Why Haven't You Played FUEL?
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024
- A small dive into a mostly forgotten game published by Codemasters and how it holds up in 2024! Join me as we talk about the world of FUEL!
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You could say developers didn't have enough FUEL to polish the game, hah! Looks really interesting tho especially how tornado rips apart houses
BA-DUM-TSS
love that
If motorstorm had open world
And if this game would try to have fun with secret of boy nightmare of complitionist
but making something else with this world could be helpfull
never actually played but i do belive that this game can deliver some solid fun
Fuel & Pure, the long lost siblings ..
PURE OH DAMN
And Nail'd, nobody remember Nail'd :(
okay that's actually one I've never heard of
@@riggiemaz8297 Nail'd is awesome. It has the best tracks ever made in a racing game.
Pure was amazing!! Wish I still had a copy.
Never played Fuel, but younger me definitely would've loved it.
Fuel had such a weird vibe... AT times it almost felt like a horror with its spooky atmosphere, no people, destroyed city's and sunken city's. Very Mad Max.
Real. Some of the recordings I did without any background music and it has a completely different feeling then.
Don't forger the roaming trucks & the jet fighter passing by.
Yeah, It makes Mad Max from 2015 look like a sequel
*cities (apostrophes are contractions of "is" or "has" or indicate possession. examples: my city's been struggling with homeless people, which has the city's population at odds with each other. neighboring cities are trying to avoid the same mistakes
I've never heard of the game, but you've inspired me to add it to my list of games to look out for at the local retro game stores
Awesome! If you ever get the chance to try it, let me know how you feel about it!
The Brazilian Goat is back
BACK AT IT BROTHER
I used to play this back when me and my family went to the video rental store! I rented this a few times and always enjoyed it! Another one was PURE
Oh wow, I forgot PURE existed! I must have played 10 minutes of that one, gonna see if I can find it to play it again!
@@BlooTeg PURE doesn't have a great PC port, fair warning. The lighting is all messed up and FPS over 60 messes with tricks.
I spent hours with my friend exploring this map, going on road trips back in 2010.
CAN'T BELIEVE THE ONLINE DOESN'T WORK
same and also watching the sun rise and set 😂
when i was younger i unlocked every car and livery. The multiplayer was so much fun because you where able to cruise around the map with people.
That would've been awesome to try out, sadly the multiplayer doesnt work :(
I wish Fuel would emulate properly, cause I've been trying to play it again for the last couple years, even if its has issues
It doesnt? Well, that sucks to hear.
@@BlooTeg Yeah, Xenia "runs" but at choppy framerates and with broken textures, and RPCS3 just outright crashes
Try magipack or elamigos. I got mine from there and it comes with patches to make it run!
and it isn't available on PKGi for PS3, I was able to find it's pc port with win10 support like 1 or 2 years ago, not sure if it runs on win11
It runs perfectly fine on win10 for me, it's on MyAbandonWare and everything.
I spent so much time on this game as a kid. It's a dead world, but it's a massive dead world. I used to look at the map, think "that looks cool, I'll go there and take a look what it is", and drive for the next 2 hours just to discover it wasn't as cool as I thought. But it was cool enough to be rewarding. I never had the skill or patience to finish more than 30% of the game, so my trips to the volcano, the city and the airplane graveyard took me hours.
A way to learn "it's about the journey not the destination"
Yeah I don't think I went too far when I first played the game, maybe I got bored haha
I'm going to install fuel on my pc.
My pc: ☠️☠️☠️
be VERY CAREFUL if you ever get the PC version of this game lol
@@BlooTeg Is it safe to get it from the internet archive?
@Hydrus808 I pirated the game and I still haven't died.
Man did you see local fuel prices? That's why 😂
Okay, that makes a lot of sense actually LOL
@BlooTeg me being from Poland and you from Brazil, whole different continent makes it even funnier xD
@@loccapo siema
The timing of this video popping up for me is crazy. I was just reminiscing about this game the other day and wishing it had a sequel too. It's obviously very flawed but I had so much fun just driving around and launching myself off big dunes and cliffs. It's just a big dirty playground for off road fans. I still remember how hilarious it was to get the drag car and rocketing it off mountains. Good times. Great video man, thanks for the blast from the past.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! And glad there's more people who remember this game haha
I still have the same dream where they make a secuel with improved handling, more cars, interior view and a career mode similar to dirt 2 or Grid 1
YES. That'd be amazing.
