Microsoft E3 2006 Conference Thread

Forza PR

Title: Forza Motorsport™ 2

Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios

Developer: Turn 10

Format: DVD / Xbox 360

ESRB Rating: Pending

Availability: Holiday 2006


“Forza Motorsport 2,” the sequel to Microsoft Game Studios’ award-winning, fully customizable driving simulator “Forza Motorsport,” speeds its way onto Xbox 360 this holiday. With authentic simulation physics, bone-jarring damage, photo-realistic graphics, and licensed tuning and customization options, the franchise improves on the unprecedented features gamers enjoyed in its debut installment. Loaded with more than 300 of the world’s hottest cars for you to collect, personalize and tune, “Forza Motorsport 2” gives you a complete racing experience.

Features:

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Lap the competition with truly next-generation features. Made possible by the power of Xbox 360, “Forza Motorsport 2” burns rubber at 60 fps with 4x full-screen anti-aliasing, motion blur, and high-dynamic-range lighting in crisp 720p high-definition glory. And you can feel every nuance of your car and the road thanks to support for the official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel.
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Experience uncompromising physics simulation. Top automotive engineers, professional race car drivers and programmers teamed up to create the most complete racing 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.
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Master real-world tracks from around the globe. From the famously challenging Nürburgring Nordschleife track to the spectator-lined streets of Rio de Janeiro, race on meticulously designed tracks with an incredible sense of speed and realism. “Forza Motorsport 2” features more than 60 tracks carved out of 18 environments, including 13 real-world licensed circuits such as the Road America race track, Silverstone Circuit, Tsukuba Circuit and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Sebring International Raceway is among four new real-world licensed circuits added to the repertoire of “Forza Motorsport 2.”
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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 such as Ferrari, Porsche, General Motors, Lamborghini, Nissan and Volkswagen. 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.
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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 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 “Forza Motorsport 2” Photo Mode.
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Compete in a vibrant online community. Take your personalized car onto Xbox Live® for some intense online wheel-to-wheel racing. Earn in-game credits and complete single-player career objectives while racing over Xbox Live. Watch the best racers as well as your friends from around the world compete on Forza Motorsport TV.

“Forza Motorsport 2” (http://www.forzamotorsport.net) is being developed by Turn 10, a Microsoft Game Studio. Microsoft Game Studios is a leading worldwide games company with two core businesses: games development and publishing (http://www.microsoft.com/games) and Zone.com. Zone.com (http://www.zone.com) is the Internet’s largest game site.
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My Arms Your Hearse said:
Why wouldn't Forza 2, realtime or CGI, not blow the fuck out of GT4 (with increased resolution)?

I think we all know GT5 is going to be the graphical king of racers next-gen, it always is. GT4, on PS2, kept up (and to some people) surpassed Forza (Xbox) visually.
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Er, why would anyone compare Forza 2 to GT4? I hope Smokey wasn't making that comparison :lol
 
Doom_Bringer said:
Gears of War own3d everyone...it looks better than MGS4 IMO. Awesome shit but I hope they clean up the frame rate. Animation looks better too!
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WHAT DID I TELL YOU?!!?! 88 MPH!!!

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A LOT of the "props" being given to MS on account of the immense sticker shock suffered from PS3's conference. Before that peeps were hailing Sony's conference as "good." lol Damn, yo.
 
Lap the competition with truly next-generation features. Made possible by the power of Xbox 360, “Forza Motorsport 2” burns rubber at 60 fps with 4x full-screen anti-aliasing, motion blur, and high-dynamic-range lighting in crisp 720p high-definition glory. And you can feel every nuance of your car and the road thanks to support for the official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel.
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No more whiners! Awesome.
 
We won't ruin the content of our short presentation by describing it frame by frame, but we will note that everything you're seeing here is being rendered in real-time on the Xbox 360, using the current version of our Halo 3 game engine. The HDR lighting, self-shadowing, GPU-run particle system and many other effects should make it intact (and more) to our final game.
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Omg i'm crying.....i'm crying like a little boy

Oh and uh, sony loosing GTa exclusive is big i don't care. Oh and....not only did halo3 owned every fucking game outthere.

Oh and Gears of War just pwned every game at the Sony conference (That was played). The end.
 
A LOT of the "props" being given to MS on account of the immense sticker shock suffered from PS3's conference. Before that peeps were hailing Sony's conference as "good." lol Damn, yo.
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Also because I think that even most Xbots secretly expected MS to botch it! I certainly am very surprised!

Taken on it's own merits, even ignoring the PS3 price, based on the Eurogamer text updates it seemed to be a pretty relentless flow of great games and news, and would have been as good as the PS3 conference anyway.
 
I don't think it's exclusive at all. The press release says simultaneous.

And I CANNOT BELIEVE Peter Moore's Halo 2 tattoo is REAL.
 
fuck..
The shadowrun pics over at Xboxyde makes me feel a little.. dishearted...
I mean.. do we REALLY need another shooter? Halo3, GoW and the thirdparty stuff coming on 360 is like "enough"...

