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In order to get  a perfect start, one needs to think how Formula 1 cars start off: LAUNCH CONTROL.

Many players choose to give full throttle at the start, which only leads to useless wheel spin and time lost, not to mention if you have the traction control switched off! Other believe to wait until the light hits green to give full throttle, which is also time consuming as the engine needs to get up to revs until enough power is at disposal.

The best way is to simulate an electronic modern launch control. Each car is a little bit different as the different engines deliver maximum power at differente revs. Hence, it is important that before you actually start your race, you try a couple of starts giving full throttle and obsvere closely at exactly which revs the engine seems to ‘lock in’.  Once you understood that the Ferrari Enzo’ perfect revs are 8,000 rpm for example, at the countdown before the race you gently give throttle and hold the throttle very sensibly at the desired rev and when the light hits green it’s full throttle! It may take you a couple of attempts to get used to the throttle sensiblity and holding your finger, or foot, until the light hits green.

 The ciritcal moment is when it hits green light, you don’t want to be accelerating too early as to get into the eternal twilight of traction control and you don’t want to be accelerating too late, as you don’t want the engine revs to diminish….

Whether it’s an exotic sports car like the new Audi R8 V10, a classic American muscle car like the Ford GT or a hot Asian import like the Nissan 370Z, everyone has a dream car. Now you can drive that dream with Turn 10’s latest racing epic. Launching this October exclusively for Xbox 360, “Forza Motorsport 3″ unites the racing game genre, making it possible for everyone to experience the thrill of the world’s most exotic and exquisite cars. Live the most realistic racing experience ever as you take the wheel of more than 400 of the most-beloved cars on over 100 renowned real-world tracks and exotic road courses from around the globe. With breathtaking high-definition graphics and the most advanced vehicle performance modeling in a video game, “Forza Motorsport 3″ includes a host of driving assists and adjustable skill levels to make the game a gripping pick-up-and-play experience for audiences of all ages and skill levels.

Your escape into the world of car culture in “Forza Motorsport 3″ doesn’t stop at the track. Turn 10 is a proven leader in user-generated content creation in games. “Forza Motorsport 3″ further fuels the imaginations of its already thriving community of painters, tuners and photographers with improved customization tools and brand-new ways to share creations with the world via Xbox LIVE.* Xbox LIVE makes your journey into the “Forza Motorsport” community and the world of user-generated content easy and fun.

A love of cars lives in all of us. “Forza Motorsport 3″ is the automotive playground we’ve all been waiting for.

Features:

Top features include the following:

• Where dreams are driven: The cars and tracks. Featuring the latest and greatest production offerings as well as the world’s fastest and most exotic street cars, “Forza Motorsport 3″ offers more than 400 fully customizable and tunable cars from over 50 of the world’s leading manufacturers. Whether your passion is classic American muscle cars, European roadsters, purpose-built race cars or high-tech Asian imports, “Forza Motorsport 3″ puts you in the cockpit of the cars you love.
In addition to the return of world-famous tracks from previous “Forza Motorsport” games, including Suzuka, Nürburgring Nordschleife and the Sebring International Raceway, “Forza Motorsport 3″ invites you to conquer the corners on more than 100 tracks, including some of the most beautiful road courses in the world. New environments like the gorgeous mountainous Montserrat region in Spain, the rugged Amalfi Coast in Italy and the American Southwest are presented in such majestic detail that you might find yourself pulling over just to take it all in.

• The look and feel of a modern racing game: “Forza Motorsport 3″ is the definitive racing game. The appreciation of the automobile in “Forza Motorsport 3″ is due in large part to the team’s attention to detail. This is why automotive engineers from manufacturers like Audi and champion race teams like Peugeot as well as experienced computer graphics specialists from across Microsoft Corp. have all teamed up with Turn 10 to make “Forza Motorsport 3″ the most beautiful and realistic racing game ever made. All 400-plus cars in the game have been built with more than 10 times the amount of polygons as “Forza Motorsport 2.” This includes painstakingly researched cockpits and interiors for every vehicle. But realism isn’t just about pretty graphics. Turn 10 takes realism to new heights, leading the industry with the most advanced physics model, artificial intelligence and damage calculations. Whether it’s the differences in how each car handles through the corners, how the engines sound at top speed or how different tires and upgrades impact your car’s performance, you’ll find yourself leaning into your turns as if you were really behind the wheel of your favorite ride.

• It’s easy to go for a spin: “Forza Motorsport 3″ redefines the racing genre. Simulation games can be too hard for some players. “Forza Motorsport 3″ rises above the distinction between simulation and arcade games. Using a myriad of cutting-edge driving and gameplay assists such as auto-braking, gameplay rewind and auto-tuning, “Forza Motorsport 3″ delivers an experience where everyone can have fun behind the wheel, regardless of your skill and dexterity. Whether you’re a newcomer or a seasoned racing game pro, “Forza Motorsport 3″ caters to how you drive and evolves with you over time as your skills increase.

