Turn 10 on Forza 3: 'No game competes with us'

by Richard Mitchell { Jun 5th 2009 at 11:45PM }

Forza Motorsport 3 game director Dan Greenwalt is proud of his game. More specifically, he believes that Forza 3 has surpassed all of the competition, most notably Gran Turismo. When asked how Forza is positioned against other racing stalwarts like Need for Speed and Gran Turismo, Greenwalt did not mince words.

"I'm in this industry because of Gran Turismo, let's just be frank," said Greenwalt. He then explained that Gran Turismo inspired his first "stressful" car purchase, a Mitsubishi 3000GT, saying that is was "a great car in that game, and I thought 'Oh my God, if I'm ever going to have a car, that's the car that I want.'" Then things got ugly.

"So, props to Kazunori Yamauchi-san and the PS1 team," said Greenwalt. "That said," he continued, "I feel that he's passed us the baton. Perhaps he hasn't meant to, but we have taken the genre to new levels and they've stopped evolving the genre. So again, tremendous respect to him, but I'd say the differentiator is they're old school." He conclued, "The emperor's naked, and I don't want to, you know, I don't want to slap him around, but no game competes [with] us right now."

A bold claim to make, especially considering that neither Forza 3 nor Gran Turismo 5 have actually released yet. Whenever they do, we're hoping for a good rumble, Sharks vs Jets style.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/05/turn-10-on-forza-3-no-game-competes-with-us/

Duplicate thread, although at least the typos aren't there.

I'll say what I would have said in the other thread. He knows nothing about Gran Turismo 5 besides what Polyphony Digital has shown (a demo and a couple trailers), and he's just talking out his ass.

i'm guessing you missed the other posts... or you are just trying to flame-bait...

Didnt Gran turismo introduce the cockpit view? Because they are going all crazy over it in there forza 3 interviews

i'm pretty sure i remember a very very old NFS game on the playstation 1 that had a cockpit view without the wheel.... but you are correct GT:P (i think) is the first cockpit view with wheel, can anyone correct me on that? i didn't ply many racing games.

*edit*

actually i forgot about LFS (live for speed) on the pc, it has a wheel view :)

Nope PGR3 had it way before GT

and before pgr3, nascar 99.

"racing stalwarts like Need for Speed"

Lmao, it might be remembered as the buggiest racer ever.

Strategyking92 said: and before pgr3, nascar 99.

and before Nascar 99 , there was "The Need for Speed" on 3DO

Strategyking92 said: and before pgr3, nascar 99.

And before that, Test Drive on the Commodore 64.

State of the art!