@SupaPhly: MXM~ maps, while impressive, were roughly 10-15 square miles.

no way they can pull off 5,000 square miles without a fuckton of duplication/mirroring/gradient-cloning. sure, it won't look identical to the patch we drove past 5 minutes ago, but it sure as hell won't look interesting.

FWIW: Citizen Kabuto had functional tornadoes, in 3D, 10 years ago.

rainofwalrus

Sounds cool. This is the kind of thing I hoped we'd see when I first heard about "next gen" games. I'll be keeping an eye out for this and their F1 game.

hastyp

This isn't being made by the GRID/DiRT team. Which sucks huge balls. They're working on that new F1 game.

This is being made by Asobo Studios, the makers of "CT: Special Forces" and "Garfield 2."

Great.

King of Fun UK

@FightingChance:

You sir are win.

Here are some internets.

ircmaster

And I always wanted to drive my grudgy home-made cars into hurricanes... in an alternative future, of course

KroKan

It's pretty much a racing version of Far Cry 2.

ircmaster

Whats FUEL? FUEL is a part of Code Masters realization that breaking up the TOCA franchise into highly polished individual franchises therefore guaranteeing racing fans (suckers like me) will fork over another $60 bucks to further round out their next gen TOCA-esk desires.

dadeisvenm

@ Bash : Yeah isn't it supposed to be day-and-night cycle?!

harshalizee

RACE....GRID....FUEL...BORING?

Arnold Rimmer's Garden Strimmer

Is that larger than San Andreas or not?

harshalizee

What's a day-and-day cycle? The Sun never sets? Are we racing through the British Empire?

FATDAN

Sounds good, so long as this doesn't take resources away from the F1 game development...

Silent_Shark

Sounds like the next racing game in the line of DIRT and GRID.

DigiMish

@FightingChance: Not bad... Not bad.

Jtn

motocross madness?

SupaPhly

I still don't think it will be as much fun as Test Dive: Unlimited.

Winterbringer

Sounds cool. That's a big driving area; I wonder where the starting GRID is? Or if there's DIRT? Will the racing be PURE?

FightingChance

Sounds more promising than Motorstorm 2's changing environment thingy. Hope the graphics match M2 as well.

CHU BOI

That sure surpasses the largest city in game with over 12 square miles long of road from the PC title and one of my favorites Mafia.

Go Team Venture

5000 square miles? If there is enough variation I will definitely check this out, better not be recycling textures though. This is the kind of thing that id Tech 5 would work well with, no inch would be the same.

el_rezzo

I like no boundaries in games.

Too bad I don't like racing games ]:

Ryumeka

*Tornadoes.
And wow, Tornadoes? That's different. Although driving in a 5000 square-mile wasteland for a while could get.. ehhh.

This game sounds interesting though.

Pattypie

Sounds like a next-next-next gen version of 1nsane to me.

Which sounds pretty much like the rainbows and the giggling of cherubs.

Great. Now I have a new game I'm most hyped for. Especially if the damage model goes above and beyond DiRT or GRID.

Grive

Wow, people're announcing more new IPs at Leipzig this year than at the last two years of E3. E3 must be feeling pretty sulky right about now.

Mr.Bates

@King of Fun UK: On one hand, I think it's disappointing that team would be taken away from development on what is clearly meant to be a game that goes alongside DiRT and GRID. On the other, this means a very, very good F1 game is on the way. Personally, since free-roaming racing games like Test Drive Unlimited and Burnout Paradise never seem to be quite as fun as they sound on paper, I think I'm more interested in the F1 game anyway.

Xenigma

@Go Team Venture: True Crime streets of L.A. had 255 square miles or something like that

athle

No boundaries? So the game areas are spheres. Super Racing Galaxy, here we come! I wonder if you can jump between spheres (with or without the help of Lumas)...

Protector one

Burnout Paradise has something like 30 sq. miles that is really packed with content. FUEL will be compelling if those 5000 sq miles are well-designed, but that will take an insane amount of work. I'm thinking that 4,900 sq miles will not be very interactive.

dfx

@FATDAN:
LOOOL that cracked me up

GimmeCat

a full day-and -day cycle doen't sound very interesting.

Awoken

This game sounds cool. Please let the execution be as good as it sounds. I can imagne the level of awesomness for those grand cross country race weaving through the grand canyon...also any word if it will be more arcade or simmish?

trogam

does anyone know how big Test drive unlimited's area was? If its anything like that game you have me sold. VERY underrated game.