I remember Fuel! It was the first game I ever had on Steam. My brother asked me to make a Steam account, and I didn't know why. It turned out it was so he could buy me Fuel as a gift.
I had a lot of fun playing it. I remember being amazed at the world size. It was epic at the time. I loved driving around the world, finding cool things, and the variety of the maps. I think I got about a third of the way through before something happened with my computer, and I lost all my progress. I think this was before Steam had cloud saves.
Now I want to go back and see if I can still access it.
Hopefully you can! Definitely worth going back and checking it out again!
This looks incredible! I found it on internet archive so I'm gonna check it out. Been on a racing games kick lately, was really enjoying Flatout (how I discovered your excellent channel) so I'm looking forward to this one. Cheers!
Hey I appreciate that! Glad I've gotten someone to try out different games cause of the channel! Hope you enjoy the game!
I played it and it`s currently sits on my hard drive. Still annoyed that Damocles is a single event vehicle.
Rubber-banding AI sucks, didn`t know there is a mod that fixes it. I should probably try it out after I finish my current playthrough.
I am fine with music, it`s decent for map roaming.
And yeah, I also want a sequel to Fuel, but I kind of doubt that it will appear. Post-apocalyptic racing/driving games seem to be a niche genre, it`s probably easier/more profitable to just do games set in modern day environment.
Yeah, it's sad we don't get more "experimental" games anymore, it could end up being awesome (even though most people wouldn't be interested in it)
Thanks for covering this game, I actually didn't hear about it until a few months back and I was intrigued because I grew up with other Codemasters games like Colin Mcrae Rally and DiRT 3. It does seem a really interesting game, even if it is a bit undercooked. For some reason while I was watching your review I found myself wondering what a trucking simulator set in a similar (but probably smaller and more fleshed out!) environment would be like
Probably interesting to say the least!
I know Fuel gave some MotorStorm vibes to it but I never played both Fuel and MotorStorm. And I don't have that much knowledge of this game that it was developed by Asobo Studio and Codemasters is the publisher.
And when will you play Full Auto series? It's console exclusive games and it's basically what if Burnout and Twisted Metal had a baby.
I haven't played much of MotorStorm besides a bit of the PS2 one, definitely should try the rest specially the ps3 one it seems!
replayed it recently, ahead of its time i think. super fun. wish it and motorstorm had a baby
I wouldn't complain, I'D BE THERE DAY ONE
I'm one of the people who was absolutely bored by FUEL. It has all the setup of being a 'Motorstorm but open world' styled game, but it just fumbles. A map way too big for its own good, very slow vehicles, and uninteresting races. The weather effects are cool, but I rarely encountered them in my time playing it.
And that's completely understandable. I think even as a kid I got bored of it after a while for simply not having enough to do.
I've always wanted to play Fuel, but never got around doing so.
For a very long time i thought it was a PS3 exclusive, because i never bothered to check if it was available on other platforms.
When i finally got a PS3 i said i'll play it, but life happened and i didn't have time anymore for it.
If there will be a decent PS3 emulator on Android, not the emulator inside emulator type thing we currently got.
Yeah, it runs fine, but it's too much of a headache to set up a Wine environment and use RPCS3 that way.
Edit: I forgot again that it's available on PC. Bruh... 🤦🏻♂️
hahaha yes!
Less goooooo finally, my man, BLUEEEEETAAAAG!!
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This game was great, but kinda sad feeling at times, lonely and absolutely massive.
The rewards and thrills of racing were great, the landmarks had character and I wanted to explore the rest of the map.
But the game made me depressed alot, just low and sad, the glory of playing was there but the game always put me into a funk.
yes! someone even said it can even feel like horror at times which I can agree haha
i have played this game as a kld too, bought it for cheap, thought it was a hidden gem /shovelware, but like you said, the scale of the map is what sticks with my memory !
