Forza Motorsport 3 celebrates past and present of JDM in new screenshots
Forza Motorsport 3 Screenshot - click above image for high-res gallery
More and more folks are slowly but surely coming to the realization that old school Japanese metal is pretty cool. Stylish, too. For instance, have you ever noticed how much a Toyota Celica Supra looks like a Lamborghini Jarama? Or that a first generation Miata is a dead ringer for Lotus Elan? Before you start screaming about the Japanese being styling thieves, let's remember two things.
As Woody Allen has said, "Be original, don't steal. But if you do, steal from the best." The other is that if you counted up all the running Jaramas and Elans on the world, you'd have a very, very small number. So if not for the Japanese, these shapes would be lost. Then, of course, you have cars like the Datsun 510, a design that looks even sharper now than it did forty years ago -- especially the sedan. And then there's the 240Z, a true icon.
In recognition of this, the brains behind Forza Motorsport 3 are including a bunch of vintage JDM rides in their upcoming XBox racing game that's on schedule to be released this October. Including some racers like the 1997 Nissan Motorsports R390, a homologated Le Mans car, meaning two street examples exist, and they can hit 60 mph in 3.3. seconds, run the quarter in 11 seconds flat and top out at 220 mph. While we think 99% of the cars Forza's including are brillinat, we don't quite get the Scion xD. Thanks for the tip, Brandon!
Gallery: Forza 3 Japanese Screen Shots
[Source: Forza Motorsport]
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Tdogg 3:40PM (8/12/2009)
"we don't quite get the Scion xD."
Am I the only one that can't wait to kill a Lambo with one of those?
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Trajan 3:44PM (8/12/2009)
I don't get how they can't understand the xD, but they understand the Yaris...
Tdogg 3:52PM (8/12/2009)
Yea, Yaris doesn't even get 100 hp.
Tdogg 3:55PM (8/12/2009)
Scratch that, yaris barely gets 100 hp.
Noidor 4:26PM (8/12/2009)
How about an Austin Morris with spiked winter tyres?! lol lol lol
Noidor 4:29PM (8/12/2009)
Ooops I meant Morris Marina with a piano option ticked-off
Nateb123 4:41PM (8/12/2009)
My parents had a Morris Marina briefly. They had to commute on this highway with a mountain on one side and a dropoff to a sea on the other. When the road was wet and the Morris went over the crest of a hill, all the body electrical would short circuit. Apparently the electrical was exposed on the bottom of the car (from the factory!) which caused this. It happened twice to my parents over the course of a couple weeks. Trust me, you don't want a Marina in that game, it nearly made me an orphan and that was going 80 kph on an empty highway
the4thheat 6:30PM (8/12/2009)
Someday when all those Rolls Royce Phantoms are gone will the Geely keep it's shape alive? lol
leunamme 3:42PM (8/12/2009)
I like driving simulators and I'm sure Forza is great. never played it. Love GT4 to death, but there's just something about the glass reflections in these screen shots that sometimes look wrong compared to the real world and what is capable by the systems these days. The glass is a little flat/matte looking at times and isn't as glossy as it should be. Check the picture of the Fit and how the glass behind the rear doors is very flat looking. Just errs me.
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ugg.tryptophan 4:03PM (8/12/2009)
maybe, its just the weather, its a bit overcast
Nateb123 4:45PM (8/12/2009)
It's just that it's a sleeper Fit with Lexan windows ;) I agree though, Forza has its graphical limits. Look at the Mazda 3's badge. It looks like a decal pasted on. Still, with interiors, who cares? I'll never see the outside of my car except in replays.
Chris 3:50PM (8/12/2009)
I know this is a Forza post...but are there any GT5 Prologue racers on here? I'm looking for some online competition.
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NudeLove93 4:10PM (8/12/2009)
I play online sometimes, but I like to race in the cars that I want to race, tuned how I want to tune them, on tracks that I want to race the cars that I want to race, which are tuned how I want to.
I think.
esteva03 4:32PM (8/12/2009)
i havent played in a long time. the connection was never good fo me, and i hate getting kicked out or bump out of the road. i am overseas and i dont have my pro steering wheel, so i miss it a lot. PS3 or GT need to upgrade the servers or something.
about forza. i would like this game to come for PS3. if both games would be available for PS3 i think i would never have to buy another console. more detail is just for the sake of progress. both games have come to a point were there is not much you can complain both in graphics and physics.
luiscor 3:53PM (8/12/2009)
is just me or does that red miata look like the kids cartoon from cars? all the others look great but that miata looks to round and fake.
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Serge 3:58PM (8/12/2009)
That's just the way the Miata looks man... no way around that :)
why not the LS2LS7? 3:58PM (8/12/2009)
The R390 was in Forza 2, so nothing new there.
The Datsun pictured needs mirrors on the fenders.
How many of these cars is MS going to charge extra for?
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Mr Clickerson 4:45PM (8/12/2009)
They're cars that come with the game.
Bobs 1:42AM (8/13/2009)
The cars that are being announced right now will come shipped with the game. There are 400+ cars being shipped with the game.
Plus, Forza 2 had 2 or 3 DLCs released with around 5 - 10 extra cars with them (The new M3, S5 and etc.)
So I assume we'll continue to get even more updated cars down the road.
why not the LS2LS7? 3:53AM (8/13/2009)
You know what happens when you assume?
When MS announced that 1st party titles for 360 would be $50, people assumed it they meant it. Sure, PGR3, Perfect Dark Zero was and Kameo was. But within a year, they were charging $60. Now they cripple the $60 version of Forza 3 so as to try to get you to buy the $80 version.
I assume MS will jack me pretty hard. I'm fairly confident my assumptions are more likely to be true than yours.