Must be boats.

vincevl

Possibly the most ridiculous story I've ever heard of, but the game looks great.

Wolfers

lets spend our remaining fuel on EXTREME RACING SHIT YEAh

atreides

lolz, global warming and they are worried about racing.

Gilla

I'm not impressed. The tornadoes "got old" before the trailer ended.

rainofwalrus

That has to be one of the most realistic tornadoes I have ever seen...

Bcoolbyte

This looks like what I thought Motorstorm was going to be, but Motorstorm only gave you a track that was a bit wider than normal, while this one sounds like you can go wherever the heck you want. Very cool, if they can pull it off.

Dreamwriter

I'm curious about that freedom thing. It's really not exactly in the best interest of a racing game to provide absolute freedom is it? Unless of course instead of having laps around any given track, it's more like Burnout Paradise with goals set at one point and another, with players choosing their own routes. Burnout did it pretty well in a city enviroment, can these guys do it well given a vast and open landscape? Can they still manage to provide the skill based turns, the nail biting finishes of a really tight racing game?

In spirit it seems completely different from the lap based Motorstorm that I've come to love. But it could be the Motorstorm that I've always actually wanted.

Psudonym

looks really innovative, I wonder if i slingshot myself from the tornado and end up at the finish line....once i can do that, it will become a maybe to a must buy LOLZ

themule

I love Codemasters racing games. Between DiRT, GRID, and now FUEL, I will never buy another racing game again. I feel COMPLETE.

Draco Basileus

So I won't feel so bad for not picking up Grid? I'm in.

Solid_hedgehog

Looks quite cool, I'll definitely keep an eye on this.

Harteex

"Can do what you want to do, with complete freedom. Rebel style." My personal quote of the day.

Tavish

Different... And awsome.

tooji

I'm gonna create my own racing series. I think I'll call it CARS. Or CAPITAL LETTERS. :D

Crippl3

Sooooo...is it really that open? Or will there be constraints?

Because almost every developer that claims this still has limitations...sounds good so far though.

BenKenobi88

I dont even like racing games, but this, this looks great..

givetozim!

looking good, 'll keep it in my sight

KristenBal

BAJA...
Minute attention to detail
FUEL...
It's LARGE and free-ranging

I may get one racer this generation. This is tough.

yobbo

Looks like off-road racing is all the rage at the moment, Motorstorm, Pure and now FUEL. Looks to me like FUEL is being the most innovative, Codemasters really are cranking out the driving games.

bhapgood

God damn, that's one sexy game producer. And the french accent, omg! HAWT!

Spedfrom

Wow, those weather effects looked cool as hell. 5000 sq. mile terrain FTW!!

Lazlo

yo i am sold: tornadoes dude, are you f*cking kidding?!!! :) thats up there with the zombie bikers in RE5 - HELL to the YES

F22

More like Out-of-FUEL... because there's so much road... right..?

On a serious note, it looks pretty damn exciting. If it has the crash mechanics that GRID had, then i'll be pickin it up for sure =D

Thief

I think this is probably the first game that "featured" global warming.

Ahsayuni

@vincevl: Agreed. Where are the boats? The game cries out for them. I just wonder how many people are going to name their ships the "failboat" and think they're clever?

GlibGamer

Not sure if an open world is so much fun. For comparisons sake, look at Burnout. While for lots of players having an open world in Burnout Paradise was great, I felt it had destroyed the game. The series just lost it's focus after Burnout 3, which had memorable and perfectly arcady tracks because track designers could focus on exactly that.

hezz05

Freedom is great and all, but will there be checkpoints forcing me to hit points A through L? And why would I even want to go everywhere, anyway?
Other than possibly pointless journeying, it looks pretty solid.

boxmyth

Reminds me of smuggler's run....kinda (ps2 launch title)

Eaiyen

Looks good, certainly something to look out for.

Prime-Omega

Wow that looked pretty darn cool.

