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Game Title: Forza Motorsport
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Genre: Racing
Platform: X-Box
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Xbox is about to flex its muscles as the most powerful gaming console with the release of Forza Motorsport from Microsoft Game Studios. Designed and developed exclusively for the Xbox, Microsoft Game Studios has assembled a team of passionate, dedicated car enthusiasts to create Xbox's first, fully customizable driving simulator that combines photorealistic graphics with an all-new physics engine to produce the best car game on the Xbox to date.
After setting up an initial profile and choosing a car, gamers are encouraged to customize their vehicle with paint, decals, and custom graphics that are all "free" allowing everyone to create the ultimate looking car before hitting the racing circuit. Once the cash starts rolling in, players can purchase real car modifications, upgraded parts, and better, faster cars. Car fanatics can upgrade cars by buying alternative engines, bolt-on superchargers, suspension kits, and go even further by fine tuning ignition timing, gear ratios, forced induction pressure, plus tire pressure and temperature. Newer gamers, or for racers who aren't that into the tuning details, can purchase whole upgrade kits and have them installed for quick upgrades that gets cars back to the racetrack in a short amount of time.
Xbox fans will be racing on over 60 tracks that include real courses like Laguna Seca, Tsukuba and Nurburgring Nordschleife. Other tracks include sweet courses that have gamers hauling-ass through the spectator-lined streets of Tokyo, New York City or Rio de Janeiro in the hopes of winning even more cash and prizes. Career Mode is deep so there is plenty of time to check out all the tracks, and gamers will find each one carefully created for realistic racing experiences.
Taking racing to the next level on the Xbox, Forza Motorsport boasts deep Xbox Live Support, so that players can take their career profiles online-as well as their custom created vehicle-to join or create car clubs with up to 100 members, check stats on over 1700 leaderboards, or to buy, sell, and trade cars with other gamers. Racers can choose either a single player or multiplayer game which has the ability to support up to eight gamers simultaneously. The graphics for the game take advantage of the Xbox's power by having camera effects like blooming, heat shimmer, and depth of field to create a nearly photo-perfect environment at all times.
Another fantastic new feature is an amazing innovation that Microsoft developers call "Drivatar Technology." It is an AI feature that gamers use to "train" a Computer Driver-a Drivatar-to use a gamer's personal racing style and driving techniques. Once the "Drivatar" is trained, gamers can use it to race in other competitions or even train new drivers to their racing team all without having to lift a finger.
Overall, we found Forza Motorsport to be an impressive driving simulator with its new physics engine, AI innovations, and photo-realistic graphics. Developers have taken a wide range of gamers in mind when developing Forza Motorsport so that brand new gamers and hardcore gamers will each find their place here.