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Forza Motorsport

Racing sim from Microsoft, targeted at gamers who are passionate about cars and racing. Own, customize, and race your favorite cars in the most technologically advanced and realistic driving sim yet. Use race…

88 3 May 2005

Forza Motorsport is a racing developed by Turn 10 Studios, released 3 May 2005 on Xbox.

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What Forza Motorsport is

Forza Motorsport is a racing game developed by Turn 10 Studios and released in 2005. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Racing sim from Microsoft, targeted at gamers who are passionate about cars and racing. Own, customize, and race your favorite cars in the most technologically advanced and realistic driving sim yet. Use race earnings to buy upgrades and aftermarket parts, so you can transform real production cars into high-performance racers. On the track, experience an impressively accurate simulation, while putting your performance-tuned creations to the test against the online gaming world on Xbox Live. Features car models from more than 60 top car manufacturers, customization via decals and team paint-schemes, and vehicle tuning that really affects performance.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Forza series

Forza Motorsport is the first of 62 entries we hold in the Forza series. The next entry was Forza Motorsport 2 in 2007. Its critic score of 88 is almost exactly the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is Forza Horizon 5 at 94.

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How it was received

Forza Motorsport holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 21 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Forza Motorsport launched on 3 May 2005, within three weeks of Psychonauts, Guild Wars, Jade Empire and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts, Guild Wars, Jade Empire, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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When did Forza Motorsport come out?
Forza Motorsport was released on 3 May 2005 for Xbox.

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