Yeah, everyone remembers that!
I've tried to search for my PS3 copy of Fuel and I must have donated it to somebody...God I loved this game ! Was so surprised to find years later that people found it was pretty bad. The size of the map and exploration alone, were such a novelty, I will have forever good memories playing it. Special spooky mention to unlocking the hovercraft and exploring the sunken city. The out-of-bounds liminal space vibe of these older games were real.
Yes! Such a different feeling to play this without music, EERIE
man, I got this game when it came out. My buddies would jump online, and we would head to the LONG road in the center of the map and just rip. it felt a little soulless, but the scale of the map was so crazy back then. Spent hours just driving with friends, I did enjoy my short time on this game, never really wanted to go back.
really wish I played it online!
This game looks really great, reminds me of motorstorm
Seems most people remember motorostorm from it, I definitely gotta finish playing the rest of the series!
8:29 *Darude intensifying* Did you say... Sandstorm?
TUDUDUDUDU
5:05 you just described why I have over 6600hrs in SnowRunner lol
God damn!
Impressive.
man i remember my cousin having a ps2 and me playing gta 1&2 on the ps1 , my lives goal was playing gta sa back then
hahaha I definitely feel you on that one
Now you're making me want to play Fuel. I've almost 100%ed it, just missing a few liveries/doppler trucks.
but it's still so great to throw on a podcast and cruise across the map visiting each areas "attractions"
that's honestly commendable
I put this game along the lines of the motorstorm series and I liked this one better than those for the most part
So far, same! Though I only played the first MotorStorm haha
I actually never even heard of the game Fuel here. First impressions, it looks very nice. Im actually shook there was no mention of the game on RUclips and Google here. This is an underrated game here. Thanks blue tag for this awesome review here. I always love these reviews as you expose to me different games I never knew existed here ♥️ 🐀
Thank you InternetMouse! Glad you enjoyed the video and I'm glad to show you some different games you haven't heard of!
Motorstorm also had an apocalypse themed game, brilliantly named "MotorStorm: Apocalypse". You might want to check that out if you liked the random events and disasters here.
Will do!
Oh man i really got to play this, offroading, multiple vehicles races, big maps AND NATURAL DISASTER??? this shit is what i want from a motorstorm game.
BRING MOTORSTORM BACK
It might not have the manic energy and wildly environmental variety that you get in Motorstorm Pacific Rift, but FUEL is pretty neat. It's lack of availability is a rotten shame. You can find repacks for it that will need secondary uni tweaks, but I wish we had a decent GOG installer for it.
Rip code masters.
YES! GOG could probably save this game from obscurity
It's on MyAbandonware, dunno why people are struggling to find it.
Man You just blew the dust off my memories of this game. I loved to explore this game when I was young. I stoped playing it because I think the used game disk I got for my cbox 360 was scored and bugged out and The game really makes you feel lonely as hell😂
Back then I was pretty happy with map size of TDU1 which was big but also somewhat detailed.
I heard of FUEL but offroad racing wasnt my thing and I just couldnt see how a map that big would still be interesting.
Its interesting how they pulled off such a big world in a PS3 game, the game basically generates them from a heightmap and theres some procedural generation with the placed objects going on.
yes! it's only really interesting if you're curious about the map size, but on the detail side of things, ehhh
I spent so many hours on the off road bikes just cruising the map. Sometimes I'd get in the street stuff and rip around the asphalt but, usually them off road hybrid bikes
that one bike with the long ass back is my favorite, great off-roading with it
everybody had this game back in the day, at least on their trophy list lol, this was one of those games that you could get a platinum just by save editing lol, i bought the game strictly for that lol, i miss those days so much 😊
oh that's news to me hahah hell yeah
I have it. I liked the idea of an impressively huge map that takes rougly two to three hours to drive from the northwest corner to the southeast corner but the downside of that is that the interesting locations are few and far between. Driving around the Fuel map isn't close to being Desert Bus levels of monotony since there are biome changes every fifteen minutes to half an hour or so but I'd still rather drive around even the Playstation 2 version of the Oahu map in Test Drive Unlimited despite that game repeating the same couple of dozen buildings outside of a few landmarks in Honolulu and a couple of other places around the island (plus the houses).
and that's understandable.
