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Installing Forza 3′s second disc, essential if you’re going to get the game’s full experience, takes around four minutes: watch the video after the break as proof.

The extra DVD contains 1.9Gb of data, such as car packs, tracks and environments.

If you don’t have enough space on your 360′s drive, the game asks you which car packs you want to install. You won’t see that in this movie as we’d cleared out a bunch of stuff beforehand.

Look and see. This was grabbed from the retail version, which releases on October 23.

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GT5 goes beyond reality? Microsoft worldwide dev boss Phil Spencer laughs in the face of the fourth dimension. He has Forza 3. And Forza 3 is “the only racing sim that’s shipping this generation,” apparently.

Seriously. He said this to Gamasutra:

Gama: In this era of PS3 and Xbox 360 games, where third-parties are almost never shipping console exclusives, certainly Sony’s been very strong on, well, “our strategy, then, for differentiation is to use our first-party organization to make solid, important, AAA exclusives.” Is that how you see it, too?

PS: Absolutely. And to ship them! That’s an important part of our strategy. Look at Forza shipping next month: the definitive racing sim this generation. You could say it’s the only racing sim that’s shipping this generation.

You go, Phil. Maybe Forza 3 goes beyond super-reality. A place where the super-real ceases to be real. Hit the link before the wormhole deepens.

The first Forza 3 reviews are now live, and it’s all looking pretty safe if you were thinking of investing.

Today’s the embargo deadline for reviews of the Turn 10 racer, so we’ll keep adding them as we go along. If you’ve got one you want us to flag up, just stick a link in the comments.

The game’s out on October 23.

• OXM France – 19/20
• Eurogamer.fr – 8/10
• IGN UK – 9.4/10
• IGN US – 9.4/10
• Team Xbox – 9.5/10
• Gamespy – 4.5/5
• G4 – 5/5
• Gamer365.hu – 9.5/10
• JeuxVideo.com – 17/20
• Xboxygen – 5/5
• NowGamer – 9.2/10
• Videogamer – 10/10
• GameDaily – 9/10
• Xbox360Achievements – 93%
• MSXboxWorld – 9/10
• GameReactor.no – 7/10
• CVG – 9/10
• Gamer.no – 9/10
• 1UP – A-

Holy car exhaust Batman! Turn 10 has released the full list of cars included on both discs of Forza 3.

There’s over 400 cars on it – 400 we say.

All are fully customizable and tunable from over 50 manufacturers and run the gambit of American muscle cars, European roadsters, purpose-built race cars and high-tech Asian imports.

Again, there’s over 400 of ‘em.

Get the list on the official website.

Microsoft said this morning that Forza 3 will get a “free Game Add-on car and track pack, available exclusively by way of a one-time-use token card included in every new copy” of the game.

The Turn 10 racer releases on October 27.

Your free cars are:

• ’65 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA
• ’64 Aston Martin DB5 Vantage
• ’81 BMW M1
• ’60 Chevrolet Corvette
• ’69 Dodge Charger
• ’57 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
• ’80 Fiat 131 Abarth
• ’67 Lamborghini Miura P400
• ’71 Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R
• ’65 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe

PR after the break.

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Forza 3 reviews are embargod until October 8, Gameswire reports.

A UK media source confirmed this bit of news to the site, so come 8:01am BST/3:01am EST, you should start seeing reviews pop up on the net.

Wonder if it plays as good as it looks. We’ll find out soon enough.

Forza 3 players will be getting the Ferrari 458 Italia as DLC not long after the game’s release, according to Turn 10.

Proof that the shiny, sexy, roaring beast is headed our way comes in the form of a video showing all things Ferrari over on Kotaku.

It’s drool worthy, and past the break.

Game’s out October 23.

Merrrrrrrrwwww.

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MS just released a range of Forza 3 Avatar clothing to “complete your demo experience,” according to the Nelson.

The demo’s now available in all regions.

There’s a video of Forza 3′s “exclusive” Ferrarris after the break, and extremely pretty they look too.

We’re still a little unsure as to what “exclusive” means as regards the car manufacture and Microsoft’s upcoming race – see here for background – but we’ll do a little nudging.

It’s out on October 23.

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A press release headed, “Ferrari exclusive to Forza 3!” just sailed through our newsreaders: get it here.

And it says:

“Exclusive to Xbox 360! Forza Motorsport 3 will include 29 classic models from the legendary manufacturer, including iconic cars such as the Ferrari 250 GTO, Ferrari 512 TR, Ferrari F40, Ferrari Enzo, and Ferrari 430 Scuderia at the title’s release on the 23rd of October.”

We’re just checking with MS as to what “exclusive” actually means here.

Microsoft just announced a 250Gb Forza 3 360 bundle for the UK, priced £250.

For the price you get the machine, the game, a headset and two wireless controllers. It’s out on October 23.

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Microsoft and Turn 10 announced this morning that Forza Motorsport 3 has gone gold and will launch on October 23 and 27, in the UK and US respectively.

