[xbox] Forza Motorsport

BTW - I just got home from E3 where I played Forza on a three-plasma screen setup in surround sound. I drove the 360 and the 333SP. Gameplay was awesome. They've got a GT4 killer on their hands.

And for Halo fans, I also played Halo 2. It's good. I took pictures and will upload them to CheatCodes.com when I write the article.

 

Please don't upload them to CheatCodes.com? Um.. it's kinda my self-imposed job. Have to support my Ferrari habit somehow. Creating content and hosting it online isn't free. And I won't post links here unless they relate to the subject under discussion - Ferraris in video games.

Do you get paid for "cleaning up users' systems?" If no, then you should. If yes, then you should thank me. FWIW - nothing downloads from out site onto visitors' computers unless they provide permission.

Back to the subject of Ferraris and video games: OutRun 2 for Xbox was lots of fun to play this week. It's only about 20% complete right now, and it's pretty much a straight port of the Japanese arcade version. You can drive an Enzo, F50, F40, 246 Dino, 360, 288 GTO, Testarossa (like the classic arcade OutRun) and one more that I forgot. You can't drive a convertible F40 like in the classic arcade Turbo OutRun (which I have in my game room).

 

I've been watching the coverage of the E3 show on G4/TechTV. They haven't reported too much on racing games, just the new Sony & Nintendo systems, Halo 2, Resident Evil 4, etc.. I'm really looking forward to GT4, but I'm getting sick of the game constantly being further pushed back for a later release date. I just hope someone will produce a Ferrari inspired GT4 style game for the PS2 system. I'm not a big fan of t EA's Need for Speed series.

 

Wow Schatten, at first I thought you were being a little obsessive about this -- until I went to the site! About seven ads popped up, and THREE of them were trying to download spyware, et al onto my computer!!

That is a load of crap! I don't understand what information offered by ANY website could be so valuable that anyone would be willing to deal with that crap. But, if the market allows it (ie, if people are willing to continue to peruse his site in spite of all that crap, it must be worth it to them), I don't think he is awful for doing it.

By the way Steve, just yesterday I was reading the credits for PGR2 and saw your name at the bottom (though it didn't say which cars it was for)

 

Forza Motorsport Info

Official Car List : http://www.forzacentral.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1

Lot's of Ferraris

 

Finally we get a good racing game for the XBOX. Sega GT left me wanting more, it was a little too easy. Project Gotham 2, although was a fine game, just didn't appeal to me enough to purchase it. The entire Kudos point system and cone challenges made it seem to much like an Arcade game to be a real sim.

I just hope somebody comes out with a good F1 game for the XBOX. Does anybody know of any F1 GAMES for the XBOX?

 

You have each channel? Someone needs to post-mix that down to DTS or Dolby Digital.

 

Looks, cool, but UGH -- I am SO sick of track-based racing games.

When is a video game company going to produce a game that features the kind of thing that so many of us want to do and love to hate -- REAL WORLD driving on city streets, highways, freeways, parkways, country roads -- with real traffic, real-world maps, cops & speed traps, debris on the road, etc.

So we can get our jollies weaving dangerously in and out of traffic, driving in the breakdown lane, racing our fellow drivers, knocking other cars off the road, outrunning cops, and doing all the things that would land us in jail in the real world.

I want MS Flight Simulator but with Ferraris!!

nlh

 

I think we already have games like that. They are called "Need for Speed" and Burnout, just to name a few. But there are more. I think we have too many games like this. Plus these are for the more "arcade" type player.

Finally we have a good driving sim for the XBOX, in the form of Forza Motorsport.

 

Man, this sucks! I just got back from Best Buy AND Toys'r'Us so i can buy Forza Motorsport, and none of them had it! They should have advertised this game more or something!

 

Uh, it's not going to be out until Feb 05. http://www.xbox.com/en-us/forza/default.htm?level1=enusgames&level2=catalog&level3=forza

 

Oh shoot! How did i miss that?! Thanks Ryan....

Does anyone know why t was postponed? Thanks in advance!