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E3 09: Forza 3 vs Need For Speed SHIFT

Words: Chris Antista, GamesRadar US

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smallberry - 5 months 12 days ago

Forza 3 is finally getting me interested in a driving sim other than GT5. Too bad I bet on the other horse and only own a PS3.

SHIFT? No thanks.

-First game to “True Driver’s Experience”

So there is a minigame where you must successfully pee in your diaper during a 24 LeMans race while driving?

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RealTerry - 5 months 12 days ago

But the rewind feature was already used in GRID. Though it was called "flashback" but still.

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CAPST3R - 5 months 12 days ago

definately shift for me, looks like the best since carbon (my favourite so far).
i've wanted to say this for a while-what qualifications do u need for gaming journalism? it's my most wanted job.

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machellx - 5 months 12 days ago

hey Chris your my 2nd favorite asshole the first is mine

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MechGyver - 5 months 12 days ago

Its a case to say that SHIFT is "Burning like Gasoline"...eh eh eh......kinda funny if you think about it....anyone?.....

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likedamaster - 5 months 12 days ago

I never thought Shift was a slouch since I first saw the vids. Although, I do prefer Forza 3.

off topic/ ($5,700 strung)<--code to post wtf?

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idrinkyourmilkshake - 5 months 12 days ago

Another Antista masterpiece!

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rxb - 5 months 12 days ago

Shift has a certain violence to it but it could get distracting. I love the way Forza 2 feels, you can feel grip between the tyres and the road. Its easy to know where 'the limit' is.

Also the way Forza 2 handles Aero grip at high speed is the best Ive ever driven.

You dont need to be poor to just buy 1 game but to get good you need to focus on just 1 game really.

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xXHaloKillerXx - 5 months 12 days ago

I might get Forza 3 never played the first 2 but its just racing so i dont need them anyway just like i skipped Gt 1 and got 2 and skipped Gt3 and got 4 lol.

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just86 - 5 months 12 days ago

YEAH

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Tomsta666 - 5 months 12 days ago

Giant meh for these games. Sorry. The only racing games ive ever cared about is the Mario Kart series, and more recently Burnout Paradise. If I wanted a realistic driving experiance...you know...I would just a drive a real car.

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industriedude - 5 months 12 days ago

okay everyone knows that Need for Speed needed to revamp they're approach to their games cos the whole cop chase thing was getting old fast but they should leave the sim racing games to the forza crew because no-one does it like them.

wrong turn for Need for Speed, come up with a new style of racing games because were not impressed. Its like getting the monopoly guy to create a GTA game, its not what he's good at

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MBspeedstr07 - 5 months 12 days ago

try to convince me...

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cbenedict1 - 5 months 12 days ago

Forza 3 seems way better. The only thing I'm excited about in SHIFT is the "concussion" effect when you hit a wall. Or the "tunnel vision" when you hit 100mph... BUT, Forza just seems so god damn fun. Plus idc about some lil mini-game thing bullshit. I just wanna race...in the cockpit!

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gigiosantos - 5 months 11 days ago

PLEASE GOD MAKE BLACKBOX MAKE AN NFS HOT PURSUIT 3!!!!!!but SHIFT may make pressure on codemasters ,forcing them to make GRID 2 ,and about forza i only have an pc

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Cerberus1838 - 5 months 11 days ago

Lol its hilarious you actually compared SHIFT to Forza 3, Forza is in a different league, SHIFT is going to go down horribly. Also @ Chris, saying that only 10 people know how to use the cars in Forza is also ignorant, theres actually alot of people on Forza 2 (my brother for example) who own every car in the game and have the ability to tune the cars at anytime they want, the tuning system was extremely detailed which brought down people who didn't know anything about tuning, but apparently this issue has been fixed.

tl:dr version, Forza 3 > Shift, fixed tuning makes Forza 3 perfect.

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xFnKxTaLeNtx - 5 months 10 days ago

To me both Forza and SHIFT look really simmilar, but i'm leaning NFS because of the in-car visual stuff. probably end up getting both eventually :P

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Mackster-901 - 5 months 10 days ago

i love nfs but it started 2 go down hill wiv pro street. nfs is all about illegal street racing and 4 me underground 2 and most wanted were the best but wen they dun track days 4 pro street i woz pissed off but wen i herd that they had gon bak 2 illegal street racing in undercovers i woz so happy...until i got it. undercover woz so easy and borin and im not even goin 2 by shift coz its gettin 2 much like gran turismo and that is a worst racin game i ever played.

EA, please do another game like underground or most wanted and make it like a proper boy racin style game and not wiv super cars. it should hav cars like supras,skylines,evos and stuff.

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blocpartier - 5 months 9 days ago

Umm yeah. I've had it with NFS. I just can't like it anymore. I haven't liked it as much as I loved the first Underground.

But FM3 on the other hand, that looks awesome. I'm so getting it. I loved FM2 and drifted the hell out of it as well.

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