Forza 3 Or NFS:Shift?

Well which one?
I was going to grab Forza, but a few people i know said NFS:Shift is better from the demos, so they went and grabbed it :/

I thought Forza had the top decal customisation etc aswell as graphics... :/

Please help meh

After playing both demos ill have to go with forza 3, i just like the way it plays better, and as you say youve got all the customisation, decals n stuff in it aswell. Plus in forza 2 i used to love the auction house.

Forza. Shift is fairly Shift without the F. If you get what I'm saying.

Forza hands down, that is if you want to keep your car on the track most of the time.

Got both get Forza...even though NFSS isn't bad

Forza 3...but I would say that, because I'm a Forza junkie.

Never really liked the NFS series, apart from Underground 2.

Forza 3 all the way.. although it will be some time before I get round to picking this up (only so much money/time).

My review will be up soon and although its good for Shift, forza 3 will win hands down.

Forza 3 hands down.

I finished all but the "get every race/drift event star" off-line achievement in 8 days and I'm no wiz at games.

Shift has many bugs and glitches, sadly I encountered nearly all of them. Issues range from mislabelled understeer/oversteer slider in quick tune, near uncontrollable bouncing cars (i.e. Porsche Carerra GT invitational race at Spa), cars loading with no transmissions and won't leave the start line, works cars such as the LP640 Lamborghini that won't exceed 140 mph unless the downforce is set to zero and other cars with works upgrades that aren't recognised unless you restart the race and when they are recognised, your care will have super short gears.

Then there is the horrid frame rate slowdowns when entering the back straight of Road Atlanta, Zonda vs Veyron race where the Veyron is named the Pagani Veyron by Mr Voiceover man..the list goes on and on.

EA/SMS have yet to fix any of the 360 glitches, I traded Shift in for Batman, a decision I've yet to regret.

Kudos too for Console Monster being one of the few reviews I've read that criticises the frankly horrid oversteer set-up for the standard controller.

Cheers.

We're here to help and advise you. It wasn't an awful game, but it just wasn't amazing either. And the controls are damn right ----ty by default. Can't say I noticed too many other bugs, but there are frustations but I still felt it was a polished game for a NFS title.

Whilst I agree that Shift is not awful, Shift does comes with many issues, most of which I've listed above. Any potential purchaser of the game should know what others have encountered while playing the game.

FWIW, I loved tier one and two, these were great fun. My feelings towards the game changed once tier three was under way and tier four further solidified my feelings.

Further, VVV Gamer played alpha and beta versions of Shift and noted the handling model had been re-written for the final release, which may explain some of the very strange handling issues.

I agreed with your review and final score, hence my joining the forums.

Cheers.

Forza ftw haha
Cheers for all your feedback guys!

Thanks TJP, appreciate the feedback. Interesting they changed the handling model. I have to say the final championship took the mick a bit, the AI were ramming me off on the final corners and it wasn't that fun.

I am getting both.

I'll be getting Forza here. Forza is established in what it does but NFS has been "drifting" around the racing-game sub genres like tumbleweed on an imagined-salt-flat-racecourse that should be made.

Well after playing Forza 3 for a few hours hands down it owns Need For Speed Shift big time the raceing is better take assists off apart from traction control = more dollar and faster driveing visually better than NFS Shify.

Oh and another thing i noticed if you have all assists on the cars they do not make mistakes if you take them off like i said above they will make some weird mistakes by going wide on corners the one thing tho that i dont like is the rewind cam makes the game easy and should never of been put in the game.

Only gripe I have with Forza is the cockpit view isnt as good as NFSS and PGR's etc....you don't have any control to move around whilst in side and its at a high fix point.

Originally Posted by Uriel Septim the one thing tho that i dont like is the rewind cam makes the game easy and should never of been put in the game.

You don't have to use it - in fact you can turn off the notification that flashes up.

Not 1 vote for Shift!

No wonder people voted 100% for Forza, EA/SMS are just getting their collective fingers out to release a patch for Shift, some 2 months after the dogs breakfast was released.

"Bugs? What bugs?" people often say regarding Shift, well take a look at the fix list: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/333357.page

NEW CONTENT/FUNCTIONALITY
- Increased the maximum number of online players from 8 to 12

BUG FIXES - CROSS-PLATFORM

- General game stability and performance improvements

- Improved car handling

- Fix for issue where some cars would bounce on their suspension during high load situations

- Fix for grass sometimes being displayed out of position

- Fix for intermittent incorrect driver duel results

- Fix for inverted balance slider operation

- Fix for online wins and losses occasionally being calculated incorrectly for drift races

- Fixed issue where loaned career car would inherit the player's career car tuning settings

- Fixed various usability issues with the advanced tuning screens

- Fixed lap timing for first lap of rolling start events

- Fixed car tuning settings sometimes not taking effect

- Fix to prevent rewinding past the start of instant replays

- Fixed car livery occasionally appearing all white during driver duel events

- Fixed incorrect screens being shown when player is disqualified

- Fix for occasional invisible opponents appearing during online drift events

- Fix for intermittent hang when skipping quickly through post-race screens

- Fix for intermittent hang when pressing X repeatedly in My Cars screen

- Fix for missing race groove on point-to-point tracks

- Prevented car livery resetting to default after an online race

- Fix for advanced tuning not staying unlocked on reload

- Fixed invitational event cars getting their setups corrupted and becoming undrivable (e.g. Veryon and Carrera GT)

- Fix for Lamborghini's having a low top speed when upgraded

- Fix for Corvette Z06 and Dodge Viper not able to move at the start of some events

- Fix for some upgraded AI cars bottoming out causing some instability over bumps

- Fix upgrade menu bug

- Fix for a force feedback strength settings save bug

- Fix multi-player settings for AI opponents and drift mode

- Fix for vinyls being incorrectly applied on rear wing

- Fix for a hang in lobby when accessing friend's list from car select

- Fix for profile load bug which skips save select menu when holding down Enter key

- Fix for jumping body parts when car resets

Cheers.