Ok. Well I played a lot of Forza 3 last night. I played through three tournaments and won the first championship. Its a GREAT looking game. Visually the minimalist clean style is nice and up my alley. Kind of like mirrors edge. The music is great also. Kind of that techno, dance pop.
The driving to me feels good but over all that style of racing game to me is just much too boring. After playing the burnouts and midnight clubs where there’s traffic and cars on the side of the road and having to dip though traffic and jumping on the highway and dipping in highway traffic during a race its hard to go back to the race track games like Forza 3 and Ridge Racer.
The driving in Forza 3 feels responsive and the cars handle superb but the whole going around the track shit is still lame to me. The scenery does look great but in my opinion it just cannot compare to the rush I get when racing in Burnout Paradise or even Midnight Club LA.
I think Burnout still has the best overall experience. Its just more “fun”… the ramps and jumps the ramming people off the road and all that. I also been playing Midnight Club LA a lot recently and I think that game does straight RACING better than Burnout though and it has real cars which is sweet.
The markers in the road in Midnight Club telling you which way to go is a SUPERB mechanic. I think the only things burnout would have needed are real cars and a easier way for noobs to know which streets to turn down in races.
So after playing it ill still say my favorite racing games are:
Burnout Paradise / Motorstorm Pacific Rift (Tie)
Midnight Club
Ridge Racer 7/ Forza 3 (tie)
