Customer Reviews

Fuel

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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.

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.....

The selling point for this game is the massiveness of the driving area. It is an open world game so you can go anywhere. And I mean the full intention of the word world. The size has been estimated to be around the size of the state of Conneticut. That's huge! The graphics aren't the best in the world but not the worse eather. This is a must have for pc gamers, and with Live support, it is a great online experience too.

My 10 1/2-year-old son says the following: "This is the best off-road virtual world racing game ever. The fun never ends. There are 75 vehicles, 190 challenges,70 career races (with 3 different expertise levels in each)." He has played many racing games.

This is a great game till you have to deal with GFWL I was almost halfway through the game then made the mistake of joining GFWL and lost everything and now the game wont even run when I log in to GFWL. It will run when not logged in but you cant save your progress which also makes it suck. Save your money and buy something that doesnt use Games for Windows - Live. It's bad enough having to be forced to deal with crap like GFWL but if I dont want it I should still be able to play and save in single player. I dont need some geeks controlling me the government does enough of that already

This game had such promise(so i thought), elements, like tornadoes, rain, travel anywhere as far as you like. Well, what a bore fest, first off the game does look incredible i'll give it that, but the gameplay is just boring, dull and awful. First off there are no psychics, NONE, you can't even wreck, also tornadoes do nothing, nor do trees, water etc. So bascially you race, and thats it, thats all. The free ride is also boring as crap, so do yourself a favor stick with the ATV vs MX games, and MOTORSTORMS which in my mind are still the best offroad racing games out there.:D This game should have been called FUMES, not FUEL.

I have been wanting to buy Fuel for some time, and at $4.00, I thought now was the time. The install was quite straightforward; you can just set it to install and let it run for about 20 minutes. When I first ran Fuel, it's video setting was set to display at maximum, so the game barely ran. I turned down the video setting to minimum and it ran, but the video quality was far from smooth. The frame rate was too high for my PC to handle, and I have a fairly new PC. In conclusion, from what I played, Fuel seems like a great game, but BEWARE: you must have a good PC with a good graphics card to play it.