[360] Forza Motorsport 3

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Whoa!!
 
Perhaps there ought to be a screenshot thread for FM3... Anything you folks have taken in photo-mode or run across such as those custom paint-jobs. There is some great work out there.
 
"Simple" might be arguable. I am amazed they can do that stuff with just the control pad. :cool: They allowed around 4000 layers of graphics IIRC for Forza 2. I thought I read somewhere they increased that limit for FM3. :)
 
Shifty Geezer said:
Just goes to show what communities can do when you give them the tools, even simple ones!
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True (take that IW and your no-mod no-ded server stance!). Although FM2's tools are pretty well thought out and free form, not so much "simple" really.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread when judging the cars this needs to be kept in consideration. Being able to add not just decals but multi-thousand layer customer paint jobs adds a dynamic element to the games graphics that is outside the control of the developers to control and tweak.

Not disimilar to comparing a game with dynamic lighting that interacts with night/day as well as storms, clouds, etc verses baked lighting or, more similar, comparing games where one has pre-fabbed maps and the other totally custom on the fly user geneated layouts. Which is why imo FarCry 2 was pretty amazing.
 
Joshua Luna said:
True (take that IW and your no-mod no-ded server stance!). Although FM2's tools are pretty well thought out and free form, not so much "simple" really.
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I'll need to check a vid, but I thought it was a matter of just layering simple shapes of given colours.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread when judging the cars this needs to be kept in consideration. Being able to add not just decals but multi-thousand layer customer paint jobs adds a dynamic element to the games graphics that is outside the control of the developers to control and tweak.
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Not sure about that. I'd expect the edited paint-jobs to be baked into a texture.
 
Shifty Geezer said:
I'll need to check a vid, but I thought it was a matter of just layering simple shapes of given colours.

Not sure about that. I'd expect the edited paint-jobs to be baked into a texture.
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You can find some guides for paint-job and also the results of the concours for FM2 paint-job here:
http://forums.forzamotorsport.net/forums/25/ShowForum.aspx

And cars with liveries got a better visual than cars with standard paint, it's easy to check with videos.
 
Joshua Luna said:
Yeah, some reviews are by non-racing fans (e.g. GamePro with a 4/5). They open up saying, "I'm not a big car nut" and "it's really meant for hardcore car nuts. Not that there's anything wrong with that." A valid review as it is a good thing that gamers of different stripes review games, but a review like that is pretty irrelevant to someone who is looking for a serious racing sim on the consoles.

I want to see some reviews putting it in the paces on real tracks with real cars by real drivers.
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Here's another review by someone with high performance cars and track experience vs the traditional game journalist.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/video-games/review/2009/10/21/Forza-Motorsport-3/p1

Note that he gave Forza 2 a 7/10.
 
RobertR1 said:
Here's another review by someone with high performance cars and track experience vs the traditional game journalist.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/video-games/review/2009/10/21/Forza-Motorsport-3/p1

Note that he gave Forza 2 a 7/10.
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Damn you, don't want to get back into racing games, but reading stuff like this makes it tempting.

And this is the type of review I like to see. People that actually do take real life high performance cars to the edge (and beyond) regularly, and then see if that experience is replicated in a simulation/game.

Regards,
SB
 
Got the game today.

Graphics are really disappointing given hype from T10 - Looks nowhere better looking than FM2 to me.

But gameplay doesn't feel arcade like in demo to me for now...!
 
infinity4 said:
Looks nowhere better looking than FM2 to me.
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That may very well be the case to you, but on a pure "check list" of technical improvements the game has seen many visual improvements. Scroll back a few pages to see a list of various upgrades, maybe you can see them then?
 
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