If they say size doesn't matter, then Codemasters certainly isn't listening. The company's Mad Max-style racer Fuel is being sold on the scale of its massive open world, something which Codies' David Brickley is claiming would need to be contained on four Blu-ray discs if it was developed using traditional methods.
He also claimed that Fuel's world absolutely dwarfs the play area of EA's Burnout Paradise, saying that it was the size of a postage stamp in comparison.
"I did a little Power Point internally to do it and it zoomed them in to each other," said Brickley, when comparing Burnout to Fuel. "It's like a little postage stamp because I think it does like four kilometers or something."
Fuel is offering a 5,000 square mile map of procedurally generated racing chicanery. In case you haven't got the message by now ... the game is bloody big!
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10:45 AM on 09.26.2008
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Four Blu-rays worth of desert to... drive around in. Awesome?
Oddly, this kinda reminds me of politics. Just degrade your competition to make yourself look better. If Fuel delivers where it matters(Gameplay, graphics) then I'll check it out. OTherwise, Burnout suits me just fine.
oh and if it's 100GB of empty deserts DO NOT WANT!
That said, I'm really interested in what I want thsi game to be: a cross country, Cannonball run-esque endurance run. Oregon Trail in a fast car.
Its fun to dream.
I'm with ya, I've never really been to interested in most racing games. Hopefully this hype leads to something revolutionary.
I like code masters though, but no need to use another game to promote one's own, especially a game that's almost a year old.
Size is not everything, if the game takes 4 years to drive across the map but blows ass the game just blows ass. Size only matters when you are talking about your penis. PENIS
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only 500000000 sq. mi to go
Fuel has Tornado's. FUCKING. TORNADO'S.
IN THUNDERSTOMRS.
CAN ANYONE SAY;
THUNDER TORNADO!!!!!!!