{"id":7839,"date":"2010-10-04T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"forza-motorsport-and-top-gear-team-up-for-ultimate-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/7839-forza-motorsport-and-top-gear-team-up-for-ultimate-collection","title":{"rendered":"Forza Motorsport and Top Gear team up for Ultimate Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forza Motorsport and the Top Gear television show have announced a long-term collaboration, which begins with the release of Forza Motorsport 3 Ultimate Collection in October. The award-winning Forza Motorsport franchise is collaborating with BBC’s Top Gear team to integrate the Top Gear brand in future versions of Forza Motorsport games.<\/p>\n

The Forza Motorsport racing sim experience coupled with Top Gear’s irreverent approach to car reviews and entertainment aims to give fans of both a unique experience.<\/p>\n

“Bringing together Top Gear and Forza Motorsport is a natural fit,” said Dan Greenawalt, franchise director at Turn 10, the studio within Microsoft Game Studios that created the Forza Motorsport franchise. “Top Gear is all about automotive passion and playing around with cars which is exactly what we deliver with Forza Motorsport games. We are looking forward to collaborating with their team to bring some of what they do so well on television to our game design process.”<\/p>\n

Fans will get their first taste of the results of this collaboration with 90 minutes of specially edited Top Gear TV content plus access to the ‘Stig’s Garage Car Pack,’ all downloadable exclusively through Xbox LIVE, as part of the new “Forza Motorsport 3 Ultimate Collection” which will be available this October.<\/p>\n

“It’s incredibly exciting to be teaming up with such a big name game,” said Andy Wilman, creative director at Top Gear. “I fear we’ll have to be a bit more ambitious and a bit less rubbish when dealing with these chaps.”<\/p>\n

Robert Nashak, Executive Vice President, Digital Entertainment, BBC Worldwide commented, “We’re thrilled to be teaming up with such innovators in motorsport gaming as Microsoft, who share our enthusiasm and vision for the Top Gear brand on this platform. Forza Motorsport is already a great game and we’re sure the features we’ve created together, using the Top Gear brand, will really excite both fans of the show and the game everywhere.”<\/p>\n

Forza Motorsport 3 Ultimate Collection is the complete award-winning racing title, including all previously released Game add-ons, bringing the total car count to 500 and offering more than 100 track configurations. It includes an Xbox LIVE downloadable content card giving players access to three of the hottest new cars on the market today as part of “Stig’s Garage Car Pack.” These include The Koenigsegg CCX, LEXUS LFA, and Mercedes Benz SLS-AMG, and with Xbox Live coming to SA, we can expect to finally be included on all the Forza 3 packaged DLC goodness. <\/p>\n

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In addition to the car pack, the Top Gear downloadable content will also feature an exclusive 90-minute video from the Top Gear lads, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. Topping off, is an Xbox LIVE Theme featuring Top Gear.<\/p>\n

Forza Motorsport 3 Ultimate Collection<\/a> is available in the United States and Canada starting October 26, 2010; United Kingdom and Germany starting October 29, 2010; Japan starting November 11, 2010 and other countries and regions in early 2011.<\/p>\n

Discuss the Forza Motorsport 3 Ultimate Collection<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n\n\t\t