[shotgun ko]

I haven't been much into driving games, will this invigorate my passion?

[BamBamMickey]

Yes, i wasn't a huge fan of Forza 2, but Forza 3 i like very much.
Can't see me getting rid of it any time soon.

[Mr Noble]

The demo never really grabbed me by the boo boo , but i was bored and got the missus to pick it up anyway , bought it for £39.99 yesterday , can't keep off it , must buy

Although it does seem rather short i'm nearly level 20 and i only started playing 4pm yesterday maybe a rent would be a better option

[maid020279]

Best racing game I've found in a long time on any platform !!!!!
(bearing in mind that I have PC, Xbox360, PS3, PSP, Wii and DSi )

Defiantly well worth the money, BTW Tesco's now doing this game at under £30 instore (not sure about online)

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/51474...7-tesco-in-sto

[reddevil63]

Originally Posted by GATESHEAD MOB

The demo never really grabbed me by the boo boo , but i was bored and got the missus to pick it up anyway , bought it for £39.99 yesterday , can't keep off it , must buy

Although it does seem rather short i'm nearly level 20 and i only started playing 4pm yesterday maybe a rent would be a better option

I wouldn't call it short by a long shot.

Apart from driver level, the season play consists of 220 events which I read elsewhere will take roughly 150 hours to complete. Thats a lot of racing.

[brumhee]

Definately worth picking up.

Like you driving games don't really float my boat but this has kept me gripped and is a wecolme break from COD and Batman.

[Mr Noble]

Originally Posted by reddevil63

I wouldn't call it short by a long shot.

Apart from driver level, the season play consists of 220 events which I read elsewhere will take roughly 150 hours to complete. Thats a lot of racing.

Won't take that long i guaruntee it

[shotgun ko]

Wow, if the game really is better than its fairly boring demo then this is a must buy! Any more thoughts?

[sdb123]

Yep...Tesco have it for under £30 (instore)....get it while you can!

I picked it up today and it is better (on first impressions) than FM2...I'm concentrating on the Single Player Career as I've read that online is quite poor atm.

[DpM]

And not to mention you could loose your life to doing designs for your car. Taking pics and editing vids will keep you busy too.

This is one of those games that will still be popular in one, two, three years time, I see it more as a slow cook game rather than a fry it up job (games like ghostbusters spring to mind). You will always come back to it for a few goes every so often

[noisecrime]

Originally Posted by shotgun ko

I haven't been much into driving games, will this invigorate my passion?

Probably.

I have to say i'm not overly impressed with FM3 over FM2, apart from a substantial graphics update, some improved physics and a few new tracks its basically the same as FM2. Its also a racing game, essentially you go round and round for x number of laps, either easily beating the AI or falling miles behind

Personally for me its just not the update I expected.

However prior to FM2 I wasn't into racing games much and definitely not the simulation kind, GT on PS2 just passed me by. When I bought my xbox FM2 came bundled, but I was so unsure about it, I actually download and played the demo before unwrapping it.

Sure enough I was crap, going straight off the first corner and could see it leading to great frustration. Then I discovered 'the braking line' assist, wow what a revelation! Suddenly I could actually get around tracks without going off at every single corner or alternatively being like a Sunday driver.

That was enough to justify keeping the game and over the year or two I had it, I played it to competition (except the endurance races). As I'm into achievements I invest a huge amount of time in the auction house and doing paint jobs, heck even made a spreadsheet so I could make sure I bought every car from each of the 3 world zones. In the end I probably invested as much if not more time than the longest RPG's i've played.

Trouble is much of that I feel is missing this time from FM3, credits don't appear to be much of a problem this time round, painting hasn't been updated, doesn't look like buying cars is going to be anywhere near as problamatic as before and no online achieves at all, which i normally prefer, but in this case there doesn't seem to be much point to online at all, unless you find a group of similar ability drivers to make it fun. Then again i've not been able to spend much time online due to work commitments, by the time most of my friend list is playing, i'm too tired to concentrate enough on it.

Sure driving is still fun and the single player has many, many events to complete, but I often find myself loading up other games in preference.

So in short, if you've not touched a proper racing game for several years then its a great purchase, but if you are looking for something more over FM2 i'm not so sure. Mind you I have to say that Japanese Mountain track is a heck of a lot of fun