Agreed dudes. I'm sorry, but I enjoy both games. I have both systems, but Forza3 has way too many bugs. Whichever game you think looks better, thats a matter of oppinion and choice. To ME... GT series looks better. Forza uses too many shadows to dramatize the track and entertain your eyes. Since when can you not see the rims of your car when looking left or right in broad daylight due to the shadows on the sides of the car ? I did not know the sun was a spotlight that darkens everything around the single object it hits head on. And NO its not my tv's brightness or contrast. Every other 360 game look amazing on my screen.
Secondly, Forza3 has lots of trouble keeping up its high res textures and shadows it so boldly proclaimed as I progress into faster and faster A class vehicles.This never happens in GT for me.
You can EASILY tell they have a short radius around the car you are driving and bump up the textures and shadows as you are approached or get closer to oponent AI cars and areas of the track with said radius. It may be my 360 crapping out, and if thats the case, I wont buy another one. Not enough exclusive titles to warrant the price at this time.
Aside from that, i've had my Gas and Brake controls lock on me. I'm racing with all assists off, AND have swapped to my wired controller thinking my wireless one was crapping out. No Dice. It just randomly decides to lock my speed for 2 seconds on a turn. Super frustrating.
Lastly, it may just be me, but in the interior view in Forza3, the drivers hands, dont seem to move accordingly with the amount of steering it would be required for certain turns. I'm talking about when I go into the Hair Pin turn at 20mph at Spains Catalunya cercuit, and my analog or driving wheel is turned ALL THE WAY LEFT, why are my interior drivers hands only at around 35 degree radius?? I'm in a hair pin turn, not changing lanes. Those hands and that steering wheel need to be at 60 or more. (Not to mention when looking back while in interior view, you get kicked out to a bumper cam. GT makes you look out the back window of a car. And good luck if that car is an older modle rear engine car, you wont be seeing much except a reving retrained monster trying to eat the back of your head. lol.
I enjoy both GT5(prologue) and Forza 3, i HATE, HATE when a company boasts about textures or something else, and then doesnt deliver. IMO, Gran Turismo series looks better and drives better than Forza3, track for track and car for car. Interiors as well. It just lacks the darker shadows Forza uses to dramatize the track, making GT look a little plain. Everyone knows GT needs Damage, luckily it was given that for its 5th installment. The demo was great with the Nissan Z, so i'll be purchasing the game come March.
