The reason I call Forza Motorsport reveolutionary is because it has the best racing physics ever, and in a racing simulation, that is almost all that matters. Forza is Microsoft's response to the legendary Gran Truismo series on the Playstation and Playstation 2. As I said before the physics are all that matters in a racing game. Unlike the bumper car physics in Gran Truismo (where you can bounce off of your oponents on turns and get in head of them), the physics are the most realistic racing physics we have seen in a driving game yet to date. When you hit another car you dont simply bump off of it, you rub agianst it. On turns when you hit another car, you dont bounce off of it and throw it off course, you hit it and lose control and probably end up in the wall. That is what makes this game much better than Gran Truismo, not saying that Gran Truismo is bad, just saying that this game is better. Now it is a video game so graphics, sound, controls, and features all matter. So I will start by the graphics. The graphics are drop dead beautiful. Each car looks exactly like its real world counter part. The cars have high poly models so they look almost real. The damage modeling looks very good as well, not like Burnout 3, but realistic. Each track looks amazing with beautiful enviroments and lots of detail on the track and off. The sound is pretty good, each car sounds like it should and all the other bells and wistles that go into a car are there. But when you hit something the crunch is just not satifiying at all, it is kind of blah if you know what I mean. The controls are solid. The R trigger is used for acceleration, and the L trigger is used for breaking. The triggers are the perfect things for racing games, it allows way more control of your braking and acceleration than a button on a keypad. In Forza you can completely customize the paint job on your car. Not just chage the color in certian areas. You can add shapes and numbers as well as a lot of decals. To give you an idea of what you can do I will give you an example. A guy made a SpongeBob Squarepants car. He actually has his face on the hood of the car. He had to make it from scratch. There are a few modes of racing in Forza as well. There is the standard races, then there is the point to point racing. But really the game shines in its online play. Yes up to eight people can race via XBL or system link. This is by far the best way to race in the game. Human opponents are 10x better than the already skillfull and agressive AI. You can use your car from the career mode, or you can use one of their stock ones. There are a lot of customizations for racing on XBL, to many to name. What is great is the money online can be used to buy cars offline, so your career mode has been tied in with the online play. You can also trade cars online. Forza is the best racing sim I have ever played, ever. No car junky should be without it. It is a blast on XBL and a great single player game as well.
This is one of the greatest racing simulators to hit videogames so far. It even beats GT4! There are a total of 231 cars in the game, unless I remembered wrong. These, like you would expect, range from Honda Civic SI ... Read Full Review
If i had to descrbe Forza Motorsport in one word, i would have to say its Unbelievable. I had never been addicted to a racing simulation game until Forza came along. I usually just played gran turismo for a week and neve... Read Full Review
