New details on Forza Motorsport 2

Antan - 1068 days 11 hours ago

Only 12 tracks? Can`t be right! But it appears there are variations of these also if you dig a little deeper.

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True Gamer - 1068 days 11 hours ago

Awesome!

The game will have 300 cars, 12 tracks, and 6 multiplayer modes!

Seems like a good racing game so far, except, 12 tracks your kidding me!!!

In comparison GT4 had 100 tracks, and 600 cars...

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BrotherSic - 1068 days 11 hours ago

disappointing amount of tracks but it does say on the forza site

"All told, there are 47 different ribbons in the game across the 12 environments".

so nearly each track has 4 different routes + downloadable tracks and cars (hopefully some are free).

I must admit that i cant wait to be online with this game. Drag racing online in forza was so cool.

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True Gamer - 1068 days 10 hours ago

there is still GT5 in case Forza 2 turns out to be disappointing.

But I sure hope not, I have been waiting for this game and I had high expectations for it.

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MoonDust - 1068 days 10 hours ago

When did MSFT Confirm this? This is total BS. Forza has a lot more than 12 tracks. Sorry.

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NFS21 - 1068 days 10 hours ago

12 tracks, and this is SUPPOSED to be another AAA Xbox 360 title...right.

I bet u xbots which you had blu-ray 50GB disk space now huh...hahaha

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TheSadTruth - 1068 days 10 hours ago

quality > quantity last time I checked

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shotty - 1068 days 9 hours ago

These are real world tracks btw, plus grand turimo did have alot of tracks however alot were crap and they included reverse and different iterations of the same track to boast the count. Its the quality not the quantity.

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power of Green - 1068 days 9 hours ago

FeaturesForza Motorsport™ 2, the sequel to Microsoft Game Studios' award-winning, fully-customizable driving simulator Forza Motorsport™, speeds its way onto Xbox 360™.

Buckle up for authentic simulation physics, bone-jarring damage, and photo-realistic graphics, as well as licensed tuning and customization options.

Loaded with over 300 of the world’s hottest cars for you to collect, personalize, and race, Forza Motorsport 2 gives you the complete racing experience.

Lap the Competition: With true next-generation features made possible by the power of Xbox 360, Forza Motorsport 2 burns rubber at 60 fps with 2x full-screen anti-aliasing, and high-dynamic-range lighting in crisp 720p high-definition glory.

Feel every nuance of your car and the road thanks to support for the official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel.

Experience uncompromising physics: Top automotive engineers, professional race car drivers, and experienced programmers teamed up to create the most complete racing simulator experience available.

Cars incur dramatic damage and wear, which affects car performance.

Advanced tire and suspension models respond to heat and pressure changes as well as weight transfer and aerodynamic load.

Race real-world tracks: From the all-new world famous Suzuka and Sebring tracks to the spectator-lined streets of New York, race on meticulously designed tracks with an incredible sense of speed and realism.

Forza Motorsport 2 ffeatures over 45 tracks carved out of 12 environments, including several real-world licensed circuits such as Silverstone, Tsukuba, and Laguna Seca.

New real-world licensed circuits further expand the world of Forza Motorsport 2.

Collect, upgrade, and tune hundreds of cars: From sport compacts to purpose-built race cars, collect more than 300 cars from over 50 of the world’s leading manufacturers including Ferrari, Porsche, Nissan, VW, GM, and Lamborghini.

Take your car to the garage and install alternative engines, suspension kits, bolt-on superchargers, brakes, rims, racing slicks, and more.

Dial in advanced suspension settings, tire pressure, and gear ratios.

Forza Motorsport 2 allows you to own the cars that will own the competition.

Create and share your masterpiece with the world: Express your inner artist in the paint and upgrade shops with near endless visual personalization.

Customize the shape of your car by combining different licensed rims, performance parts, and aftermarket body kits.

Create your own unique paint scheme using millions of paint and decal options.

Take in-game pictures of your creation in the Forza Motorsport 2 photo mode.

Compete online: Take your personalized car onto Xbox Live® for some intense online wheel-to-wheel racing.