Oh I love this game. I spend ages on the Xbox and later on also on the PC. Almost 100% it. Although it was nothing special... it somehow was. Sadly totally underrated.
right? I think if this was something everyone played, it wouldn't really be special, but I think the fact that not a lot of people did makes it a bit more
I really enjoyed cruisin with friends and grabbing vista points online
I wish I could play this online when it launched
According to Wikipedia, the map is the size of the state of Connecticut, and I find it mildly hilarious that not a single video game has ever exceeded the scale of Connecticut
I don't know why but I find the word Connecticut funny
oh came here thiking this was a different game "PURE" and found this... but i love it the video man
PURE VIDEO INCOMING!
Glad you enjoyed mate!
Fuel is what an open-world Motorstorm would have looked like, if Evolution Studios just didn't care.
That could be fun, right?
I've 100%ed the XBox 360 version, & yeah, the driving physics are weird in a lot of ways, like some road vehicles will oversteer on dirt when they should do the opposite.
Also the cars behave the same as the other vehicles, it's just the jank is more noticeable with them. Partly because they're bigger than bikes & more maneuverable than trucks.
But the best part of the game is THE SUN. If you watch the sunset from a mountaintop you can see it going down, then stop, move to one side & turn into the moon...
that's actually pretty sick
also, 100% this game must have taken a long time, commendable
Because by the time I learned about it, it's long been delisted. I have glossed over most GFWL games for a reason after all.
You can still get xLiveless! Makes all those games work!
Somehow i have this downloaded on my 360 still, not sure when or why i bought it. But its just a nice game to play when you wanna chill and listen to music like you said
Oh that's awesome!
About acquiring this game today… because you can’t buy anywhere and there is no recent uptades for it, soon it will be legaly considered a abandonware (maybe it is today, I dont know), and it can be legaly downloaded in places like myabandonware.
And I dont see the devs from Asobo Studio that are fully focused on Microsoft Flight Simulator, and the distributors on Codemasters now owned by EA wanting to sell it today
Yeah, shame we'll probably never get another one ever again
Love you 🐿️
love you more
I remember plaing Fuel on xbox 360 back when i was kid . Yeah it's kinda hollow , but still fun just ride after race , just exploring the map was fun . 2 years ago i buy for ps 3 and still playing some time
Asobo of course went on to make an even bigger map in MS Flight Sim 2020.
IT'S THE SAME DUDES?
I have played it. I have played every racing game I could find.
how about Hooters Road Trip
Fuel...shit man, i remember having this game sitting on my steam wishlist for YEARS and when I remember about it and decide to check it's page...it was devastating to learn that the game was removed from the store and was no longer available for purchase...at least the sailors of the free sea are willing to give me some hand on how to get the game "the other way" lol...
yeah, it's a shame this isn't even on GOG :(
Original soundtracks done by a single guy are hit and miss generally. One the one hand, gold. Gold like Olaf Gustafson’s soundtrack for Motorhead (1998), the soundtrack for Formula 1 95 on the PS1, Gavin Parker’s work with Melbourne house on Test Drive Le Mans, Grand Prix Challenge, and the PS2/PSP port of Test Drive Unlimited. On the other hand you have games like this where it becomes grating, hell even with good artists, Junkie XL’s music in Forza Motorsport drove me nuts sometimes.
At the same time it kinda gives you an appreciation of when an artist DOES give their all to a game soundtrack, and I implore you explore the soundtracks of the games I mentioned
I'll definitely take a look at them, might make a video on it!
fuel is one of the few games I never uninstalled from steam
Definitely wish I had it on steam
I realy enjoyed Fuel a lot, and I was impressed by the size of the map and only took 6gb on your hard drive!
A few years later went back playing after watching Fury Road and I’ve downloaded the Refueled mod that fixes so many problems of gameplay and graphics! It almost felt like a new game.
Yes! I'd probably recommend that over vanilla
I just noticed that fuel was developed by Asobo, the current developers for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024! Thats why the map is so big in fuel!
