Posted by: XterrAZ
FUEL for Xbox 360... - 27/06/09 12:23 AM
Go buy it. Well worth the money if you like offroad racing games.
You'll read a bunch of bad reviews about it and I don't know why. Yeah I agree that the graphics aren't fantastic but they're better than average, pretty OK actually. It's not something I noticed in game play.
The game play will totally suck you in and you'll be lost in it for days. Some of the career races and challenges are very cool, some friggin' really hard too. If you haven't seen anything about the game....it's HUGE! 14,400 square km's. They rate it at 5,000 square miles but at 62.14 it calculates to about 8700 sq miles. Either way, it's BIG. The game has 75 unlockable/purchasable vehicles including MCs, quads, muscle cars, buggys, truggies, monster trucks, modded semi trucks, and even a side car and a hovercraft. There are 19 different areas called camps. I road a MC on road and off road from one camp to an ajoining camp and it took me 30 minutes real time. There's an achievement from a couple of camp drives that has been taking people in excess of two and a half hours to complete. You can do them online with buddies also.
There is just about every terrain imaginable in the game....sand dunes, snow, desert, salt flats, Mt Raineer, San Fran bay area, the Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, Monument Valley, a dust bowl region, burned out forests, etc, etc. All kinds of weather too, one of the races has tornados and flying debris, I had a travel trailer smash into me from the sky while racing. Wild stuff. You can also just ride, drive, or just plain haul ass anywhere...it's all free roam outside the races.
Very cool game. Make sure you play through a few camps to really get the feel of the game, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised on how good it really is. A word of warning though.....play it with a memory card installed so you can save to it once in a while along with the normal HD saves. My game froze during a save with over 50 hours into it and I lost it all, completely gone and had to start over from scratch.
FUEL trailer on youtube below-copy & paste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P85HCuPc5fg&NR=1
You'll read a bunch of bad reviews about it and I don't know why. Yeah I agree that the graphics aren't fantastic but they're better than average, pretty OK actually. It's not something I noticed in game play.
The game play will totally suck you in and you'll be lost in it for days. Some of the career races and challenges are very cool, some friggin' really hard too. If you haven't seen anything about the game....it's HUGE! 14,400 square km's. They rate it at 5,000 square miles but at 62.14 it calculates to about 8700 sq miles. Either way, it's BIG. The game has 75 unlockable/purchasable vehicles including MCs, quads, muscle cars, buggys, truggies, monster trucks, modded semi trucks, and even a side car and a hovercraft. There are 19 different areas called camps. I road a MC on road and off road from one camp to an ajoining camp and it took me 30 minutes real time. There's an achievement from a couple of camp drives that has been taking people in excess of two and a half hours to complete. You can do them online with buddies also.
There is just about every terrain imaginable in the game....sand dunes, snow, desert, salt flats, Mt Raineer, San Fran bay area, the Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, Monument Valley, a dust bowl region, burned out forests, etc, etc. All kinds of weather too, one of the races has tornados and flying debris, I had a travel trailer smash into me from the sky while racing. Wild stuff. You can also just ride, drive, or just plain haul ass anywhere...it's all free roam outside the races.
Very cool game. Make sure you play through a few camps to really get the feel of the game, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised on how good it really is. A word of warning though.....play it with a memory card installed so you can save to it once in a while along with the normal HD saves. My game froze during a save with over 50 hours into it and I lost it all, completely gone and had to start over from scratch.
FUEL trailer on youtube below-copy & paste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P85HCuPc5fg&NR=1