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- Forza Motorsport 2 burns rubber at 60 fps with 4x full-screen anti-aliasing
- Motion blur, and high-dynamic-range lighting in crisp 720p high-definition glory
- Feel every nuance of your car and the road thanks to support for the official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel
- Master real-world tracks from around the globe
- Collect, upgrade and tune hundreds of cars
- Create and share your masterpiece with the world
- Compete in a vibrant online community
Forza Motorsport 2, the sequel to Microsoft Game Studios' award-winning, fully customizable driving simulator Forza Motorsport 2 speeds its way onto Xbox 360. With authentic simulation physics, bone-jarring damage, photo-realistic graphics, and licensed tuning and customization options, the franchise improves on the unprecedented features gamers enjoyed in its debut instalment. Loaded with more than 300 of the world's hottest cars for you to collect, personalize and tune, Forza Motorsport 2 gives you a complete racing experience.
Lap the competition with truly next-generation features. Made possible by the power of Xbox 360, Forza Motorsport 2 burns rubber at 60 fps with 4x full-screen anti-aliasing, motion blur, and high-dynamic-range lighting in crisp 720p high-definition glory. And you can feel every nuance of your car and the road thanks to support for the official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel.
Experience uncompromising physics simulation. Top automotive engineers, professional race car drivers and programmers teamed up to create the most complete racing experience available. Cars incur dramatic damage and wear, which affects car performance. Advanced tire and suspension models respond to heat and pressure changes as well as weight transfer and aerodynamic load.
Master real-world tracks from around the globe. From the famously challenging Nürburgring Nordschleife track to the spectator-lined streets of Rio de Janeiro, race on meticulously designed tracks with an incredible sense of speed and realism. Forza Motorsport 2 features more than 60 tracks carved out of 18 environments, including 13 real-world licensed circuits such as the Road America race track, Silverstone Circuit, Tsukuba Circuit and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Sebring International Raceway is among four new real-world licensed circuits added to the repertoire of Forza Motorsport 2.
Collect, upgrade and tune hundreds of cars. From sport compacts to purpose-built race cars, collect more than 300 cars from over 50 of the world's leading manufacturers such as Ferrari, Porsche, General Motors, Lamborghini, Nissan and Volkswagen. Take your car to the garage and install alternative engines, suspension kits, bolt-on superchargers, brakes, rims, racing slicks and more. Dial in advanced suspension settings, tire pressure and gear ratios. Forza Motorsport 2 allows you to own the cars that will own the competition.
Create and share your masterpiece with the world. Express your inner artist in the paint and upgrade shops with near-endless visual personalization. Customize the shape of your car by combining licensed rims, performance parts and aftermarket body kits. Create your own unique paint scheme using millions of paint and decal options. Take in-game pictures of your creation in Forza Motorsport 2 Photo Mode.
Compete in a vibrant online community. Take your personalized car onto Xbox Live® for some intense online wheel-to-wheel racing. Earn in-game credits and complete single-player career objectives while racing over Xbox Live. Watch the best racers as well as your friends from around the world compete on Forza Motorsport TV.
Viva Pinata
Features- [1] Interact with the piñatas: Getting to know and understand the personalities and requirements of your piñatas is essential if you want them to stay happy and thrive. Make your world their ideal paradise, and they’ll want to raise a family and expand your community.
- [2] Interact with the characters: Decide how much help you want from the local guides, shopkeepers, and work force. Go it alone or get them involved—you choose
- [3] Watch them grow: Discover the secrets of more than 60 different candy-filled piñata animals to see them grow, change, fight, and even dance!
- [4] Anything can happen: Guide a constantly evolving, vibrant world to keep your piñata happy and protect them from dangers threatening to break them open.
- [5] Tend your garden: It’s not just new piñata species that are drawn to your world—untamed sour piñatas with bad attitudes and troublemaking ruffians do their worst to spoil your creation and must be dealt with.
- [6] Maintain harmony: Maintaining harmony within a growing community isn’t always easy when rivalries, illness, injuries and even candy-spilling fights occur. If you turn your back, who knows what their piñatas will do?
- [7] Personalized world: Customize your world and your piñata animals to reflect your style and create a pet paradise unlike any other.
- [8] Interact online: Via Xbox Live, contact other gamers to lend a hand, lay down a competitive challenge, or trade items.
Viva
Piñata, the latest innovative gaming experience from leading U.K.-based
developer Rare Ltd., invites gamers to create an immersive world where
living piñatas inhabit an ever-changing environment. Beginning with a
few basic tools, players build and take control of this environment,
using their creativity and imagination to attract, protect and manage
over 60 different piñata species that can visit their world and make it
their home. Utilizing hundreds of customizable elements, players can
create a unique piñata paradise.
Pushing
the capabilities of the hardware, Viva Piñata brings a vibrant and
engaging gaming experience to the Xbox 360 platform. Appealing to kids,
adults, casual gamers and enthusiasts alike, this uniquely customizable
and social game rewards and challenges all players regardless of their
skill level. The Viva Piñata gameplay experience presents a
customizable, social and spontaneous world in which gamers play an
absolutely crucial role. The Viva Piñata world is an evolving paradise
teeming with fantastic living piñata creatures and vibrant plant life,
all determined by the player’s choices and actions.
Viva
Piñata allows players’ imaginations to run wild by providing them with
expansive freedom and choice. Your choice of contents will determine
which of the piñata species are attracted to your world, since they all
have individual requirements. Sowing grass, digging ponds, planting
flowers and growing trees all affect which of the unique piñatas you
will see. It’s not just about plants, either; there is a whole range of
ornaments and structures that could be decisive. Your reward for
creating an appealing paradise is to watch the piñatas visit and
eventually reside there, which is where the fun really starts.
Once
you have resident piñatas, you can begin to personalize your loyal
community. Piñatas can be individually named and given their own
personally designed tag to put on display as a declaration of their
home turf. And the customization doesn’t end there. You can make the
colourful critters more distinctive by customizing them with all kinds
of costumes and accessories.
The Viva Piñata community is a
rewarding place to be, whether you remain within the boundaries of your
own world or venture out into the real world or your friend’s piñata
world via Xbox Live, the first and only global, unified online console
games service. Getting to know and understand the personalities and
requirements of your piñatas is essential if you want them to stay
happy and thrive. Make your world their ideal paradise, and they’ll
want to raise a family and expand your community. Players decide how
much help they want from the local guides, shopkeepers and work force.
Go it alone or get them involved - you choose. Via the Xbox Live online
community, players can contact other gamers to lend a hand, lay down a
competitive challenge or trade items.
Viva Piñata is a constantly changing world where anything can and does happen. It’s not just new piñata species that are drawn to your world; untamed sour piñatas with bad attitudes and troublemaking ruffians do their worst to spoil your creation and must be dealt with. Maintaining harmony within a growing community isn’t always easy when rivalries, illness, injuries and even candy-spilling fights occur. If players turn their backs, who knows what their piñatas will do?
About Rare Ltd.
Rare
Ltd., one of the world’s leading video game developers, was founded in
1985 by Chris and Tim Stamper. Based in the United Kingdom, Rare is the
mastermind behind some of the most popular video games available,
including multimillion-dollar sellers GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark,
Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64. In November 2005, Rare released
Perfect Dark: Zero and Kameo: Elements of Power for Xbox 360, the
second-generation video game console from Microsoft.
