i got this game for christmas 2005 and remember not expecting much, i was completely blown away. I spent countless hours making my own soundtracks using my dads CD collection, making custom liveries, and trying to 100% the career mode. so many good memories. Were it not for the original i wouldn’t be such a devoted fan today.
I never realized how powerful the Original Xbox was. It's really impressive to see how a game from 2005 can look like it came out in the 2009-2010 era.
@@deedeemerry1295 it is impressive actually, Sony are wizards at optimisation and pushed the PS2 to it's limits. For Microsoft to come out swinging with their first track racing game having this much detail, stability and all round quality, the 30 fps as opposed to 60, is very understandable.
Yeah, it’s mostly due to manufacture’s request. They don’t want people crashing them because they think it could make their cars seem less safe or less durable than their competition.
You forgot that a very important factor of Forza over GT was the sound design. Cars sounded waaaaay better than GT's vacuum cleaners. In fact, fm1 and two were the only forza games to feature decent (realistic) stock engine exhaust sounds that change with upgrades. All of the later forzas had their final exhaust sound as the stock sound.
As a person who grew up with Gran Turismo, I immediately noticed the quality of the car sounds in Forza Motorsport 1. Now what's remarkable is that GT4-GT6 completely nailed the sound of the Ford GT. GT Sport and GT7, I don't know what went wrong. Forza 1 had a few flaws on the car sounds but not many. Examples are the most popular Ferraris (F40, F50 & the Enzo). Another thing I'm nitpicking at is the lack of small details on the some cars that have rising spoilers after hitting 70mph or act as an airbrake (Mercedes SLR McLaren, Porsche Carrera GT, Ferrari Enzo, and the McLaren F1). This continued on until Forza 4. GT4 was the first to nail that but Forza was the first to get V8 race car sounds right.
The online mode in the 1st Forza was amazing. Endurance Test track oval matches on online career mode for a big wager and the custom Drift rooms. Back then there wasn't a drift mode but everyone will make a custom room with a unique name label Drift room or sometimes a drift tournament. Some tournaments were sanctioned by OG's on Forza Central back in the day. I did not like forza 2 upon release based on the online experience , the creators for some reason did not include Test track oval which was among the most popular tracks online on the original Forza. Many full rooms with guys in Enzo's , Chrysler Me Four Twelve's and Integera's with the best top speed set up, bump drafting almost to 300 mph. It was really competitive, especially on the final laps timing the bump draft perfectly to launch you or your bump draft mate in 1st . These races would 90% of the time be 50 laps. Good times, I wish i can go back to 05-06
TheCraziestGamer I agree completely. 6 was my favorite out of more recent entries, the career mode in 7 seems very pointless and short, you get champion status and feel very little reason to come back after that. Online just isn't the same either with all the homogolation and stuff too.
@@amongthieves26 Especially when 6 also broung back the weather and night racing that was introduced in FM1 and only in 1 that the game also had over nearly 650 cars when you get all the dlc and expansions aand included Nascar and 2 new tracks with all the dlc to with also the 2 expansions also adding 2 more career modes? It's basically heaven.
its almost only the horizon games who actually innovate these days, people have been asking for certain cars and tracks since forza motorsport 4, and they have yet to add any of them
Really interesting to see a unbiased review of a Forza game by a GT diehard. It's a great series, but be ready for them adding something, only to take something else away! And some of their DLC policy was shameful, removing cars and tracks from the previous game and selling it as DLC! I've played games in both series; GT 2 - 4, FM 2-4, GT6. And now finally FM7. Which I feel is everything GT6 TRIED to be, i.e the massive car collection and weather effects.
GT6 added innovative stuff to like Course Maker,GPS visualizer,and Car Search feature which idk what racing game has that that should have that mini feature, A user controlled B Spec for the first time, and Vision GT. It's just the base game was just okay.
I loved this forza, it has way more little details compared to the newer forzas like unique engine swaps and damage models. Especially when you hit the wall and your paint sticks to the wall, it felt ahead of its time. I still play this game time to time its has good replay value. Great video mate I wish Turn10 would look back at how good there older titles are.
GT needed license test because games before it didn't actually need brakes, so using brakes on a console game was a new thing for a lot of people, me included
I remember as a kid coming into Grab Turismo after need for speed and thinking why is this so hard. NFS maybe you just had to let go of the gas a bit sometimes
Nah, you needed to break in NFS games since the first one. GT license test teach things like slow in and fast out, breaking late enough but not too late and racing lines for shorter turns, but making them obligatory grind was always horrible. I can't control Veyron so can't do endurance races in GT6, and it's widely known as the easiest license-wise in the series. They're bull.
Bullshit. GT had license tests because they wanted to emulate the realism about learning how to drive. Thats one way they stood apart from other racers at the time. This was confirmed by Yamauchi.
user made public lobbies was where it was at, car soccer, drag lobbies on le mans, tag virus on tracks, city cars, a massive single player, and a bunch of oddball cars like the Devon, Spada and Joss
Same here. I remember my dad used to play this (along with Project Gotham Racing, Midnight Club 2, Apex, and the Halo games) and when I first laid my hands on it, I had the best time of my life. A neat little thing about the game was the inclusion of custom soundtracks, which is great because now I could speed through tracks while blasting Disturbed tracks.
Our lord and savior has arrived again. His children should appreciate his hard work as he has broung upon UA-cam amazing content lol. @Colorshed You're killing me here..I like the Nissan Cube! But if you used the inflated skyline numbers than I would've super agreed.
Wait. I just noticed because of this video the paint when hitting the walls appears on it wtf? Why does this older title in the series have some better small details and some non-small details than the later games?
10:41 - YOU TAKE THAT BACK!! Who *doesn't* want to drive the Nissan Cube?? I love taking the weird and wonderful cars, tuning them up to high hell, and have them kick the ass of faster cars. Beating a Mustang with a Cube is just amusing to me.
This Forza was excellent. It got me into cars as a small child and I have been around cars and racing ever since I picked the case for this game up in my hands. It was really one of the best forzas, along with Forza 2, Forza 4 and Forza horizon 1.
