Comments on: Terrain Up The Rulebook: Fuel Demo

By: aldisrolf

aldisrolf — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:45:19 +0000

The game looks great. I spent 10 minutes with the demo and got really good vibes whilst driving towards quite a pretty sunset. Mostly I play driving games. I enjoyed a lot while playing.

By: Chaz

Chaz — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:28:34 +0000

Nice impressive vast terrian, but for the most part it all looks poorly textured and blurry. Could hardly see sod all when the sun went down as the head lights on the vehicles are feeble. The actual driving was less than impressive too.

They should keep the engine for an MMO, “Operation Flashpoint 3: Post Nuclear Warfare” would be cool.

By: no

no — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:41:55 +0000

With all of the fantastic racing games on consoles right now and coming out by the end of the year, I can’t find a reason for me to buy this… (and I’m a guy who buys a LOT of games).

By: ToadSmokingDuckMonkey

ToadSmokingDuckMonkey — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:09:26 +0000

Nice arcade driving game. Aside from a few sloppy physics issues (every time I hit a fallen, burning log on the dirtbike I just jump into the air instead of wiping out) and the fact that sand is more like concrete painted to look like sand with a bit of grit thrown on top to reduce friction… for goodness sakes my car throws sparks when it hits a sand dune. COME ON.

If we can have this, why can’t we get an open world Interstate ‘76 followup? Or we could just drop the pretense and say Car Wars, and chuck some money to Steve Jackson.

By: enki

enki — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:02:40 +0000

No its in the vehicle customization section bro. Some races I think use only the bike though. But I used the buggy in free roam a lot.

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:23:46 +0000

IS there? How the hell did I miss that then… Ah, unless it’s in the ‘Challenge’ mode or something?

By: enki

enki — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:01:11 +0000

There’s two vehicles in the demo the bike and a dune buggy. The demo was pretty fun actually I liked the open world a lot but not to the point of wanting to buy the game. Maybe when its 1/2 price.

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:44:39 +0000

I do think it was an odd move to only have the motorbike as a drivable vehicle though. Surely at least one car as well would have made sense.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:23:18 +0000

From what I can see it’s not that bad.

That’s the problem, though, because terrain keeps popping up randomly and it’s impossible to drive because you can’t see where you’re going. And then you drive into a tree. Not sure whether it’s config related or whether my machine just sucks, although the framerate’s pretty smooth. Not three billion FPS smooth, but about constant 30 smooth. :F

The feel’s nice, though. I just hope it’s at least somewhat moddable.

By: MrGoat

MrGoat — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:33:21 +0000

I just spend 10 minutes with the demo and I got really good vibes whilst driving towards quite a pretty sunset. Though there should be a law against creating something like this and have it just be about racing. I want to find abandonded towns and settlements, rummage through peoples stuff, look for Sugarbombs and Scrap Metal.
oh wait…

By: Bear

Bear — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:35:05 +0000

This game looks beautiful.
I’m not one for driving games, but out of 10, how much enjoyment could I get out of this game just from open world driving and being awesome?

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:31:28 +0000

@Owen
Yeah, that was exactly the problem. The cars just have no weight to them and with the weirdly designed roads you spend half your time in the flippin’ air!