NoahSteam

@tehdorkz: Yea, was going to post about that first, but then I went to look and I'm not sure it's the same game (different companies both publisher and developer).

Harteex

I'm thinking it will be similar to the other sandbox racers out there like NFS Underground II and (reaching further back) Carmageddon II. On one hand you may have to drive around to reach waypoints where you will start a race, which has a defined route, but you can deviate from it as long as you hit the checkpoints.

DeeJayQueue

okay, i don't get it.. so the world has been screwed up global warming, and the answer to that is.. racing?

monkeybeach

@Wolfers:

Exactly what I was thinking. But holy hell does that look like fun. Driving with a tornado throwing shit all around you? Yes please. I just hope that you can restart races that you don't win, unlike BO:Paradise.

jello44

am i the only person that remembers this game was supposed to come out near the beginning of the xbox (not 360s) life cycle? i remember reading a little bit about it in OXM...

tehdorkz

What's the point of an open world racing game? In order to race you have to have a destination, and that destination has only 1 route which will be the quickest way to go.

It's also not the first open world 4x4 racing game, "1nsane" which was also by codemasters is the same concept, as well as 4x4 evo by terminal reality and Screamer 4x4 by Virgin all offered the whole "open world racing"

el0d1980

Am I the only one that finds the premise for Fuel ridiculous? Motorstorm just makes sense. Global warming has driven (no pun intended) mankind to race. Really!? O.o

dadeisvenm

Global warming doesnt mean all the fuel disappears. Just that the climate is jacked.

Game looks cool if they can keep to what they say.

Piblo

So... PC? PS3?
Isn't this something like sandbox for cars? :P

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

as long as they have REAL online multiplayed unlike DiRT and I'm down for it for sure.

Lanhoj

@Psudonym: Try 1nsane. It's an old PC game, with circular worlds (imagine a really, really small planet). Freedom worked alright in there. Gate hunts and pathfinder races are great.

I maintain my position. Looks like a next next next gen version of the aforementioned 1nsane... and that is indeed the tastiest gaming thought I've had so far this generation. Keep the open-endedness and put in great damage (heck, put some tuning options in there), and I'll be the first in line with a wad of cash, all doggy-eyed.

Grive

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi:

Pretty much. It's like any freeroam game but it has a racing element to it.

ircmaster

Has anyone done GTA Racing? I imagine this game to be something like that, but in a desert, not a city.

IndustrialJones

hmm, thats the second unkle song ive heard in a game trailer...

Spacecataz

This game really needs to copy Burnout Paradise's online Freeburn Challenges. Every free roaming game should have them. It's pretty much the best way to make the most out of the whole place.

Cube1701

Looks great!

MissingNo

Oh yes, this game is going to create a filling, I have never felt before.

0.o

Looks really awesome, but if you can go anywhere, how is it a racing game? Does the game set the start and end points? Do you? Is it random?

Herabec

hmmm UNKLE sound track. Why is that the only thing I paid attention to.

No no, good game. I can barely run GRID, only god can imagine FUEL.

Whats with Codemaster and their new nameing thing btw? DIRT, GRID, FUEL. They don't stand for anything, so lay off the caps why don't we?

NeoXY

Wow, very interesting...so this is like a huge rally race with checkpoints?

sakipooh

This new naming trend is odd. What's next, SKID?

DukeOfPwn

might have to get this.

Akmed

Woah...fuel beats baha in it's own game. I wonder what they are going to brag about with Fuel coming out.

karateka

I call Thunderdome Destruction Derby.

Frank

Codemasters.....

30FPS, Lots of Bloom+Blur, Central Pivot like its the mid 90's confirmed

hungry_for_worms

If you've never felt that much freedom in a racing game, play more games! And you might like to start with Test Drive Unlimited.

It looks pretty cool, although the developers are bragging a bit. And, what did the developers of Killzone teach us?