Probably lots of people have already asked you to review Enthusia Professional Racing, so I'm doing it too. That game has fantastic physics, *better* than GT4.
I would play Enthusia more if it weren't for the fact the only control scheme for throttle/brakes was the Dualshock 2's pressure-sensitive face buttons. If only I could just use the right thumbstick like on GT4.
Ahh back in the days when the tracks were a sensible size for the speed of your car! Loved the narrower circuits with tighter more frequent corners. The fictional circuits on FM2 were so good! The newer Forza game smostly revolve around international Grand Prix circuits, built for F1 cars! It’s so boring to drive them with anything slower than the LMP1. Which is 99% of the game.
Great video! I can really appreciate this because I did the same thing. Literally played this game and was introduced to the Forza franchise a few months ago. Blew my mind!!!🤯 I felt like I missed out on something as a kid, because I had a playstation and was "Team Gran Turismo" too. lol It was a shame because I knew plenty of people with an Xbox but noone seemed to have Forza. If anything they always had Sega GT 2002 because it come bundled on the same disk as Jet Set Radio Future....but anyways... lol...Great content as always fam!
I miss this forza, the music, the menu, the tracks. Forza 4 was where the series peaked. Forza hasn't been the same since in. Forza has tried appealing to the average racer and gone away from its roots and us who bought it from the begining.The parts to customize the cars was almost endless. Now you get a couple hoods and call it good. All the engine swaps came from the brand of the car. No stupid fake engine swaps. Id pay for a D.L.C if they would bring back alot of there old tracks. They should of done that with FM6.
Why is it that early 2000's racing games have better customization than most racing games today? I remember having so much fun in this game and NFS just customizing my cars and seeing how they look in different weather conditions.
WTF? This game has better UI and Menu designs than FM7 lmao. This game looks a lot like Gran Turismo in its presentation, whilst FM7s presentation looks like a freaking mobile game...
The game that got me started with Motorsport Games. I was always a Xbox guy but appreciate GT for what it is. This also introduced me to the McKenna Porsche which I happened to live near a Dealer. Loved FM a lot
Junkie XL is "more known for his film work"? Seriously? This guy wrote scores for NFS ProStreet and Quantum Redshift, his track "Def Beat" was used in Test Drive 5, NFS High Stakes AND Gran Turismo 3. Not to mention several other songs used across Need for Speed, Test Drive and Burnout games.
Great review. I was a long time GT fan as i didnt have an Xbox like yourself. But when i got the Xbox 360 and started to play the online and how the car class and upgrade system worked i quickly fell in love with Forza. GT will always hold the spot in my my heart that was the young kid who liked cars because his dad raced them, but now having multiple sports cars of my own and modifying them to race in organized events, Forza just takes the cake for me as far as where the games have ended up. I look forward to your finding more gaming bliss in the later iterations of Forza! P.S. - You'll want to start training yourself without using things like Traction control and stability, as they start to hurt your car's ultimate performance more and more with each new Forza; Especially if you want to try your hands at the online play.
FM1 actually has wheels & body kits that weren't in later titles. The Volk Racing CE28s that were a favourite of mine to put on my Evos went missing, & then we've lost Mitsubishi completely now.
This game was amazing back in the day, I remember running a car club driving in class D and C, venturing into B with the PLOP boys. The racing was the cleanest on the first Forza, now it's just full of Rammers.
@@FakeJeep I’m playing through the career now for the first time lol. I get angry often with the ai in this game. The computer cars just bump me off the road almost every race to get in first place lol
@@TheMurlocTamer i still go back to gt3 and gt4. surprised they are still entertaining to this day. in fact i actually cba to play my xbone, what with constant updates and games half finished/lacking content. maximo, driver parallel lines, 3d gta's, the sims busting out, and numerous other games are still fun to play.
Started with GT4, then GT3, then Forza 4, 3, 2 and 1. I still love the progression and career mode of GT4. God I hope GT7 has good single player content.
What if I like cars like the Cube and purposely want to drive them for fun, huh ? It's awesome that GT offers this wide variety of car types Not everything has to be fast to be enjoyable, and it seems Forza doesn't understand that fully Yes, it does have slow cars, but you can swap the engine in all of them to make them have over 500hp than what they started with. It's cool to have the option, yes. But Horizon 4, as a good example, doesn't make use of the slow cars whatsoever in online modes, which is saddening. If it's not a supercar, you have to make it as fast as one to use it against people.
Gran Turismo even had things like Beetle or Mini cup since GT2 at least, and things like British Lightweight category, or Euro Hatchback competition, classic pre-1980 sports car, American muscle cars before 1980, or Japanese racers from 90s, I want more competitions geared towards specific car type in GT7. Even Need for Speed 4 started with compact car/2-seater spyder tournament though cars were limited to one BWM and one Mercedes model. I LOOOVE the unusual car race type, it's boring just racing supercars.
unlike the original xbox version the bc 360 version suffers with screen tear and frame drops. If you choose to output the original version via component then you will also get reduced frames but still a better performance than the bc version A very fair review this
If I had to pick 1 top game series out of my 250+ Xbox and Xbox 360 games that I own that I can honestly say is my all time favorite, It would be Forza Motorsport hands down. Project Gotham Racing was my first love of the genre but Forza Motorsport mastered the racing environment in my opinion during those days. There is no rubber banding in this game if you examine the A.I. lap times and I would like to mention the key to all Forza Motorsport games is finding the right lower level cars that outperforms its counterparts after it has been tuned to the maximum allowable racing class. I liked the Forza Motorsport 2 demo so much at the time it was released and the car that I chose to drive for the first time on that demo (The 2003 Acura RSX) that I ended up buying that car in real life and still drive it to this day! True Story.
Lesson your videos are the greatest. I know that you have by far the best youtube channel on UA-cam. Your videos have so much thought in them and i love them so much. I dont care what anyone else saids like Laser beam is the best or Pydipie is the best. No colourshed is the greatest. I love your videos so much.
