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Forza 3 limited edition is loaded with mostly virtual bonuses

by JC Fletcher on Jun 19th 2009 10:08AM

GameStop has detailed the bonus items bundled with the Gamestop-exclusive Limited Edition of Forza Motorsport 3, letting buyers know what their extra twenty bucks will get them. These bonuses shouldn't require the box to be any bigger than the normal version, because with two exceptions, nothing in the pack is physical.

The Limited Edition comes with an exclusive car pack, featuring "5 cars that have been hand tuned and hand painted by the developers at Turn 10 to fly the Forza Motorsport colors," a Dashboard theme, and a "VIP Membership" that entitles the user to "special treatment within the online Auction House, Community Storefront and on the Forzamotorsport.net forums." The tangible items in the pack: a 2GB USB drive and a keychain, both emblazoned with Forza 3 logos. In addition, reserving the game provides access to the "community designed and chosen, Audi R8 5.2 FSI quattro."

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Tags: forza-3, forza-motorsport-3, gamestop, limited-edition, Microsoft, preorder, racing, turn-10, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (29)

Burnout is still better.

I think they dont compare. Burnout is about fun and arcady driving whereas Forza is all about the simulation. I have Forza2 and its nice.

Hey what's it like in the future?

The future is a weird place. Nintendo made so much money, they purchased Microsoft and Sony went under.

Nintendo Windows xMii with waggle support!

The future is a scary place. They drive on the left side of the road, drink tea at noon and use the word wanker in place of president. Woooo......... scary.

There is one good thing about it though... LCD Soundsystem's music is loved by all! Oh, and Adult Swim completely takes over Cartoon Network.

In the future, Sega & Atari join forces and release a new console. But a 5th surprise entry joins the console business and proceed to make more money than even Nintendo could imagine. And it's not who you think it is!

Does not compute...

wow thats kinda lame.... i would understand if it was a pre-order bonus, but to pay to have "hand tuned" cars is not even worth an extra 20 bucks.

a usb drive? wtf...

For people that are really into Forza, having the hand-tuned cars is like having a golden lancer in GoW2.

I think it's a pretty good bundle, for 20 bucks you get tons of extra's.

I don't get why paid DLC that's already on the disc gets so much hate, but paying extra content in "special edition" doesn't.

I'm a 12-year-old, so I want what Burnout offers. Forza and Gran Turismo are very detailed and I'm fine with that, but they're just not for me I guess.

Crap. I meant to reply to Arnie up there.

I dream of a day when the phrase "limited edition" and the words "Game Stop" are no longer in the same sentence exclusively together.

It has gotten pretty ridiculous. I agree. But then again, what else is gamestop going to buy with the mountains of cash they make on used game trades? What we need to do is cut off their lifeline, start using Amazon or Wal-mart for game trades.

You can also trade them to Gamefly for credit towards your membership.

I've quit Gamefly twice now. They don't have the supply of games to meet the demand they don't get them out on a timely basis. Atleast for me they never did. I often found myself not just waiting for new games for a long time, but waiting for games that had been out for 4 months already. Gamefly's great while it works, but that's a rarity.

My local Gamestops are really shady. They like to sell the "preorder bonuses."

A most recent example are the Ghostbusters t-shirts one gets when they preordered the game. Well fuck that I drove over to walmart because they decided to sell them all and canceled my preorder. At Walmart they gave me a remastered DVD of Ghostbusters, the game and a code for a golden proton pack.

Dude, all Gamestops are shady. I used to work for one. It's all about getting trade-ins, pre-orders and GI subscriptions. If you're not there to do one of the 3, you're not even considered to be a customer. I've had several instances when I've gone to buy a new game that just came out and they'll have a whole display of the game in the glass case, but insist that those copies are only for pre-orders. Yeah...right. And it doesn't matter to them, they don't make any money on the new games they sell.

I tried gamefly. When they couldn't get me super mario galaxy for a month I had to go buy it. I kept it at the top of my queue until I canceled the service, never got the game.

I pre-ordered it. I'd rather have some in-game exclusive stuff than some statue that I'll put on a shelf, forget about and eventually toss in some box.

No thanks. I spent a lot of money to get a decent wheel to play the game with, but I'm not going to just throw $20 down the toilet. Unless you think USB drives are exciting, the only thing you get is preferred listings in the auction house and I don't give a rat's ass about the auction house.

I hope the game box & cover will be different (a metal case would be cool).

what will Amazon be offering? I always pre-order from Amazon, but if Gamestop can sway me in their direction, I will give my pre-order to them.

Just got my wheel for $30 off of Microsofts Expertzone. I am wondering how "Limited" this will be, because although I want Forza like yesterday, I have enough patience to sit around and wait a few months to see the LE's collect dust on the shelf and get cut to the same price as the regular game. That's my plan for Assassins Creed 2 as well. I ended up getting the LE for AC1 the day after release someone traded it in.

This is great news, I think I read something similar a week ago that prompted me to pre-order this game. I like the addition of in game items rather than swag, I hope developers will continue to take this approach rather than swag made in China, as long as it doesn't upset the balance of the game.

Boy I would have loved to pick this up day one. But my second Xbox 360 got the RRoD and prior to RRoDing it scratched a ton of my games rendering them useless which I then sold to GameStop. Then I sold Forza 2 and 30 of my other games plus my RRoD 360.....and I'm living happily ever after with my precious PS3 that never let me down since Launch.

sod the le forza 3 !! save the xtra cash n put it towards a decent game like mw2 with night vision goggles cos at least that wud be worth blowing the xtra cash on

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