Earn in-game credits and even complete single player career objectives while racing over Xbox Live.

Watch the best racers from around the world compete on Forza Motorsport 2 TV.

SOMEHOW I DO NOT THINK GT4/5 IS EVEN IN THE SAME LEAGE/LEVEL NO MATTER HOW YOU PEOPLE TRY TO SPIN IT.

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Mr Murda - 1068 days 9 hours ago

12 Tracks cannot be right and it isn't. It's like in PGR3 where they have only 5 or 6 cities, but each environment has tons of tracks. I imagine they mean the same thing, 12 environments with many variations/routes to customize. Then add the downloadable content and you've got yourself plenty.

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Funky Town_TX - 1068 days 9 hours ago

Forza 1 was a cool game. THe replay mode was great. You could analyze the way you raced, look at acceleration patterns, braking patterns, and tire wear down in specific spots. I just thought that was a coodl feature.

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Dusk - 1068 days 8 hours ago

It's actually 47 tracks (ribbons) across 12 environments. Geez, panic much?

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power of Green - 1068 days 8 hours ago

I think Sony/GT? fans need a 60 different worlds to race like the

Lava track

The middle of the earth track

The snow track

The Moon track

The outer Space track

The under the Sea track

Well i'll stop now.

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bigj - 1068 days 8 hours ago

I wish all the PS3 fans would shut the f_ck up about there blu-ray player. Which it is all they have to play is blu-ray movies not GAMES. Yeah us XBOX fans would love to have all that extra space.LOL So we can wait until 2010 to have a few games to play. Why dont all yall Sony fans go out and talk to Sony and see if yall can help try to sell some PS3 or should I say blu-ray players because they need all the help they can get. Yall are just mad because we already have a 100+ games to play while yall are waiting on your 60 gb blu-ray disc to fill up. Forza will be one of the best racing games out this year. We are even helping Sony out. Once this game comes out Sony can use pics of Forza to try and sell there boring a_s GT5. If they use screens of both Forza and PGR. They really should not have any problem selling GT.ROTFL

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JOLLY1 - 1068 days 8 hours ago

that they made the damage so much more intense than Forza 1. I love that you have a risk-reward for pushing your car to the limit.

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FirstknighT - 1068 days 8 hours ago

Yeah the damage system in Forza definatly adds some realism to the game! 47 tracks, 300 highly customizable cars, wireless racing wheel w/ rumble, all on the beauty of xbox live??? Oh yeah...I'm so there! :)

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 1068 days 7 hours ago

ONE MORE TIME FOR THOSE THAT DON'T READ

12 ENVIRONMENTS

47 TRACKS IN TOTAL

And now beat it if you're a Sony fanboy with selective reading. Or must I say just blind

This will be mine. With the MS force feedback wheel.

Yeah Fony fanboys, eat that. Force Feedback. PS3 racing games won't have rumble in the controller, nor feedback in a wheel.

That's hilarious but freakin' lame at the same time. I'll be tearing up the track real soon. Like I'm tearing up some Locust with my chainsaw tonight

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True Gamer - 1068 days 7 hours ago

and saw that there are indeed only 12 tracks (enviroments), but each track includes The full Grand Prix course, the West course, and the East course with the famous esses.

So its more like 47 tracks.

They should've just said it includes 47 tracks so PS3 fanboys wouldn't come and bash this game. ;)

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gogators - 1068 days 6 hours ago

not only that this game is delayed until May. I guess if that's what it takes to make this game the best possible, but damn wasn't this game suppose to be out last November. Then they leave off my favorite track from the orginal, Road America. Though 47 tracks on 12 environments are an awful lot to completely memorize as compete online they have to all be committed to memory. Two Worlds delayed and now Forza, hopefully Crackdown will have been done well enough to hold both March and April. Just make it perfect with the extra time.

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HaKeRsCanRotINHEL - 1068 days 6 hours ago

sh!t fit people we all know that FM 2 will be the best available racing sim/game in 07', hell maybe the best of all time. ; }] >

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haloalldaylo - 1068 days 5 hours ago

Cant wait for this game the first one blew my mind! bcause all I did was play GT 1,2,3,4

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FirstknighT - 1068 days 4 hours ago

Yeah have fun playing GT5 ......in Christmas of 2008! HAHA!!!

