Comments on: FUEL: Landmarks, User Content Hints

By: mister slim

mister slim — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:18:36 +0000

100,000 miles of track? I’ve played 27 hours of Burnout Paradise and I’m at 1100 miles driven. How long would it take to drive all 100k miles of Fuel?

By: theleif

theleif — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:55:12 +0000

@A Delicate Balance
Hey! That was my idea!
:)

Cheers

By: A Delicate Balance

A Delicate Balance — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:31:19 +0000

El Stevo: that’s uncanny!

In terms of the game – looks like it could be good. We’ll just have to wait and see.

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:14:22 +0000

I’m enjoying the diversity of environments shown in this trailer. I think the last open-world off-road racing game I played was Smuggler’s Run for PS2, and I thought that was a bit pants. This has me excited though and I eagerly await further use of procedural generation for games.
The current king of off-road racing mayhem is Excite-Truck; it has ‘normal’ circuits (not open world), but makes up for that by having an awesome prog metal soundtrack.
Nice tip on the the Kyuss by the way!

By: KwizatzHaderack

KwizatzHaderack — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:46:19 +0000

physalis: “I keep on thinking – they’ve built this amazing open world, and they’re just going to put a racing game in it?”

That’s exactly what I said the last time RPS talked about this game. This engine is crying out for a decent 1st person adventure to be made in it!

By: El Stevo

El Stevo — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:22:34 +0000

The trailer set to 100° by Kyuss

By: Caiman

Caiman — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:56:23 +0000

I look forward to the day in the dim and distant future where there will be just a single game, and it will be called “The Game” and it will model the world in such accuracy and detail, not to mention the surrounding solar systems and galaxies, that you will be able to create an avatar within the world and then just… well, play. Do whatever you want, and all the content will be there if you spend the time to find it. People will be able to create their own content and add it to The Game.

Sorry for that slight aside, but I always come back to this imaginary game when I see a new piece of world tech that gets a step closer to this reality. I just hope they manage to release it in my lifetime so I can play the damn thing.

Oh yes, and FUEL looks quite GOOD.

By: Eternal_newbie

Eternal_newbie — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:09:34 +0000

Am i the only one who notices how nasty the shadows were?? Maybe its jus cos i’m a programmer…

By: physalis

physalis — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:20:43 +0000

I keep on thinking – they’ve built this amazing open world, and they’re just going to put a racing game in it?

By: clive dunn

clive dunn — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:22:18 +0000

I agree with Jim, this trailer had some ‘funny’ bits which made me think how much terrain collision detection is actually going on. I’m sure at one point a bike rides over a massive boulder and doesn’t flinch. If you can’t actually hit that rock i’d prefer not to have it in; as i’ll still instinctively drive around it. (but will my competitors?) Still, looks cracking though, especially as it looks like the sort of game my dad would love and i’m dying to play him online. (he gets broadband next week – yep, he’s still on dial-up!)

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:11:42 +0000

I’m disappointed… This is Codemasters – would post-apocalyptic Britain not be better (or is it ‘too soon’ since Hellgate:London)?

By: Sp4rkR4t

Sp4rkR4t — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:03:41 +0000

So I have until May to completely finish everything in Burnout Paradise.