Spintires -The ultimate off-road truck simulation ®

Bodybuilding. The first thing that comes to mind is bodybuilding because after trying to find a route  through the bilge, sludge and forest i felt like i spent half a day in a stuffy gym. Punching through  piles of mud which only a drunk trenchers would call road requires extraordinary mental and physical effort.

Spintires is a simulation of driving heavy duty trucks and general research of almost impassable terrain which, with every passing second reminds us that we need to appreciate the achievements of civilization  such as asphalt, street lights and bulldozers. Watch out, these aren't any trucks but Soviet suckers meant  for cargo carrying through all weather conditions. To make it more interesting, the game was made by a British development team.

The main characteristics of Spintires is an excellent simulation of deformation of fields and decay of already catastrophic muddy roads when you cross them a few times in your trucks. Sludge sticks to the wheels, holes stay on the road throughout the game and mudd and quagmire sprays all over the place while your respected truck gags through it like a happy dirty rhino.

Fun by itself, this turns into an pure adrenaline rampage in multiplayer mode when you are joined by some colleagues to the roaming of the horrors of the Russian nature and all together get stuck in mudd and have to pull out each other with cables.

-When starting a new game you get to choose between Casual and Hardcore modes of play on different maps, except  that here "casual" must be taken conditionally. In fact, if you figure  out what's "casual" in being stuck in knee deep mudd in the very first minute of play and being forced to restart from the nearest garage position, let me know.

-Hardcore on the other hand will knock out the euphoria with faster fuel consumption, inability to restart the position from the garage  and manual gear changing when pulling out of mud.

It's amazing to which extent the developers went in simulating the smallest details - the physical model will, say, take care of breaking of thinner trees when the heavy vehicles run into them, vegetation bends around the truck, the engine will flood  if you try and cross the river where it's too deep or if you shake the vehicle with any smaller jump, you have the possibility of activating all-wheel drive (which requires more fuel) etc.

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