This new car pack adds must-have jaw droppers to your showroom, including the SSC Ultimate Aero, the Guinness World Record holder for the fastest speed achieved by a road legal car (257 MPH). Also along for the ride is the Radical SR8 LM, which is famous for setting the fastest lap time on Nürburgring Nordschleife by a road legal production car (6 minutes and 48 seconds).

The “Exotic Car Pack” features 10 stunners that come ready to race, paint and tune:

• SSC Ultimate Aero
• JOSS JT1
• Weismann GT MF5
• Devon GTX
• Spada Codatronca TS
• Spyker C8 Laviolette LM85
• Mosler MT900s
• Q1 Rossion
• Radical SR8 LM
• Gumpert Apollo

For car fans wanting a sample of this exotic download, Turn 10 is offering the Spyker C8 Laviolette LM85 as the free downloadable car of the month. Celebrating Spyker’s involvement in the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans race, the LM85 gives “Forza Motorsport 3” players the unique opportunity to push one of the rarest and most elite cars in the world to the brink. Paying homage to the Le Mans theme, only 24 real life LM85s will be manufactured, but with your copy of “Forza Motorsport 3,” you can get behind the wheel and feel the exhilaration for yourself, accelerating from 0-60 in under 4.5 seconds and hitting top speeds of more than 185 MPH.

The “Road & Track Car Pack” introduces 10 cars for 2010 that are ready to be painted, tuned and driven for all discriminating auto enthusiasts.
• 2010 Volkswagen Golf R
• 2009 Holden HSV w427
• 2010 Ford Taurus SHO
• 2010 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG
• 2010 Renault Megane RS 250
• 2010 Vauxhall Insignia VXR
• 2010 Mini Coupé Concept
• 2010 Bentley Continental Supersports
• 2010 Mazda MX-5 Superlight
• 2010 SEAT Leon Cupra R

Whether you prefer the all-wheel-drive and uniquely boosted engine of the 2010 Volkswagon Golf R, the “brutal” twin-turbocharged W-12 engine of the 2010 Bentley Continental Supersports, or the lightweight power of the 2010 Mazda MX-5 Superlight, there’s a car waiting to be discovered in the “Road & Track Car Pack”.

Road & Track magazine is one of the best sources for car news in the world. Be sure to check out RoadandTrack.com or Forzamotorsport.net for more information on each of the vehicles presented in this month’s car pack.

Giving fans a taste of what’s to come in the Game Add-on pack, Turn 10 is offering the 2010 MINI Coupé Concept as the free download car of the month. The 2010 MINI Coupé Concept brings together a wide range of features for a truly sporting and ambitious style of motoring. Compact dimensions, perfect axle load distribution and a low center of gravity offer ideal conditions for enhancing the agility typical of MINI to a level never seen before.

Microsoft say that the bundle is available until supplies last.

Put your pedal to the metal

It’s a refreshing change for a racer on the current crop of consoles to not be overly concerned about realism and physics; for those of us who don’t care whether we’re using the correct tyres, have suitable suspension or sufficient understeer, a solid arcade racer is much more fun. Certainly this takes the tried and tested genre by the scruff of the neck and gives it a good, much-needed, shake – focusing on the far more important issue of making it through a race in one piece!

Boost your powerplays and blow away the opposition

Set under the guise of a fictional reality TV show, winning and survival is all important. Split/Second is fast and furious, gorgeously detailed and more than a little reminiscent of some of the more popular driving games from yesteryear such as Destruction Derby and Carmageddon. In fact, if you cross the scenery smashing elements of Flatout Ultimate Carnage with the adrenaline-fuelled carnage of the Burnout series, you’re pretty close to imagining Disney’s latest offering.

Players don’t just race around the track but trigger explosive events that alter the course, wiping out opponents or creating timesaving short cuts.

Make your mark on the city!

It’s scheduled for a May 21 release on the Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC – and here are five reasons why it’s likely to race to the top of the charts.

