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Forza 3 World First Images & V8 Supercars Details
Forza 3 Update 6th September #3
Slip over here and check out the images we have of the Sydney event we attended on Tuesday 2nd Sept where Microsoft officially announced the inclusion of 8 x V8 Supercars (4 Holdens & 4 Fords) into Forza 3.
There’s over 160 images to check out, all run off a Flickr Slide show. The first one is up now, the other two are now ready for viewing with actual gameplay images and menue selection screens to check out. ifyou notice in the second slideshow, you’ll see the two images of the Ford V8 Supercar in the selection process, god it looks great in the flesh (in-game). Almost looks too good.
Forza 3 Update 3rd September #2
Here are 16 or so V8 Supercar in-game images for you all to drool over and have you trying to sit on your hands for the next 50 days until release (Aust/NZ/Eu/UK = 23rd Oct).
As you can see, they look great, and trust me, they look even better on your screen than they do here in these images, these just do not do the game justice.
Forza 3 Update 2nd September #1
Well, having just returned home from the Forza 3 Media Event in Sydney’s Lamborghini Showroom, I can now say without a shadow of doubt, that Forza 3 is going to rock many gamers’ boat.
I have over 500 hours invested in Forza 2, and just 4 laps into Forza Motorsport 3 I can already tell that this game is going to eat up a lot more than the hours I’ve spent so far in Forza Motorsport 2.
We are lucky enough to make known for the first time globally that there will be EIGHT V8 Supercars appearing in the upcoming Forza 3 which will also be released several days early here in Austr/NZ/Eu/UK – that being, 23rd October, with the release of 27th for Nth America.
Here are some more screenshots exclusively for you and probably the first ones of these available on the net. We have many more stills and interviews from today, along with some videos, but we wanted you to see these first, as we had promised late last month.
So, without further ado . V8 Supercars – Aussie Style:
The eight V8 Supercars that will appear in Forza 3 come from eight great teams, four of which are from Holden, and the other four from Ford – of course.
• V8 Supercars Mark Skaife had this to say about the game:
“I’m extremely impressed with the polish of Forza Motorsport 3 and excited about the exposure it will bring to our great sport internationally. Aussie Holden and Ford fans can now battle head-to-head everyday of the week, and get up-close and personal with the power and precision of V8 Supercars”
While Australian V8 Spercars Chairman, Tony Cochrane commented:
“V8 Supercars is recognised globally as the best touring car championship on the planet and being included in the internationally acclaimed Forza 3 is a testament to that”
Ford:
Car #1 TeamVodafone FG Falcon 2009
Car #5 Ford Performance Racing FG Falcon 2009
Car #9 Stone Brothers Racing FG Falcon
Car #25 Britek Motorsport FG Falcon 2009
Holden:
Car #2 Toll Holden Racing Team Commodore VE 2009
Car #33 Garry Rogers Motorsport Commodore VE 2009
Car #39 Supercheap Auto Racing Commodore VE 2009
Car #51 Sprint Gas Racing Commodore VE 2009
Sadly there will be “no Aussie tracks” in this iteration of Forza 3, well none we were told about, and it’s highly unlikely there will be, considering this was a World-First press release and showing of the V8′s in action and playable to the general public (well, non-development team – put it that way).
The event was held at the beautiful Lamborghini Showroom in William Street Sydney and was a hub of activity as 5 V8 Supercar drivers went head-to-head to set the fastest lap time on one of the great Forza 3 tracks.
Speaking with a few of the drivers later, they all were very impressed with the cars’ performance, handling and details in the physics as well as look. We will have a more detailed breakdown of the day in an upcoming update for you, but hopefully this will help many of you get an idea of what to expect.
My time in the hot-seat was only 4 laps- not enough time to bed-in as it were, but set a reasonable 55.473 lap time. Tanner set a blistering 50.567 on the track, and was exceptionally pleased with the whole experience.