Something else that will make you happy, is that a demo for the game is set to go live on Xbox Live Marketplace September 24.

The demo will feature the new cock-pit view, refined damage, the new rewind function and allows players to pull barrel rolls around the full Camino Viejo circuit should they wish

Five playable vehicles are included in the demo as well:

• 2007 Porsche #80 Flying Lizard 911 GT3-RSR
• 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI quattro
• 2009 Ferrari California
• 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X GSR
• 2009 Mini John Cooper Works

The demo also supports the official leaderboards. Awesome.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Turn 10 sat down with GiantBomb during PAX and talked all things Forza Motorsport 3.

Speaking with the site, senior designer Bill Giese gave a demo of the game, which is currently in certification with Microsoft.

The video is posted after the break, or though here if you prefer.

Game’s out October 23.
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Shots of Forza 3′s Australia’s V8 touring car series have popped up on Kotaku, and very pretty they are too.

In case you missed it, you should definitely watch yesterday’s video of the Bugatti Veyron being modelled for the racer: it’s something else.

Forza 3 releases on October 23 in Europe and October 27 in the US.

Turn 10′s Dan Greenawalt has chatted a bit about what sorts of games the developer would make should it deviate away from racing.

Speaking with Joystiq, Greenawalt states that while the teams likes other games, for the time being, cars are where it’s at for ‘em.

“You know, we’ve actually looked at quite a few things. This team’s got a ton of passion for real cars and we’ve also got a ton of passion for games,” he said. “I can’t seem to stop playing Arkham Asylum right now. And a lot of us lost ourselves in Fallout 3 before that. Obviously we’re a studio of huge gamers; we also love cars.

“I think in truth, if we were going to deviate from kind of real-world license racing genre, I think at that point the sky is the limit on what we would do. Would we go towards a more open-world game? Would we go towards an action game? I don’t know but I think in a lot of ways if we deviate from our core passion – which is the licensed cars that we see in our parking lots and we drove as kids and we want to drive – once we go away from that I think we just become passionate gamers and high caliber developers and we’d want to look at making just a different kind of genre entirely.

“I’m not saying that’s actually what we’ve been planning. Right now we’ve been shipping this game and we’ll look into what we’ll do next. But the truth is, there’s been no investigation along those lines.”

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Below the break is a video of the 1000-horsepower Bugatti Veyron in action via Forza Motorsport 3, courtesy of Joystiq.

In it, game director Dan Greenawalt talks about how Turn 10 wanted the super sexy beast of a car to be featured in the game, and goes into how the various lovely bits of it are converted for the game.

Greenawalt also talks about damage modeling, but to hell with that part. Just look at the car. That nice, lovely, fantastic car. Even with yellow tape stuff all over it. Wow.

Game’s out in Europe October 23 and in the US on October 27.

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Amazon Germany appears to have pulled a listing for a 250Gb 360 bundle – it used to be here.

According to Engadget, the retailer was offering the 250Gb HD, two wireless controllers and Forza Motorsport 3 for €279 euros.

Bargain. Forza 3 ships on October 23. We’ll drop MS a line.

Forza 3 will be a Puma-branded game, Microsoft said today.

The racer, out on October 23, will be Pumarised in-game as well as being subject to a “series of joint marketing initiatives across Europe and North America.”

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Four screens for Forza MotorSport 3 have popped up over on Gameinfowire.

Dunno if these are new or not, but the pics show cars. You like cars. We like cars.

Therefore, everybody wins.

Game’s out in Europe October 23 and in the US on October 27.

Turn 10′s Dan Greenwalt has revealed 11 American muscle cars that players will be able to drag race with in Forza MotorSport 3, along with the physics behind the mode.

“Obviously for short one-eighth mile races, all-wheel drive cars have such a distinct launch advantage that they’re going to do very well on that track,” he told Gamespot. “Managing weight and weight distribution, putting more friction onto the rear tires–these are all things that are important to consider when you’re in a rear-wheel drive shootout. What it really comes down to is that we’re just letting our realistic physics system handle the nuances of drag racing while we frame a proper game design element around the proceedings.

“We have four drag strip lengths in the game: eighth-mile, quarter-mile, half-mile, and one-mile. They are all purpose built, and these different lengths require vastly different setups and tuning.

“In terms of multiplayer, drag racing is one of our big umbrella options, [for] which then you can go and customize rules to create nearly limitless variations on drag racing game types. It’s even possible to get multiple cars on the grid drag racing simultaneously, which makes for some interesting team-based battles. By default, it’s set up to be a heats-based tournament.

“The net is that it’s really up to our community to come up with clever drag racing modes online, which we may then adopt into the official Turn 10 party hopper.”

Here are the cars:

• 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 427
• 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
• 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS
• 1969 Dodge Charger R/T
• 2006 Dodge Ram SRT-10
• 2006 Dodge Charger SRT8
• 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT-8
• 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR
• 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429
• 2008 Saleen S331 Supercab
• 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C

More through the links.