First DiRT, then GRID, now FUEL.

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I went ahead and got it to with GameStop's buy two used games get one free deal this past weekend. So far it's pretty fun, it's a lot like Motorstorm but seems like a better game to me.
 
I still say this is THE best offroad game I have ever played. The career is ok but the online free roam with friends is severely addictive. Especially if you are out searching for liveries, vista points, or fuel barrels together. Its just insane that you can go to EVERY single mile of this game. Every single place including water,sand, snow, dirt, rocks, mountains and everthing else. If you see it, you can go there. 5,500 sq miles and you can explore it all. To drive from one far corner to the opposite corner takes over 3 real life hours driving as fast as possible. Thats just insane. :drool:
 
Ya, I had a ton of fun when I first got a PS2 and Smuggler's Run umpteen years ago just driving around aimlessly. I'm finding the career mode pretty easy, although that's not really a bad thing since I can more or less progress through it in a timely fashion and not want to throw my controller through the TV.

I've played some better PC off road games in terms of racing and what not, but nothing really this much fun.
 
Joey D
Ya, I had a ton of fun when I first got a PS2 and Smuggler's Run umpteen years ago just driving around aimlessly. I'm finding the career mode pretty easy, although that's not really a bad thing since I can more or less progress through it in a timely fashion and not want to throw my controller through the TV.

I've played some better PC off road games in terms of racing and what not, but nothing really this much fun.
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Yeah well said. This does indeed remind me a lot of Smugglers run with the full free roam offroad races. If you get a chance make sure you play the free roam online with friends and go vista point or livery hunting. So much fun.
Oh and a little hint. The "Nightmare" is THE best climbing vehicle in the game. I have put over 30 hours into this game and nothing out climbs that vehicle.
 
wow, such a anticipated game and not that many people here seem to play it, or at least comment on it.

Today i was at a local DVD rental shop and while waiting at the cashier i saw on my left FUEL.

I was surprised that it is out already, since i wasnt really paying attention to it.

I was planning on getting it, but then i looked at the price, and over here the game sells for 73USD.
How much is the game NEW in the US/EU?

Chris
 
It's $59.99, as are 95% of the next generation console games, used it was $54.99. $73 seems like a lot.
 
Joey D
It's $59.99, as are 95% of the next generation console games, used it was $54.99. $73 seems like a lot.
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hmmm yea i thought so too. well i already payed 90$ for GTA 4 but that was because the game was illegal here so i had to get my connections going and important it :D

*crouches and looks around and slowing crawls away*

As for renting the game... for some unknown reason, it is not allowed to rent games in this country...

*planning on opening an illegal game rental shop*

Chris
 
Picked this up in the week cheap (£25 from Asda) and have to say its a great game, huge areas and it looks stunning as well.

The races are fun, but mainly doing them just to open up new areas to explore.

I know I'm going to get my monies worth out of this one.


Scaff
 
Last night we finished the other secret achievement called "Salt over SNow" where you drive from the upper right corner of the map to the lower left. This means going from White Flats Camp to Pinwheel Ridge Camp. Those 2 achievements are so fun and so rewarding. We made it through in about 2 hours this time. I still have a lot of liveries and vista points to get. I just cant get enough of this game. 👍
 
This game is h-u-u-g-e! When it said that the map was big, I didn't expect it to be this big! Seriously some stunning stuff here, I've only just started playing it (Rental) but I can see me keeping this for quite some time. Certainly looks like there is a lot to do on it.
 
Here is a picture of the map. http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/6325/fuelgridmapx.jpg

The only other way to put it into perspective is that it takes over 2 and 1/2 hours go to from the upper left part of the map to the lower right going as fast as you can.
Also if you look at the upper right part of the map where white area is at with the 5-6 squares, thats about where TDU would fit.

There is also a demo available for FUEL on the marketplace.
 
I downloaded the demo the other day and got round to trying it out and... what a crushing disappointment. I absolutely hated it... it looks nasty, the handling was beyond amateur, and the gameplay was (in my very limited experience, to be fair) ludicrously wrong. No amount of smacking into trees (even trees that were apparently on fire) seemed to do anything whatsoever. I took part in a race, got bored and then got lost. And the music was dreadful! The whole demo just made me want to reach for the PS button, and I didn't even consider keeping the demo on the HDD, since it takes up over 1.1 GB of space! Codemasters seem to have a theme of using four letter words to name their games - I could suggest a couple more :ill:
 
Strange. I simply cant get enough of FUEL on the 360. One of the best offroad racing games I ever played. However you need to play with friends in the free roam to truly appreciate this game.
 
