am

obviously i care for the people that are here (friends? fellow human being? kind of way) and thats why i dont think anybody should be banned but some sort of disciplinary act should be applied.

Do you guys not se how you talk to each other?
So much disrespect and thats the sickening part of it all.
it doesnt matter who is wrong or who is right when it comes down to the arguement.
There was a serious offender in this thread and he/she should be pointed out to the moderators and thats it. Whatever they do from there is THEIR business.
Bashing on each other for paragraphs upon paragraphs is just immature and should end now.

I would like to make an example. LOLshock’s statement on the announcement of RDR’s zombie mode was extremely vulgar, entirely unecessary and so i pointed it out to Garrat. LOLshock is constantly spoiling game and movie stories and always posts vulgar nonsense. Wha did Garrat tell me about my complaint “He is just excited is all. First word that came to my mind was Vagina” and so i edited my comment on the matter “K, nevermind then.”

Nobody here should try and play the almighty and pass judgement on anyone. Only part any of us should play during these kinds of situations is to state your opinion and point on the matter, make it clear and then thas it. There shouldnt be name calling (ive done it once, to albo88 in this article, and i shouldnt have. I should have simply stated my opinion on his comment), swearing at each other, and threats.

Hopefully you guys can all understand this.

#56

DaMan
01/10/10, 4:47 am

I don’t really see all the internet folks I’ve talked to as equally friends. and whether you like it or not, these human beings differ a lot.

we all get carried away as well, that’s fine.

I actually believe a PM function would be great for this site.

#57

LordCancer
01/10/10, 4:54 am

@OwningXylophone thanks.

I don’t think anyone should be banned. All that accomplishes is leaving you a site with just a bunch of pussies left over kinda like ripten. Plus I’d eventually be banned myself and I don’t like that.

I think the fierce competition between forza and gran turismo is a good thing if it push the developers to improve each game. I think this is a situation where we all win because both series have improved. Certainly forza has, the first was atrocious. I’m excited to pick up the ultimate edition, I love the cockpit views.

So I propose a solution to all this bitterness, this gt vs forza. Lets all have a round of beers or three and make fun of todd howard. problem solved.

#58

spiderLAW
01/10/10, 5:07 am

Exactly. We all might “differ a lot” but like you said, we are human beings. Just remember that. Every person behind a keyboard commenting on this site is in fact just that, a person, a human being. Im just saying some level of respect should be applied.

Whether anyone likes it or not, this is a community of sorts. It can all go to shit if we let it, especially by contributing to the crapper whether we think we are right or wrong.

Yes a PM would be great for these little, or more over the top, arguements.

#59

DaMan
01/10/10, 5:15 am

not everyone is equally.. nice, even if you look at it as just a community. so I don’t think it’s okay to treat everyone the same, that’s what I meant. although I agree with you in the sense that people get carried away.

also, spider I suppose you didn’t know but to be honest I think they can’t suspend accounts or do anything like that. they can delete them altogether, that’s about it I believe.

#60

LordCancer
01/10/10, 5:18 am

@58 I agree.

#61

DarkElfa
01/10/10, 6:28 am

Well, shit. TEA’s response to my post actually made me feel bad that I said that stuff. Fine, I apologize TEA, you don’t have to leave, just try and take it easier on us, we all have those bad days.

#62

Kuwabara
01/10/10, 8:20 am

Tea is right about pretty much every thing relating to xbox 360. the console is inferior to ps3 and I’m willing to have a propper debate, if anyone is up to the challenge. For those of u who preffer the xbox360, you’re idiots.

#63

Gadzooks!
01/10/10, 8:51 am

“That’s your inexperienced opinion. GT3 and GT4 both do realistic driving but GT3 does it better. Forza does realistic driving too but GT3 does it better in my Experienced opinion.”

Ah, so you resort to making personal attacks. How very mature, exactly what I would expect from someone posting ‘my console has better games than yours’ comments in a thread on a game for a platform you clearly have no interest in, other than to troll.

For your information I have more than enough real world track experience to make an informed judgement on how well in-game handling relates to on-track handling.

I have raced and dragged my modified ST185 GT-Four many times, I did all the non-bodywork related modification and maintenance myself, including 2 full engine rebuilds, so I know for a fact that I have the experience and knowledge to make an informed decision.

Tell me this: To what level of detail does GT model tyre wall flex? Whereabouts in the GT interface can you track driver G-forces?

Oh, and please provide me a real life example of racers using other cars and roadside barriers to bounce thier way round the track, whilst incurring no damage to thier cars and the impact having no effect on handling or performance.

The fact is that the GT series was once considered ‘sim’ but the definition of ‘sim’ has been moved to another level by the likes of Forza and Race Pro, but the GT series has not moved in the same direction.

GT does what it does well. What it does not do is realism.

Feel free to respond with how you have raced in an F1 car or whatever bullshit you feel you need to achieve a satisfactory level of trolling.

#64

LordCancer
01/10/10, 9:23 am

@62 some of us just made the wrong decision based on having enjoyed an xbox, why wouldn’t you buy an xbox 360? I’d like to petition that a buy me a ps3 fund be created. lol

#65

Erthazus
01/10/10, 9:26 am

“For your information I have more than enough real world track experience to make an informed judgement on how well in-game handling relates to on-track handling.”

Don’t forget people, that old fuck had experience with Oric-1 PC too :D

“I have raced and dragged my modified ST185 GT-Four many times”

Toyota Celica? Prove pic or it never happen.

“The fact is that the GT series was once considered ’sim’ but the definition of ’sim’ has been moved to another level by the likes of Forza and Race Pro, but the GT series has not moved in the same direction.”

