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The game seems to revel in the details, forcing you to do small tasks like cranking the ignition, releasing the parking brake and physically hooking up trailers. I ultimately settled on making mental notes of left and right turns rather than trying to plot courses through these winding logging roads. Even when there are structured missions they are set in this huge open world where you are left with only a map and a compass and a rather poor waypoint system that ignores the roads and terrain and only offers вЂњas the crow fliesвЂќ connectivity. Spintires: MudRunner seems more intent on delivering a playground rather than a proper game. If you drive from this view expect to be tweaking the camera 100% of the time. Trying to line up the camera so you can back into a trailer hook-up or drop-off is way more difficulty than it needs to be.

You can pan around the truck and the camera will zoom in and out on its own, and even the height seems out of your control. The other option is this free-floating chase camera that is entirely manual. You have two options the first being behind the wheel, which is somewhat realistic but also adds tremendous difficulty until you learn the turning radius of your truck, with and without a trailer especially when your challenge requires no damage during delivery. This leads to one of my biggest issues with the game вЂ“ the CAMERA. The first mission asks you to never drive in the oncoming lane and to drive from the cockpit camera once you have hooked up your trailer. The Challenge mode offers bite-size chunks of gameplay, usually involving picking up and delivering cargo with a few rule modifications thrown in. The game earns its name as you will spend nearly all of your playtime spinning your tires.

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I assumed the game had my best interests in mind, so I followed blindly, learning how to drive various trucks on impossibly rutted roads, often with tire-deep puddles or thick mud. The game opens with a mandatory tutorial before you even get to the main menu, and then when you want to dive into what appears to be the single-player content the game strongly encourages you to try the Challenge mode first. There is a new Challenge mode offering specific objective-based missions set on nine new maps and 13 new vehicles are added bringing the all-terrain tally to 19 unlockable ATVs. This ultimate version features a complete graphical overhaul along with a new Sandbox Map added to the original five mission maps. Spintires: MudRunner is the updated/remastered version of Spintires apparently a massive indie hit that I had never heard of, but if you happen to own it then you can get Mudrunner for half price. Casual gamers and those with a short fuse on their patience disposition should probably avoid this game at all costs, but for those who enjoy the thrill of вЂњmuddingвЂќ and the satisfaction of strategically conquering massive maps loaded with A to B driving challenges, disable that parking brake and hit the gas.

If you have patience, I would definitely recommend it.As someone who has endured over 50 Indiana winters вЂ“ more than 35 of them as a motorist вЂ“ I know a few things about getting stuck on and off the road, and even though Spintires: MudRunner uses mud instead of snow, the principles and physics of getting stuck (and unstuck) are painfully accurate in this niche off-road trucking simulator. It's difficult to handle the camera and most of 1st person view is outside the cabin. Keymapping in gamepad is bad, yet it does not allow you to change. Gamepad support is only partial, and awkward, so you need to use use mouse too. The tutorial is very limited, it will not teach you everything you need to know. The graphics is top notch, one of the best in simulation games I know, and probably the best. The terrain does not forget what you did to it, and it's brilliant. The water gets dirty as you drive through, and the dirt slowly settle as you leave. The mud looks superb, terrain transformation is very real, better than anything I've played, ever. I've never seen such detailed and good physics before, it makes GTA V, Half-life 2 physics look childish. Driving the vehicles is very enjoying, especially when you are in the mud.

It's similar to car simulation games, except you don't have to deal too much with the inner working of vehicles. The game is a marvelous sandbox, it's big, open and it's beautiful. By whoskent | Review Date: January 20, 2016

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