Codies Announce FUEL News

Codemasters increasingly bloated racing line-up received another title today with confirmation that the UK publisher has signed Asobo Studios FUEL for the Xbox 360, PlayStation3 and PC.

Set in an alternative reality on a world that has been ravaged by the effects of climate change, oil prices have shot through the roof (perhaps not too alternative then), breeding a new type of race junkie taking to their wastelands, pitting their home-tuned vehicles against each other to win fuel supplies.

Promising the largest environments to feature in a multi-terrain racer, FUEL is built upon Asobo Studios' cutting-edge proprietary engine that offers environments up to 5,000 square miles. From the tsunami-wrecked Pacific coast to the Nevada wastelands, a dynamic weather system adds further drama with full day-to-night transitions, brilliant sunshine, torrential rain, and destructive tornados, sandstorms, thunderstorms, lightning strikes, and blizzards.

Tricks and death defying stunts are a major element of the game as players compete across wildly different terrain on a variety of two and four-wheeled vehicles.

"FUEL raises the bar in terms of scale and exhilaration for racing games. We begin with the largest racing environment to appear in gaming - ever. With our accelerated effects of climate change and dynamic weather system we add an extra dimension that change races on-the-fly and constantly presents new challenges to players," said Sebastian Wloch, Chief Executive Officer, Asobo Studios.

"Player choice lies at the heart of FUEL's action-packed races and with a huge range of vehicles, packs of up to 16 vehicles speeding across diverse terrain and a no-boundaries, no-limits approach to racing, means players have never had so much freedom to conquer the wilderness and take the chequered flag."

"The technology Asobo Studios has developed to build FUEL is ground-breaking. To create a game on this unprecedented scale to this level of graphical quality, complete with all the dynamic weather effects, is a great achievement," said Barry Jafrato, Senior Vice President of Brand, Codemasters. "FUEL had to be a special title for Codemasters to include in our racing portfolio and we believe that from both a gameplay and a technical perspective, FUEL compliments our long standing tradition of driving excellence."

FUEL is making its debut at Leipzig Games Convention so expect a beefy first look soon.