official Forza Horizon 3 - Greatest racer of the gen?

[Vandalsquad]

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Offical Information.

 

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In Forza Horizon 3, Australia is the home of the Horizon Festival. As one of the most beautiful and varied countries in the world, Australia makes the perfect setting for Forza Horizon 3 and the team at Playground has translated the Land Down Under into the largest and most diverse open world ever seen in the Forza Horizon series. Just like the real place, the Australia of Forza Horizon 3 is absolutely massive – in fact, it’s is twice as big as Forza Horizon 2’s map. More importantly, Forza Horizon 3’s vision of Australia captures the spectacular natural beauty, the tremendous diversity, and the environmental variety that makes the country one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.
 

Australia’s natural beauty abounds in Forza Horizon 3. From exploring bioluminescent caves that look like something out of a science fiction movie, to skipping across the beach and skimming the ocean surf as you speed past the famed “Twelve Apostles” limestone stacks, there are driving experiences in Forza Horizon 3 that players have never seen before in a Horizon game. Forza Horizon 3 is packed full of incredible diversity. There’s the famed dusty Outback that will be a test of any car’s abilities; blasting through the dense and lush rainforests; testing your driving skills on city streets – the unique driving experiences in Forza Horizon 3 seemingly never end.

 

Your Forza Garage

You’ll explore Australia in more than 350 amazing cars including incredible models never before seen in Forza, like the stunning new Lamborghini Centenario which was just revealed at the Geneva Autoshow in March and our co-cover car, the brand new Ford Raptor. Alongside Forza favorites, including a new selection of Barn Finds, we’re bringing entirely new vehicle types into the game, all inspired by the diverse world you’ll be exploring. Examples include the Ariel Nomad, Class 10 buggies like the Penhall Cholla, and extreme off-roaders like B.J. Baldwin’s Trophy Truck, and many more. Stay tuned for the full list of cars in Forza Horizon 3 later this summer.

 

Every Man’s Sky

Whether you’re playing on Xbox One or Windows 10, the world of Forza Horizon 3 is a constant visual delight, bringing you surprises around every bend. The team at Playground have gone to extraordinary lengths to bring you the most visually impressive Forza Horizon game ever, using state-of-the-art technology. But perhaps the best example of Playground’s innovation can be found simply by… looking up.

 

Customize It

With 350 cars to choose from in Forza Horizon 3, players will be have no shortage of options when it comes to finding the car they love. But for those who love to customize, Forza Horizon 3 will be a gold mine. We’ve got a wealth of new visual customizations for a huge number of cars in the game, including new off-road and rally parts, more than 30 new rim styles from manufacturers like Rotiform, Fifteen 52, and ADV.1 and, for the first time, widebody kits from industry leaders like Rocket Bunny and Liberty Walk. And that’s in addition to the full slate of livery and tuning options that Forza fans have come to expect in the series.

 

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Rewards For Pre Order

 

 

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Forza Horizon 3 Motorsport All-Stars Car Pack

The Motorsport All-Stars Car Pack for Forza Horizon 3 is your chance to take 10 of the hottest modern race cars off the track and out on the open road. This pack includes the 2016 Ford #66 Racing GT Le Mans, the 2014 Audi #45 Flying Lizard Motorsports R8 LMS ultra, the 2014 Chevrolet #3 Corvette Racing Corvette C7.R, the 2014 Dodge #94 SRT Motorsports Viper GTS-R, the 2014 Ferrari #51 AF Corse 458 Italia GTE, the 2015 Nissan #1 NISMO MOTUL AUTECH GT-R, the 2015 Lamborghini #63 Squadra Corse Huracán LP620-2 Super Trofeo, the 2016 Holden #22 Sharkbite HRT VF Commodore, the 2016 Ford #55 Supercheap Falcon FG X, and the 2014 #55 BMW Team RLL Z4 GTE.

 

VIP Membership

Exclusive cars, new events, and more await with Forza Horizon 3 VIP membership! Forza Horizon 3 VIP members receive five exclusive VIP cars, including the 2016 Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SV, the 2-016 Koenigsegg Regera, the 2015 Ultima Evolution Coupe 1020, the 2015 Ferrari F12tdf, and the 2015 Ford Falcon GT F 351. VIPs will receive additional benefits such as VIP wheel spins with extra rewards each time you level up, access to exclusive online events, community gifts, and more. Get your VIP membership today, only through the Deluxe or Ultimate Editions of Forza Horizon 3.

 

Forza Horizon 3 Car Pass

With the Forza Horizon 3 Car Pass, you’ll always be dialed in to the latest and greatest cars in Forza Horizon 3. The Car Pass brings you six monthly car packs (7 cars each) beginning in October 2016. That’s 42 amazing cars total, all waiting to be collected, customized, and raced, for one low price.

 

Your epic adventure through Australia begins this September with the launch of Forza Horizon 3. Apart from all the great content we have coming for pre-ordering, you can earn even more great stuff through our Forza Rewards loyalty program. To learn more about how Forza Rewards will work in Forza Horizon 3, check out the story.

Unoffical Gameplay captures.