We were using CyberKarts excellent cockpit setup (five set ups including sound and LCD screens fully adjustable seating and pedals made it a great deal easier to get comfortable and feel at home in the saddle as it were). CyberKart confirmed that they’d be working with OXCGN on the upcoming OXCGN Forza 3 Racing Cockpit along with Fantec and GAME (AU).
So there will be more news coming on that soon as well as a detailed report on today’s event, so stay tuned (pun intended
More Forza 3 news
Make sure you check out the great Fantec Sports Wheels and the set that OXCGN will have up for grabs later on when Forza 3 arrives in October 23rd (Aust Release date) . . . as well as other OXCGN Forza 3 pages of info on the game.
- Forza 3 October Info #11 Curvaceous Chevy Camaro SS
- Forza 3 250 Gig Xbox 360 Bundle Official – OXCGN News & Special Offer
- Forza 3 October Info #10 Classic American Muscle ’79 Z28
- Forza 3 October Info #9 Saleen S331 Supercharged Supercab
- Forza 3 October Info #8 Build Your Own Chevy-Dodge-Ford
- Forza 3 October Info #7 Sleek, Sexy & Swift 2009 Scriocco GT
- Forza 3 October Info #6 – Complete car listing
- Forza 3 October Info #5 Primetimes’s #11 Viper R3 Class
- Forza 3 October Info #4 2006 Slippery Evo & HKS Time-Attack Mitshubishi
- Forza 3 October Info #3 Black Beast – #41 Gulf F1 Mc Laren GTR
- Forza 3 October Info #2 Mad Mazda Lola #16 Comin’ Through
- Forza 3 October Info #1 Here Comes The BMW E34 Z4 Coupe
- Forza 3 September Info #12 Bell Motor’s #11 DB9 Aston Martin R2 Coupe
- Forza 3 September Info #11 Presenting The Koenigsegg CGT
- Forza 3 September Info #10 Skyline Driftin’ Madness
- Forza 3 September Info #9 Fugimi Kaido Returns
- Forza 3 September Info #8 2nd DLC Pack – Ferrari’s & 2010 Italia 458
- Forza 3 September Info #7 More Ferrari Mayhem
- Forza 3 September Info #6 250 gig Forza 360? & Farrari Madness
- Forza 3 September Info #5 Forza Dyno Tunes Ford GT400
- Forza 3 September Info #4 Bugatti Veyron & Avatar Cloths
- Forza 3 September Info #3 Media Update – V8 Supercars Event Slideshows
- Forza 3 September Info #1 & 2 V8 Supercars Officially Announced
- Forza 3’s V8 Supercars In-game screen & info V8 Supercar Image found
- Forza 3 August Info #5 Video Walkthroughs
- Forza 3 August Info #4 Forza Dreams, Gadget Show & Puma
- Forza 3 August Info #3 LE Information
- Forza 3 August Info #1 & 2 Cars, cars & more cars & Le Mans
- Forza 3 coming in 2009 OXCGN’s Official Major Forza 3 Page
- Forza 3 June info E3 Video Interviewwith Developer
- Forza 3 June-July Info screens & vids
- Official Australian Xbox Forza 3 site game info
- Fantec Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel for Forza 3
- Fantec Wheel Stand and Turbo Wheel kit up for grabs – info
- OXCGN’s Forza 3 on its way in 2009
- OXCGN confirms Aussie cars in Forza 3
- Fantec Prosche 911 Wheel for Forza 3
- Forza 3 Official – Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
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xboxoz360,
Would you be able to send me footage of the game play. also what gamer tag on live as i would like to add you if thats the alright
I’ll have footage up soon, just working on it this evening, that’s my gamertag (xboxOZ360) but not much of an XboxLIVE player, more a single player type of guy. But you’re welcome to add me if you wish. If you want to check some of my Forza 2 rides out, slip over to my Flickr account.
bran please do a google search on the internets and then comment on the “so these super duper hiper mega realistic screenshots, without no pixelization or “tearing” are just an example of how ridiculous the Consoles/Graphic W@rZ became..” and watch the in game footage then you will see that the screen shoots are taken from gameplay
period
Forza 3 is definitely going to be awsome, but I must say something about those screenshots.. There’s no way that X-Box, no matter how much I love it, will feature those graphics, at that resolution, or with that level of anti-alising, or whatever.
