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[Flametail]

Forza 3? I picked up my reserve yesterday and did nothing but race all last night. I actually enjoy the cockpit view, it shows enough of the track so I can see what's going on and still look at the full interior of the car.

[spidertri]

Yup, played a bit last night. Got through the first season, lol, achievements are super easy.

Cockpit view is better if you adjust it so that the camera is a bit further back. Go to the multiscreen menu and do this:

multiscreen on
mode host
channel 0 will do
view center
degrees hidden 0 or just play around with it
degrees between screens 62 or whatever you want


I haven't gotten any BMWs yet but I really want to buy an M1.

[Flametail]

That's one thing I love is that the achievements are ridiculously easy. I went and got all the painting and decals ones last night, minus the selling a decal. I gotta get something race-spec so I can "create a tune", lol.

I'll have to try the cockpit thing, I was digging the stock setup though. What was your first car you chose? I got the Ford Fiesta.

[spidertri]

I went with the Fiesta too, it's a great little car.

[Flametail]

I went back and bought a Fit for the Japanese challenges. I do like how you don't "unlock" cars to buy and that they are all available from the beginning.

[tiFreak]

Originally Posted by Flametail

I do like how you don't "unlock" cars to buy and that they are all available from the beginning.

FTW! now I really want to buy it

I was talking with someone on another forum who had it, he says the 370Z has a temperature gauge in the car and it will actually change depending on which track you're on, that's attention to detail

[Jean H.318TI]

too bad i have a ps3 and have to wait till next year for gran turismo 5

[spidertri]

My brother has the PSP Gran Turismo and it's actually pretty fun. It felt way more "real" than GT5 prologue I played at my friends place. Obviously though, the PS3 graphics are phenomenal compared to the PSP and the 360.

A livery I'm working on for a Mk1 GTI cup car.



Anyone interested in having a little BMW spec series of our own?

[DaedHead8]

I got the limited edition of the game, I have the forza 3 keychain on the same ring as my ti key. I love cockpit view combined with the 360 racing wheel, it's seriously the best racing game I've ever played.

I started with the Citroen 2 door hatchback, which was pretty ****, I won a bunch of cars, used an Alfa Romeo for awhile before I bought my first car, an e30 M3, that's now an A class beast and I'm working on an e36 M3. Not sure what I'll do after that but I really want an M1, they're kinda expensive though, 100k+, won't be able to afford that for awhile so I'll probably do an e46 M3 or a 135i. This game is awesome.

EDIT: Thanks for the multiscreen tip spidertri, I can actually see my rearview mirror now!

[echo]

The cockpit view is really stunning, they paid a lot of attention to detail. I was really impressed that at the start up of a race, you can hear the turbo spool up and the BOV on my Evo. Great game

[spidertri]

So I needed an R3 car for some races, looked at the leaderboards and saw the Viper ACR on the top of a lot of them. I've wanted an excuse to buy that car and this was a good reason. Turns out you can swap in the nascar engine and awd...LOL. That car is ridiculous! I'm loving this game more and more.

Oh and if you see a car at the top of the auction house for cheap and little time left it's worth it to scroll down the list to see if there is one with a cheaper buyout.

I went to buy the ACR and got in a bidding war with some guy, soon the price was up around 80k, I scrolled down the list and found a stock ACR with a buyout of 40k, needless to say, I retracted my bid on the first one.

[tiFreak]

I just got it for Christmas, only got a chance to play it a little bit but I love it, here's my car:



yes, it's supposed to look ricey

[MacUser]

Originally Posted by tiFreak

I just got it for Christmas, only got a chance to play it a little bit but I love it

My son got it, too. His XBOX 360 is suffering from RROD, though. Luckily, I let him use mine. We've had 4 RRODs ... once on mine, now three on his. We also got him a new shirt from thinkgeek.com:

[THAT318]

whoa i was hessitant to go out and buy it but it looks like im going to pick that up along with cod:mw2 and some rechargable battery packs for the 360... if only i knew how to waste money like that on other things.. like a girl.. lmaooo

EDIT: i think im going to stay up till 6 and run to walmart and grab me forza 3 so i can play it until the christmas party im going to tonight. i mean its only 3 hours and you guys making it seem like the ****!!! im probably going to grab it at 6 play till whenever autozone opens then run and grab hoses for my stupid idle control crap so im not vibrating and idling high at lights. my car runs like **** in the cold right now.

[tiFreak]

new paint job for the Scion