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TheBeginningOfTheEnd - 1068 days 1 hour ago

how is that a problem? u can just plug in yur mp3 or play songs from your hardrive... DUH. thats what i always do

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DR GRIM - 1068 days 1 hour ago

Microsoft confirmed today the after being delayed late last year, Forza Motorsport 2 will be released to North American retailers in May 2007.

Other details regarding Forza Motorsport 2 have surfaced as well including a list of All the tracks to be included within the game:
* Mugello Autodromo Internazionale 1
* Suzuka Circuit 2
* Sebring International Raceway 3
* Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 4
* Tsukuba Circuit 5
* Road Atlanta 6
* Silverstone Circuit 7
* Nürburgring Nordschleife 8
* Maple Valley Raceway 9
* Sunset Peninsula Infield 10
* New York Circuit 11
* Test Track 12

The game will also feature a roster of more than 300 cars, as many as 6 multiplayer modes of play, spectators during Xbox Live racing and full force-feedback support of the new Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel. For all of the revealed details, as well as future updates, visit Forzamotorsport.net.

and MotorStorm will be the best available racing game in 07', hell maybe the best of all time.

MotorStorm will k!ll Forzamotorsport at any time

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Schmitty07 - 1068 days ago

If you have no other purpose to come in here and start/continue arguements whats the point of posting comments

I am definently getting this game. I have been craving a good racer. Last one I played (Not including NFS Carbon) was PGR3.

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DJ - 1067 days 22 hours ago

"Forza Motorsport 2 burns rubber at 60 fps with 2x full-screen anti-aliasing"

2x Anti-aliasing? Wait, wasn't the Microsoft requirement for all 360 titles 4xAA? Oh yeah, forgot. Xenos's ED-RAM isn't big enough for 720p frames when you use anything above 2xAA.

It's kind of sad that there's only 12 tracks, despite multiple variations of each track. According to Microsoft, the Forza and Project Gotham teams are sharing assets and working with each other a lot so this game should turn out fine.

Doesn't look like it can compete with Gran Turismo in terms of number of tracks and cars, but I want to see how accurate their damage system is since that's their advantage over the GT series at the moment.

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JOLLY1 - 1067 days 21 hours ago

as far as I can tell gthd has one car on one track. Now that is an accopmlishment. Great comparison. Seriously, that was very nice.

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Icryo - 1067 days 8 hours ago

Agreed. GT5 and Forza 2 will be great. I don't understand why people have so much bitterness towards one or the other.

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FeralPhoenix - 1066 days 17 hours ago

I'm not big on racing games, I played Forza 1 and GT3 and they both seemed just OK to me but I think I'm starting to get into driving games -Motorstorm looks good but I'm not buying a PS3 yet so I most likely I won't pick it up since there should be better racers whenever I finally get a PS3, on the other hand Forza 2 looks amazing, yes its debatable if Forza is better than GT (what type of racer you like) but since GT5 or whatever won't even be out 'til sometime 2008, I think chances are it will be the best racer of 2007 and of course I own a 360 and I have a buddy who swears Forza is the "real deal" -(his words, not mine) he's already claiming victory over me -(actually I can't repeat the way he put it) which is likely to be true since I suck at racers, although given a little time, I'm a very fast learner, so I think I'll pick it up just to see what all the fuss is about and most importantly the opportunity to shut his "big" mouth once I OWN HIM a few times.

BTW, its funny watching Sonyfanboys come up with their own version of the FACTS, despite whats written in plain English.

"Forza Motorsport 2 features over 45 tracks carved out of 12 environments, including several real-world licensed circuits such as Silverstone, Tsukuba, and Laguna Seca."

-I guess the "over 45 tracks" part is just too damm confusing.....some people need everything spelled out for them, you know like 2+2=4, huh, whats that? [over hears Sonyfanboy arguing that 2+2=7, because....?] -((Sonyfanboy logic))

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