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If you're a fan of the Toca Series, DiRT, or Grid, then you'll probably want to check this game out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUcR5iLgv00

Get fuelled up and prepare to race and explore the world’s largest ever racing environment – over 5,000 square miles of spectacular wilderness. Set to revolutionise multi-terrain, multi-vehicle racing, FUEL is a fiercely competitive game without boundaries. On and off-road, two and four-wheeled vehicles race a massively diverse environment, from scaling the highest snow-capped mountain to racing the deepest arid canyon.


In a fictional present, vast swathes of the United States have been ravaged by the extreme effects of accelerated global warming – tornados, brush fires, hurricanes and tsunamis have driven people from their homes leaving huge areas of America abandoned.


Now these dangerous areas have created the perfect playground for a new breed of adrenaline junkies who set out to conquer each other, and Mother Nature, in closely fought races. There are over 70 different vehicles with which to take on any challenge that FUEL’s stunning environment throws at you. On-road and off-road bikes, cars, quads, trucks, buggies and dragsters take dangerous short-cuts, perform death-defying jumps and tear through spectacular cross-over points.


FUEL’s landscape is powered by cutting-edge technology and, using satellite data, features some of the most exciting and inspiring areas of America – including the Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park, Mount Rainier and much more. In FUEL, if you can see it, you can drive to it, taking any route – on or off-road – that you want. With a draw distance of 40KM, 100,000 miles of roads, tracks and trails and hundreds of race events FUEL’s epic world demands to be explored.


Bringing this vast, open ended landscape to life is a dramatic and dynamic weather system that includes tornados, sandstorms, blizzards, lightening and thunderstorms, which all affect the environment and race strategy plus a full day night cycle. Complete with the ability to go online to explore this massive world and compete in hundreds of multiplayer challenges, FUEL is coming in 2009 for the PLAYSTATION®3 system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft® and Games For Windows® LIVE.
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Is anyone else interested in this game? I think it looks pretty sweet.

Even though its also coming out for the PS3 amd PC, I think the 360 will have its answer to Motorstorm. Its like Motorstorm meets Pure meets Burnout Paradise. (I say Burnout Paradise because Fuel is supposed to have an open world concept)

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Quote from IGN;

Fuel will present players with an astonishing no-boundaries playfield that's over 5,000 square miles (14,000+ km²) in size. Creating the ultimate competitive go-anywhere racing experience, the game has players competing across wildly different terrain and executing spectacular death-defying stunts as they race dozens of varied two and four-wheeled rides and explore this epic world on an unprecedented scale.
Fuel is set in an alternate present in which whole swathes of the globe have been ravaged by the effects of climate change brought on by decades of environmental abuse. Here oil prices have rocketed and yet a new breed of racing junkie takes to the wastelands, pitting their grungy home-tuned vehicles against each other in an all-new extreme sport as they compete to win fuel supplies. To triumph means travelling the wastelands to challenge the best; from the tsunami-wrecked pacific coast through the Nevada wastelands, including the Grand Canyon, up treacherous snow-capped mountains, thick forests, arid deserts, abandoned lakeside resorts and much more.


General Features
  • Bringing this vast, open ended landscape to life is a dynamic weather system with full day and night transitions, brilliant sunshine, torrential rain and everything in between, plus destructive tornados, sandstorms, thunderstorms, lightning strikes, and blizzards requiring mid-race strategy changes.
  • Complete with the ability to go online to explore this massive world and compete in hundreds of multiplayer challenges
 
[quote name='SiNJiN76']Any word on deals for this game? Coming out tomorrow, right?[/QUOTE]

Yeah its out today. I haven't heard of any deals on it yet though.
 
I expect this game to drop its price fast. I haven't seen many good reviews as the average % is 63. Shame I was looking forward to this game but maybe its just too much open space lol.
 
[quote name='Spybreak8']I expect this game to drop its price fast. I haven't seen many good reviews as the average % is 63. Shame I was looking forward to this game but maybe its just too much open space lol.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I think I'm just going to wait for Dirt 2 to come out now.
 
I went to the game sections of 2 wal marts today, it was sold out at both...hmmm i wasnt there to pick it up didnt even realize it dropped today but saw it was sold out at the first and checked at the second and it was gone there too.......but im definately waiting on this one
 
I've put in a good number of hours on the game so far and I have to agree with the reviews that IGN and others have been putting up. Most of the car classes are terrible to drive (I do like bikes and the larger monster truck-like vehicles), sliding around as if the entire track was iced over. And all the hooplah about the game being big is a joke...there's nothing at all to do with the massive world except drive around and find collectables. The Vistas/Liverys/Barrels/etc are all basically interchangable, as you pretty much just drive til you get to the point on your map where they are, and then typically climb up a big ass mountain to find whatever it is you're searching for. And the AI is terrible. It just blasts ahead early on, but then goes stupid and lets you catch up. So you're given the illusion of a difficult race, but even if you're in last place halfway through the race, chances are pretty good you'll be winning by the end. And only having 1st place matter is just weak. 2nd and 3rd I think should count for something.

It's decent enough for a while to just drive around or to do some of the more fun races (aka anything involving the dirt bikes), but for the most part the game is bland and boring. I will say that if they came up with a better way to present the races, and to add more meaningful events to the world, the game could shape up nicely. That, and fix the controls and all the minor glitches the game has. But I definitely hope it sells well enough to get a sequel that'll hopefully take the basic premise of the game and makes something worthwhile with it.
 
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