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It would later be delayed until April 2005. The release was delayed at three times, with GameSpot reporting the first delay from a December 2004 release to February 2005. Development of the game took over two and a half years. In addition to several production cars, Forza Motorsport features cars from various racing disciplines, such as this 2005 Yellow Hat Toyota Supra, which competed in the Japanese Super GT racing series.įorza Motorsport was announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2004.

The game is backwards compatible, and can be played on the Xbox 360, though as it uses the original Xbox Live service there is no online play.

Network multiplayer is no longer available via Xbox Live, which was discontinued by Microsoft on April 15, 2010. Each of these could be played online through the original Xbox Live service or through System Link, which allows multiple Xbox consoles to be interconnected through a local area network. In addition to these, Forza Motorsport also contains a wide variety of autocross, oval, and dragstrip courses. Furthermore, the game's Blue Mountains Raceway circuit is heavily comparable in track layout, characteristics and backgrounds with the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst. Real world tracks Road Atlanta, Silverstone, Laguna Seca, Tsukuba, Road America, and Nürburgring Nordschleife were licensed and included. The game contains a mix of licensed, street, point to point and original circuits.
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More noticeably, spoilers can be knocked off cars, bumpers dangle from their supports, paint can be scraped off and windows can be smashed completely. This changes the way the game is played, as collisions with barriers and other cars will alter the car's handling, top speed and acceleration. Vehicles can be realistically damaged, from both a cosmetic and a performance standpoint. There is a wide range of tuning available including tire pressure, which changes during races due to temperature, downforce, gear ratios and limited slip differential. Upgrades are separated into three categories: engine/power, appearance/ aerodynamics and chassis/drivetrain. In addition to adding body parts such as hood scoops and body kits, players can add multiple layers of decals to the vehicles. Vehicles can also be customized by the player, both visually and performance-wise. Each car can be upgraded and tuned with a large number of extras and parts. There are nine classes of cars, spanning standard production vehicles to sports and high performance cars to purpose-built race cars. There are 231 cars in Forza Motorsport ranging from a Honda Civic to supercars such as the Enzo Ferrari and Le Mans race prototypes such as the Audi R8. To help players acclimate to the simulation style of racing, assists such as an ideal racing line, anti-lock brakes and traction control can be used.

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Career mode spans several racing disciplines, spanning from racing of common commuter cars to those in racing series such as Super GT and Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters as well as other sports car racing series. It features an arcade mode, meant more for quickplay of races, and a career mode, which is focused on long-term play. Players compete in events around the globe using real licensed cars on a variety of real world and fictional courses. The first installment in the franchise, Forza Motorsport was also the only title in the series to be released on the original Xbox console.įorza Motorsport is a simulation racing video game. The NPD Group reported that in its release month the game sold over 100,000 copies in North America.
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Forza Motorsport received universal acclaim according to the review aggregation website Metacritic, and received a Gold sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom. It is compatible on the Xbox 360 via backwards compatibility. It also featured online multiplayer via Xbox Live. It features over 200 cars and multiple real world and fictional race courses. The game is the first installment in the Forza series, a series that has continued on Microsoft's subsequent consoles, the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Forza Motorsport is a 2005 simulation racing video game developed by Turn 10 Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox gaming system.