So please.. don´t be another shooter.. add RPG-elements.. otherwise people will cry...
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
I don't think it's exclusive at all. The press release says simultaneous.

And I CANNOT BELIEVE Peter Moore's Halo 2 tattoo is REAL.
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Well, he could have just put another fake on for this conference, too.

You would hope, anyway.
 
i iz so super glad i got a 360 now and thing the wii will just compliment it amazingly.


i had been wondering if i was getting a ps3 launch or not but might have to hold off.

wii takes care of my motion needs and 360 for my super just great regular gaming with VISUALS!
 
Hey, by the way....WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO TOO HUMAN?

Why the hell would Gears of War get exclusive coverage while Too Human is ignored? Or did I just miss that part of the conference?
 
Man, Microsoft was due for something, anything to go right with the 360. Looks like this E3 is going to be a winner for Redmond.
 
I'm gonna take the "Halo 3 real time" shit with a grain of salt for the time being. Bungie said the Halo 2 X02 trailer was all real time on the Xbox as well, and we all know how that turned out.
 
Cold-Steel said:
Hey, by the way....WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO TOO HUMAN?

Why the hell would Gears of War get exclusive coverage while Too Human is ignored? Or did I just miss that part of the conference?
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Too Human got pretty big PRe E3 coverage mate, and will be playable on the show floor.

They can't spare the sametime for everybody, Too Human took PRe E3, Gears of War took the conference.

The end.
 
Haleon said:
I'm gonna take the "Halo 3 real time" shit with a grain of salt for the time being. Bungie said the Halo 2 X02 trailer was all real time on the Xbox as well, and we all know how that turned out.
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They did a real-time demo after the announcement. Hopefully, the public will get a glimpse of that video for confirmation.
 
GashPrex said:
funny, the "best" conference by most accounts has 1/3 less replies and 60,000 less views than the other 2
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Pretty telling :lol

Shadowrun confirmed FPS and doesnt look cyberpunk at all.
Confirmed January launch alongside Vista.
 
Too Human isn't looking too good. When a developer with a shaky track record starts talking about how they are making an "epic series of games" that will become classics, I have to laugh. I have a message for Silicon Knights, just focus on making one game good and worry about the sequels later.

Gears of War looks good but it has a shaky framerate. I think it might be a little too ambitious.

Halo 3 looks good but Bungie lied before about a Halo trailer. Why should we start believing them now? If you do you are a sucker. They said themselves "The game will probably look like this when it is done". That means that it is a cg cutscene running on a computer. It is not even running on a 360 machine! So don't believe the hype. I'm sure it will be good but like President Bush said, "fool me once, shame... on... fool me twi... ummm..... Don't get fooled!"
 
GashPrex said:
funny, the "best" conference by most accounts has 1/3 less replies and 60,000 less views than the other 2
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Reading the other conference thread is a lot funnier though. "Sony kicks ass, as it rapes and plunders Wii and 360's features" price announced "fuck you Sony" :lol
 
no one clapped when they showed Alan wake or shadowrun. Shadowrun was total cg but the music was nice...the allan wake footage was from last year. :(

I think they should have showed more of Lost planet and Mass Effect like they did with Gears of War.

Crysis looks great but there are some negatives aspect to it....but i don't want to argue with deg :P
 
gollumsluvslave said:
They do indeed!! And true Force Feedback as well I think?
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IGN said:
The existing battery life is the same as the wireless controller and, by using the AC adaptor, you'll get force feedback. There are two levels of feedback, the basic rumble motors that pick up wheels on gravel and low-level rumbles, and force feedback, from the actual car performance -- slides, crashes, etc.
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I can't tell from this wording, but I hope so. I also hope that they will give us the option to use the ABXY buttons for gas and brake.

EDIT:

isamu will get to the bottom of this. :)
 
GashPrex said:
funny, the "best" conference by most accounts has 1/3 less replies and 60,000 less views than the other 2
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i think the biggest reason for this was that we couldn't see anything besides screenshots.
 
GashPrex said:
funny, the "best" conference by most accounts has 1/3 less replies and 60,000 less views than the other 2
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The flatout best conference has much less replys because...this is GAF, there's more fans of sony and nintendo.
And honestly, there's very little, probably nothing to hate from the Xbox 360 conference, it was all ACE, so it gets kinda hard for Fans of other systems to come in here and start bashing.

But we have seen some of them already, but only the brave ones. :D
 
GashPrex said:
funny, the "best" conference by most accounts has 1/3 less replies and 60,000 less views than the other 2
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Yeah I was thinking the same thing - but most of us are still waiting for the free stream.
 
GashPrex said:
funny, the "best" conference by most accounts has 1/3 less replies and 60,000 less views than the other 2
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cmon gash, you've been on GAF long enough to know why.... :)
 
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