![]() Water looks nice from afar but it's far from nice when it's washing up your windscreen in cockpit view (this is something to be avoided in any case as it's usually a harbinger of sinking doom). ![]() The ever present mud looks great on the ground, but when clumped on your tyres appears rather generic and untextured. A consequence perhaps of the game’s incredibly small install size. ![]() The flip side to this is that the environments look somewhat average, and it doesn't take long to notice there are only a few different species of tree in the world of Spintires: Mudrunner. ![]() There are jeeps suitable for scouting new terrain, high-riders for crossing deeper waters, and a low-slung 8x8 beast that looks like it started life hauling ICBMs for Mother Russia. With exciting and awe-inspiring names like B-131 and K-900 these Soviet workhorses are equipped with multiple axes and identical dashboards yet all handle differently. Having never encountered any of these vehicles in real or virtual life (as they can only be found in parts of the world I'm unlikely to ever visit) I'll just have to assume they are. Speaking of fellow comrades, the trucks in Spintires: Mudrunner are rendered nicely and I would like to say accurately. You can transfer yourself to another truck on the map and initiate rescue and repairs for your downed comrade. It's not a magic wand however and there will be times when you're up shit creek without a paddle. The winch is a life saver and can be attached from numerous points on your truck to trees or other handy objects in the world. Too much throttle when trying to defeat the implacable ooze leaves your tyres spinning and you questioning your choice of route. Most of the trucks you use have all-wheel-drive and a locking diff to assist when traversing the treacherous terrain. These are important as they allow you to customize your trucks purpose by adding log carriers, fuel tanks, cranes and so on. Every map contains a number of trucks to unlock which can then be used to further your forestry journeys. All while alternatively coaxing and brute-forcing your trucks through quagmires of mud on what the locals laughingly refer to as 'roads'. Whilst pursuing your wood-filled adventures you'll be utilizing an assortment of vehicles to carry the cargo, refuel and repair, and assist in the recovery of vehicles you may have stranded. The main objective of Spintires: Mudrunner though is to haul logs from a log yard to a lumber mill on a variety of different maps. The various challenges are educational and surprisingly fun, with some particularly difficult to complete bonus objectives. Challenge mode is suggested prior to launching single player, as advanced elements like refueling and repairing need to be learnt. Spintires: Mudrunner begins with a brief tutorial that introduces a few of the basic controls and features, such as all-wheel drive and the winch, before you can access the whole game. Speeds are usually in the single digits and there's not so much drifting as there is sliding. Gentle throttle control is still required, but you're battling getting bogged rather than oversteer. Precision steering is more like wrestling, the huge steering wheel reluctant to grant a modicum of control over your truck’s heading. Race tracks have been replaced with meandering mud covered logging trails through dense forests. Spintires: Mudrunner could not be more of a departure from this. Puddles of standing water and swiftly moving rivers that can overturn and sweep away your truck if crossed incorrectly will cleanse your tyres of the ubiquitous ooze - albeit only for a brief moment.īecause in Spintires: Mudrunner, there’s always more mud.Ĭoming from my previous reviews I've become accustomed to racing and drifting highly tuned vehicles around well defined and solidly surfaced circuits. It clings tenaciously to your tyres and will eventually replace them entirely as you slowly slog your way through the deep and squishy morass. Sure Spintires: Mudrunner might look like a truck simulator, but it ain't Mud is the real hero of this game. These days there’s a simulator for pretty much any activity you can think of, including getting your all-wheel drive vehicle stuck in some mud. ![]()
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