Fuel’s gameplay footage reveals the true scope of the environment which you can race in. Not only is it vast, but it’s also incredibly varied. Desert flats and snow-capped mountains merge with more conventional highway driving, familiar to players of the Burnout series of games. However, with Fuel, there really are no boundaries to the track bar your own imagination. The areas of the game which have been carved up by natural disasters offer the creative, daring, or downright insane racer with their very own thrill ride. Mountain ranges will test your ability to control your vehicle on challenging terrain, while lengthy highways will provide you with an opportunity for some high-speed drift racing.
What’s apparent here is the sheer freedom you’re given to change your course, and indeed scenery, at any given time. There are no boundaries forcing you down lengthy highways or high canyon walls acting like giant makeshift traffic cones to dictate where you can and cannot go. Fancy a change of scenery? Fuel gives you the option to go where you choose.
Littered throughout the vast environment are hundreds of challenges for you to compete in against other players online. So this, combined with the open-ended exploring, shows that Fuel is putting you, the racer back in control, thousands of miles away from the Rubber Band A.I which plagues more conventional racing simulators.