Yeah, that's pretty awesome! Cool to see they're still around!
And lastly abou the map. As a urban planner, when you have a map as big as Fuel, technically is not a map… its a geodesic projection because you must consider the curvature of the earth!
Take that flat earthers!!
I haven't played this game never in my life nore I had a ps3 I always had a xbox 360 never heard or seen of this game and Matter afact never played this game the graphics still looks good for as the same game as nfs hot pursuit and rivals but with offload bikes and cars and boats mostly this game though looks loke a Beta for the original crew !
you're not wrong!
See you in 4 months when your exponentially longer and this game is more available
I'll hope that becomes real!
I still have it here for my 360, and remember being extremely hyped for it.
Of course, I already realized back then that it really wasn't that good - the races especially became absolutely infuriating on Legendary, due to opponents cheating really badly. But today, I still don't know another Mad Max-Open World-Racer. Needs a sequel.
FUEL was the very first game i owned on ps3....well i got FUEL 2 months before we got ps3 because my mom bought me a videogame and she did not know the difference between ps2 and ps3
oh noooo haha
well, that must have been a nice surprise though
I resently bought Fuel for ps3. And I enyoy the simple story of it, just have fun racing in a post apocalyptic world. The ai sucks some times, but it depends on the event and difficulty. The handeling also depends on the vehicle you use and what you prefere (I don't like the drifting too much).
Overal it's a fun game, but don't expect too much of it.
well put.
god I love the old beaver
Saaaaame bro
Gimme fuel, gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
UUUGH
i played it when i was a kid, but for some reason i didnt finish it and now that i have a proper PC i just couldnt find it anywhere
Yeah, sadly it's really hard to find a copy, maybe you can find a repack somewhere
Please note the tornados only appear in a couple of scripted race events, but yes they're pretty cool.
yes sir!
I sacrifice this comment to appease the algorithm!
Jokes aside, the talk about the AI blatantly cheating as soon as they're out of view reminded me of 1 of the reasons why I still prefer playing the PC version of "Need for Speed: High Stakes" over most newer racing games: the AI doesn't cheat!
The algorithm enjoys your sacrifice.
I really gotta start playing the PC version of the NFS games soon!
I found out about this game due to a extremely long nerdcubed video on it many years ago
Hell yeah, I don't think I've heard of that but I'll look it up
AchievementHunter's Fuel let's plays are my only exposure to this game
I used to love IG and funhaus
I had that game. It wasn't that bad almost reminded me of The Road if it was a racing game
Don't think I've heard of that one, will have to check it out
@@BlooTeg It's a good book written by Cormac McCarthy
Never knew this existed and I played nail’d and pure
I HAVE to play those two now
You liked Fuel, so you should play MotorStorm, you should definitely play MotorStorm pacific rift and apocalypse(Apocalypse even has natural disasters like Fuel), The first MotorStorm is also good even though some things didn't age that well, but it's worth it.
I definitely wanna play the ps3 one!
Got it on PS3 back in the day, liked it but I think I got overwhelmed by the amount to do, and the navigation was so clunky. I recently downloaded it on pc, with all cars and locations unlocked so I could just enjoy the driving. It was fun to explore, but with modern eyes it's held back by as you said a lack of polish, not too much to explore and the landscape being a bit boring in places. But still fun and a great drive and listen to a podcast or playlist game
Yes, having either a podcast or a playlist you enjoy in the background is definitely the way to go
I wish you'd downloaded the unofficial patch before you played. It makes the handling even better than the base game.
I got the patch after finishing it! Definitely worth playing!
'Why Haven't You Played FUEL?'
First of all, *WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME THIS QUESTION?*
Second of all, it's because I didn't have the time nor the chance to play it.
Third of all, are you telling me that I should go play it right now?
YES! But also no, unless you got a DVD of it and a disc drive it can be hard to find it
@@BlooTeg
Well, Y'lknow, I don't have to play it if I don't want to.
Oh, I remember this game, been playing it quite a while ago with barely capable laptop lol. After I have a proper PC, the CD is lost. Been looking on and off the internet if it ever being sold in the online marketplace. Sadly it doesn't seems so.