I just don’t understand the ridiculous point of showing of a graphic level that will not correspond to reality, thus “cheating” on their customers (who, in most part, unfortunatly, do not understand or reclaim the right to see a more closer sample of the product).
To me it’s all a matter of gameplay and variety, which Forza as always been good at delivering – so these super duper hiper mega realistic screenshots, without no pixelization or “tearing” are just an example of how ridiculous the Consoles/Graphic W@rZ became..
Either way, I’m sure it will be, as usual, a superb game and the adition of those V8 is just great! =)
I’m not trying to put you in a bad spot mate, but trust me, those images ARE of he game, I actually saw first hand those exactsame shots and playback on screen, and in fact, the images on the website, do not do the actual game justice. If you wish, I can send you , via yousendit.com (due to their huge file size and proper resolution, they are only medium resolution in order to appear on the web and on screen.
Gameplay is brilliant, and here’s an example.
Today, the 5 drivers from V8 Supercars sat down and played the game, 2 of them for the very firsttime. The laps they drove were raced perfectly, braking at the correct breke-markers, accecleration points, and corners taken at peak acceleration.
Then we were handed the CyberKart seats, strapped in, and the cars handled, ran and played very siumilar. COnsidering we doing it for a hobby, and these guys do it for a living. My ‘personal’ experience on the gameplay honestly felt ‘exhilarating’, and as I’ve said, I’ve over 500 hours in Forza 2, and this game does NOT play or feel like the previous game, which by the way, is an “EXCELLENT” game.
When you SEE the visuals for yourself, you’ll agree with notonly me, but everyone in thatroom today. The screens and play looked afr better than the code palyed at E3, which while still great, did have some issues with it, even I could see that, and have said so in the past.
I usually do not say this often, but it’s something that I have full faith in, the game WILL be the game visuals you are viewing in the article.
In 2 days, I will have more pics and a vid showing the v8 guys playing the game so you will be able to see for your self that the gameplay is as I’m saying, excellent.
There is no need to send me those images, but I would really like to thank you for asking and giving yourself the trouble to be able to send them. That’s was cool of you.
I guess I just lost my faith in gaming propaganda after so many E3 videos that are “worked” for the sake of commercial visual appeal.. maybe – I guess – being professionally connected to advertising makes me a bit more cynical about the media, and the web specifically.
Either way, as I said previously, it will be an awsome produc..aham…I mean game. =)
And I’ll make sure I will follow it’s news from here – It is definitly a cool site!
Best regards
Thanks alot Bran for continuing on here at OXCGN. We are gamers first and foremost, and would rather be slow in getting news up and having it correct and relevant, than being first with rubbish for the sake of being first.
I’m sure you’ll agree when you do get your hands on Forza 3 that the wait has been worth it, and certain other games we won’t mention here are not the king of the mountain when it comes to console racing games. We will have the vids and some “brilliant’ images of yesterdays event up later today once we watermark and reduce over 200 of them and work on 1 hour of video of the event.
I’m sure you’d understand the effort that it takes to do such things.
if you have played forza 2 and tuned and upgraded say… i dont know a pontiac then you are driving a v8
the point is holden vs ford would be better battling it out on an auusie track like bathurst hence the reason why there is no point
Yes there is a point, the point is YOU can drive the v8s, where as you cant outside of the game unless your a pro driver.
All, im all for v8 super cars in forza this is cool but what is the point. taking a quote from above
V8 Supercars Mark Skaife had this to say about the game:
“I’m extremely imprssd with the polish of Forza Motorsport 3 and excited about the exposure it will bring to our great sport internationally. Aussie Holden and Ford fans can now battle head-to-head everyday of the week, and get up-close and personal with the power and precision of V8 Supercars”
there is no point as the biggest ang great holden v ford happens at bathurst every year.
enough said