After watching this review, I think you’ll enjoy most of the Forza games. There’s gonna be some minor problems that people have pointed out, but I tend to look past them. My love for cars and driving overwhelms my attention towards glitches and problems. I wish I could play Gt3 I love the fact that you can drive cars that aren’t in the Forza series, the Nissan Cube sounds tempting. You’ve also earned a subscriber.
Man, this brings back memories. Forza 1 was a great start to a staple series for the XBox. I absolutely loved the progression system and especially how transparent it was. The way assists affected your price money felt rewarding to push yourself. Unfortunately those two things were at least partially thrown out of the window at some point and by now the games are just throwing cars at you. The handling was really tough in this one, and it changed a lot with most of the games in the series. Unlike Gran Turismo, which feels really stale.
Great review. I picked this up a while ago to complete my 360 collection (meaning I own 1-4). They're all great but Forza 2 has a special place in my heart. Im warning you. You will not want to put that game down.
I brought the original Xbox mid 2004 just so we could play 16 player LAN Halo back in the day. Which was possible because reliable internet, social media and online gaming hadn't yet destroyed the bonds of social cohesion. Anyways the following year my house mate who worked at Civic Video came home with half a dozen burnt copies of Xbox games. Told me it's his turn to play Half-life 2, handed me the disks and on one of them, written on the white surface in black marker was *"Forza*"
I was a playstation guy for years and finally got my hands on an xbox and this game. The thing that immediately impressed me was the depth of the vibration feedback. I felt all four wheels go over a curb independently in the controller and wow, custom soundtracks. "This is the future" I said, next gen, all games will have them....
Okay. I think that this is one of the best FM games of all time. It has good looking aero, super realistic damage and all the little details that are gone in the newer installments. If you don't do all the FM games, you need to do FM4, FM5 and FM7. Some games you also need to do is FH1-4, Midnight club 2 and 3 dub edition remix, pro street, undercover, juiced, R:Racing Evolution and Rallisport 1&2. Thank you for reading this far, if you did. :3
Really good job but 2 things 1. I do beliave License tests should come to Forza Motorsport because have you seen the online chaos at FM7? GT always did a better job at showing the proper way of behaving. 2.Yes i would drive a nissan cube thats one of the things that make GT unique slower cara are fun to drive too.
There was a auction house in Forza Motorsport 1 but you had to sign in first and you would get another menu. I had the game years ago when the xbox was the thing back then had online.
Having been playing through Forza Motorsport 2, 4 & 5, as well as Forza Horizon 1 & 2, I can still fully appreciate the original Forza Motorsport here through watching your awesome review video! Makes me want to go back and play this too :) despite any issues it has, it also has a ton of content, features and even small details in places or tracks that haven't been seen since! The original Drivatar A.I. was pretty neat too, with d the ability to complete lessons that allowed it to drive similar to your own driving style, which in a way was the foundations that built the Drivatar technology/feature they've been using since FM5 :o
The Forza series isn't bought because one have an Xbox or an Xbox 360, it's so good that people actually bought the Xbox 360 so they can play the Forza games... I decided to buy an Xbox 360 for the sole reason to play the Forza games, the other games are a bonus..
This is the only Forza games you've ever played? oh man, you're in for a treat when you play the newer ones like Motorsport 7 and Horizon 4. All the problems you listed in this video are solved, the physics are MUCH better and the graphics and vehicle sounds are fantastic.
I remember my friend played this at my home. He had a PS2 and GT4. He went out and bought a Xbox and a copy of Forza. After that we played together till Forza 4.
In PAL regions you could set the Xbox to 60hz in the console settings. For fun I once tried playing Ninja Gaiden at 50hz and the experience was laughably bad. Instead of having the game run at 50fps, the developers decided to just turn off v-sync so you get the worst screentearing I've ever seen. As for Forza 1, I'm always impressed by how well it holds up when I return to it. It feels like a 360 generation game running in SD.
Well i have been a pc gamer most of my life recent years i started to play the PS 2,3,4 and xbox one and i like GT and Forza but leaning more towards Forza
16:17 "And I am really looking foward at what the rest of the series offer" I like the way how you put that ! The lastest Forzas (like forza 5 first forza on xbox one) offers little content, cluttered with microtransactions, paid DLC, laggy buggy destruction derby driving in online play Just stick with forza 4 or before
The menu and career mode etc in this game destroys anything that came out on the xbox one forzas. And the fictional tracks shit on the ones thag they have as well. Although turn 10 might be listening because the added maple valley to 7..... even if they completely changed it from the original and moved the pit stop to the other side if the track
Also, FYI, no one cares if you use the racing line, just play however you want to. I'd rather have someone using the racing line than smashing me off the track 24/7
They're adding original xbox games to the xbox ones library all the time, and I think they would be absolutely stupid to not include this game. Oh and if they do, give us the online back.
Engine swaps with the description of maker, displacement, aspiration and what car it came from was so wild at the time, swapping the RB26dett into the 180sx and drifting... proper drifting, not the sledging nightmare of Gran Turismo im talking 3rd 4th even 5th gear full track drifts once you get good at it. I was a Gran Turismo fanboy since the first iteration but this game blew it away, I play the Forza series now but this one still makes me smile
My favorite car was the special edition blobeye sti with the blue bottom and silver top. That car was so fast and handled great it was my go to. I honestly think I fell in love with Subaru Imprezas because of that car. I now own a 2002 wrx that's been heavily modified.
