

The winch is so easy to attach and use that it smooths the roughest spots in the game and almost feels like cheating at times, but it’s also an indispensable tool for fixing even the worst of situations and making sure you don’t have to start over. If a vehicle hits uneven terrain and flips, you can bring a heavy vehicle in, winch to it, and pull it back upright to continue the trek. If there’s a tree nearby, you can attach the winch in a jiffy and yank yourself out of most tough spots. Each vehicle comes equipped with a winch and this feels somewhat like the easy way out of situations. That said, it’s not like there aren’t ways around the worst of it either. All in all, as a simulation, MudRunner makes the trek feel tough and satisfying when you finish it with your vehicles of choice, though it can also feel slow and lengthy.

Crossing a river or trudging up a wet hill can feel tough and satisfying, but it can also feel very tedious when you’re fighting the firmament at each and every moment. Every obstacle that isn’t flat dirt presents a new challenge for your vehicles to overcome. When your convoy truck digs into some waterlogged mud puddles, you can feel the strain of the engine as you inch your way towards every centimeter of freedom. It’s about trudging through some of the roughest conditions Saber could imagine. The physics in MudRunner makes driving a nearly white-knuckle engagement in a multitude of settings. The real fun is in exploring the far corners of a map and seeing where the wild wilderness takes you and your vehicles. Most often, it’s a lumber delivery from a log station or loader to the lumber mill and this changes very little throughout each of the main maps. The maps are fairly varied with islands, rivers, hills, mountains, and other various extreme terrain to challenge your driving, but the objectives are a bit slim and boring. Meanwhile, sections of the map are blacked out and require driving to observation posts to reveal the area. You can gain control and switch to any of the trucks found on the map by driving close to unlock them.
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The main maps are a series of massive landscapes in which you must complete objectives, usually by making a delivery from one part of the map to another using the various trucks you have unlocked and those supplied on the map.

If it weren’t for the small objectives, such as driving solely from the camera inside the cab or not letting go of the acceleration at any point, these challenges would just feel like extra tutorial, but they do all teach you valuable tips and show you things about MudRunner’s physics you might not otherwise get in the main game. Along with that, you get various objectives and a timer that you can challenge to put your skills to the test and get the most out of your learning. After a short tutorial that gives you the basics of driving, Challenges are kind of like extra training to introduce you to a multitude of advanced features in driving and control. Spintires: Mudrunner is split into two main parts between Challenges and the main maps.

Context is limited and you won’t exactly be chasing a story, but you can run solo or take some friends for the ride in a multiplayer exploration. The sequel boasts a slew of new vehicles, a wide new sandbox map alongside the game’s original maps, graphical and interface improvements, and more to push players to the limit and make every drive feel like a dynamic experience. The idea has always been to take heavy-duty off-road vehicles into the dense trails of the wilderness to explore and complete industrial work. MudRunner is the second game in the Spintires series. It’s not a perfect ride, but MudRunner offers an tight off-road delivery simulation that’ll grind your determination to the bone and feel great when you come through the rough journeys ahead. All in a day’s work in a session of Spintires: MudRunner. That said, I’ve got the trucks, SUVs, and torque to do the work and the wilderness awaits me. Trees, puddles, rivers, hills, and mountains upon mountains of mud sit between me and my job. Within that 2000 meters sits some of the most densely packed and uneven terrain the folks at Saber Interactive could devise. It’s a trip I’m going to be taking back and forth through my mission to get freshly cut logs from the field to the lumber station.
