Comments on: The Red Arrows: FUEL GPS Trailer

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:49:05 +0000

It’s a UK Trailer, with footage of a UK traffic jam, then the actual ‘does your Sat Nav look like this’ pic is from the US! DAMN them for their inconsistency!

Game doesn’t look too great either – Motocross Madness was always fun but trying to actually race in it was just maddeningly awful – open world racers (in the literal sense) are often frustrating because the lack of a set path really messes with your sense of direction.

Also, I can’t see a Sat Nav system that shows your shortcuts (at one point in the vid, it takes the rider through a forest) being particular conductive to game play either – the whole point is you find them yourselves!

By: Freudian Trip

Freudian Trip — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:22:24 +0000

I was scrolling through the comments to make an insightful post on the subject of Burnout Paradise crash-o-matic GPS system but Bhazor’s beaten me to it right at the end.

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:19:45 +0000

Not working here as well unfortunately. The HD youtube was interesting; but I can see that getting really annoying after a while, especially if you have memorized a course. Ideally they could make it less intrusive as your lap count increases.

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:24:04 +0000

Well it looks better than the Burnout Paradise “tiny map which causes you to crash horribly because you can’t see the road, steer and pick a route at the same time while travelling at the speed of sound” system.

I support this!

By: Krondonian

Krondonian — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:42:23 +0000

Well I like it. Reminds me of the arrow system in Warfare maps of Unreal Tournament 3. I like those too.

SpoonySeeker hits it on the head for me- way too distracting having a minimap. Test Drive’s spoken GPS lady was a nice way with dispensing with annoying visual cues, but I can’t see it working in this.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:02:24 +0000

Here’s the youtube link of the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5U2E9OFUrc

Watch it in HD.

I don’t mind the arrows, in most racing games I’m looking at the little minimap waaaaaay too much anyway, so this will let me actually watch the track and all the pretty stuff whizzing by.

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:11:53 +0000

Yeah, I get no video either… odd…

By: unclelou

unclelou — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:10:41 +0000

I’d imagine it’s soemthing you turn on and off with a quick press of a button if you’re not sure if you’re still on the right track, rather than something you’d leave on all the time.

By: SpoonySeeker

SpoonySeeker — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:08:42 +0000

looks a lot better than the standard look-at-the-bottom-right-corner-of-the-screen-to-see-where-you’re-going-and-end-up-running-into-a-wall method most racing games employ.

By: ZIGS

ZIGS — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:17:32 +0000

Good Lord, the “GPS” (arrows) are an horrible feature, how can they make a trailer exalting that? And for God’s sake, DO NOT include that kind of music in the soundtrack or I’ll have to go around murdering babies

By: Vaynes

Vaynes — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:04:30 +0000

They could have ironed out a couple more bugs before they released a video about it.

The closest arrow looks to point directly away from the players view rather than the direction of the vehicle. look behind you and the first arrow points behind you.

that would annoy me no end.

By: Will Tomas

Will Tomas — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:29:34 +0000

Bit rubbish. The game still looks fairly good, but I hope they dispense with the lame teen-rock soundtrack from the actual game…