October 2, 2009 - Forza Motorsport 3 has too much love to give. That's not a joke. Not all of the cars and tracks could fit on one DVD, so developer Turn 10 had to split them onto two discs. The first disc is your game disc. Insert it and you have access to most of the environments and about 300 cars. To get the rest (104 cars, 29 tracks), you'll need to install disc 2 on a hard drive.

When you first insert disc 1, it will ask if you want to install the second disc. The install eats up 1.9 GB of space. Yowa! But you can instead choose pieces of disc 2 to install if you have limited space or a memory card.

Disc 2 is broken up into four packs that act like downloadable content. If it's installed on your hard drive, then the game reads it and adds in the content seamlessly. If not, then you won't see these cars or tracks in your game and can't use them in online multiplayer.

See all three Disc 2 tracks.

Here's a breakdown of what comes on disc 2.

From Turn 10 

To Blue Ray

"Problem Solved"

Thats gonna suck for people who only have the arcade and no harddrive.  But i'm pretty sure the majority of people who have a 360 have a harddrive.

if not, they can get a used HD off e-bay for about $20.00

Why was this info not released earlier? This is a huge factor to skip over until now.

it wasn't skipped on. We knew it would be a 2 disc release back at E3.

But was it known that an install was required to get the other 100+ cars?

That alienates all arcade owners, unless as said above they turn to ebay (or god help them gamestop/etc) and get a HDD.

Anyone who would be into a super-slick racing simulator like this would know enough to have a hard drive, I would think.

This is a good solution--1.9gbs of hard drive space isn't much to begin with, and the ability to install the different parts piecemeal is a good compromise if they couldn't fit everything on one DVD.