MaxChallie

@NeoXY:
DIRT: Drive In Rough Terrian

karateka

@NeoXY:
GRID: Go Ride In Dirt

karateka

neoxy: FUEL: Fuck Up Environment and Large land racing :) <---

karateka

OoO

Finalboss

5000 square miles? But that's only 70.71 miles wide by 70.71 miles long. *crosses arms* For those playing the home game thats about the distance from san fransisco to santa cruz, or london to southampton.

That Lamer

So it's like a survival game, but with racing. Yeah that sounds good. At the very least it'll provide various weather effects beyond the usual rain and snow.

questworld

The only game you've seen with complete freedom? Oh well, GTA was released in 1997, he's lagging for 11 years. And, isn't Midnight Club a free roam racing game. Shut up, developer fuck. Don't you know what's Rockstar Games?

Fuel = no originality

Hot-Devil-666

@Hot-Devil-666: Burnout: Paradise is also free-roaming, although I'm not sure about the actual amount of square mileage. GTA doesn't really address the producer's point, though. Even if you factor San Andreas' huge square mileage, GTA is more about killing than racing.

That said, here's my biggest concern about this game: It will suffer the same thing that made me dislike Burnout: Paradise. I don't like the way you had to pay attention to the top of your screen for the game to tell you that you have to turn left at this intersection, etc... it made it possible for you to lose a race because you missed a turn. Call me a whiner, but I really hated that.

I like my racing to be a fast no-brainer. All about instinct and reflexes. None of this... remembering where or where not to turn bullshit.

BtownDesignGuy

Daaammnnn. Motorstorm 2 is going to have some MAJOR competition gameplay wise. The "1up" that Motorstorm 2 will have is 4 player split screen, but then again...5000 sqr miles kinda trumps that...

My list of offroad games I will get (from greatest to least priority)

FUEL
Motorstorm 2
Baja
Dirt

phosphor112

That tornado was awesome.

amarney

Global Warming? ORLY, well, are these vehicles hybrid too? I mean, dont just go half-ass on us here.

thirstypilgrim97

Holy shit. I am so keeping an eye on this game.

Yofu

Codemasters has always made kick ass racing games. Looks like this will keep up their legacy.

jiSh

@BtownDesignGuy:

Actually I think by freedom they meant that you will not be restricted by streets. You don't really miss your turn... you sort of turn when the mood hits ya. :)
I think it could have limitless possibilities, especially if they let you set your own way-points for the races.

Leathersoup

@Eaiyen: that is the exact thing that popped into my head. smugglers run was such an underrated game it gave me hours and hours of enjoyment.

Direct_Port

I find the "tornadoes" funny, because they aren't caused by "warming" but cooling. So if the globe were in fact to get warmer as a whole (the premise here), there wouldn't be any tornadoes.

Of course Global warming is equivalently silly. I mean, any theory that refuses to take into account cloud cover can't be taken seriously. Clouds are a fool proof climate stabilizer. If it gets warmer, more water evaporates, more clouds form, less sun gets through. And believe it or not, I'm really not over simplifying.

That and every years there are mass hysteria stories alternating between "global cooling" and "Global warming", Since 1910. Talk about evidence for the cyclical nature of the weather.

Herabec

I know of one place that you can't go in this game, out of your car.

Irmgrad

Oh wow.
I was a tester for Baja, and I know one of the best things that it had going for it was how giant the maps were.
But seeing this...
This is just extraordinary.

Poor Baja.

SlantSix

The idea of going anywhere.. has me SOLD! That's what I like.. give it to me baby! hahaha..

Anyways, I look forward to this hitting shelves.

Also, does anyone know the name of the song in the background, that seemed to come in at the beginning then faded out, then came back toward the end?

@Herabec: Thanks for sharing. I think this is good info for everyone.

--Core--

Normally I'm not big into racing games, but the possibility of driving near a tornado is too cool to pass us.

R3Verb