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''Forza Motorsport'' is a simulation [[Driving Game|Racing game]] series for the Xbox and Xbox360 by Microsoft and their internal Turn 10 Studios division, aimed at competing with Sony's ''[[Gran Turismo]]'' franchise, and is noted for an extensive car painting system, performance customization and a massive car list.
The first game was released in Spring 2005 for the original Xbox, and ''Forza Motorsport 2'' and ''Forza Motorsport 3'' followed in 2007 and 2009, respectively, for the Xbox 360. Each successive game added little things on top: ''Forza Motorsport 2'' added a storefront and auction site where people can buy and sell tuning setups, cars
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* [[The Alleged Car]]: ''Forza Motorsport 4'' features famous Alleged Cars like the Ford Pinto, Chevrolet Corvair
* [[An Entrepreneur Is You]]: You can earn plenty of credits solely by selling liveries (''Forza Motorsport 2'' onwards) and car setups (''Forza Motorsport 3''/''Forza Motorsport 4)'' you have created. There's also the [[Auction]] House.
* [[Anti-Frustration Features]]: The rewind feature in ''Forza Motorsport 3''. ''Forza Motorsport 4'' has it
* [[Artificial Brilliance]]: The
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]:
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** In ''Forza Motorsport 4'', Track Day (hotlapping while AI cars simulate slower traffic) events in Rivals. The
* [[Auction]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Auction House]]. Players put their cars up for sale on the auction house, and players bid on the cars.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]:
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** The SSC Ultimate Aero is the second fastest car in the world, with ''1200'' horsepower and torque. The top speed is higher than the Veyron
** Cowl hood scoops and air scoops in ''Forza Motorsport 4''. They look badass, and reduce weight (being made from lighter materials than steel), but they severely restrict interior vision
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Turbochargers, which provide the biggest speed boost for the least added weight of the aspiration conversions.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: Weight removal and tire compound/grip upgrades, which are likely going to be the most commonly used upgrades.
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]:
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** ''Forza Motorsport 3'' had the [[Game Breaker]] Porsche 550, which thoroughly dominated almost ''every leaderboard''. It was part of one of the $5 DLC packages.
* [[Car Fu]]:
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** Online play can frequently turn into [[Car Fu]], unfortunately. The ''Forza Motorsport 3'''s netcode means that a slight bump can cause a car to act like you did a full blown PIT maneuver, and can result in a pileup with every player mashing into each other; the first corner of a track is notorious for causing these pileups. The problem of slight taps sending cars spinning has been fixed in ''Forza Motorsport 4'', but there are usually pileups at the first corner because people drive like idiots.
* [[Character Tiers]]: [[In-Universe|A game mechanic]], each car is given a numerical value called their Performance Index (PI), which is then matched to a letter grade; higher letters mean faster classes. Cars can be upgraded to higher classes, and a few can be creatively ''downgraded'' to lower classes too, with engine or aspiration swaps or by installing heavy rims. In general the classes can be thought of as:
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** S class - Modern supercars, "track day" cars.
** R3 class - Hypercars and road-car based racing cars.
** R2 class - Purpose built racing cars which still resemble roadcars.
** R1 and X class - Le Mans Prototype cars.
* [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience]]: Most obvious in ''Forza Motorsport 4'', where the cars each AI driver drives are the same color, when a car's color can be chosen. For instance, M. Rossi's cars are [almost] always [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|red]], as close to [[wikipedia:Rosso corsa|Rossa Corsa]] as possible.
* [[Cool Car]]: Hundreds of them! And that's ''before'' you start loading them with performance upgrades and light body kits.
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* [[Crossover]]: ''Forza Motorsport 4'' features the ''Top Gear'' (UK) test track, and Jeremy Clarkson will provide commentary on dozens of cars in the ''Autovista'' mode. All the Reasonably Priced Cars from the UK and US ''Top Gear'' will show up as well.
** The Warthog from ''[[Halo]]'' will appear as an [[Easter Egg]] in the Autovista mode. Unfortunately, it's not drivable.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Some of the cars have small inaccuracies
* [[Downloadable Content]]: Mostly in the form of car packages and the occasional track. ''Forza Motorsport 4'' has monthly car packs, which have an assortment of cars
▲* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Some of the cars have small inaccuracies - one of the Skylines has the wrong brake light setup, and one of the Lexuses in ''Forza 3'' had the gas cap on the wrong side.
▲* [[Downloadable Content]]: Mostly in the form of car packages and the occasional track. ''Forza 4'' has monthly car packs, which have an assortment of cars - so far, the packs usually contain at least 1 classic car, a few modern cars, a truck, a newer-model year of an existing car or a racing version of an existing car, and purpose built racing cars.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: M. Rossi, the fastest AI driver in single-player. He will occasionally mash you off the ''starting line'', and use the PIT maneuver on you if you get in his way on corners.