Maan I remember doing every race possible with that Civic Type R EP3.... I also ended up buying one in real life couple years after getting my licence. Owned it for 8 years now :)
Porsche + Ferrari + Nordscleife = autowin! The only true problem of this game was this 30fps. I don't even imagine what is to play it at 25fps... should be horrible... in 30 it was on the edge of tolerable. At that time I was playing GT4 (that I didn't liked that much), Enthusia (that was the best console road racing simulator, IMO), Dirt to Daytona (the best racing simulator on consoles... and the best career mode ever in any racing sim... you should really try it) and GTR + GP Legends for PC (that were some levels beyond). Some friends had the XBox with Forza... I've played it a lot, but it never made me want a XBox. But Forza was good enough to substitute Gran Turismo, being a reason less to buy Sony's console... even if still there another thousand bunch of reasons to prefer a PS2 over a XBox lol
This game was MY FUCKING SHIT as a kid and I was a GT kid. I never cared for other Forza's except for this one. This one was special. Amazing soundtrack, Graphics and just an overall feeling of that there was *genuine care and time put into this game.* Not like other Forza's where now it's basically the CoD of the racing game world. FM1 was an absolute gem of a game and I genuinely enjoyed playing it next to Gran Turismo 3 and 4. So much so I beat the game and collected nearly every single car.
Back in 2020 to see the entire series reviews again! As a follower of the series, is my wish to have all the forza games. I think that the worst to get is forza horizon 2, they do not sell anymore and this game have one expansion.
@@Blueflag04 Played it. FM4 is a better game and the overall presentation is better, specially on sound design. Hooooowever: GT5 is a bigger technical achievement, and let's not forget that GT5 had a way better simulation engine.
I never played the first one, but the Forza series is why I own an X360. It is perhaps a little more arcadey than Gran Turismo, but overall is more accessible. GT often has fiddly UI, and requires a lot of button presses to navigate around. It's presentation and music can also seem a bit cheesy to western audiences. Forza doesn't have all those little quirks and contrivances that you get with Japanese games. The livery editor is a huge plus. And the rewind button is a great feature. Maybe I should check how much XBones cost these days.. I wouldn't mind having a go at Forza 5&6, and Horizon 3.
Small detail at 12:20 he hit the wall and it left a mark it's even the same color as the car I don't even think Forza Motorsport 7 has that detail
Nice catch there bro!
I've played this game millions of times and never noticed this until watching this video. .
I don't think I've seen any other racing game that does that tbh... When I saw it in this video, I was floored.
yes i saw that too nice detail!
I saw that too and that blew my mind!! Lol
>customize your car to stand out
>makes a mustang with the 2 stripes
i got this game for christmas 2005 and remember not expecting much, i was completely blown away. I spent countless hours making my own soundtracks using my dads CD collection, making custom liveries, and trying to 100% the career mode. so many good memories. Were it not for the original i wouldn’t be such a devoted fan today.
I never realized how powerful the Original Xbox was. It's really impressive to see how a game from 2005 can look like it came out in the 2009-2010 era.
well, Forza its only running at 30fps, so not that impressive. Rallisport 2 however is amazing
@@deedeemerry1295 it is impressive actually, Sony are wizards at optimisation and pushed the PS2 to it's limits. For Microsoft to come out swinging with their first track racing game having this much detail, stability and all round quality, the 30 fps as opposed to 60, is very understandable.
@@aussieknuckles yeah even the CPU is a pentium 3 lol
@@Maximus20778 better than emotion lol
Let me guess you're a PS fan boi? I have to ask cuz most PS fan bois think anything pre-PS2 is monkey sheed💩.
**replies to friend that they can hang out**
**new ColorShed video comes out**
"Sorry man I gotta go. Maybe another time."
Sure cancel a plan because of a 16 minute video.... Don't lie you don't have any friends
@@JinCho57 you probably won't either with an attitude like that. Dick.
@@JinCho57 woos
@@JinCho57 hey rude Bro
They worsened the damage model in the xbox one era games for some reason.
Manufacturers didn't like seeing their cars turn into the equivalent of a toddler's hopes and dreams.
Yeah, it’s mostly due to manufacture’s request. They don’t want people crashing them because they think it could make their cars seem less safe or less durable than their competition.
It's all under the manufacturer's contract and clause.
@Gixxer 600
Strange considering movies destroy iconic cars all the time.
They just made the games worse too, i hate the new handling model
You forgot that a very important factor of Forza over GT was the sound design. Cars sounded waaaaay better than GT's vacuum cleaners. In fact, fm1 and two were the only forza games to feature decent (realistic) stock engine exhaust sounds that change with upgrades. All of the later forzas had their final exhaust sound as the stock sound.
Yeah forza 1 and 2 has more attention to detail compared to the newer counterparts
@@tgipro6387 4 has great sound too, and 6 was the last one before the big fall.
GT didnt have vacuum sound until GT5 and on. GT3 and GT4 had quality sound altho the music was trash imo
As a person who grew up with Gran Turismo, I immediately noticed the quality of the car sounds in Forza Motorsport 1.
Now what's remarkable is that GT4-GT6 completely nailed the sound of the Ford GT. GT Sport and GT7, I don't know what went wrong. Forza 1 had a few flaws on the car sounds but not many. Examples are the most popular Ferraris (F40, F50 & the Enzo). Another thing I'm nitpicking at is the lack of small details on the some cars that have rising spoilers after hitting 70mph or act as an airbrake (Mercedes SLR McLaren, Porsche Carrera GT, Ferrari Enzo, and the McLaren F1). This continued on until Forza 4. GT4 was the first to nail that but Forza was the first to get V8 race car sounds right.
i love that rubbing on the wall actually rubs your red paint onto the wall... something i havent seen in a game for a long time
The online mode in the 1st Forza was amazing. Endurance Test track oval matches on online career mode for a big wager and the custom Drift rooms. Back then there wasn't a drift mode but everyone will make a custom room with a unique name label Drift room or sometimes a drift tournament. Some tournaments were sanctioned by OG's on Forza Central back in the day. I did not like forza 2 upon release based on the online experience , the creators for some reason did not include Test track oval which was among the most popular tracks online on the original Forza. Many full rooms with guys in Enzo's , Chrysler Me Four Twelve's and Integera's with the best top speed set up, bump drafting almost to 300 mph. It was really competitive, especially on the final laps timing the bump draft perfectly to launch you or your bump draft mate in 1st . These races would 90% of the time be 50 laps. Good times, I wish i can go back to 05-06
I miss it as well
That forza menu music. Ahhhhh nostalgia
this seems more fun than the recent forza games tbf, has a lot of character aswell, new forza titles are just soulless products
FM6 seemed to try to redeem the franchise until 7 came and stabbed it again after the big wound FM5 gave to the name.
