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Codemasters has unveiled FUEL, a brand new openworld racing game promising the "largest racing environment to appear in gaming - ever".
Developed by French outfit Asobo Studios, the game's due out on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2009.
Set in an "alternate present" where the world's been wrecked by the effects of climate change, FUEL claims a 5,000 square-mile playing area with "no boundaries" and 16-player racing.
Players race in "grungy home-tuned vehicles" across the "tsunami-wrecked pacific coast through the Nevada wastelands, including the Grand Canyon, up treacherous snow-capped mountains, thick forests, arid deserts, abandoned lakeside resorts and much more".
Along the way racers will encounter tornados, sandstorms, thunderstorms, lightning strikes and blizzards thanks to a dynamic weather system, and experience a full day-and-night cycle.
The ambitious-sounding game is going to be shown off for the first time at Games Convention in Leipzig this week, and we will be there to check it out - hoping that it's another racing success from Codemasters following on from the excellent Race Driver: GRID earlier this year.
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ChthonicEcho
19/08/08 @ 09:07
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While the game does sound promising, what's with this trend of single-word titles written in caps? DiRT, GRID and now FUEL.
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realworld666
19/08/08 @ 09:52
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Wouldn't want to be the artist who has to model 5000 square miles of America
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seasidebaz
19/08/08 @ 10:06
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Sounds shit.
5000 sq miles and no boundaries? So basically it's an entire planet the size of the Sonoran desert. Cos the only way it can have NO BOUNDARIES is to make the thing wrap round into a globe... Plus, less post-apocalyptic events please. They're so 90's... |
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JedEvangelion
19/08/08 @ 10:48
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I hear a rumour that the F1 Game will be called FLAG.
GRID, DiRT, FUEL and FLAG. Love the naming convention. |
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SpyroViper
19/08/08 @ 12:12
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Asbo Studio. Great, this game is being made by Chavs.. That and Codemasters seems to enjoy EA's practice of showing and releasing a game once a year..
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SeesThroughAll
19/08/08 @ 14:28
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If you want to make another racing game then make another GOOD Micro Machines.
+1 Make a XBLA/PSN Micro Machines and all will be forgiven. |
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Kill_Crazy
19/08/08 @ 16:34
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That's just over 70 miles squared. Not bad but if it's got the handling of GRID then i'm out. As for seamless world, maybe you fall off the edge where it says 'Here be monsters'
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I'd say this is highly unlikely to use the same engine as their other titles as other commenters / EG have suggested.
I'd imagine this is a reworking of the previously excellent looking "Grand Raid Offroad" http://www.gametrailers.com/game/2112.html |
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(from the interview)
The climate overtones (added since Grand Raid Offroad as far as I can tell) seem awkward but the weather affects look like they might be fun. Looks like a more arcadey version of Baja to me. Shame they didn't publish it in 2005 though, the draw distance in particular would have set it apart back then. In the current 'climate' it's fighting to differentiate itself from a crowd of similar efforts. edit: naff URL detection broke the link :)
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