* [[Driving Stick]]: ''Forza Motorsport 3'' and ''Forza Motorsport 4'' allow the player to set the shifting behavior to "Manual + Clutch". On the Xbox controller, you'll have to hold down the LB button while shifting up or down. On expensive racing wheels (like the Fanatec CSR), this mode will make you use the clutch pedal and the 6 speed H-pattern shifter. Poor shifting will result in near-stalls, engine damage (shifting into first gear at 200mph, for example), or engine lugging. If you don't use the clutch when starting from a standstill (such as at the start or after a wreck), the engine will repeatedly nearly seize-up, resulting in a ''painfully'' slow start, especially in cars with huge turbochargers.
* [[Dynamic Difficulty]]: Shows up in ''Forza Motorsport 4'''s World Tour. The AI starts ridiculous easy, but the more events you win, the harder they become.
* [[Easier Than Easy]]: All the games (but ''Forza Motorsport 3'' in particular) have plenty of ways to make things easier on yourself. You're encouraged to crank up the difficulty and turn off the driver aids
* [[Expansion Pack]]: The Porsche expansion pack in ''Forza 4'', coming out in May. Re-introduces 23 of Forza 3's Porsches, adds 7 new ones that weren't in previous games, adds achievements, and adds more single-player events.▼
* [[Every Car Is Rear Wheel Drive]]: [[Shown Their Work|HEAVY DUTY]] Aversion
▲* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: Averted, despite having an ''actual Ford Pinto'' in the game.
▲* [[Expansion Pack]]: The Porsche expansion pack in ''Forza Motorsport 4'', coming out in May. Re-introduces 23 of ''Forza Motorsport 3'''s Porsches, adds 7 new ones that weren't in previous games, adds achievements, and adds more single-player events.
▲* [[Every Car Is Rear Wheel Drive]]: [[Shown Their Work|HEAVY DUTY]] Aversion - if the tail end is sliding on your SEAT, unless [[Badass Driver|you're doing it on purpose]], it's because you ruined the suspension. However, if the manufacturer also has rear wheel drive cars, you can typically perform RWD swaps on the cars - so you could make a RWD Honda Civic - or a FWD Honda NSX.
* [[First-Person Snapshooter]]: The games let you take pictures (adjusting focus, aperture, all that jazz) in-game and upload them to the Forza website to download.
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Small cars like the Lotus Elan and Mazda Miata offer extremely good handling, but they're ''tiny'' and slight nudges can cause them to spin out.
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: ''Forza Motorsport 4'' had a bug in online player where players may hang up in loading screen
* [[Green Aesop]]: ''Forza Motorsport 4'' has hybrids like the dreaded Toyota Prius, and electric cars like the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf
* [[Hard Mode Perks]]: Disabling driver assists (such as anti-lock brakes, traction control, racing/braking line) and increasing the
* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]] A few, but the most egregious being the low tire walls, which stop you as if they were made of cast iron.
* [[Itasha]]: Can be done from ''Forza Motorsport 2'' onwards.
** Can actually be used to a player's advantage online
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Sporty hot-hatchbacks like the Ford Focus ST offer a good blend of speed, acceleration, handling
* [[Joke Character]]: Hybrids, which for the most part, are outran by ''everything'' else in the game when stock. You can, of course, turn them into insane drag racers because of Forza's huge customization
** The May DLC for ''Forza Motorsport 4'' has a Smart [[For Two]], a Ford Transit van <ref>
▲* [[Joke Character]]: Hybrids, which for the most part, are outran by ''everything'' else in the game when stock. You can of course, turn them into insane drag racers because of Forza's huge customization, though.
▲** The May DLC for ''4'' has a Smart [[For Two]], a Ford Transit van <ref> it's the racing version, but it's still a ''delivery van''</ref>, and the AMC Pacer X.
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: The city cars are ridiculously fast when upgraded, and handle very well.
** The car dominating the lower class leaderboards in ''Forza Motorsport 4''? The hybrid Chevrolet Spark.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters|Loads And Loads Of Cars]] ''Forza Motorsport 4'' has almost 500 cars on its own. The monthly DLC packs and the Porsche [[Expansion Pack]] increases the car count to over 600.
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: Track Day events, if you're trying to get a "clean" laps (no contact with other cars, stay on the track at all times, no rewind). The
* [[Magikarp Power]]: The [[The Alleged Car|Datsun 510]] and [[Joke Character|VW Rabbit]] in the third game absolutely dominate with enough modification, although any heavily modified car applies.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: The HUMMER H1 Alpha in ''Forza Motorsport 4''. It's nigh-impossible to really damage, and weighs the better part of ''eight thousand pounds''. The "Weight removal" upgrade on it effectively acts like removing an entire Ford Focus from the weight of the truck.
