Fuel
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Game Information
Release date: June 2, 2009
Developers: Asobo Studios
Publishers: Codemasters
Genre: Racing
Platform: Cross
Rating: E, 7+

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Synopsis(WIKI)
Fuel is an open world racing game set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by extreme weather fueled by global warming, with players experiencing varying weather effects such as occasional tornadoes and sandstorms, as well as an accelerated day-night cycle.[4] The world of the game is over 5,560 square miles (14,400 km) in size, which is roughly the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut, and completely free to roam. In the free roaming mode, the game features the ability to drive anywhere in the game world without incurring loading times, however crashing a vehicle - or invoking the reset function to return to the road - does invoke a loading screen.

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Story
Fuel takes place mainly in a post apocolyptic world, ravaged by disease, filled with barren wastelands, landforms, and in general, waste infested areas throughout. The game is consisted of basic free roam, but nothing too complex, so you won't be struggling to understand the basic concepts of the races and various missions given to you as you progress through the storyline. This free roam aspect does give it some really nice feel to it, as it can be applied very effectively, especially when delivered in an aspect applied towards a racing game like this, which is very unique, and has not been done before. This free roam aspect does pay off, as it delivers some entertaining gameplay and overall story line to it.

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Graphics
The graphics in Fuel, overall, deliver a somewhat weakly developed design system, with tons of poorly constructed vehicles, cars, characters, and scenarios. The game does in fact deliver some various scenarios, that really raise the graphics score overall, but the poor texture development in general. The game consists of very cheesy camera movements, and nothing that is really pop out, or anything that would win any major design awards. The scenarios do vary, but once actually visible, they have very poor design, with various bugs, overall. The character design is not very neatly designed either, which brings a downside to the graphics also. All around, poor construction of graphics in this game.

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Gameplay
The gameplay in Fuel, delivers a somewhat unique aspect to it, even though it may fault extremely when it comes to bugs, cheesy development, poor game structure, and in general major faults. The racing aspects are really what bring up the general score for this game overall, as it delivers a somewhat unique aspect towards the racing gaming table in general. Fuel brings some new story aspects, newer customization features throughout the game, some varied cars, with many improvements, and overall some major advantages added to it. Fuel may have extreme bugs, but the racing can be quite fun, with a new aspect, that does take a while to tire someone out. The gameplay delivers a fun aspect, while having some major issues overall, but really gets some points across, that improve its score.

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Reception
As expected, not many extremely favored things were given towards Fuel. The game was mostly negatively criticized for its lack of graphics, weak gameplay structure, and level design, major lag, flaws, bugs and overall missing the main game content that is needed to fulfill a good score. The overall score for Fuel, was around a 50/100, and from of the more major gaming review companies, such as IGN, it was mostly given the 5-7 range, criticizing its graphics, structure, and gameplay level. The reception for this game was mostly negatively appointed in general.

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FINAL RATINGS:
Synopsis: 8
Graphics: 4
Story: 7
Gameplay: 6
Reception: 5
FINAL RATING: 5.7 - Includes Fun Racing Gameplay, But Flaws, Buggy, Poorly Designed, and Weak