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FUEL - Openworld racer from Codemasters

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Dimahoo

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Goaty has a point though - Flatout UC, TDU, Atv vs MX, Baja. Not a bad old haul.

I don't think many bought Baja TBH and ATV vs MX doesn't have the same arcade like addiction that fuel appears to have.

Anyway its all irrelevant - the games a world record breaker. I know its rather immature but mentally part of me wants to buy this because its just so big.

Its the same feeling when you'd see some platform game on the C64 with 255 screens!.

I must admit that at 36 its debatable i should be having those feelings....but i am.

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I don't think many bought Baja TBH and ATV vs MX doesn't have the same arcade like addiction that fuel appears to have.

Anyway its all irrelevant - the games a world record breaker. I know its rather immature but mentally part of me wants to buy this because its just so big.

Its the same feeling when you'd see some platform game on the C64 with 255 screens!.

I must admit that at 36 its debatable i should be having those feelings....but i am.

:wub: not at all, I know exactly what you mean. Bought Oblivion for that reason alone. And as I've confessed already it is easy to get excited by this tech. Even when there was nothing to it but a buggy and the horizon it was compelling.

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I must admit, I was more excited by Fuel before I saw the gameplay footage. I was hoping for dense vegetation, chases through trees, opponents disappearing from around you and then tearing onto the screen out of nowhere as you hit a checkpoint. There's just too much track and no clear distinction of where the huge countryside comes into things. Look at it through new eyes, and it could be a standard track racer intercut with passive sweeping fly-bys.

We'll see. Maybe I'm seeing the wrong trailers...?

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not quite sure I understand the concern - there are many completely off road races, and are free to make your own wherever you want. Personally love making races on the shores of lakes where there at forests too (see the video I posted a few pages back which ends with the hovercraft)

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Lets just say this slowly.....5,560 sq f.u.c.k.i.n.g. miles.

Thats the same distance as London to the middle of Serbia.

It isn't.

One. It's not a distance.

Two. It's a tenth of the size of England.

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Yeah, well obviously i meant if you turned a lot. Its a pretty extreme track, i'd grant you. Lots of straights too.

Talking of tracks, as theres no load times, i assume you can create a track just like i'd pointed out?

EG....

3.jpg

..but bigger, obv.

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Not on Iphone, sorry. Look on Gametrailers.com Fuel page, 'Uk vehicles trailer'

Hmm. Had seen that one. In fact, it's where the concerns started. I'm hoping at the moment it's all in the marketing and the reality will be far more interesting. I mean, that music is literally almost enough to dissuade me from buying it. A little rash, I know, but it's just awful. I was more picturing dusk vistas, the engine noise subsiding into subtle ambient noise as you pause for a second to appreciate the view from a wooded mountainside.

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/fuel-review

The final paragraph:

"There's certainly a lot of content, at least - and with that much playground, devoted online off-roaders may be confident to write their own routes out of the mire. But all the same it seems unlikely. Of FUEL's many promises, too many are either broken or undermined by its handling, layouts, logic or interface shortcuts. There's no denying Asobo's achievement in building such a daring, beautiful landscape on such a vast scale, but the core of any good racing game is falling in love with its vehicles, the things you can do with them, and the places you can take them, and by that measure FUEL is distinctly average."

5/10

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I dunno, Eurogamer's reviews are all over the place these days. Dead Space and Saint's Row 2 both got 7s (!), while the same reviewer as those gave the seriously rubbish CoD:waw map pack (which had only one half-decent map) 9/10.

As for Fuel, the same reviewer gave Wheelman a 5 which was a bit harsh I'd say.

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With regards to the the ambition the game developers are trying to portray in this game I will take a gamble. 5 out of 10 my ass, Eurogamer can go play with themselves way too harsh at least a 7 in my opinion (even though I have not played the game so how can I score it :wub: ). A quick trade if its no good plus there is free roam right ? you can just jump into a ride cruise the terrain and evade tornadoes ? yes

Edit : Out of curiosity can anyone remember what Eurogamer gave Test Drive ?

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/fuel-review

The final paragraph:

"There's certainly a lot of content, at least - and with that much playground, devoted online off-roaders may be confident to write their own routes out of the mire. But all the same it seems unlikely. Of FUEL's many promises, too many are either broken or undermined by its handling, layouts, logic or interface shortcuts. There's no denying Asobo's achievement in building such a daring, beautiful landscape on such a vast scale, but the core of any good racing game is falling in love with its vehicles, the things you can do with them, and the places you can take them, and by that measure FUEL is distinctly average."

5/10

I could get a job there you know...

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On the one hand it is like having your school course work assessed by a particularly timid, narrow minded and curriculum driven teacher. On the other I must have trained myself to think this way as the score is no great surprise to me. I'd be sad if the comment about laggy online were true though as the online component alone raises this a couple of points in my view. But no, it comes down to the handling and in that sense I could have written that myself - a game that looks superficially like Motorstorm from the publisher of niche racers Grid and Dirt? WTF? Why does it play like this? Well because it was meant to include those people who can't stand the barrier to entry of most driving games; who just want to chill out or enjoy the drive rather than learning every square inch of every route. I think that was a decent goal, and a shame it wasn't recognized in this, by far it's lowest score so far.

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