Status Solid_Kuro Jan 4, 2021
And another X360 title in my quest to finish the last few titles that I'm interested in on the platform before finally selling the console.
I love racing games, but I've never really been a fan of the Forza Motorsport series. Not going deep into details, Gran Turismo is more of my cup of tea. Anyway, back to Forza. I …
And another X360 title in my quest to finish the last few titles that I'm interested in on the platform before finally selling the console.
I love racing games, but I've never really been a fan of the Forza Motorsport series. Not going deep into details, Gran Turismo is more of my cup of tea. Anyway, back to Forza. I have tried all of the games in the series (including all the Horizon games) and finished most of them (only FM 1/3/4 remaining). Back in the day I really liked FM2 and even completed it (in the sense of completion), but after that playing FM 5-6-7 on XB1 didn't feel the same. I can't say what exactly it is, but these entries in the series didn't excite me at all. They felt too similar to each other, I didn't like the career modes that made you play long series' of races using the same car. And, holy shit, I will never forget those countless Indianapolis oval laps I had to grind through to afford myself the ridiculously expensive cars needed to finish the stupid career in FM5.
Anyway, new year - new me. In the last few days I jumped back to Forza 3 and it's like the good old FM2 days all over again, just even better. I'm thoroughly enjoying the career mode with its cool seasons structure that constantly shakes things up by switching between races in the longer and the shorter tournaments. It's exciting to pick and buy the new cars needed for those tournaments based of restrictions instead of the game just telling you to chose from a certain filtered list. And another thing - the soundtrack. FM 5-6-7 have no licensed songs what-so-fucking-ever. NONE. Just a generic forgettable score - and it's a disaster for a racing game. It gets more obvious in comparison - how much personality these compilations of songs give to racing games. Well, of course, every racing video game ever released has a song "Tick Tick Boom" by the Hives, but other than that I've realized just how much these song collections define for me how I'm going to remember those games. Forza 3 has a sweet mixture of rock and drum & bass music, which is a cool time travel a decade back.
Overall, this game is a nice surprise after the disappointment that later entries in the series left me feeling.