RazorandBlade

I'm imagining a game where you can compete, point to point, with specific on-road cars with downforce, low clearance and super high speeds against pure off roaders with low top speeds but the ability to scramble up mountain passes etc. There would obviouly be rally type cars bridging the differences.

If the game is due to be anything like my imaginings then I like the sound of it! As long as it's not all waggle control on the wii :(

Badben

@FATDAN: That was hilarious.

Infininja

I hope the game isn't a single 5,000 mile race course.

ChiChi_BBQ

[www.codemasters.co.uk]

Game play fooooooooooo-tage! A great technical achievement as you'd expect, now let the details roll in.

bakalhau

@Xenigma:

Yeah, BO:Paradise is alright, it's kind of annoying to lose a long ass race and not being able to restart it. Sure there are other events around, but when you get around the mountain area, there isn't much. I'm waiting for that F1 game myself.

jello44

Do I need to take a special course just to learn how to use the map on this game? How about the "mini-map"? Anyhow, I find this title intriguing.

Mik_el

One step closer to a CannonBall run game featuring Will Wright as a playable character . . .

Tubatic

Nevada has a Grand Canyon, too? Fascinating!
The real one in Arizona has been getting slammed with flooding after an earthen dam broke, but everyone got air lifted out with no problems.

ReidP

Well, 5000 square miles is 70.71x70.71 miles, so that means it would take maybe 25 or 30 minutes to get from one end to the other at top speed, which is pretty sweet.

As for Test Drive Unlimited, wasn't it the entire island of Oahu? That is 596.7 square miles according to wikipedia.

I just want to know if Nevada invaded Arizona or something, because last time I checked the Grand Canyon wasn't in Nevada.

hammerhand

New? Sans Multiplayer, FUEL sounds very much like Enduro, on the Atari 2600.

[www.mobygames.com]

alzheimers

Wait wait wait ... the Grand Canyon is in Nevada now? Talk about burying the lead, Ashcraft!

Larry Horse

Vague, but sounds pretty good so far. I'm interested.

Wolfers

Well, I was coming in to post about the Grand Canyon goof too, but then I also noticed a different mistake: The game has a full day-and-day cycle!!

Yay!!!

annoyingpos

@Larry Horse: Nevada's Grand Canyon isn't quite as grand as the actual Grand Canyon. Your bike only needs a hangglider to jump it as opposed to a rocket engine.

OUberLord

"Up to 16-players race it out in D.I.Y. cars"

DIY cars, huh? I want this one
[gizmodo.com]

Chanthas

No boundaries? Grand Canyon? Tornadoes? Sold!

That is, as long as Codemasters get rid of that damned central pivot crap.

@FATDAN: Haha.

DelSource

Sweet, another Codemasters racing game. It's good to see them doing what they do best.

Altersparck

@athle: I guess your right, but when Mafia did come out it was the leader in largest real area of space.

Go Team Venture

If this can fix the very, very few things that were "wrong" with TD:U, then I can see myself picking this up.

The large area and the DIY intrigues me. Maybe this will have Top-Gear style events where you race a 1993 Dodge Shadow across the Nevada desert against Clarkson, Capt. Slow and company and you've got mini-events throughtout: racing Vegas Stig, etc.

FanDam

Holy shit! I've lived in Nevada for most of my 17 years and all this time I was living a lie! Nevada Grand Canyon, here I come! Also, cannot wait for this. I have been waiting for something on this scale since I played the freestyle mode in ATV Offroad Fury.

KillerAJD

i really hope this isn't a Bryce style random generated sprawling dirt land.

BallPtPenTheif

Sounds cool enough, but what I'm really looking forward to is Test Driver Unlimited 2 if it comes.

TheOats

I loved GRiD.. I have full confidence in Codemasters. This game sounds amazing. Need for Speed Most Wanted used to be my favorite racing game until I played GRiD.

This could all change, of course, depending on how good Need for Speed Undercover turns out.

zerokenta

I wonder if this is in any way related to the last gen Fuel game which was never released:

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demonryucg

Perhaps they should use the 4 letter naming criteria on there war stuff too (flashpoint).
They could have: KILL, DEAD, FIRE, GERM, WARS, SHOT, DIE!, BOOM, BANG etc...

Mr_Beast