Codemasters: Fuel's world could fill four Blu-ray discs
- Posted September 25th, 2008 at 09:08 EDT by
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While claims that the Xbox 360's DVD format is too small are becoming commonplace, you rarely hear of a developer pushing the boundaries of Blu-ray.
And yet Codemasters is doing exactly that. Apparently the publisher's upcoming Fuel - an open-world racer redolent of Mad Max - would exhaust four Blu-ray discs if it were created using "traditional" methods. That's according to Executive Producer David Brickley, speaking to Videogamer.com
"In the context of that map, which is one small corner of it, when the guys showed us this technology, if you were to build it in a traditional manner it would fill about four Blu-rays," he said. "A gargantuan amount of data, just enormous. The challenge for us was to say can we come up with a race experience generated according to an algorithmic rule set, procedural generation, which is of a standard that is indistinguishable from one that's been done by hand?"
To put the figure in context, Brickley likened the world of Fuel to that of Burnout Paradise. "I did a little Power Point internally to do it and it zoomed them in to each other," he said. "It's like a little postage stamp because I think it does like four kilometres or something." Fuel is reported to be 5,000 miles in scope.
The game is being developed by Asobo, and is due out on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC in Q2 2009. It sounds, uh, big.
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 9:38am BST - September 25th, 2008
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@JD-82
Since the maximum usable space is 7.5 gigs for a 360 DL-DVD try about 3 dvds per blu ray so it might be more like 12 DVDs.
@gingo
The are saying that it could have been 4 blu rays. It's not going to because they are looking to procedural generation that conforms to thier original intent and vision. Which will make the game MUCH MUCH smaller as assets would be replaced by code.
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bracomadar |
bracomadar- 9:45am BST - September 25th, 2008
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Greetings from The Humungus! The Lord Humungus! The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!
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Shin-Karazu |
shinkarazu- 11:06am BST - September 25th, 2008
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....also, could you imagine the cost it would be to ship a 4-bluray disc game, it will never happen. And seeing that its coming to Xbox, I dont think that it will be big enough.
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Solid_Squirrel |
ZeroTheSquirrel- 11:50am BST - September 25th, 2008
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What does he mean by Traditional Methods? This seems like a VERY broad term he's using
4 Blu-Ray Disc?
How's this suppose to magically fit into a measly 8 gigs of space for the 360?
This is just terrible PR here
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jodee |
jodee- 12:12pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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im sorry but i call bluff...unless its fully uncompressed but even then has this game been in development long enough to flush out that much space to make driving that many miles worth looking at and mantaining somthing enjoyable or are we talking about mile after mile of nothing but sand and trees..i still dont buy it
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 12:53pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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@Solid_Squirrel
Assets. Solid, artist created geometry and textures. Procedural generation is not magic. It just eshews assets for code. Code take up less space.
@tanner1
List the PS3 games currently pressed on 50 gig discs. Then you will understand why people are assuming they are talking about 25 gig disc. And the DRM on the DL DVD's for the 360 takes up 1.5 gigs.
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Merovingian
- 1:23pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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He's just tossing up random things trying to generate more expectation to his product. He's mentioning completely irrelevante early development barriers, as it seems, already solved, that's just going to create rumours. And that's exactly what any PR would wish for an under-develoment product.
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waynechriss
- 3:06pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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By no means can this mean the game are compressed onto the Blu-ray discs.
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primalbreath |
jdawg222- 4:18pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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@6........... what!!!! are you talking about the band. humungus with song wasteland, with like the fastest double bass ever????
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svtschmidt
- 4:56pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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This sounds like a gimmick to hype a game that sounds uninteresting. Racing on 4 Blurays? Why? If it were a third person run and gun with driving in it I could see it taking up more space but racing? I like racing as much as the next guy but I would think it would start getting boring.
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TheWorldEndsWithMe |
DonovanTheICEMAN- 6:08pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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Got a feeling this is garbage information, "using traditional methods" ? So like, if we dont ever compress any information anywhere then it would be massive, but since we are, itll fit just fine on a 360 disc? Thats like not news.
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Free_Agent
- 9:11pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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This is hilarious. Codemasters will have released 3 full on racing games before GT5 ever even see's the light of day(and all 3 are multi-plat!!). Not only that, but Grid is a better game on many levels. It might not be quite as much a "simulator" but it is alot more fun, and it has DAMAGE! And the online play puts GT5 to shame. I think this game has a lot of potential, and will be something a little different than what's available.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 10:06pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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A new developer eh?I'll have to keep an eye on this one,atleast until Pacific Rift:p
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 11:01pm BST - September 25th, 2008
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@Tanner
I knew the answer. Currently only 1 title out of 200+ is 50 gigs. Resistance 2 and FFXIII aren't even out yet. I was hoping you would understand why people still assumed that these devs were talking about the 25 gig disc.
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The_Sorrow_Gamer |
The_Sorrow_Gamer- 2:11am BST - September 26th, 2008
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damn lie that will be a downfall for 360 alot,it will take up to about 12disk then...how they going to pull that off n plus blue ray got 50gb so it will take 2 XD n isn't blue ray working on a 200gb quad layer right now?
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Fijiandoce |
Fijiandoce- 3:33am BST - September 26th, 2008
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but its still being made for the 360?? hmmm. well the dudes creating Rage were mad at using 3 DVD's.....hows this gunna work? are we gunna have to settle for a poorer game again(like rage). i hope not. and another thing, is he talking about the 50 or 25 GB discs?. metal gear filled 50...Resistance2 might be filling 50. if there talking about the 50GB disc then thats huge!! thats like 200GB!!. Well if that Hitachi(i think) company manage to get the 100GB disc in full production it'll only be two discs :)
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D3seeker
- 6:24pm BST - September 27th, 2008
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This is a very interesting concept. 4 Blu-Ray disks. What can be expected? Massive free roaming? Damage? Complex transforming cars and boss fights where the planet exploder then we get to fly around in the wrekage and have awesom intergalactic races across the UNIVERSE! I don't buy it unless all thats filling these 4 BLU-RAY disks or maybe they wilbe the first to utilize the higher capacity blu-ray disk.
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PS3sR2DEAR
- 6:24pm BST - September 27th, 2008
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The last game I bought with multiple discs was shyte - MAABUS lol
4x Blue Ray is a lot of levels or an overkill of detail, I would expect something like this for a Flight Sim, but umm
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