Oh, wait, I’ve been driving along some sort of wash or gully and someplace where there aren’t any trees for whatever reason. Let’s see, on the map, it looks like this leads to, uh, someplace I haven’t explored, so I have no idea. Superlative exploration aside, what makes this game work is the basic interaction of tires with the ground. Deformable terrain, traction physics, truck weight, torque, yadda yadda yadda. I don’t pretend to understand much of the underlying math and science, but I intuitively know the peril of driving certain kinds of trucks over certain patches of road. You learn that the big trucks can often brute force across anything with a head of steam. Your garage is filled with an array of vehicles to plough through the mud in, including nimble jeeps that are good for scouting the area ahead. They can cut through forests and wave between trees, allowing them to uncover the ‘fog of war’ that initially obscures the map and reveal wider roads and trails for your big haulers to squeeze through. There are trucks with articulated trailers, and big chunky ones that look like they’ve been rusting in the Chernobyl exclusion zone for the last thirty years. The muted colour palette, bleak overcast skies, and ageing Soviet machinery remind me of the STALKER games-as does the feeling of being constantly at war with your environment. As you chew through the mud, the vehicles feel genuinely heavy and unwieldy. The physics are excellent, creating a nice distinction between the big rigs and the smaller trucks. You’ll hear your engine heave and groan as you tackle a steep incline or muddy patch, its exhausts belching black smoke as it struggles to escape the sticky gunk. They all feel like real machines, with trailers that bounce and rattle as you trundle over uneven ground. Rocks are kicked into the air by your tires, saplings bend when you rumble over them, and water froths as you ford rivers and carve through puddles. You can choose between casual and hardcore mode, although ‘casual’ will be hardcore enough for most people. Fuel consumption is increased in hardcore, and routes you chart on the map won’t be displayed as a guide on the road as you drive. amazing visual settingĮxtremely detailed, both in terms of the surroundings and the main characters of our forest escapade, i.e. Spintiresworks on the proprietary VeeEngin engine, in addition, the photorealistic graphics have been supported by Havok technology.
This combination resulted in an electrifying effect of almost perfect reproduction of the behavior of objects visible on the screen.
I have not seen anything like this before.
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