Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
Join Jon Denton, Tim Wheatley, Simon Croft and guest(s) as they discuss sim racing and racing games past, present and future.
In a somewhat shocking turn of events, especially for those in sim racing who have become so familiar with Geoff Crammond and his Grand Prix series, Infogrames yesterday announced that the studio responsible for those titles would be immediately shutdown, going on to confirm today this means the XBOX release of Grand Prix 4 has been cancelled.
This is quite sad when you consider that the licensing fee is no doubt fully paid and the XBOX product was demoed to press and appeared to be almost ready for release according to various published previews.
GP4 is a simulation of the 2001 Formula One World Championship. It includes the 17 tracks from the season and allows the player to select from 11 teams.