TheCraziestGamer I agree completely. 6 was my favorite out of more recent entries, the career mode in 7 seems very pointless and short, you get champion status and feel very little reason to come back after that. Online just isn't the same either with all the homogolation and stuff too.
@@amongthieves26 Especially when 6 also broung back the weather and night racing that was introduced in FM1 and only in 1 that the game also had over nearly 650 cars when you get all the dlc and expansions aand included Nascar and 2 new tracks with all the dlc to with also the 2 expansions also adding 2 more career modes? It's basically heaven.
Motorsport 2 is my favorite but I still have the first one
its almost only the horizon games who actually innovate these days, people have been asking for certain cars and tracks since forza motorsport 4, and they have yet to add any of them
Really interesting to see a unbiased review of a Forza game by a GT diehard.
It's a great series, but be ready for them adding something, only to take something else away!
And some of their DLC policy was shameful, removing cars and tracks from the previous game and selling it as DLC!
I've played games in both series; GT 2 - 4, FM 2-4, GT6. And now finally FM7. Which I feel is everything GT6 TRIED to be, i.e the massive car collection and weather effects.
GT6 added innovative stuff to like Course Maker,GPS visualizer,and Car Search feature which idk what racing game has that that should have that mini feature, A user controlled B Spec for the first time, and Vision GT.
It's just the base game was just okay.
@@TheFurryInShambles whats Car Search feature?
@@ahmedmohmed4346 It breaks the feature down here.
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Which series are you talking about in the second paragraph?
I loved this forza, it has way more little details compared to the newer forzas like unique engine swaps and damage models. Especially when you hit the wall and your paint sticks to the wall, it felt ahead of its time. I still play this game time to time its has good replay value. Great video mate I wish Turn10 would look back at how good there older titles are.
GT needed license test because games before it didn't actually need brakes, so using brakes on a console game was a new thing for a lot of people, me included
He was nitpicking to make Forza Motorsport 1 stand out more. Though it already does with damage,customization,and such.
I remember as a kid coming into Grab Turismo after need for speed and thinking why is this so hard. NFS maybe you just had to let go of the gas a bit sometimes
Levan Outrun on the sega master system in 1987 you had to use brakes.
Nah, you needed to break in NFS games since the first one. GT license test teach things like slow in and fast out, breaking late enough but not too late and racing lines for shorter turns, but making them obligatory grind was always horrible. I can't control Veyron so can't do endurance races in GT6, and it's widely known as the easiest license-wise in the series. They're bull.
Bullshit. GT had license tests because they wanted to emulate the realism about learning how to drive. Thats one way they stood apart from other racers at the time. This was confirmed by Yamauchi.
Forza 4 was peak Forza
because it has the 2009 nissan versa
Yeah. It was the last game to feature SAAB. 😁
SAAB...Fucking disgusting, Volvo is where its at xDD
Yee
user made public lobbies was where it was at, car soccer, drag lobbies on le mans, tag virus on tracks, city cars, a massive single player, and a bunch of oddball cars like the Devon, Spada and Joss
I played this game so much as a kid on xbox.
Same here. I remember my dad used to play this (along with Project Gotham Racing, Midnight Club 2, Apex, and the Halo games) and when I first laid my hands on it, I had the best time of my life.
A neat little thing about the game was the inclusion of custom soundtracks, which is great because now I could speed through tracks while blasting Disturbed tracks.
Multiplayer was awesome...I loved it.
Matthew Cool Bro Project Gotham Racing 2 was one of my all time favorite Original Xbox games
Happy days eh?
I played this game as an adult on Xbox. 😁
Our lord and savior has arrived again. His children should appreciate his hard work as he has broung upon UA-cam amazing content lol.
@Colorshed You're killing me here..I like the Nissan Cube! But if you used the inflated skyline numbers than I would've super agreed.
Wait. I just noticed because of this video the paint when hitting the walls appears on it wtf? Why does this older title in the series have some better small details and some non-small details than the later games?
Because this game was developed with actual care and time unlike every other FM game ever made.
The best forza game was probably motorsport 4.
@@yourfirsthouseinminecraft4531 That wasn't a bad game but none of them will ever come close to the original in my eyes.
@@2K-Tan What does the original do better?
@@bbc6rgf57ytty5yxyw5gt Attention to detail.. Damage model and physics were all top notch in the first game
Watching this review and listening to Junkie XLs music in the background is so nostalgic, this game got me into cars and rock music as a whole.
love this game, especially JxL's soundtrack. used to let the menu music run on loop for hours..
10:41 - YOU TAKE THAT BACK!! Who *doesn't* want to drive the Nissan Cube??
I love taking the weird and wonderful cars, tuning them up to high hell, and have them kick the ass of faster cars. Beating a Mustang with a Cube is just amusing to me.
So do i
Damn right! He asked in the video and i answered "Uhh duh definetly me" xD
Those races where you’re not allowed to upgrade your car were the bane of my existence
This Forza was excellent. It got me into cars as a small child and I have been around cars and racing ever since I picked the case for this game up in my hands. It was really one of the best forzas, along with Forza 2, Forza 4 and Forza horizon 1.
Probably lots of people have already asked you to review Enthusia Professional Racing, so I'm doing it too. That game has fantastic physics, *better* than GT4.
Luis Santiago try on his facebook?
I love gt4, so it sounds interesting to me :D
Its soundtrack was SO good
I would play Enthusia more if it weren't for the fact the only control scheme for throttle/brakes was the Dualshock 2's pressure-sensitive face buttons. If only I could just use the right thumbstick like on GT4.
You can map Enthusia's throttle and brakes to the right stick in the options menu.