 

 

 

 

OT - It's a great thing their doing and should be applauded but since this is the first of Microsoft's games that is also available on PC that a thread has been created for I half expect someone over zealous to move it to the general area, I think Gears - Forza - Halo etc should still be kept in the Xbox section as it makes the most sense, but that isn't my decision to make. 

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

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It's not "over zealous", it's just where it belongs.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Can't call it greatest racer of the generation and then limit it only to the Xbox section.  That simply doesn't make sense.

[Xerxes]

Already got my copy pre-ordered  this and GT: Sport, gonna be a good back half of the year!  

[HawkMan]

26 minutes ago, Nik L said:

Can't call it greatest racer of the generation and then limit it only to the Xbox section.  That simply doesn't make sense.

Well the "generation" thing is a console thing so... eh... though one could say that racing games have their own generations, but that gets iffy as shoudl you follow the Forza Bi-yearly generation(yearly if you include Horzion as part of the Forza generations) or the GT decade long  generation 

[Vandalsquad]

6 minutes ago, Xerxes said:

Already got my copy pre-ordered  this and GT: Sport, gonna be a good back half of the year!  

I think this will set pre-order records in Australia outside of CoD, nearly everyone I know with an xbox already has it paid for. They better reward us with the Maloo and VL or I'll be terribly disappointed.

 

Photos for those outside Australia of true icons 

 

 

 

 

 

[Xerxes]

6 minutes ago, Vandalsquad said:

I think this will set pre-order records in Australia outside of CoD, nearly everyone I know with an xbox already has it paid for. They better reward us with the Maloo and VL or I'll be terribly disappointed.

 

Photos for those outside Australia of true icons 

 

 

 

 

 

Well they gave us this in Forza 6...

 

 

along with a HQ Monaro and Torana. So there is still hope...

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

13 minutes ago, HawkMan said:

Well the "generation" thing is a console thing so

XB1 and PS4 are the same generation however.

[HawkMan]

3 minutes ago, Nik L said:

XB1 and PS4 are the same generation however.

 

yes, but this isn't being released on the PS4. and being the greatest/best racing game of a generation doesn't mean it has to be on both consoles. because then the "greatest" so far would be some pretty poor racing games

[Skiver Veteran]

2 minutes ago, Nik L said:

XB1 and PS4 are the same generation however.

If you choose games that span both consoles then IMO you're scraping the bottom of the barrel for something to call "greatest".

 

Forza and Gran Turismo are generally considered the better races on each console and although you can't compare directly I'd still class them as competition. If you were a new person coming into consoles this generation and you're thing is racing, to get the best experience you're probably going to have to chose based on whats on offer, in this case if you want the best racer then you would choose Xbox if you do consider FH3 the better offering.

 

 

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

2 minutes ago, HawkMan said:

 

yes, but this isn't being released on the PS4. and being the greatest/best racing game of a generation doesn't mean it has to be on both consoles. because then the "greatest" so far would be some pretty poor racing games

Greatest of the generation released on the xbox - put it in xbox category

Greatest of the generation - put it in gaming

[HawkMan]

8 minutes ago, Nik L said:

Greatest of the generation released on the xbox - put it in xbox category

Greatest of the generation - put it in gaming

But it's an xbox game... either way, it's a PC game to as well. so it belong in gaming anyway, where it was moved...

[spaceelf]

Forza Horizons cool.  I prefer Need for Speed myself, hope EA will get on this Play Anywhere train sometime.

[Vandalsquad]

Just a small news article I read on our main news site the other day, just a more solid confirmation they have been travelling up and down capturing Australian classics. 

 

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Despite the lack of ability to collect Skippy during a race, Mr Knoles said the team was aware Aussie vehicles in the outback are fitted with bumper bars to protect against such an incident.

“We have made sure we have included these aspects with some vehicles in the games,” he said.

When asked what cars would feature in the game, the design director said there would be all of the cars you would expect from an Aussie setting and some that will come as a surprise.

“We travelled around to find the most pristine vehicles Australia had to offer and collected measurements and captured hundreds, sometimes thousands of pictures to ensure we could recreate them as accurate as possible,” he said.

“In fact, there was one car we were struggling to find and one of guys was just about to leave Australia when we got a phone call saying they had located the car 20 hours north east of where he was.

“So Instead of getting on the plane, he jumped on a train and drove the journey to ensure we had what we needed to include that certain Holden we wanted in the game.”

news.com.au

[Torolol]

I'm still waiting for the "Cars of Duty"

[PGHammer]

On 6/17/2016 at 5:28 AM, Nik L said:

Can't call it greatest racer of the generation and then limit it only to the Xbox section.  That simply doesn't make sense.

Especially since none of them are limited to XBOX ONE.  (Yes - you read that correctly; none.)

That  is the REAL "defining moment" for this generation's XBOX ONE games - fewer than ten percent are NOT coming to the PC; in fact, all of this generation's flagship XBOX ONE titles ARE coming to the PC as well.  (While last-gen's HALO 5: Guardians isn't making the trip - yet - THIS gen's HALO WARS 2 is.  Last generation's Forza Horizon 2 didn't; this generation, Forza Horizon 3 is.  Crackdown 2 didn't; Crackdown 3 is.)

