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You can switch in and out of four-wheel drive as terrain changes, and lock and unlock differentials. There’s also plenty to tinker with in terms of the function of your vehicles. And that’s just the start of the role it can play. Once hooked up, reeling in the winch line while accelerating can pull you out of the stickiest spots. Just as in many real off-road competitive disciplines – and the forestry industry itself – attaching a winch to a nearby tree or another anchor point can prove vital to maneuvering a vehicle. Here, though, you are armed with various extra abilities starting with a motorised winch. If Spintires: MudRunner were only about accelerating hard and jiggling steering wheels it would quickly become tedious. And on occasion, you really will spend decent amounts of time just slowly plodding forward.Īnother reason it all feels so rewarding is because of the tools you have at your disposal in carving a path towards your destination. It’s a testament to the game’s unhurried pace that it really is possible to drive capably while simultaneously moving a free-camera around to analyse terrain and progress. Saber has created another example of ‘slow gaming’, where the lack of furious action and pace provides a welcome respite from a hectic reality. It is remarkable what a victory it can feel to finally push the front wheels of a huge truck over a hump, and have them find traction on solid ground, releasing you from what felt like an impossible struggle with an unforgiving mire. It turns out that progress in a driving game doesn’t have to be fused to speed. The core gameplay in Spintires: Mudrunner, though, is surprisingly relaxing, rewarding and pleasurable. After all, out here in reality, there are few things as frustrating as getting a vehicle stuck in mud, burning your clutch out as spinning tires greedily carve an increasingly deep groove in the ground below them, asserting their commitment to staying put with spiraling devotion. Most of the time driving will be spent inching forward, while you focus on how you might overcome a rocky protrusion that has one front wheel hooked up and an array of back wheels stuck wildly spinning as they nearly disappear beneath a pool of mud. Simply put, getting to a mill will take crossing some extremely bumpy, gloopy terrain through vast rural sandboxes. But in Spintires: MudRunner, it really is about the journey more than the destination. The game is built around the rather pedestrian task of picking up logs and driving them to lumber mills. But Saber’s creation is going to demand you do a lot more than accelerate and brake to make progress. There’s none of the fastidious realism of the likes of Train Sim World, where you had to familiarise yourself with all kinds of jargon and memorise elaborate switch sequences simply to move forward. Spintires: MudRunner presents itself as a simulator, but in terms of vehicle handling and interaction it certainly has some arcade leanings. This is Spintires revisited, meaning you get the gameplay that has always defined the series.

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Existing Spintires: MudRunner players can, of course, simply upgrade their version by grabbing the American Wild expansion in isolation.

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Last year’s version was itself a hybrid sequel-remake of the cult 2014 PC hit Spintires.

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That means you get the 2017 Spintires: MudRunner, plus all the DLC released to date, as well as the sizable new American Wilds expansion. But before we get around to all that, a clarification: this review is for the American Wild’s Edition of Spintires: MudRunner.

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