** And even after applying full weight reduction, it's still heavier than the second-heaviest car in the game.
* [[Multi-Track Drifting]]: There is nothing (besides common sense) stopping you from tuning the
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Any event with a field of R1 Le Mans Prototype cars and no assists. These cars have 6-700 horsepower, but only weigh 900kg ''at most'', so the slightest twitch on the throttle is almost guaranteed to cause you to spin out and mash into a wall.
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: Having a ''Forza Motorsport 3'' game save will reward ''Forza Motorsport 4'' players with additional credits, some unicorn cars (see [[Rare Vehicles]] below)
* [[Pass Through the Rings]]: Autocross events in ''Forza Motorsport 4''. Cones are set up to form gates along the track, and you pass between them as you go along the track. Hitting the cones results in a +5 second time penalty to your lap. The cones are set up to form slaloms and create extremely tight corners, making them excellent ways to test a car's handling and stability.
* [[Rare Vehicles]]: The ''Forza Motorsport'' series has two types of rare car:▼
** There are numerous examples of actual rare cars. For instance, you could be in a race with sixteen Ferrari F50
▲* [[Rare Vehicles]]: The ''Forza'' series has two types of rare car:
** ''Forza Motorsport 2'', ''Forza Motorsport 3'' and ''Forza Motorsport 4'' also have "unicorn cars". These cars cannot be bought in-game, and are only available from official competitions or via auction (if you have the millions of credits needed).▼
▲** There are numerous examples of actual rare cars. For instance, you could be in a race with sixteen Ferrari F50 [[G Ts]] - Ferrari only made three!
▲** ''Forza 2'', ''3'' and ''4'' also have "unicorn cars". These cars cannot be bought in-game, and are only available from official competitions or via auction (if you have the millions of credits needed)
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: One of the complaints a few reviewers had about early titles in the series was that some of the cars did not sound like they would in real-life. However, those cars sound ''exactly'' like they do in real-life. The audio engineers even went and sampled the individual components of those cars' engines on electric motors so they could fine tune individual engine noises as players modified their vehicles. However, this is not necessarily how [[The Coconut Effect|those vehicles sound in Hollywood films]].
* [[Rice Burner]]:
** Some people do up their cars like this.
** Painting and selling cars was such a major part of the ''Forza Motorsport 2'' community that it got turned into an entire section of the game in ''Forza Motorsport 3'', complete with leaderboards.
* [[The Rival]]: ''[[Gran Turismo]]''.
* [[RPG Elements]]: Each race in career mode gives you experience as well as money. At certain levels you are gifted what ''should'' be an appropriate car...▼
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** The third and fourth games also have manufacturer levels, which give cash and increasing discounts on aftermarket parts. In the fourth game, you can (eventually) get all manufacturer upgrades for free!
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The Fujimi-Kaido track in ''Forza Motorsport 3
** ''Forza Motorsport 4''. The Alps. Whoa.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** The "Out of
** The loading screen for Drift events has a [[Initial D|white Toyota AE86]] drifting through a corner.
** Buying a Ford Falcon XB will give you the "[[Mad Max|Last of the V8s]]" title
* [[Subsystem Damage]]: ''Forza Motorsport'' splits your cars into sections
** For instance, a shunt in the rear will damage the [[Captain Obvious|rear bumper]] and can usually be shrugged off. However, changing down a gear without lowering the revs sufficiently will [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|wreck the gearbox]] and severely limit your top speed and acceleration.
* [[A Taste of Power]]:
* [[A Taste of Power]]: 3 begins with a practice race in an Audi R8... and then makes you pick between a Honda Fit or a Ford Fiesta.▼
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* [[Technology Porn]]: The ''Autovista'' mode in ''Forza Motorsport 4'' is this.
* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: According to Jeremy Clarkson's Autovista for the Mercedes McLaren SLR the designers couldn't even agree what the car sounded like
** This is pretty much taken exactly from the review he did of the car on ''[[Top Gear]]'', but without the additional [paraphrased] line of: "Personally, I think it sounds like the God of Thunder... Gargling with nails!"
* [[Teleport Spam]]: A non-intentional, hilarious side effect of players joining with terrible connections. Cars with poor connections will start phase-shifting across the track wildly, suddenly appearing in the sky, partially submerged in the ground, or [[Tele Frag|inside someone's car]].
* [[Vanity License Plate]]: While none of the cars have license plates affixed, it's easy to create (or download) a decal to use as a license plate. You can then stick whatever you want on it.
* [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head]]: Some liveries are based entirely around nation flags
* [[Wronski Feint]]: If an
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