I am a secret fan of driving games. I don't talk about them much but I love Need for Speed, I love Forza, and I loved Grid. I also happen to love simulator games, whether it's a city builder, or something like Elite Dangerous (which isn't quite a sim but it is close enough), basically any game I can play to complete mundane goals while listening to a podcast.
Snow Runner is a driving Sim game all about trucks. Pick up trucks, Big Rigs, Tow Trucks, all trucks, all the time. The premise of Snow Runner is you are a guy with a truck and the world needs your master truck driving skills to......drive to a place, pick up some cargo, take that cargo to another place. Mundane as fuck let me tell you. But these tasks sort of vary, kind of. They are all about driving to a point on the map, then driving to another point on the map, but sometimes you drive to a Ubisoft tower to unlock more map, or you drive to a truck on the map to unlock that truck (aka you steal that shit because you never pay for it and you just drive off with someone else's truck). All the while you are basically trying to rebuild or repair problems around the map.
The game has a big emphasis on off-roading and the challenges that real trucks face with dealing with shitty terrain. For example, 30 seconds after starting a new game you get stuck in the mud. The truck has a magic Spider-man tow hook that you can attach to nearby trees to pull yourself out of the mud. Only to get stuck again a few moments later.
Snow Runner looked really good on paper to me. A simple mundane truck driving adventure. Yet it almost immediately showed itself to be an nightmare of constantly getting stuck,shitty driving controls, all wrapped up in every truck only being able to go 15mph tops. After a couple of hours of playing I managed to hook up a trailer to my BigRig, take materials to a bridge (which magically rebuilt itself), and got stuck in the mud (which you are forced to drive through) no less than 15 times. Then I was done.
I'm sure there is some kind of rugged truck enthusiast that would love the shit out of this game. But that's not me. I just wanted to drive a truck around and fix shit. That was slow and tedious enough for me. I didn't need the goddamn map to be made up of quicksand.
Don't bother with this unless you are really into hyper realistic getting stuck in the mud.
Snow Runner is a driving Sim game all about trucks. Pick up trucks, Big Rigs, Tow Trucks, all trucks, all the time. The premise of Snow Runner is you are a guy with a truck and the world needs your master truck driving skills to......drive to a place, pick up some cargo, take that cargo to another place. Mundane as fuck let me tell you. But these tasks sort of vary, kind of. They are all about driving to a point on the map, then driving to another point on the map, but sometimes you drive to a Ubisoft tower to unlock more map, or you drive to a truck on the map to unlock that truck (aka you steal that shit because you never pay for it and you just drive off with someone else's truck). All the while you are basically trying to rebuild or repair problems around the map.
The game has a big emphasis on off-roading and the challenges that real trucks face with dealing with shitty terrain. For example, 30 seconds after starting a new game you get stuck in the mud. The truck has a magic Spider-man tow hook that you can attach to nearby trees to pull yourself out of the mud. Only to get stuck again a few moments later.
Snow Runner looked really good on paper to me. A simple mundane truck driving adventure. Yet it almost immediately showed itself to be an nightmare of constantly getting stuck,shitty driving controls, all wrapped up in every truck only being able to go 15mph tops. After a couple of hours of playing I managed to hook up a trailer to my BigRig, take materials to a bridge (which magically rebuilt itself), and got stuck in the mud (which you are forced to drive through) no less than 15 times. Then I was done.
I'm sure there is some kind of rugged truck enthusiast that would love the shit out of this game. But that's not me. I just wanted to drive a truck around and fix shit. That was slow and tedious enough for me. I didn't need the goddamn map to be made up of quicksand.
Don't bother with this unless you are really into hyper realistic getting stuck in the mud.