• Express your car passion: User-generated content and Xbox LIVE. Painters and tuners will once again be able to showcase creativity through the celebrated Livery Editor, Auction House and deep tuning garage in “Forza Motorsport 3.” The car is literally the artistic canvas as some of the world’s most creative car painters and designers find new layers of depth and freedom to create shocking visual masterpieces before sharing them with others over Xbox LIVE.* Each car in “Forza Motorsport 3″ is fully upgradable, allowing gear heads to take on the challenge of turning a Honda Civic into a supercar killer. New Xbox LIVE Leaderboards celebrate not only the greatest racers but also the most prolific car tuners and painters in the community.

• Play your way: New game modes. “Forza Motorsport 3″ is an epic racing game featuring more content and more ways to play than any racing title today. An innovative single-player season mode puts you through a completely personalized racing calendar that includes more than 200 different events, including Circuit, Oval, Drag, Drift and Timed Events. No two calendars are the same; they react to the cars you love and the races you enjoy most. In addition, the online multiplayer mode* gains an all-new game rules editor. This gives players a never-ending variety of ways to play with friends. Whether you’re a speedster, dragster, drifter, painter, tuner or just a lover of cars, “Forza Motorsport 3″ is the definitive racing game for you.

WORD OF WARNING: if you are trying to find a way to upload your pictures on Forza 3 on the internet, forget about it! It is all ART. Dedication, skill and a hell of a lot of free time! Have a look at the video above and you will understand what it means to get a great design on your car.

Forza 3 has officially launched in North America, and just as in 2007, the Internet has exploded with custom paint jobs. There’s livery for every taste, from sports to anime to, of course, gaming, and many of Forza 2’s most popular community artists have returned for the sequel.

New for Forza 3 is the storefront feature, which allows artists to sell their designs for in-game credits. Some designs may go for free, others may go for 10,000 credits, but it’s an interesting way for community artists to get even more recognition than before.

To give you an idea of what’s out there, we rounded up some of the best designs from around the Internet, with themes ranging from Zone of the Enders to Transformers. Check them out below, and if you like them, it’s not hard to download them. Before you know, you too will be driving a stylish Okami-mobile.

First off, if you’re looking for dirt, you won’t find much here. Both upcoming racers Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360) and Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) are sure to be great racing games. That said,  I think there’s a clear winner here between the two high-profile racers shown on the floor of Tokyo Game Show this year. As you read on, keep in mind that we’re not comparing the games themselves as much as we are the demos shown on the TGS floor.

Both were in pretty nifty setups. Gran Turismo 5 had real-world racing seats built into metal frames. Inside, players sat in front of a high-end Sony display while controlling the game with the GT steering wheel set. Forza 3 was played on a three-screen setup. They too had racing chairs and a steering wheel controller. Putting all of that aside, though, which was the better game?

Visuals:
Winner: Forza Motorsport 3
While both games look great on the track, Forza’s demo featured a polish that Gran Turismo 5’s lacked. The rocky hillsides and lush greenery easily showed up the bland, almost clinical-looking cityscape of Gran Turismo. Driving slow in Gran Turismo is like inviting disappointment. I guess they were hoping you’d always be moving fast enough to not notice the perfectly flat tree and pole textures. Plants and trees on the side of the road look like paper cutouts, and the tree trunks are laughably bad.  As far as the vehicle visuals go, neither game disappoints. Both supply unhealthy doses of car porn. The tighter racing action of Forza 3 made it easier to appreciate the models of the cars I raced against, but both pull off amazing feats as far as visuals go. Forza’s framerate was liquid smooth, making it a bit easier on the eyes than GT5.

Control:
Winner: Forza Motorsport 3
Solely judging from the two on-floor demos,  both of which used adjustable racing seats and steering wheel rigs, Forza 3’s control won the race. There was something about the balance of control that made it seem especially intuitive. I’d go as far as to say that it felt damned near flawless with the steering wheel rig they had set up at each demo station. Gran Turismo controlled great as well, with the tilt leaning farther away from arcade action and more towards realism. Nothing was notably wrong with Gran Turismo’s control. It’s just that the seamless feeling that we felt with the controls in Forza wasn’t there in GT5.

Game play:
Winner:  Forza Motorsport 3
Both games were played on a rather easy track, and both featured racing line guidelines. Other than that, these two games play differently. Forza 3 had me racing against other AI characters that were way too easy to pass, even with the option to set the difficulty. My choice of a medium difficulty looked more like an easy to my eyes. I didn’t try the “hard” setting, but I hope it’s considerably more difficult than medium was. That said, some of the credit goes, again, to the seemingly flawless control of the game.