Not at all, you can probably find an old PC disk or a repack but it's really hard to find
In world of 2009 when you had stalker, arma and so much other unpolished products it would blend right in. I never liked or played racing games excepts fuel. I played more survival and fps games.
Best times I ever had with racing game while listening to Hed (P.E.) for hours!
STALKER trilogy vid? Hmm
I still listen to Unkle because of Fuel
Is it the song in the intro? Loved that too
gimme FUEL! gimme fire! gimme that which i desire!
UGHH! YEAHhhh!
TURUNTUNRUNTURUN TURUN
I remember the demo of the game even had the full map. There wasn't really much on it, but I spent two hours driving across and it sucked.
LOL sounds like a terrible time
Yes before i played this game in 2021 this has been a long play to be a hardest game
insanely hard at some points
@@BlooTeg And also you can go to the shortcut to get a checkpoint
Codemasters ? Isn't it an Asobo game ? (There is a guy at Microsoft who KNEW they made a crazy unknown giant open world game in 2009 and gave them the Microsoft Flight Simulator project for that)
yes! codemasters was the publisher, you're correct
I hated this game as a kid on my PS3. It was so hard, I couldn't win anything. Plus the map is huge, but there's nothing at all to interest you in it, sadly. It's also kind of spooky, made me scared as a kid because of the gloomy atmosphere, disasters, burnt forests, etc. Thanks for breaking the nostalgia for me and saving me from getting this game. :D
Yeah, running around without music gives the game a completely different vibe
also I'm glad to help!
@@BlooTeg Yeah, nostalgia often gets the better of me, and I end up buying or looking for games that I totally would hate :D and even hated back then
i remember playing this but also don't. probably I wasn't able to run it decently like most games I had in 2010
Could be, I wouldn't be able to tell you how well it ran at pcs at the time
Gracias amigo.
Gracias manito!
Another banger! I haven't watch your content for a long time! My apology.
no worries, I'm always working on vids!
hahahaha o "a água bateu na bunda" em inglês me pegou de surpresa
água mole, bunda dura ou alguma coisa assim
I only recently conaciously diacovered that it has big map. But thats kinda the only thing it has that suits me. It would need more engaging physics, be some kind og an mmo a-la forza horizon (as much as i hate these festival based games) and more emphasis on freeroam, navigation etc.
An MMO like this would be pretty sick
Because I've been playing MotorStorm instead
Okay, that's understandable
Where do you get this game? I remember they took it off steam, don't have a disk reader on my pc
You can find it online, maybe a repack or on Reddit like I did! Hard but doable
fun fact i have a physical copy of this game that i bought as a kid and I have never played it because I need a windows live account to play it at all so yeah and it also crashes the moment i go to a first race.
oh awesome! You can probably get xliveless to go with it and play your copy though! maybe it's worth a shot!
holy crap he got sucked into a portal at the end
it feels really weird when it happens
As far as I know there's a bundle with this game, with also Colin McRae: dirt and race driver grid.
for console? I'll look for it!
@BlooTeg i think it's only for pc but I am not sure because I saw the bundle once in a store that sells various things ( it's called public stores in Greece and its a chain of store's that I also bought from there a nfs bundle with nfs underground 1 , nfs underground 2 and nfs most wanted and this nfs bundle is for ps2 and pc and the store had the pc but for the codemasters I don't know.)
aw, so it's probably not even available here :(
@@BlooTeg Also a fun fact about public stores; they brought all the Greek mediamarkt stores and they merged together to form public+home and sale home appliances that public stores didn't sell. Also i saw this bundle years ago and nowadays public rarely sales old games anymore.
waiting till this guy finds and downloads Rebel Trucker, its even more obscure than this. theres basically only 3 videos on youtube and none in english
just saw a picture of it and laughed my butt off
I have in fact played fuel still have a copy
HELL YES.
i still have my old Fuel PS3 disk
now that's awesome
@BlooTeg it was one of my favorite games as a child. Just driving round and finding cars for hours.
I should try this game
You're now under the fuel hypnosis
Woah
WOOOOOAH