Turn 10’s hints about a big Le Mans announcement came to life at Le Mans today as the Xbox 360 driving title has unveiled a major co-operation with the French endurance classic. Forza Motorsport 3 drivers will be able to race on the high-speed 13,6 kilometer Circuit de la Sarthe as well as the circuit’s smaller Bugatti layout.
The virtual version of the French track was introduced in the Peugeot Sport hospitality as yesterday’s Le Mans pole winner Stephane Sarrazin completed some laps on the virtual version of the track. Along with the track, a big set of Le Mans prototypes has been unveiled, including Sarrazin’s Peugeot 908, the Audi R10 as well as older LMPs like the BMW LMR and the Toyota GT One.
Below are a bunch of previews, showing renders of some of the LMPs as well as plenty of racing action on the Circuit de la Sarthe. Along with the modern day prototypes, we also get to check out some historic prototypes as a Peugeot 905 and a Porsche 962 can be seen lurking in the background.
Forza Motorsport 3 will bring over 400 cars and 100 tracks to the Xbox 360, the third installment of the Forza series will be released in October.
Gabkicks
June 12th, 2009 at 19:20
Horray! Le Mans, with only 8 cars on track…
GT VIRUS
June 12th, 2009 at 19:24
not really a huge win for forza, as gt5 has le mans in its lineup (and noone cares about the bugatti curcuit) as wells fairly healthy list of LMP’s (if gt4 is anything to go by)
Oh and is it just me or do the LMP’s not quite look right on track. Something seems amiss to me :S
jonelsorel
June 12th, 2009 at 20:25
Are those the offroad LMP’s? What a ground clearance.. :)
mbeast
June 12th, 2009 at 20:28
Have to say the detail on the models is very impressive – a huge step forward from forza 2. Will have to go some to beat VLM le mans for atmosphere though. Is the 8 car/player limit confirmed as definite? Shame if it is.
Csabi25
June 12th, 2009 at 21:46
The raised ride height you see on prototypes from the last 2-3 years is required by rules to decrease the amount of ground effect generated by the car’s underbody.
Mark
June 12th, 2009 at 22:00
Yes, but let’s look at it from the bright sight, they added multi class racing
It does look a lot better (livery resolution & models) than F2, even if it is just in photo-mode.
yakshemash
June 13th, 2009 at 00:42
What about to show REAL ingame shots and not renders from photomode or whatever it is. Everybody can see how F3 really looks like on HD vids from E3. Turn 10 is ridiculous again…
modbaraban
June 13th, 2009 at 01:01
ISR guys were very impressed after trying Forza3 at E3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVzhkASVCQ0
Serg Funke
June 13th, 2009 at 03:38
rfactor 2 should look like this
UncleChuckle
June 13th, 2009 at 07:20
Oh man those look sexy!
Arnold Carter Wong
June 13th, 2009 at 07:30
I think they should really do better on the accurancy. The TS020 is extremely horrible, so many places are wrong.
Floptickle
June 13th, 2009 at 13:41
The Peugeot looks wrong IMO…
Mr. A
June 13th, 2009 at 14:55
I’ll have to agree with previous posts that including Le Mans if there is still an 8 car limit seems a bit ridiculous. But the 8 car limit is pretty much the only negative point I have seen about this game so far.
Sodapop
June 13th, 2009 at 21:22
Not really a huge win for GT5 either since you won’t be able to play it until 2011. Also I’m guessing by your comment that the bugatti circuit won’t be included in GT5.
Judging by GT and Forza’s past liberal interpretation of real world tracks though, I’m guessing Forza’s Le Man’s really won’t hold up against Virtua LM’s work in rfactor. Also…8 cars..come on. Even multi class, that’s just horrible.
mikem
June 14th, 2009 at 05:25
You should check out GT4 version of Nordschliefe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Acs5xWs2A and La Sarthe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXbGDzVZE5g. While the physics in the game isn’t examplary by any means, both the tracks are quite accurate.
riches
June 16th, 2009 at 23:53
Jawdropping!