It's on the publishers and developers whether this will be the single-greatest generation in not merely XBOX ONE gaming, or PC gaming, for that matter - but the greatest generation of ALL gaming (and every which way, form multi-platform to cross-platform).

 

And yes - I am absolutely serious.

[Vandalsquad]

News has been non existent of late, but here's an article about Holden's appearing on there website the SS being featured along with photos of a few more I hope to see. The SS is already in most Forzas so no doubt we'll see it correctly rebadged to Holden for this release. Here

 

Cars that have been spotted on promotional material so far on the forum. Here

 

Forza games in the past car information usually starts dropping in July, so we should see some official news and car lists released and day now fingers crossed.

[Vandalsquad]

Cars showcased. 150 released, to many to list in this thread.

 

Utes incoming, 

 

 

 

Read the full list here.

[Vandalsquad]

Hold onto your butts Australians.

 

Forza Week 2 releases, not on the official website yet but SMH is reporting the list with new pictures.

 

 

 

THE SANDMAN!

 

 

WEEK 2 FORZA HORIZON 3 ANNOUNCEMENT LIST

2007 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione

1970 AMC Rebel "The Machine"

1998 Aston Martin V8 Vantage V600

2011 Audi RS 5 Coupé

2011 BMW X5 M

1981 BMW M1

1992 Bugatti EB110 Super Sport

1970 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1

1966 Chevrolet Nova Super Sport

2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR

1969 Ferrari Dino 246 GT

1968 Ferrari 365 GTB/4

2011 Ferrari FF

1978 Ford Mustang II King Cobra

1956 Ford F-100

1991 GMC Syclone

2016 Holden Special Vehicles GTS Maloo

1951 Holden 50-2106 FX Ute

1974 Holden Sandman HQ panel van

2012 Infiniti IPL G Coupe

2015 Jaguar XFR-S

1997 Lamborghini Diablo SV

2014 Lamborghini Urus

2014 Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged

2005 Lotus Elise 111S

2013 Mazda MX-5

1990 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II

2013 Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG

1999 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR

2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X GSR

2000 Nissan Silvia Spec-R

1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am

2010 Renault Megane RS 250

2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STi

 

 

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Not released yet, however labeled the greatest.

Hmmmm.

I already have it preordered. Not the highest packaged but the middle one that includes the VIP. Looking forward to also checking it out on my PC no doubt.

[Vandalsquad]

On 7/28/2016 at 11:51 PM, DirtyLarry said:

Not released yet, however labeled the greatest.

Hmmmm.

I already have it preordered. Not the highest packaged but the middle one that includes the VIP. Looking forward to also checking it out on my PC no doubt.

Discussion around here seems to flat lining since PS3/360 days, I figure anything to drum up some talk 

 

This item is on ebay uk at the moment, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172285831294 Signed poster, Signed game, Studio tour. If it goes for cheap enough I'll be picking this up and donating the tour to someone on here that lives in the UK from the gamers hangout I guess 

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

have they said anything about the pc version? i have it preordered on the xb1, does this mean i'll get the pc version?

[tsupersonic]

6 minutes ago, Slarlac249 said:

have they said anything about the pc version? i have it preordered on the xb1, does this mean i'll get the pc version?

I'm wondering about this too. I have preordered the ultimate version, as I have done w/ the past Forza games. I enjoy streaming my games to my W10 PC, but it'd be nice to have an actual PC copy. Hell, I'd probably pay for it regardless - it's the only game I play these days anyways.

[dipsylalapo Supervisor]

13 minutes ago, Slarlac249 said:

have they said anything about the pc version? i have it preordered on the xb1, does this mean i'll get the pc version?

 

5 minutes ago, tsupersonic said:

I'm wondering about this too. I have preordered the ultimate version, as I have done w/ the past Forza games. I enjoy streaming my games to my W10 PC, but it'd be nice to have an actual PC copy. Hell, I'd probably pay for it regardless - it's the only game I play these days anyways.

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Purchase an Xbox Play Anywhere digital game, play it on both Xbox One and Windows 10 PC at no additional cost.

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If you've bought the digital version you should get the PC version too. It'll be around the release date of FH3 or soon after. If it's anything like Quantum Break you'll have a code emailed to you.

[Vandalsquad]

As long as you have digital you get another version on PC for free.

 

Overseas on holidays so haven't had the time to update but have some down time today for Garage Week 3, some classic and icon vehicles this week.

 

 

1980AbarthFiat 131

2011BMW1 Series M Coupe

1957BMWIsetta 300 Export

1979ChevroletCamaro Z28

1948Ferrari166MM Barchetta

1985FordRS200 Evolution

1977FordEscort RS1800

1966FordLotus Cortina

2015InfinitiQ60 Concept

1969JaguarMk II 3.8

2015LexusRC F

1953MaseratiA6GCS/53 Pininfarina Berlinetta

1997McLarenF1 GT

1958PlymouthFury