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Forza Motorsports owners can then take their custom collection of ''track monsters'' to the competition at famous circuits or modern streetscape, against either other gamers in the same room or with people around the world, where you can buy and sell cars online.
If the general idea of Forza Motorsports appeals to you, you'll want to know these key features of the product:
-You can make every car look different, using body kits, rims, spoilers, side skirts, fender flares and hood scoops to modern racers, or motorsport decals and team paint schemes to supercars, GT racers and exotics.
-In the Xbox garage you can install alternative engines, suspension kits, bolt-on superchargers, brakes, rims, racing slicks and more, and fine-tune gear ratios, fuel-mapping, forced induction pressure, tire pressure and ignition timing for the ''ultimate setup.''
-All of this is rendered in the ''most technically advanced driving simulation'' by the Xbox, thanks to the teaming of top auto engineers with experienced programmers to create ''an advanced physics engine'' that simulates such authentic car performance characteristics, such as advanced tire and suspension models that respond to heat and pressure changes as well as weight transfer and aerodynamic load.
-Authentic driving dynamics are enhanced by the fact that they take place on meticulously-designed tracks with an ''incredible sense of speed and realism.''
-Using the ''most powerful console'' on the gaming market (that would be the Xbox), Forza Motorsports has ''well-balanced reflections, lighting and shadows that tie together highly detailed cars and smooth-edged environments. Camera effects like blooming, lens flare, heat shimmer, light rays, depth of field, and haze create TV-quality presentation. Unique road textures, surface irregularities, persistent oil and skid marks, and scraped walls deliver an incredible sense of speed.''
-Using authentic replicas in cutting-edge digital environments, players can take part in those multi-player contests on the net or simply try to beat personal bests with ''gameplay that will deliver ''innovations that reinvent the online racing experience.''
-Hyper gamers can train their own AI (artificial intelligence) ''Drivatars'' to use the same racing techniques as they do so they can race in their place, or train new drivers on your team.
-Since bench-racing and boring your friends and total strangers with stories about how you should have won more races is an integral part of motorsports, the Forza program features an on and offline ''career mode'' that features traditional competition with AI to accumulate career earnings as well as the ability to earn money to ''tune-up'' your ride by competing with human opponents over Xbox Live.
-Finally, Forza gamers can go beyond head-to-head racing and ''build car clubs of up to 100 different Xbox Live gamers for worldwide car communities and team competition.''
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