Ahh back in the days when the tracks were a sensible size for the speed of your car! Loved the narrower circuits with tighter more frequent corners. The fictional circuits on FM2 were so good!
The newer Forza game smostly revolve around international Grand Prix circuits, built for F1 cars! It’s so boring to drive them with anything slower than the LMP1. Which is 99% of the game.
Great video! I can really appreciate this because I did the same thing. Literally played this game and was introduced to the Forza franchise a few months ago. Blew my mind!!!🤯 I felt like I missed out on something as a kid, because I had a playstation and was "Team Gran Turismo" too. lol It was a shame because I knew plenty of people with an Xbox but noone seemed to have Forza. If anything they always had Sega GT 2002 because it come bundled on the same disk as Jet Set Radio Future....but anyways... lol...Great content as always fam!
Been waiting for you to touch on Forza. Fantastic video as always.
I miss this forza, the music, the menu, the tracks. Forza 4 was where the series peaked. Forza hasn't been the same since in. Forza has tried appealing to the average racer and gone away from its roots and us who bought it from the begining.The parts to customize the cars was almost endless. Now you get a couple hoods and call it good. All the engine swaps came from the brand of the car. No stupid fake engine swaps. Id pay for a D.L.C if they would bring back alot of there old tracks. They should of done that with FM6.
Yeah 4 was unreal. Really was perfect except for music
Why is it that early 2000's racing games have better customization than most racing games today? I remember having so much fun in this game and NFS just customizing my cars and seeing how they look in different weather conditions.
Especially the customization in Underground 2
"They make a Forza every year" but its actually two different developers. And at 6:33, you said Stukuba lol!
I mean i doubt T10 spends more than 6 months making FM these days.
WTF? This game has better UI and Menu designs than FM7 lmao. This game looks a lot like Gran Turismo in its presentation, whilst FM7s presentation looks like a freaking mobile game...
Logic: if the game is longer alive, the worse it gets
The soundtrack to this game is absolutely fantastic when you're stoned.
Oddly enough crossout on PS4 has a similar Vibe With It soundtrack... Made me instantly remember Forza with its soft alternative rock covers
there's a lot of kinda pink floyd-esque stuff in there lol
I'm more into custom soundtracks, to be honest.
I've lost faith in the series since Forza 5, not counting the Horizon games.
I agree, Horizon 2 was probably the best forza I've EVER played
Once the race "mods" came I lost interest.
The game that got me started with Motorsport Games. I was always a Xbox guy but appreciate GT for what it is.
This also introduced me to the McKenna Porsche which I happened to live near a Dealer.
Loved FM a lot
Project Gotham was my all time favorite racing game. I had so much fun playing.
Junkie XL is "more known for his film work"? Seriously? This guy wrote scores for NFS ProStreet and Quantum Redshift, his track "Def Beat" was used in Test Drive 5, NFS High Stakes AND Gran Turismo 3. Not to mention several other songs used across Need for Speed, Test Drive and Burnout games.
How do you not have more subs? This is literally my favorite channel right now.
Great review. I was a long time GT fan as i didnt have an Xbox like yourself. But when i got the Xbox 360 and started to play the online and how the car class and upgrade system worked i quickly fell in love with Forza. GT will always hold the spot in my my heart that was the young kid who liked cars because his dad raced them, but now having multiple sports cars of my own and modifying them to race in organized events, Forza just takes the cake for me as far as where the games have ended up.
I look forward to your finding more gaming bliss in the later iterations of Forza!
P.S. - You'll want to start training yourself without using things like Traction control and stability, as they start to hurt your car's ultimate performance more and more with each new Forza; Especially if you want to try your hands at the online play.
If you turn auto-gen-subtitles on, the moment you say "Carreer mode" it says "Korea large"...... I mean, I'm not a conspiracy theorist but......
FM1 actually has wheels & body kits that weren't in later titles.
The Volk Racing CE28s that were a favourite of mine to put on my Evos went missing, & then we've lost Mitsubishi completely now.
We're getting them back. Evos came on FH4 and so should come on the next motorsport again.
Oh nostalgia. I spent countless hours on this gam, classic. Great review!
Whatever region you choose has a huge impact on what level you unlock cars at. That’s why you want to choose the region you want cars from.
This game was amazing back in the day, I remember running a car club driving in class D and C, venturing into B with the PLOP boys. The racing was the cleanest on the first Forza, now it's just full of Rammers.
Id play with Spacemanisdead and Slartibartfast from PLOP, they were sick at it, in the top ten overall time trial but i only got 43rd as Barmcake.
I still have my 98% completion on my original xbox along with a 95% completion of FM2.
Also there's no catchup/rubber banding in this.
Why not 100 percent?
@@anthonypeterson42 I forget what I didn't complete on there. I believe it was something to do with multiplayer, so rip.
@@FakeJeep I’m playing through the career now for the first time lol. I get angry often with the ai in this game. The computer cars just bump me off the road almost every race to get in first place lol
I grew up on gran turismo but ended up playing forza motorsport more
same, started with GT3 and GT4, then bought a 360 and played the hell out of Forza 3 and 4
@@TheMurlocTamer i still go back to gt3 and gt4. surprised they are still entertaining to this day. in fact i actually cba to play my xbone, what with constant updates and games half finished/lacking content. maximo, driver parallel lines, 3d gta's, the sims busting out, and numerous other games are still fun to play.
Started with GT4, then GT3, then Forza 4, 3, 2 and 1. I still love the progression and career mode of GT4. God I hope GT7 has good single player content.
I was wrong about GT7 lmaoooooo. I'm back to playing Forza Motorsport 1-2
@@medalgearsalad1419Same. Going to get the cc8s tommorow.
What if I like cars like the Cube and purposely want to drive them for fun, huh ?
It's awesome that GT offers this wide variety of car types
Not everything has to be fast to be enjoyable, and it seems Forza doesn't understand that fully
Yes, it does have slow cars, but you can swap the engine in all of them to make them have over 500hp than what they started with. It's cool to have the option, yes. But Horizon 4, as a good example, doesn't make use of the slow cars whatsoever in online modes, which is saddening. If it's not a supercar, you have to make it as fast as one to use it against people.