As for Gran Turismo, I watched plenty of others wipe out and give up before I played. It looked like people that had never played the series games before sat down and expected arcade racing. As always, Gran Turismo 5 had that realistic acceleration and turning that greatly contrasts to the loose, forgiving controls of other racers (Forza 3 not included, of course). I enjoy the challenge and learning curve, and prefer the rewarding stick-to-your-ribs racing that it provides. Even with that, though, Forza’s gameplay was more enjoyable and approachable. It may be a bit more simple than that of GT5, but it still provides ample challenge for white knuckle racing.

If you have to have damage modeling, you want Forza 3. It’s just not there in Gran Turismo. While I don’t believe that it’s a necessity to have damage modeling in a racing game, it is an added bonus. If you play in first-person view like I do, it’s fun to see how messed up your vehicle is after a race. Gran Turismo doesn’t do that. In fact, side of the road items like cones and tires don’t even seem to be affected properly by impact. When I ran into a stack of tires, they seemed to float strangely in front of my car for a second before flying off to the right. I don’t need true-to-life physics on these types of collisions, but this looked closer to the movement of a UFO than a stack of rubber tires.

Overall:
I’m a big Gran Turismo fan, so it was a bit of a surprise to me that the Forza Motorsport 3 demo did more for me. Things like damage modeling and background art aside, it was the superb control and high level of accessibility that won me over. Forza 3 was just more fun. More impressive. Of course, this is not to say that Gran Turismo 5 isn’t a good game. It will be great, I’m sure, but Forza 3 show floor demo has me wanting to race again. I need to get me one of these three-screen setups too.

Unlockable: Cars
The following cars can be unlocked by performing the actions below:

Driver Level 01 – 2010 FIAT Abarth 500 esseesse
Driver Level 02 – 2009 Alfa Romeo Brera Italia Independent
Driver Level 03 – 2009 Volkswagen Scirocco GTI
Driver Level 04 – 2003 Renault Sport Clio V6l
Driver Level 05 – 2009 Ford Forcus RS
Driver Level 06 – 2004 Vauxhall VX220 Turbo
Driver Level 07 – 2007 Ford Shelby GT500
Driver Level 08 – 2008 Maserati GranTurismo
Driver Level 09 – 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS
Driver Level 10 – 2006 Lotus Exige Cup 240
Driver Level 11 – 2009 BMW Motorsport M5 E60
Driver Level 12 – 2009 Lexus IS F
Driver Level 13 – 2007 SEAT Leon Supercup
Driver Level 14 – 2005 Honda NSX-R GT
Driver Level 15 – 2009 Ferrari California
Driver Level 16 – 2009 Jaguar XKR-S
Driver Level 17 – 2002 BMW Motorsport M3-GTR
Driver Level 18 – 2007 Peugeot Super 2000
Driver Level 19 – 2007 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione
Driver Level 20 – 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI quattro
Driver Level 21 – 2005 Ford Ford GT
Driver Level 22 – 2009 Mercedes SL 65 AMG Black Series
Driver Level 23 – 2005 TVR Sagaris
Driver Level 24 – 2008 Porsche 911 GT2 (997)
Driver Level 25 – 2008 Lamborghini Reventon
Driver Level 26 – 2002 Nissan MINE’S R34 Skyline GT-R
Driver Level 27 – 2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
Driver Level 28 – 2006 Lamborghini Miura Concept
Driver Level 29 – 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR
Driver Level 30 – 2009 Bugatti Veyron 16.4
Driver Level 31 – 2009 Holdon #2 Commodore VG
Driver Level 32 – 2006 Ferrari #62 Risi Competizone F430GT
Driver Level 33 – 2008 Porsche #45 Flying Lizard 911 GT3-RSR
Driver Level 34 – 2009 BMW Motorsport #92 Rahal Letterman Racing M3 GT2
Driver Level 35 – 2005 Ferrari FXX
Driver Level 36 – 2007 Chevrolet #4 Corvette C6.R
Driver Level 37 – 2008 Nissan #23 XANAVI NISMO GT-R
Driver Level 38 – 2006 Aston Martin #007 Aston Martin Racing DBR9
Driver Level 39 – 2008 Lexus #6 Eneos SC430
Driver Level 40 – 2008 Konigsegg CCGT
Driver Level 41 – 1997 McLaren #43 F1 GTR
Driver Level 42 – 2005 Maserati #15 JMB Racing MC12
Driver Level 43 – 1998 Porsche #26 AG 911 GT1-98
Driver Level 44 – 2003 Saleen #2 Konrad Motorsports S7R
Driver Level 45 – 2008 Porsche #7 Penske Racing RS Spyder Evo
Driver Level 46 – 2009 Mazda #16 Dyson Racing B09/86
Driver Level 47 – 2006 Audi #2 Audi Sport North America R8
Driver Level 48 – 2009 Acura #66 de Ferran Motorsports ARX-02a
Driver Level 49 – 2006 Audi #8 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R10 TDi

Driver Level 50 – 2009 Peugeot #9 Peugeot Sport Total 908