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Released in 2004 as a budget title, Ford Racing 3 was the last numbered game in the Ford Racing series, and the follow-up to one of the best-selling manufacturer-exclusive racing games of all time. The third entry drove a fine line between arcade and simulation, resulting in a solid, yet evidently uninspired racing game that has a place in a lot of PC gamers collections due to its distribution in Fanatical bundles prior to its eventual delisting from Steam.
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Despite its tiny budget compared to the genre’s heavy-hitters, the Ford Racing series managed to garner quite a fanbase due to their respectable length, attention to detail, and massive array of licensed Ford vehicles. Ford Racing 3 follows the road laid out by its predecessors, enlarging the car roster by over 20 new vehicles and adding in an entirely new game mode in the form of Ford Competition.
Shifting Gears
Ford Racing 3 has not one, not two, but three separate game modes – and together they make for heaps of content. Ford Competition pits you through a series of 14 tournaments that will test your skills with different styles of vehicles. Ford Challenge will pit you against timed objectives, tasking you with, for an example, collecting tokens whilst rushing to the end of a course. Lastly, Ford Collection allows you to create your own events, similarly to a free mode. There’s a lot of content here that’ll really keep you on the hook.
Handling the Beast
Ford Racing might not play quite on par with Gran Turismo or Burnout, but it does play well. Handling is tight, controls are well thought-out, and it just makes sense. With a controller hooked up, acceleration and braking is governed by one of the thumbsticks, similarly to Midnight Club: Los Angeles. This is a scheme that wasn’t utilized by many developers at the time, but it feels very intuitive and responsive.
Maintaining the Drive
Whilst Ford Racing 3 does have a lot going for it, it’s pretty hard to get through to the end of the content on offer. The game isn’t too difficult, but it just seems to be lacking inspiration. You’ll have fun for the first couple of hours, sure, but once you enter the fourth or fifth hour – you're going to want to switch it off and play something with a bit more of a personality.
Developer Razorworks were working with a limited budget and concept here, so it’s not technically their fault, but it’s still enough to put some people off adding Ford Racing 3 to their pile of completed playthroughs.
Whilst Ford Racing 3 was never supposed to compete with titles like Need for Speed or Project Gotham Racing, it was still a solid experience only limited by its lack of innovation. A strew of unlockable content put this a step above some of the other budget racers from the era, and tight controls put it miles ahead of the competition from Mercedes-Benz World Racing.
Pros:
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- Lots of unlockable licensed vehicles.
- A hefty amount of content.
- Tight controls.
Cons:
- Feels a bit uninspired.
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Do you remember the original Ford Racing? Of course you don't. Nobody does, except perhaps a few people who worked on it. Lost amid the monthly morass of driving games, its route to the bargain bins was swift and undignified. So what has Empire decided to do? Forget about it and move on? Of course not. They’ve drafted in a different developer (Razorworks of Total ImmersionRacing fame) to knock out a sequel. And from our extensive playtest there wouldn't appear to be a great deal of work left to do. as Ford Racing 2 looks as good as done.So what are you going to get this time round? From what we've seen, a great deal more bang for your buck, particularly as the game is set to retail for less than a tenner. That’s nothing. In fact you could probably have earned it by now if you weren’t sitting on your arse reading magazines all day. (Quality mags aside.)
Mustang Sally
Thanks to the exclusive deal with Ford, the game will feature 32 of their vehicles from 1949 onwards, including Mustangs, Thunderbirds, F-series pickup trucks, exotic concept cars and 200mph stock cars. There's even a category called Movie Stars, offering a range of cars made famous by films and TV shows. So if you’ve ever wanted to have a spin in the Mustang that Steve McQueen drove for the famous 1968 car chase in Bullitt, this is probably as close as you're going to get. The cars on offer stretch to the present day and beyond, with the inclusion of so-called 'future classics' such as the beefed-up Ford GT.There will also be a great deal of track variety on offer, taking in race circuits, city-based tracks, off-road jungle action and even oval speedways for some pseudo-Nascar action.
As for game modes, Ford Racing 2 keeps on giving, offering a generous octet of driving challenges. Standard Race is self-explanatory; Elimination involvesthe last two cars dropping out each lap; Duel sees you take on a different challenger each lap; Drafting requires you to drive in your opponent's slipstream; Driving Skills has you steering through a series of gates; Seconds Out (our current favourite) sees you collecting time bonuses to keep your lap time down; Racing Line requires you to stick to it like shit to a blanket; and, finally, Time Attack is simply you against the track.
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Something of a bumper package then, and one that is already looking like a vast improvement on the original, which had to go out and actually buy before we could review it. This time around, preview code has been readily available, and Empire's confidence appears to be well-placed, despite the reduced price tag. Bargain hunters will be able judge for themselves soon.