Touring Mars
I downloaded the demo the other day and got round to trying it out and... what a crushing disappointment. I absolutely hated it... it looks nasty, the handling was beyond amateur, and the gameplay was (in my very limited experience, to be fair) ludicrously wrong. No amount of smacking into trees (even trees that were apparently on fire) seemed to do anything whatsoever. I took part in a race, got bored and then got lost. And the music was dreadful! The whole demo just made me want to reach for the PS button, and I didn't even consider keeping the demo on the HDD, since it takes up over 1.1 GB of space! Codemasters seem to have a theme of using four letter words to name their games - I could suggest a couple more :ill:
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I agree, and similarly everyone bar 1 person I know also agrees. The car practically drives itself, the races are to easy, the 'damage' is woeful, the music is terrible, the effects are terrible, the map is just to empty and uneventful, the 🤬 auto gearbox drives me insane, the list goes on.

The only good thing is the sheer scale of the map, but imo it's just to big, there's not enough substance per mile and I can see only few places worth coming back to. The map is useless on such a boring physics engine though, the simple fundamentals for a good driving game are missing, and the technical achievement with the map is just cancelled out and more.
 
The vehicles you start with are indeed terrible especially the dirt bike. But as you progress you get some really awesome vehicles. The terrain changes from everything you can imagine like snow, rain, tornados, valcano, grand canyon, burnt down forests, sand storms and more. But to each his own. As I already said, this is one of the best offroad games I have played. 👍
 
I like Fuel, the vehicles you get access to later are much better than the starting ones and the terrain as you open up new areas adds to the game.

Yes the physics are quite basic and arcadey, but I like it for many of the reasons I like Burnout, its just fun to mess around with and go exploring.


Regards

Scaff
 
Scaff
I like Fuel, the vehicles you get access to later are much better than the starting ones and the terrain as you open up new areas adds to the game.

Yes the physics are quite basic and arcadey, but I like it for many of the reasons I like Burnout, its just fun to mess around with and go exploring.


Regards

Scaff
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I love to go vista point and livery hunting with friends. Get a group of 6-8 people all cruising around searching is a blast. This game is truly meant for multiplayer free roam with friends. The drag racing car does over 200mph and is a lot of fun on the highways. There are vehicles for every terrain and once you unlock those the game is severly addictive.
Watching the stats for each vehicle is critical. If it has a low number for offroad then its going to be terrible offroad. Many people do not realize that.
 
CAMAROBOY69
This game is truly meant for multiplayer free roam with friends.
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I was just about to say that perhaps I would get a better impression of the game if I were to play it in company. It is funny how some games are just better as multiplayer games. I find the same thing with Grand Theft Auto - I get bored with it while playing on my own, but co-op playing with another person was the best. A former gaming buddy of mine was the same with Gran Turismo - he didn't get into it all that much, but we played it co-operatively all the time (i.e. we rarely did two-player races, but would do championships and enduros where we shared the racing)...
 
Touring Mars
I was just about to say that perhaps I would get a better impression of the game if I were to play it in company. It is funny how some games are just better as multiplayer games. I find the same thing with Grand Theft Auto - I get bored with it while playing on my own, but co-op playing with another person was the best. A former gaming buddy of mine was the same with Gran Turismo - he didn't get into it all that much, but we played it co-operatively all the time (i.e. we rarely did two-player races, but would do championships and enduros where we shared the racing)...
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Exactly. I also dont care much for the single player part of FUEL or GTA4. But the multiplayer free roam in both games is a blast. If you want to see how fun FUEL is you truly need to get some friends together and go livery or vista point hunting. Especially after you unlock a few of the better vehicles. The beginning vehicles are not good at all. Also make sure to watch the stats for the vehicles. If it has low offroad numbers it will suck offroad.
 
GTA 4 is 500 times better in single player then multiplayer...

I tried the Fuel demo but I could see in the first 5 minutes it´s just another ****** console port. And I don´t see how it can be fun even on consoles to race these random generated tracks. The freedom feeling quickly wear off. Makes me even less interested in D.I.R.T 2.
 
oqvist
GTA 4 is 500 times better in single player then multiplayer...