Gran Turismo even had things like Beetle or Mini cup since GT2 at least, and things like British Lightweight category, or Euro Hatchback competition, classic pre-1980 sports car, American muscle cars before 1980, or Japanese racers from 90s, I want more competitions geared towards specific car type in GT7. Even Need for Speed 4 started with compact car/2-seater spyder tournament though cars were limited to one BWM and one Mercedes model. I LOOOVE the unusual car race type, it's boring just racing supercars.
unlike the original xbox version the bc 360 version suffers with screen tear and frame drops. If you choose to output the original version via component then you will also get reduced frames but still a better performance than the bc version
A very fair review this
If I had to pick 1 top game series out of my 250+ Xbox and Xbox 360 games that I own that I can honestly say is my all time favorite, It would be Forza Motorsport hands down. Project Gotham Racing was my first love of the genre but Forza Motorsport mastered the racing environment in my opinion during those days. There is no rubber banding in this game if you examine the A.I. lap times and I would like to mention the key to all Forza Motorsport games is finding the right lower level cars that outperforms its counterparts after it has been tuned to the maximum allowable racing class. I liked the Forza Motorsport 2 demo so much at the time it was released and the car that I chose to drive for the first time on that demo (The 2003 Acura RSX) that I ended up buying that car in real life and still drive it to this day! True Story.
great review
I just love your content Colourshed. Any time there's a new video, I put everything down and just enjoy watching it.
Forza was so good that I played it at a best buy and immediately bought an xbox, put away my ps2 and never went back to Gran Turismo since.
Lesson your videos are the greatest. I know that you have by far the best youtube channel on UA-cam. Your videos have so much thought in them and i love them so much. I dont care what anyone else saids like Laser beam is the best or Pydipie is the best. No colourshed is the greatest. I love your videos so much.
After watching this review, I think you’ll enjoy most of the Forza games. There’s gonna be some minor problems that people have pointed out, but I tend to look past them. My love for cars and driving overwhelms my attention towards glitches and problems. I wish I could play Gt3 I love the fact that you can drive cars that aren’t in the Forza series, the Nissan Cube sounds tempting. You’ve also earned a subscriber.
I honestly love the license tests in gran turismo, they’re challenging and iconic, hell, jimmy broadbent’s recent streams are gt license tests
Youre reviewing all of my childhood games and I LOVE it
Man, this brings back memories. Forza 1 was a great start to a staple series for the XBox. I absolutely loved the progression system and especially how transparent it was. The way assists affected your price money felt rewarding to push yourself. Unfortunately those two things were at least partially thrown out of the window at some point and by now the games are just throwing cars at you.
The handling was really tough in this one, and it changed a lot with most of the games in the series. Unlike Gran Turismo, which feels really stale.
Great review. I picked this up a while ago to complete my 360 collection (meaning I own 1-4). They're all great but Forza 2 has a special place in my heart.
Im warning you. You will not want to put that game down.
I brought the original Xbox mid 2004 just so we could play 16 player LAN Halo back in the day. Which was possible because reliable internet, social media and online gaming hadn't yet destroyed the bonds of social cohesion.
Anyways the following year my house mate who worked at Civic Video came home with half a dozen burnt copies of Xbox games. Told me it's his turn to play Half-life 2, handed me the disks and on one of them, written on the white surface in black marker was *"Forza*"
I was a playstation guy for years and finally got my hands on an xbox and this game.
The thing that immediately impressed me was the depth of the vibration feedback.
I felt all four wheels go over a curb independently in the controller and wow, custom soundtracks.
"This is the future" I said, next gen, all games will have them....
You got a new subscriber. Watched some of your great Gran Turismo reviews and than watched this.
The biggest thing this game has over GT is it’s just about racing. No missions, no tests, just racing.
Okay. I think that this is one of the best FM games of all time. It has good looking aero, super realistic damage and all the little details that are gone in the newer installments. If you don't do all the FM games, you need to do FM4, FM5 and FM7. Some games you also need to do is FH1-4, Midnight club 2 and 3 dub edition remix, pro street, undercover, juiced, R:Racing Evolution and Rallisport 1&2. Thank you for reading this far, if you did. :3
Awesome! Can't wait for you two review on fm2 and on the Forza horizon series!
I loved the way you said tom holkenborg (junkie xl) as an american you said it extremely well cuz some dutch people can't even say it correctly
Really good job but 2 things
1. I do beliave License tests should come to Forza Motorsport because have you seen the online chaos at FM7? GT always did a better job at showing the proper way of behaving.
2.Yes i would drive a nissan cube thats one of the things that make GT unique slower cara are fun to drive too.
There was a auction house in Forza Motorsport 1 but you had to sign in first and you would get another menu. I had the game years ago when the xbox was the thing back then had online.
Having been playing through Forza Motorsport 2, 4 & 5, as well as Forza Horizon 1 & 2, I can still fully appreciate the original Forza Motorsport here through watching your awesome review video! Makes me want to go back and play this too :) despite any issues it has, it also has a ton of content, features and even small details in places or tracks that haven't been seen since! The original Drivatar A.I. was pretty neat too, with d the ability to complete lessons that allowed it to drive similar to your own driving style, which in a way was the foundations that built the Drivatar technology/feature they've been using since FM5 :o
I grew up with a PS2 and GT4 but the Forza series will always be top dog for me. Both FM and FH.
This is so great! I've been waiting for this! Great job!
The Forza series isn't bought because one have an Xbox or an Xbox 360, it's so good that people actually bought the Xbox 360 so they can play the Forza games... I decided to buy an Xbox 360 for the sole reason to play the Forza games, the other games are a bonus..
This is the only Forza games you've ever played? oh man, you're in for a treat when you play the newer ones like Motorsport 7 and Horizon 4.
All the problems you listed in this video are solved, the physics are MUCH better and the graphics and vehicle sounds are fantastic.
