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FUEL - Openworld racer from Codemasters

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therev

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Just the first three so far. I've been mainly pottering about picking up liveries and heading towards vista points (a couple of which, frustratingly, it appears I can't reach yet).

Can you not reach them because of the vehicle you're in, or are there other restrictions?

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Can i just throw another stat, again, you can see for something like 40 kilometers. I'm sorry but crap or not any game with cars you drive that you can see that far deserves some respect. And my cash.

Thats further then Ace Combat i think. And i'd guess that or HAWX are the largest. Well, them or GTA IV.

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Boozy The Clown

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The racing aspect of this game is what interests me the least about it. I prefer the idea of hooking up with friends and going exploring. Road tripping through various weather and scenery, watching the sun come out after a storm. Maybe seeing someone take the odd wrong turn and disappear off a cliff along the way.

5/10 sounds like a real kick in the balls for someone trying to do something a little different. Well done Eurogamer. Short sighted, narrow mindedness will lead us through these difficult times.

To be honest 5/10 to me and I'd expect the majority of the review reading, games buying masses reads as a game which is fundamentally broken.

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Actually there was a fairly large contigenent that played it on the 360.

And what great fun we had.

(Offtopic) I can't wait to see what Bugbears next game.

Totally - considering Flatout:UC was effectively an upgrade of the xbox version something built from the ground up for current gen should be astonishing.

Fucking loved flatout - the online was genius.

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Can you not reach them because of the vehicle you're in, or are there other restrictions?

It's up a big old fucking mountain and my current vehicles don't have enough power/grip. Either that, or I've missed a glaringly obvious route up. But I think it's more likely the former.

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It's up a big old fucking mountain and my current vehicles don't have enough power/grip. Either that, or I've missed a glaringly obvious route up. But I think it's more likely the former.

Yeah, well again you COULD just find enough fuel lying around to buy a better vehicle and not take part in any races....

Drownington I think is my favourite 'zone' overall for races.

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It's up a big old fucking mountain and my current vehicles don't have enough power/grip. Either that, or I've missed a glaringly obvious route up. But I think it's more likely the former.

Mountain?

Sweet.

Although that raises an interesting point;

We know the map is x by y miles wide, but what about elevation and depression?

Are the mountains and valleys as impressive as they should be? I'd love to see a mountain that is properly several thousand feet high.

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It all depends what you want. I always loved TDU because I could turn it on, kick back and drive around seeing people do silly things. Fuel's got that at its core, and so offers something way in excess of Pure, Motorstorm, or even Dirt or Grid or Flatout which are exclusively circuit racers, as well as a career if you want to play it that way. Don't get me wrong, it deserves criticism like anything else. It's had some decent scores so far. I just think a 5, even if as someone on Euro staff as said it's "a pass not a fail" (I didn't expect my teacher analogy to become so literal) is harsh. They must know damn well a score like that screams below average, even if mathematically it's in the middle I don't ever recall games reviews working that way.

Well you could say the same guy gave Wheelman a 5; and generally does the racey games. Motorstorm 2 with a 7 and Midnight club 3 with an 8.

Spore gets a 9 though...ahem...

FIFA 09 gets an 8 along with PES 2009? Interesting.

Just the facts, ma'am.

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mr_woo

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I still like the idea of this and will probably end up getting it anyway even if it's not right away. (due to Infamous, Prototype and Red Faction coming out - want all of them!)

The fact it got a 5/10 from Eurogamer gives me hope, only from the point of view that their 5's quite recently have been games I've really liked - Fear 2 (one of my fave games this year), Wheelman and Wolverine are all games I've thoroughly enjoyed. Maybe lightning's going to strike a fourth time ? :(

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Mountain?

Sweet.

Although that raises an interesting point;

We know the map is x by y miles wide, but what about elevation and depression?

Are the mountains and valleys as impressive as they should be? I'd love to see a mountain that is properly several thousand feet high.

This is what I want of many games. I guess it might not have made sense being Washington and everything, but I really longed for some proper mountains and canyons in Fallout 3. My dream of FUEL is of plowing down mountains and making insane jumps into great ravines, but I haven't much hope of that.

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Mountain?

Sweet.

Although that raises an interesting point;

We know the map is x by y miles wide, but what about elevation and depression?

Are the mountains and valleys as impressive as they should be? I'd love to see a mountain that is properly several thousand feet high.

Mt Rainier is 5000m high, grand canyon 2000m deep, for example

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That thing in the EG review about it not rewarding experimentation is bollocks. Last night I did one of the long Raid races in a monster truck, really went cross-country between the trees and over rough ground instead of sticking to the tracks and following the GPS, and finished about 50 seconds ahead of my road-hugging rivals.

Just a couple more stars and then I unlock the Grand Canyon area. Shame you don't get stars for the challenges, but I'm quite enjoying the career races, so it's not a big problem.

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Rudderless

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You tried it online yet? EG reviewers indicated they had but unsure against whom ...

I played a bit of the online when I previewed it at Codemasters' Leamington Spa office. Haven't been able to really test it since (I'm connected, but there doesn't seem to be anyone else around). But then I've made that clear in my review. To be honest, it's going to be very difficult to score it fairly until the game's been out a couple of weeks and the netcode can be properly tested. Again, that's a point I've made clear in my review.

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