FUEL

by Codemasters

Product Features

• Multiplayer support including 2-16 player online support via Games for Windows LIVE and the ability to compete against friends online in all 70 career races, as well as online free rides.
• Open-world racing across 14,000 square km of streaming game world and 100,000 miles of trails.
• Over 70 unique vehicles, each with GPS support, in six different classes including: bikes, ATVs, muscle cars, SUVs, buggies and trucks.
• Extreme weather effects and conditions ranging from rain to snow to sandstorms and destructive tornadoes, that affect and add to the challenge of the race.
• A wide variety of race types and challenges including: time trials, checkpoint races, circuit races and raid races.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001OAKV2W
• Item Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: June 30, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,156 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC

Amazon.com Product Description

In FUEL players race across and explore the world’s largest racing environment – over 5,000 square miles of spectacular wilderness. Set to revolutionize multi-terrain, multi-vehicle racing, FUEL is a fiercely competitive, open-world game without boundaries. On and off-road, two and four-wheeled vehicles race a massively diverse environment, from scaling the highest snowcapped mountain to racing the deepest arid canyon. Expansive open-world environments. View larger. Dramatic weather effects View larger. In-game mixing of vehicle classes. View larger. Extreme off-road action. View larger. Smoking road racing. View larger. Story In an alternate present, vast stretches of America have become no-go areas as the devastating effects of global warming ravage the continent. Floods, storms, brush fires, tornadoes and hurricanes have driven people from towns and cities into safe zones as extreme weather wreaks havoc, creating thousands of square miles of dangerous uninhabitable areas. People turn to renewable energy in the face of the destruction caused by this catastrophe. But these danger zones have also become a playground for a new breed of racer. With a stockpile of fuel to be burned, adrenaline junkies head into the wilderness to compete against each other in spectacular races against themselves and the elements. Vehicles FUEL features 70 different unlockable vehicles designed to support pick up and play arcade style fun. Each of these feature aggressive styling, unique performance and surface specific handling and can compete with each other no matter how or where they are united. The six different vehicle classes include: Bikes Bikes are fast, quick and easy to handle, but what they have in speed they lack in durability, so ride around trees, not into them. ATVs ATV's four wheels offer more stability than bikes and their size allows them to be able to sneak in very narrow spaces. Muscle Cars Muscle cars have enough speed and strength to face extreme conditions, making them a good choice for any kind of racer. SUVs Powerful, stout and durable, SUVs make up for their lack of speed with all the hit that they can take before breaking down. Buggies The smallest of cars and the easiest to handle, buggies are definitely fast, but durability can be an issue with them. Trucks The largest and strongest vehicles, trucks will not daze you with speed, but they'll knock you out for sure with power. Race Types and Challenges FUEL features a wealth of race types and challenges. Races include A2B Time Trials, Checkpoint Races, Circuit Races and Raid Races; while some of the additional challenges include 'Long Raids'--races that can last for hours--and 'Knock Out' events, which are checkpoint races where the last racer to cross the line is eliminated. Never Get Lost With GPs Each vehicle in the game comes equipped with a unique GPs system. Showing up on the game screen's heads-up display (HUD), arrows display a route that will take advantage of the distinctive capabilities of that vehicle, always indicating that fastest, most appropriate route. Race well and players are alerted to an extra route--one that is riskier, more hazardous--but potentially quicker. Of course, you can always choose to switch the GPs off and forge your own way through the wilderness. Key Features Open-world racing - The largest open-world racing arena ever, with 14,000 square km of streaming game world and 100,000 miles of trails. Vehicles Galore - Drive over 70 unique vehicles in six different classes including: bikes, ATVs, muscle cars, SUVs, buggies and trucks. Weather Effects - Experience how extreme weather conditions affect the race from rain to snow to sandstorms and destructive tornadoes. Race Types - Compete in multiple categories of race types including: time trials, checkpoint races, circuit races and raid races. Multiplayer Support - FUEL features 2-16 player online support via Games for Windows LIVE. Online Racing - Compete against friends online in all 70 career races as well as online free rides. GPs Technology - Each vehicle in FUEL features onboard GPs functionality ensuring you will never be lost. Online Support FUEL is a seamlessly integrated offline and online gameworld featuring hundreds of challenges across countless locations. Players can compete against friends in all of the game's 70 career races, as well as online free rides via Games for Windows LIVE. In addition, to these pre-designed events players can use the powerful route editor to create their own challenges set anywhere in Fuel's world and share them online.

Product Description

Set to revolutionise multi-terrain racing with the largest environment ever created in race gaming, 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, FUEL will have 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. 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Simply put, Awesomely HUGE & fun, September 12, 2010

By 

Igor G - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Fuel (CD-ROM)

I'm the kind of person that like's free form game with no limits & at you'r own past type.
This has has it all. GIGANTIC map, i mean literally it's so big i sometimes just spend time riding around looking at the great views and places to see..and not doing any career races.
The vehicles in this game are all very different and most are very fun to drive.

The races at times are hard, even on easy which makes it so frustrating to race, so i just sometimes drive around, but to unlock more of the map you need to do races which like i said before can and area very hard at times....

The few cons i have are.
There are no cities or any places with buildings, besides a few that have like a block or two of buildings which isn't anything compared to the Gigantic map..
Then the popup of loading tress and grass can sometimes be right in you'r face, like 30 away. also can look unfinsihed at times..

And there is not much other cars driving around, offline, just a couple different trucks here and there
Well i mean besides the hard AI at times this games is very fun, Super Huge map to drive around, will take ten's of hours and more to see everything .. and some pop up's,, but on the bright side, this is a very great deal for $10..get it because it is no longer being sold at any store.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars FUEL for thought..., September 10, 2009

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Crawlerz (PA, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fuel (CD-ROM)

This is a fun game, if nothing else. Yes, the landscape stretches on forever and there are no "walls," you can ride though roads, desserts, even shallow water. Yes, there are a lot of vehicles, though those vehicles come in classes only a couple per any given class. Yes, the music is OK, though not the sort of heavy metal I'd expect from a game like this (you can always replace the sound files, you just have to rename them appropriately, or just run your favorite music player in the background.) The vehicles all have similar handling (though some do much worse off-road) and the customization is not-existent (only colors can be changed). The only thing that saves this game from being a near-miss is the fact that it uses LIVE. It can be played online in races, as well as just free ride around the same vast wasteland you ride offline.
One fun thing I like to do is wheelies or stoppies on bikes. They come out quite well (I'm using a gamepad). Also, I must note, you cannot do tricks in this game, the game does it automatically (if you get a high enough air on a bike or quad) for you (which is a minus in my book).
I would say, though, that it definitely is not worth the money. I'd suggest waiting for price-drop or just going for Flat Out Ultimate Carnage (also a LIVE game by the way) or a similar game.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's not much of a game, October 23, 2010

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Texas Yankee "jusval" (USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Fuel (CD-ROM)

I'm glad it was cheap. This arcade racing game was fun for about a half hour, and then it got boring. The graphics are ok, but not great. The game play gets old fast. The racing is ok, controls work good (Rumble pad II). It's just boring after a short time. Free mode is fine, but there's nowhere really to go except from race to race or picking up vehicles and clothes, yes clothes..... Accessorize by getting all kinds of "livery" outfits, colors and logos. Would have been better if it was a female driver instead of male.... I don't accessorize.....

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