I went back and replayed these last night. I completely forgot how much understeer all the cars had in the early games
Lmaooo yeaaa it’s a fun ass game tho
Literally was about to mention you using the racing line and as soon as I put my hand on the keyboard you mentioned it lol
For me this is the best racing game ever made and i grew up with GT2.
Same here. Forza pretty much replaced GT for me.
Should get FM6 before the dlc gets removed from the Xbox store next year. Amazing game as well.
@@TheFurryInShambles Sorry bro, FM1, FM2 and GT4 for me. All the new Forzas and GTs have shitty career modes.
Oh boy finally FM on your channel
Omg my first introduction to cars, I love the ost so many memories trying to get faster than my dad but never could 😢😭🤗
I remember my friend played this at my home. He had a PS2 and GT4. He went out and bought a Xbox and a copy of Forza. After that we played together till Forza 4.
They need to bring back the Shipyard track, there is something about it that makes it so unique, also New York was an awesome track.
In PAL regions you could set the Xbox to 60hz in the console settings. For fun I once tried playing Ninja Gaiden at 50hz and the experience was laughably bad. Instead of having the game run at 50fps, the developers decided to just turn off v-sync so you get the worst screentearing I've ever seen. As for Forza 1, I'm always impressed by how well it holds up when I return to it. It feels like a 360 generation game running in SD.
Well i have been a pc gamer most of my life recent years i started to play the PS 2,3,4 and xbox one and i like GT and Forza but leaning more towards Forza
16:17 "And I am really looking foward at what the rest of the series offer" I like the way how you put that !
The lastest Forzas (like forza 5 first forza on xbox one) offers little content, cluttered with microtransactions, paid DLC, laggy buggy destruction derby driving in online play
Just stick with forza 4 or before
The menu and career mode etc in this game destroys anything that came out on the xbox one forzas. And the fictional tracks shit on the ones thag they have as well. Although turn 10 might be listening because the added maple valley to 7..... even if they completely changed it from the original and moved the pit stop to the other side if the track
Also, FYI, no one cares if you use the racing line, just play however you want to. I'd rather have someone using the racing line than smashing me off the track 24/7
Can't wait for you to review Forza Horizon 1! PS. I wanna drive a Nissan Cube, it's my first car.
They're adding original xbox games to the xbox ones library all the time, and I think they would be absolutely stupid to not include this game. Oh and if they do, give us the online back.
Engine swaps with the description of maker, displacement, aspiration and what car it came from was so wild at the time, swapping the RB26dett into the 180sx and drifting... proper drifting, not the sledging nightmare of Gran Turismo im talking 3rd 4th even 5th gear full track drifts once you get good at it. I was a Gran Turismo fanboy since the first iteration but this game blew it away, I play the Forza series now but this one still makes me smile
Can't wait for the next video loved your review on this
My favorite car was the special edition blobeye sti with the blue bottom and silver top. That car was so fast and handled great it was my go to. I honestly think I fell in love with Subaru Imprezas because of that car. I now own a 2002 wrx that's been heavily modified.
Maan I remember doing every race possible with that Civic Type R EP3....
I also ended up buying one in real life couple years after getting my licence.
Owned it for 8 years now :)
Porsche + Ferrari + Nordscleife = autowin!
The only true problem of this game was this 30fps. I don't even imagine what is to play it at 25fps... should be horrible... in 30 it was on the edge of tolerable.
At that time I was playing GT4 (that I didn't liked that much), Enthusia (that was the best console road racing simulator, IMO), Dirt to Daytona (the best racing simulator on consoles... and the best career mode ever in any racing sim... you should really try it) and GTR + GP Legends for PC (that were some levels beyond). Some friends had the XBox with Forza... I've played it a lot, but it never made me want a XBox. But Forza was good enough to substitute Gran Turismo, being a reason less to buy Sony's console... even if still there another thousand bunch of reasons to prefer a PS2 over a XBox lol
This game was MY FUCKING SHIT as a kid and I was a GT kid. I never cared for other Forza's except for this one. This one was special. Amazing soundtrack, Graphics and just an overall feeling of that there was *genuine care and time put into this game.* Not like other Forza's where now it's basically the CoD of the racing game world. FM1 was an absolute gem of a game and I genuinely enjoyed playing it next to Gran Turismo 3 and 4. So much so I beat the game and collected nearly every single car.
Thanks to this game for bringing me from Need for Speed Underground 2 to the racing sim world back as a kid
Back in 2020 to see the entire series reviews again! As a follower of the series, is my wish to have all the forza games. I think that the worst to get is forza horizon 2, they do not sell anymore and this game have one expansion.
...gt4 is still better
That doesn't mean FM1 isn't actually FANTASTIC
wait until you play fm4
@@Blueflag04 I loved fm4 but I preferred gt5. Not many people will agree with me but its just my opinion
Ya you're crazy forza 4 crushes gt5
@@Blueflag04 Played it.
FM4 is a better game and the overall presentation is better, specially on sound design.
Hooooowever: GT5 is a bigger technical achievement, and let's not forget that GT5 had a way better simulation engine.
@@bryanrodriguez6875 in terms of sounds yes. The rest? No.
I love your videos! Keep up the amazing work :D
I never played the first one, but the Forza series is why I own an X360. It is perhaps a little more arcadey than Gran Turismo, but overall is more accessible. GT often has fiddly UI, and requires a lot of button presses to navigate around. It's presentation and music can also seem a bit cheesy to western audiences. Forza doesn't have all those little quirks and contrivances that you get with Japanese games.
The livery editor is a huge plus. And the rewind button is a great feature. Maybe I should check how much XBones cost these days.. I wouldn't mind having a go at Forza 5&6, and Horizon 3.
Remember playing this game when it came out :) It was my favorite game!
Oh shit cant wait for this series man i have all the forza games i love your vids man keep at it
ohh, wait till you get to Motorsport 4. Thats a good one. Love that game. Same with the first horizon.
Forza 1 was a really ground breaking title in that it made simulators much more accessible