I'm a big fan of the original Spin Tyres, and also Mud Runner. Originally the game is about using old Soviet military vehicles to drag logs to saw mills, down very muddy, sometimes flooded tracks, or fast flowing rivers etc. And this is proper the mud, the kind where you sink up to your knees and lose yer wellies.
You would start with a small scout car and a fairly standard truck, the scout car, you used to unlock the map by find watchtowers, these would also show where other vehicles are stashed, but sometimes they needed to be refilled or repaired. Trucks would range from 2wd, to proper 8 x 8 scud missile type trucks which would be unstoppable but absolutely guzzle the fuel. In lesser trucks you can get bogged down or stuck, and have to winch off trees etc. Or go and find something else to tow you in. In coop, once me and Hirst spent 10 minutes trying to drag a truck 10 foot over a ditch because we couldn't be bothered to go the long way one.
Anyway that's the basics, I've not played the US expansion for Mudrunner, the setting of Snar Runner starts off in a backwater US town, its all fall colours, flannel shirts and blue jeans, and your first mission is to find a truck and repair a downed bridge. It's got a lovely looking setting, with loads of rock trails, streams etc. So far I've just played in a pickup truck, which when I first started, I nailed the throttle and it just slewed sideways
And also an old Mack truck which is on road only. I got stuck a few times in muddy puddles, and also had to winch my trailer across the mud before I could hitch it up.
On the chevy pick up, you have low range gears and 4wd, but no diff lock. You have to make use of all settings depending on the situations. 4wd and diff lock, uses the most fuel, but gets the most traction at the expense of turning left and right. This is a game often played at walking pace, and it's all about finding purchase. That little spot which isn't thick with clarts and might just see you ok to the brow of the hill. You can't bomb round like a rally car, throttle nailed. Sometimes you are using the gentlest squeeze of the trigger.
It's a lot more polished than the original, I believe there a lots of maps etc. Personally I prefer the Russian setting, way out in the Urals somewhere with some battered old smokey truck. Apparently there are tons of trucks and upgrades and mods, there is also a clone of a British Scammel truck!
You would start with a small scout car and a fairly standard truck, the scout car, you used to unlock the map by find watchtowers, these would also show where other vehicles are stashed, but sometimes they needed to be refilled or repaired. Trucks would range from 2wd, to proper 8 x 8 scud missile type trucks which would be unstoppable but absolutely guzzle the fuel. In lesser trucks you can get bogged down or stuck, and have to winch off trees etc. Or go and find something else to tow you in. In coop, once me and Hirst spent 10 minutes trying to drag a truck 10 foot over a ditch because we couldn't be bothered to go the long way one.
Anyway that's the basics, I've not played the US expansion for Mudrunner, the setting of Snar Runner starts off in a backwater US town, its all fall colours, flannel shirts and blue jeans, and your first mission is to find a truck and repair a downed bridge. It's got a lovely looking setting, with loads of rock trails, streams etc. So far I've just played in a pickup truck, which when I first started, I nailed the throttle and it just slewed sideways
And also an old Mack truck which is on road only. I got stuck a few times in muddy puddles, and also had to winch my trailer across the mud before I could hitch it up.On the chevy pick up, you have low range gears and 4wd, but no diff lock. You have to make use of all settings depending on the situations. 4wd and diff lock, uses the most fuel, but gets the most traction at the expense of turning left and right. This is a game often played at walking pace, and it's all about finding purchase. That little spot which isn't thick with clarts and might just see you ok to the brow of the hill. You can't bomb round like a rally car, throttle nailed. Sometimes you are using the gentlest squeeze of the trigger.
It's a lot more polished than the original, I believe there a lots of maps etc. Personally I prefer the Russian setting, way out in the Urals somewhere with some battered old smokey truck. Apparently there are tons of trucks and upgrades and mods, there is also a clone of a British Scammel truck!
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