I tried the Fuel demo but I could see in the first 5 minutes it´s just another ****** console port. And I don´t see how it can be fun even on consoles to race these random generated tracks. The freedom feeling quickly wear off. Makes me even less interested in D.I.R.T 2.
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The races aren't on randomly generated tracks at all, I've re-run many of them again at higher dificulties and the track route is the same each time.

I personally haven't got bored of the feeling of freedom it offers, quite simply because I am yet to find a place I can't get to. To see a mountain off in the distance and then be able to get to it and have another huge landscape in front of you is a rare thing in a game, and not one I can see I will get bored of for quite a while.

As for a DIRT 2 comparion to Fuel, well I must admit I just don't get that at all? The two games are unlikley to have much in common beyond off-road and cars, certainly not in structure, gameplay and physics.


Regards

Scaff
 
oqvist
GTA 4 is 500 times better in single player then multiplayer...

I tried the Fuel demo but I could see in the first 5 minutes it´s just another ****** console port. And I don´t see how it can be fun even on consoles to race these random generated tracks. The freedom feeling quickly wear off. Makes me even less interested in D.I.R.T 2.
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I highly disagree with every single word of this reply. The GTA4 campaign was terrible and lacked everything that made the series fun. You could not buy houses, could not buy cars, could not customize anything, no parachute, no monster trucks, no quads, could not buy businesses, no co-op campaign. I could go on forever about GTA4 campaign. Multiplayer is much more fun.
No sense in going on about FUEL with you because obviously you have no idea how the game works if you think the tracks are randomly generated.
Scaff,
You can go to every single part of the map you see. Every single thing one way or another. Even the water can be explored once you unlock the hovercraft.
 
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The game world is generated by a computer... It´s obvious in all it´s repetition that it´s not hand crafted at all. I am not saying that the world changes but it´s built by alghoritms and for me totally uninteresting. But I am downloading the 360 version now so will give it a second go.

But well yes it has DIRT physics and if you have runned codemasters other titles there is a red line you can follow. I would hope they would turn around since they once had pretty much the perfect arcade physics... But they seem to think that doesn´t matter any more.
 
oqvist
The game world is generated by a computer... It´s obvious in all it´s repetition that it´s not hand crafted at all. I am not saying that the world changes but it´s built by alghoritms and for me totally uninteresting. But I am downloading the 360 version now so will give it a second go.
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The map data is taken from satelite data and is not computer generated at all.

http://game-server-hosting.net/tag/pixar-animation-studio/


oqvist
But well yes it has DIRT physics and if you have runned codemasters other titles there is a red line you can follow. I would hope they would turn around since they once had pretty much the perfect arcade physics... But they seem to think that doesn´t matter any more.
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Codemasters didn't develop Fuel at all, they are the publishers and it certainly doesn't run on the DIRT engine at all.

Have you actually played the game?


Scaff
 
Everything he posts clearly indicates he has not actually played FUEL. Not a single one of his replies have been accurate at all.
 
if it´s taken from satellite data and then mish mashed together through alghoritms... I have some hour in it now and no I am not wasting any more time on this. Cool it´s not codemasters to bad it convinced me 100 % that it´s actually a codemaster title lol.

xbox 360 version suffered from low framerates and crappy graphics but more natural controls at least :)
But if we compare with another game with a big even not as big gameworld Test Drive Unlimited... In marketing it´s supposed to have the same roads and all. However noone that has been to Hawaii recognise much from TDU. However I must say I much preferr it´s environment to this wasteland. Talking about that it would be fun to run in Falloutish environments but that is Borderlands or Rage for I hope. Otherwise I take Motorstorm any day over these environments.
 
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oqvist
if it´s taken from satellite data it´s computer generated. It´s not made for racing is the point I am making. I have run it for 15 minutes yes.
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How on earth is satellite data of the surface of the Earth computer generated?

Its rendered by computer but I think you may find that the formation of the earth surface has bugger all to do with computers.

I have to say that 15 minutes is a very short time to form an opinion, particulary on the range of terrain availiable on a map that takes 3 hours to drive from corner to corner.

You also have made rather a lot of assumptions about the game that have not been correct. I get it, you don't like it, but if you are going to critque it then please be accurate.


Regards

Scaff
 

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