27 October 2009
Forza Motorsport 3
Forza Motorsport 3 is only you, the car, the rubber and the road, in a blissful, never-bettered harmony – until the race ends, you pull back, and you get the bigger picture. Then you realise that that experience was just the centre of a huge, welcoming, flexible and shockingly complete package, a racing game that genuinely has a corner somewhere in it for everyone who loves cars, and a world-beating online platform to share that love with thousands of others. For 2009 at least, consider the racing game defined.
(Eurogamer, 9/10)
But as it stands, this is the very best racing game there is on the console market. It’s a compendium of everything that’s been great about driving games over the past few years, tied into a community that can keep the experience fresh for some time to come. For the uninitiated, this is a gentle introduction to the joys of well-clipped apexes and shaving split seconds, while for those already in thrall to the genre this is likely to be their obsession. The question of whether Forza 3 is better than Gran Turismo has been answered comprehensively – and now the question is what can Polyphony offer in response?
(IGN, 9.4)
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