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List Price: $29.99
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Seller: GoGamer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 8 reviews
Sales Rank: 7770

Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 0.6

MPN: 1000101335
Model: 1000101335
UPC: 767649402595
EAN: 0767649402595
ASIN: B001OAKUZU

Publication Date: June 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Multiplayer support including 2-16 player online support via Xbox 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.

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Product Description
Fuel is set in an alternate present in the world has been ravaged by the effects of climate change brought on by decades of environmental abuse. Oil prices have sky rocketed and a new breed of racing junkies takes to the wastelands, pitting their 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.

Fuel features a no-boundaries playfield that's over 5,000 square miles in size, which creates the ultimate racing experience, compete across different terrains and execute spectacular death-defying stunts, as you race dozens of two and four-wheeled rides.


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.

'FUEL' game logo
ATV rider overlooking and expansive canyon in 'FUEL'
Expansive open-world environments.
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Forked lightening in the distance in 'FUEL'
Dramatic weather effects
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Multiple vehicle classes in a race in 'FUEL'
In-game mixing of vehicle classes.
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ATV catching air up a hill in 'FUEL'
Extreme off-road action.
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Muscle cars racing on the road in 'FUEL'
Smoking road racing.
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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:

Bike vehicle class from 'FUEL' 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.
ATV vehicle class from 'FUEL' 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 Car vehicle class from 'FUEL' Muscle Cars
Muscle cars have enough speed and strength to face extreme conditions, making them a good choice for any kind of racer.
SUV vehicle class from 'FUEL' SUVs
Powerful, stout and durable, SUVs make up for their lack of speed with all the hit that they can take before breaking down.
Buggy vehicle class from 'FUEL' Buggies
The smallest of cars and the easiest to handle, buggies are definitely fast, but durability can be an issue with them.
Truck vehicle class from 'FUEL' 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 Xbox 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 Xbox 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.



Customer Reviews:
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4 out of 5 stars fuel review   October 27, 2009
D
0 out of 1 found this review helpful



I bought the game Fuel for my sons X box and we both play it. We both like it and would recamend it to others who enjoy fast paced actiopn racing games.. one of the funnest games I played this year.



5 out of 5 stars Awesome game   October 14, 2009
R. Gardner (Colorado)
I decided to take a break from COD4 and get a racing game. I really like this game. The map is huge. I wanted to try to drive across the whole map but I kept getting distracted by all the cool places there are to drive in in this game. I looked it up, and it would take over 3 HOURS to drive from one side to the other. I love all the challenges, and races, and xbox live is great with this game. Overall i would recommend this game.


2 out of 5 stars Huge Map, but boring to drive on   September 24, 2009
C. Wenson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

While the races are ok, and fun, the graphics are pretty terrible, clearly they were sacrificed for the shear size of the map. Graphically I would say this is barely passable as a next gen game. Driving to things you see blip up takes forever....and there is nothing in between.....just the boring monotone sound of your engine....I started to drive to a beacon and after a while I checked the map, i had drivine for a few minutes, wasn't even close.....i got this for 20 on amazon, and its worth that to me, if i paid 60 i would have been very angry. Nor great mechanics, not great grpahics, not great sound, boring, makes this a 2 for me. Played it once, maybe when i get bored i will try it again...maybe not


2 out of 5 stars Easily the most disappointing game of 2009, so far....   June 10, 2009
LTC Planner (Denver CO)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have a long and fun history with Codemasters published racing/driving titles starting back many years ago when Codemasters titles were NOT available in the USA and had to be ordered from European importers.

One of my first and still favorite Codemasters games was "Insane Racing" which FUEL appears to be the spiritual sequel to. "Insane Racing" was open world like FUEL, but was fun and accessible.

The first thing I noticed was just how awful the graphic are in FUEL. They are so bad that at night or at dusk/sunrise, you can't see well enough to drive and avoid obstacles. I kept ending up in the ocean.

Another thing that I found was that the handling of the vehicles was a joke... I wasn't expecting something approaching simlike, but these vehicles aren't even fun to drive.

I think the designers sacrificed a lot of quality just to have a large racing area. What good is a large racing area if the actual racing in any of it isn't fun or enjoyable?

[...]

Sorry, but this one is pure rubbish. Avoid like the plague.



2 out of 5 stars Had potiental of being a great game... Had!   June 10, 2009
PoetiC SkillZ
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

From what was portrayed in the cinimatic teasers for fuel, was deception of what the game really possesses. Though the size of the play area is one for video game record books, it doesn't have the capability to carry this lackluster of a game. In my perspective, codemasters devoted entirely too much time in the shaping and molding the map, and not nearly as much time on the cars and sounds. There'S absolutely no phyics in driveabilty whats-so-ever. This is a dissapointment in following a great game like Grid. This make believe enviroment might have actually felt somewhat real, if the cars, buggy's, trucks, and bikes actually drove with just a little bit realism. I'm not asking for a complete simulation, but couldn't you have given codemaster fans something similar to grid?

Which brings me to my next point. The sounds on this game are so horrible that it will seriously remind you of a PS2 video game sound. There are no distintive sounds, and you will most definitely hear the same exact sound everytime your bike or car cathces some air. I was hoping the muscle cars would at least sound like "a muscle car", nope I was wrong and very let down. It's funny how ever single ride makes the same ticking sound when revving your engine. Also, all the rides just seem slow, it says your hitting a 100, but it feels like 40 miles per hour.

The weather was somewhat satisfying, I can't really complain about the day and night cycle with weather changes. But as it was shown in the trailer... I have yet to see a tornado swarn down on side of the road in the middle of a race. I have yet to see any explosions from cars flippig and blowing up. Also it seems to rain more than anything in this game, I was showing my girlfriend the free roam, and she tells me I hate who ever thought about the amount of rain that falls.

I was very impressed with the size of the map, the different roads, change of scenery, and most imporatantly... no loading times in-between areas. But again this pro can not make this a great game, I might have actually enjoyed my road trip from one end of the map to the other if I had a car that was believeable. I stress how unimpressed I was with the controls and handling of the cars, you would expect codemasters to take it to the next level after giving us grid, but now they decide to pull their punches on this one.

This game is definitely a renter and not a purchase for full retail price. No way, you will become very bored of not being able to crash, drive with a cockpit view inside the car, or run away from a chaotic tornado. I advise you rent first if you are still undecided, better to spend 8 bucks then 60 and be stuck with it.


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