Forza 3 Gets Some DLC

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In case you feel like Forza Motorsport doesn't have enough cars, today you'll be able to download a new car pack called the 'Hyundai Genesis Coupe Car Pack' for free. Additionally, Turn 10 has outlined a paid bit of content called the 'Hot Holidays Car Pack' which will run 400 MSP and come out at the beginning of December.

After launching to universal fan and critical acclaim on Oct. 27, the “Forza Motorsport 3” engine is still firing on all cylinders as today marks the release of the “Hyundai Genesis Coupe Car Pack,” downloadable for free on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Additionally, Turn 10 and Microsoft are giving fans even more reasons to celebrate with the “Hot Holidays Car Pack” Game Add-on, including 10 late-model year cars available on Dec. 8.

The “Hyundai Genesis Coupe Car Pack,” now available for free on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, includes the Rhys Millen Racing Red Bull Hyundai Genesis Coupe, the HKS Genesis Coupe, and a one-of-a-kind “Forza Motorsport 3” Genesis Coupe. Now fans have the opportunity to expand their already-epic “Forza Motorsport 3” car rosters and experience for themselves several iconic variations of the 300-horsepower Genesis Coupe.

The “Hot Holidays Car Pack,” releasing Dec. 8 for 400 Microsoft points, will feature some of the world’s most anticipated super cars and purpose-built race cars of 2010, including the recently unveiled Ferrari 458 Italia. To give players a taste of the “Hot Holidays Car Pack,” the brand new 2010 Audi S4 will be available as a free download.

Since each of the vehicles in the “Hot Holidays Car Pack” comes with its own fanfare and unique place in motorsports’ present and future, the team at Turn 10 will be unveiling and diving deeper into each car over the next two weeks on Forzamotorsport.net. Auto aficionados should be sure to tune in for daily photo trivia contests to guess the model, make, and year of each car, with the chance to win real prizes and other in-game rewards within “Forza Motorsport 3.” Check Forzamotorsport.net for more info on this and all future Game Add-on news.

Yet another game I want to get, but just don't have the time.

[Lind]

Its a great game. Thank god for the rewind function. Nothing sucks more than to play a perfect race and get pushed out of the way in the last corner.

[PopoWRX]

Its a great game. Thank god for the rewind function. Nothing sucks more than to play a perfect race and get pushed out of the way in the last corner.

Doing the stamina races was the worst haha. Sometimes I'd doze off and veer off course at like the last lap and I'd be done for.

[Samstag]

I ran my first endurance last night and it took about an hour and 15 minutes. I didn't need any last minute rewinds though since I finished about 6-7 minutes ahead of 2nd place.

[shpankey]

That was quick.

Rewind is a Godsend. Thank you Turn10 for implementing such an awesome idea. This is a video game, not real life, and nothing can put me more off of a game than racing for 49 laps perfectly and have the CPU ram my ass into a wall on the last turn and end up last. It's controller throwing frustration that inevitably leads to me just selling the game outright. This is a past-time where I like to relax and enjoy myself. I'm not competitive or super-uber elitist. I just want to have some fun.

Since the game has some punishments (that I don't care about, since I'm not elitist) for doing it (rewind) that keeps the hard-core happy. But the rest of us can just use it and have a blast and enjoy the game.

note: Turn10 actually has decent A.I. so my hypothetical is not a common occurrence with their games. But play a game like Gran Turismo and FUCK!!!! The A.I. is so fucking stupid and stuck on rails that it can piss you off to no end racing their dumb asses.

[FallenReign]

My only problem with the rewind feature is it's too overpowered, there seems to be no cap on how many times you can do it. Nor is there an option to turn it off for a heightened difficultly (and of course heightened reward.) It just strikes me as ill weighted, not to say I didn't have my fair share of hitting the wall with my controller after 40 minutes of perfect racing, but it definitely saps the realism IMO.

[Samstag]

They probably should have added a credit penalty for using rewind, but even without it I wouldn't call it overpowered. It's not much of an advantage over just turning on all assists and racing easy AI. It's only a single-player option and it doesn't help you in the hot lap leaderboards so I think it's good that it gives people an extra tool to use to adjust the game difficulty.

The fact that they throw so many credits and exotic free cars at you in Forza 3 was my second clue that this is meant to be a much more accessible game than previous versions. The first was when I selected "serious racer" at the start and still had to turn off assists from the default they gave me.