By Jim Rossignol on April 1st, 2009 at 11:27 am.
Open world racing game FUEL has us moderately excited. Not full-blown hype-arousal, but a mild kind of: “Hey look at that”. To find out why this is you should probably read our interview with Codemaster’s producer chap. If you’ve already been there and done that, you should click to the video below and raise a sceptical eyebrow at the claim of seventy vehicles being displayed therein.
01/04/2009 at 11:45 Joe says:
Geez, terrible choice of music.
Game still looks somewhat interesting though.
01/04/2009 at 12:04 Ian says:
Still looking fun but I’m unsure about 70 vehicles.
I expect some of them will be different in purely cosmetic ways.
01/04/2009 at 12:16 Smee says:
Is it anything like Burnout: Paradise’s 70+ vehicles where half of them were just reskins?
I really want the hovercraft.
01/04/2009 at 12:20 Hypocee says:
70 vehicles isn’t actually that many – off the top of my head I could probably name 25 classes of vehicle I’ve seen in these trailers, and a few more I haven’t seen yet. I don’t expect many palette-swaps.
The only worry I have left about this is the physicality of it. A couple of hands-on previews said it lacked handling ‘feel’, but that was on an alpha months ago and the cars seem to have very nice contingency in all the vids they’ve released of this.
01/04/2009 at 12:25 Zed says:
They’ll have about 5 different variants of cars, trucks, bikes, quads etc, then they’ll just be customizable.
It’s like Fallout 3′s supposed 240 endings or whatever stupid figure they gave out. One day a game will promise something impressive and actually deliver.
01/04/2009 at 12:28 Monchberter says:
Please have the satisfying ‘chunkiness’ of feel as DIRT and GRID! And lose the appalling music PLEASE!
01/04/2009 at 12:39 pignoli says:
Needs more ekranoplan.
01/04/2009 at 12:41 Down Rodeo says:
Hah, the music sounds like something my sister would listen to. It does remind me of Burnout a little as well. Looks like good fun though! Good, clean, fast-paced fun.
01/04/2009 at 12:43 Fede says:
A pity no one seems interested in giving us as many vehicles as in Gran Turismo 2 :(
01/04/2009 at 12:46 Heliocentric says:
Its a number on the fucking box, the hovercraft seems nice though.
@monch you can always mute the music.
01/04/2009 at 12:50 NuZZ says:
Eww. The music reminds me of Flatout on the PC (few months ago I think). That game kinda sucked.
01/04/2009 at 13:54 Schmung says:
Looking forward to this. Didn’t expect as much variety in terrain and setting as the trailer showed. Very much on my watch list, but not sure what platform to get this on at the moment.
01/04/2009 at 14:55 muscrat says:
reminds me of 1nsane crossed with MotorStorm crossed with Powerslide.
I’m in.
Horrible song for that video tho.
01/04/2009 at 15:11 nakke says:
More pivot-based goodness from Codemasters, hooray.
01/04/2009 at 16:45 hydra9 says:
I actually quite liked that song until the guy started singing.
Anyway: Big trucks – YES!
01/04/2009 at 17:38 Marcin says:
Fingers still crossed that this is TDU taken to the next level, and not something Burnout-esque.
01/04/2009 at 17:50 jsutcliffe says:
So long as one out of the 70 is fun to drive/ride, I’m in. I don’t care about racing — I just want to drive all over creation.
01/04/2009 at 18:48 Sp4rkR4t says:
Terrible, terrible music, worst trailer so far but still an awesome looking game. Me needs another racer since I completed burnout paradise.
01/04/2009 at 22:48 ysbreker says:
“Fingers still crossed that this is TDU taken to the next level, and not something Burnout-esque.”
Dear god yes! I’m up for a TDU sequel or something much like it!
02/04/2009 at 00:21 -Spooky- says:
Burnout Paradise got over 75 vehicles [in diff. versions]. So, no problem for fuel.
02/04/2009 at 04:55 Starshot says:
Looks a lot like MotorStorm, to be honest. Granted, MotorStorm had a much better soundtrack than this.
02/04/2009 at 06:12 The Fanciest of Pants says:
Awesome. And hey! Supercharged Combi-van at 0:38! Sweet!
02/04/2009 at 09:30 ZIGS says:
Looks great, I’m curious about this one
BTW, did someone already mention how horrible the music was?