You obviously never played Gran Turismo 5 prologue. There are more Simulation than entire Forza 3 experience have.
The fact is simple: There is auto tracking.

If you call that simulation than you are a complete Xbot. GT series from the first game never had that and never will have that.

So the one who is trolling here is you only. + GT5 is not out there. From what i saw there are A-Spec and B-Spec that rapes everything what “Something Sim” Forza developers made.
That is at the level of iRacing, rFactor, X Motor Racing and of course you never played it. You don’t know about racing sim games nothing.

#66

spiderLAW
01/10/10, 12:59 pm

Wow Gadzooks! you really dont pay any attention do you.

“Ah, so you resort to making personal attacks. How very mature, exactly what I would expect from someone posting ‘my console has better games than yours’ comments in a thread on a game for a platform you clearly have no interest in, other than to troll.” – Im sure that anybody that reads my comments on this site can honestly vouch for me and say that i have no interest in which console is better. I have made it clear from the beginning that i have all 4 consoles (PC,PS3,360, Wii) and enjoy each one’s stregnths. Also, if you stop picking out only small portions of my comments, you would have read that “I like FORZA” and “I am playing FORZA 3 right now while i wait for GT5″ Open your eyes, or mind, just a little bit man.
And arent you the one that said “i know from driving my own car”? That makes me assume that you only drive 1 car which makes you very much inexperienced so maybe next time try to be a little more detailed. I made a comment on what you had said, simple as that. It was no personal attack and if you took it that way, im sorry but that was your mistake.
If you prefer Forza thats fine, its your opinion. My opinion remains the same GT3>Any Racing Sim

And lets make this clear as well. YOU Gadzooks! were the one that brought up GT5 in this topic wit your bashing. I hadnt said anything about it until you did. And after all of it i never once bashed on Forza.

#67

reask
01/10/10, 1:16 pm

Ah for Gods sake Tea!!!!!
You surprise me.
Getting soft in your old age. ;)

Besides, who will I wind up now? :)
Looks like I will have to do it on PSN.

Any way I reckon the real reason is to give you more time on Halo Reach. ;)

#68

Gadzooks!
01/10/10, 1:43 pm

@spiderLAW

“Im sure that anybody that reads my comments on this site can honestly vouch for me”

I read this site every day, and I see you trolling, all the time.

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“I have made it clear from the beginning that i have all 4 consoles”

So what? It hasnt stopped you trolling. TEA apparently lives to play Reach right now, and he’s the biggest Sony cock loving trolling twat on the face of the planet.

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“Also, if you stop picking out only small portions of my comments, you would have read that “I like FORZA””

Ah, yes. Throwing a little tidbit to make it look like you are not just having a massive troll. Very transparent, you arent fooling anyone.

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“It was no personal attack and if you took it that way, im sorry but that was your mistake.”

Bullshit. You knew exactly what you were doing. Comment on your own experience, and don’t pretend to know the first thing about my experience.

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“And lets make this clear as well. YOU Gadzooks! were the one that brought up GT5 in this topic wit your bashing.”

Are you fucking blind? I can only assume so, as the first 3 comments in this thread are from trolling pricks talking about GT when GT is completely irrelevant to the subject.

I know how GT plays. I have played it from the original GT right up to the time trial, so my comment was 100% accurate. GT5 does not interest me because it does not deliver on a realistic driving experience, and I prefer my racing with a touch of realism.

If you dont like that people have an opinion that doesnt revolve around the zealous worship of your favourite corporation then might I suggest you fuck off with your pathetic sarcastic comments to somewhere full of sheep of the same persuasion as you?

Dont bother replying. I wont be reading your posts anymore.

#69

Madeira
01/10/10, 1:46 pm

@62: The superior console is the one that has the superior version of the best game, Bayonetta.

#70

Gadzooks!
01/10/10, 1:55 pm

@Erthazus

“Don’t forget people, that old fuck had experience with Oric-1 PC too :D

WTF! How is this a put-down? Surely it’s just a simple statement of fact. Back when the Oric was in circulation I owned one. Yeah, hilarious and cutting. Insultfail.

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“Toyota Celica? Prove pic or it never happen.”

Yeah, I own a Celica ST185 like many thousands of other Celica owners in the country. Why the fuck should I post you a pic of anything? I dont want your verification of my car’s existance, let alone need it.

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“You obviously never played Gran Turismo 5 prologue.”

I have played every GT ever released, except the PSP version.

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“The fact is simple: There is auto tracking.”

If your simple little brain is trying to say that there is auto braking, traction control and stability control then yes there is. All of which are turned off when I play. You obviously havent played Forza, thus your opinions are null and void.

“From what i saw there are A-Spec and B-Spec that rapes everything what “Something Sim” Forza developers made.”

Hilarious, this is classic Erthazus. You dont even know what those modes are. Yet again you try to bullshit your way through a debate, not knowing the first thing about the subject.

You are a joke, and a bad joke at that.

#71

spiderLAW
01/10/10, 2:12 pm

@ Gadzooks!
Dont read my comments. That is 100% fine by me.
You actually think that i would care about that? Pathetic
To call me a troll, you obviously havent read any of my comments on VG247 in the first place.

Lets make this clear. If anybody on this entire site is a Troll its You (Gadzooks!), itsucks, and LOLshock. If you want to associate yourself with the likes of them, thats sad.

I still dont have anything personal against you even though you’ve shown that you can be very naive, ignorant, rude, and have a poor show of character. But if thats the way you like to be, i dont mind ignoring you and you doing the same to me.

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