• No game is ever the same. The key selling point of this game is destruction – and there’s plenty of that to be had; players’ interaction with the environment plays a major role. Whereas most racers feature certain elements that can be driven into or knocked down, in Split/Second most of the track can be destroyed or manipulated to improve your chances of winning and beating your opponents. That means that each and every playthrough is completely unique. Fill your powermeter by drifting or jumping about the track and then detonate a tower block so it falls into the path of one of your foes, make a crane collapse, blow up a road… it’s every boy’s dream. Alternatively, for the less vengeful out there, why not leave your opponents alone and simply blow open up a shortcut to get ahead in the race?
• It looks lovely. We all like nice graphics, eh? And these are bright, brash and beautiful. The discreet HUD at the rear of your car ensures nothing distracts from the scenery whizzing past you – shame you won’t get much chance to admire it all as you avoid all the explosions and debris!
• Varied maps and cars. Race around an airport, dockyard or cityscape – and wreck just about everything. Besides a plethora of maps to get to grips with, you also get to choose whether you race round in a supercar, good old fashioned musclecar or a racing truck. Each looks suitably different and boasts its own attributes.
• Multiplayer. Be a shame if all this havoc and speeeeeeeed were restricted to playing on your lonesome, wouldn’t it? Well, those nice guys at Black Rock have ensured you won’t be lonely racing round that track. Why not get your friends over and take them on with the splitscreen mode? Haven’t got any mates? Then play online with other people’s friends in eight player races! Multiplayer is certainly not a new concept for racers but the promise of mass destruction and a few uber-competitive friends sounds like a winning formula.
• The critics already love it. Split/Second has already picked up the award for Best Racing Game in the Games Critics Awards: Best of E3 2009. If they’re impressed, what more reason do you need to part with your hard-earned cash in May???

(Picture credits: Disney Interactive Studios)

Stay tuned with GamingBolt to know what that new racing game could be.

Just like the previous title, Forza 3 offers a variety of assists to help keep your car on the track which include stability control, traction, anti-lock brakes etc. These assists make it more accessible but as you play through the career you earn enough experience to gradually turn these assists off one by one thus making it more challenging for yourself and more fun.

Another new feature making an entry to the series is the well known Flashback Feature from GRID. You can rewind the game at any time and as many times as you want. So unlike in Forza 2, if you wreck up your car badly on a corner, you can rewind it and give it another shot thus making the whole experience less frustrating. But this does take away that little sense of achievement that you would have felt in Forza 2 with all those pin perfect laps and ultimately winning the event.

Great variety of cars is on offer here

Career mode offers multiple seasons each with different group of races designed for different cars and classes. There are 200 different series in the game, and if you have the appropriate car and experience, you can enter in any race at any time. Leveling up in the career mode is also very satisfying since it allows to race in more events plus awards you different cars, each time you level up. Forza 3 offers 400 cars in total from 53 manufactures, ranging from Ferrari and McLaren to Toyota and Honda. All of them are upgradable to a great deal either manually or automatically.

But Forza 3 doesn’t only offer racing; it goes beyond it with all those astonishing customizing tools at hand. With all those vinyls and decals available you can virtually make any design, given you spend some serious time on it. And then you can simply put your cars, designs or tune settings on storefront where other players can see your stuff and buy it. It’s a good way of stacking some great deal of in game credit. Browsing through other’s designs and cars is a great inspiration for coming up with better designs of your own.

The online component of the game is another area where Forza 3 shines. You can play with up to 7 other players. Usual matchmaking options are there allowing you to pick specific race types. After getting into a lobby, you can select your own customized cars or the default ones. When playing with friends, you have a great deal of options to chose from like car restrictions, tracks, penalties, scoring types etc.

Car models are fantastic!

Forza looks and sounds awesome. Car models are beautifully detailed and frame rate is constant throughout. Menus are slick and accessible. Audio is again top notch with great sound effects and licensed soundtrack is also amazing. Forza Motorsport 3 offers a mind blowing package overall which sure raises the bar high for racing genre in general. Simulation fan or not, this game is a must for each and every racing fan.

This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360.

• Benchmark High Speed Ring Park: 12 tracks from “ultimate physics playground of open concrete”
• Sidewinder Proving Ground Track: 18 tracks from the first two games

# Bugatti Veyron

# Lamborghini Reventon

# Ferrari Enzo

# Pagani Zonda

# Porsche Carrera GT

# Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren Roadster

# Rolls Royce Phantom

# Saleen S7

This means good news for the 360 owners since the game will now be brimming with content.