Forza Motorsport 3 -- All-In-One.

I've been beyond lazy with timely updates. I've recently completed Forza Motorsport 3. The game was developed by Turn 10 Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. I used to be a big racing game fan once upon a time. Back when the best racing games were all SEGA arcade racers. The key word there being arcade. Back in the original PlayStation era they released Gran Turismo and racing games started to shift from arcade to simulation. I purchased Gran Turismo back then and was nearly bored to death by its simulation based gameplay. I haven't really bought any dedicated racing games outside of Mario Kart and Crazy Taxi since then. Cut to this summer and Riddel was wanting an online game we could play. She was playing Forza Motorsport 3 at the time and I was transitioning between games so the timing was good. I went out and purchased Forza Motorsport 3. Little did I know a huge chunk of my summer backlog time would be taken by a racing simulator. That speaks volumes to me how good a game Forza Motorsport 3 actually is. It makes a genre I haven't liked in ages fun again. First off, the game is great looking. The cars are modeled with the utmost attention to detail. The same thing can be said for the tracks themselves. Everything is handled with an exacting level of detail. The game is also just loaded with content. A single player campaign featuring two-hundred multi race events. A full online mode. Beyond the hundreds of hours of racing in the game, you can spend hundreds more tuning cars, browsing player shops and the online auction house, as well as designing decals to decorate your cars. The game has a wealth of options that allow you alter just about every single aspect of the game. They truly allow you to tailor the game to your liking. You can make the game as arcade or as simulation based as you prefer. I personally can't think of anything you don't have control over. Forza Motorsport 3 is the best racing game I've played in a long time and I'm giving it a 9.5. My one complaint is that the game almost has too much content. You can lose yourself in this game. It will take a Herculean effort to earn the final achievement in this one.