SPINTIRES 2014 FOR ANDROID PATCH
SPINTIRES 2014 FOR ANDROID SIMULATOR

The uneven, muddy ground creates a lot of problems for heavy trucks, just as the rocky Icelandic terrain of post-apocalyptic North America poses a problem for Sam. Like Death Stranding, Spintires' environment is the biggest obstacle. It's more than just a superficial similarity, though, and it's not just the Chernobyl expansion. Maybe I've just been playing too much Death Stranding. There's a hint of the post-apocalypse about it, and combined with all the cargo deliveries, I'm getting a Death Stranding vibe. It's due out in a week and you can get a glimpse of it in action in the teaser above. Spintires: Chernobyl looks pretty gloomy, as you might expect from a sim about trudging through the muddy Exclusion Zone with only your truck for company. You can buy the DLC on Steam now for a not great, not terrible $5. And if you miss the strangely compelling, yet utterly bleak, atmosphere of HBO's recent Chernobyl miniseries, this might scratch a radioactive itch. But if you have a weakness for Chernobyl as a setting, and want to experience some of that understated STALKER-like atmosphere in a different context, it might be worth a look. If you didn't get on with the base game, this won't do much to change your mind. I would love to see this kind of off-road vehicle simulation in the next STALKER.Īpart from the radiation, however, this is just more Spintires. And, on a more superficial level, it just looks a whole lot like STALKER's grimy, overcast vision of the exclusion zone. That constant feeling of struggle, of battling the elements. People trying to eke a living out of a dangerous, inhospitable place, where the environment itself is a hazard. 'STALKER with trucks' might just sound like a grabby headline, but it really does remind me of it. The map isn't massive, but feels bigger than it is, purely because getting around the thing is so damn challenging.

SPINTIRES 2014 FOR ANDROID PATCH

Certain parts of the map are bristling with dangerous radioactive energy, which slowly damages your truck (and its payload) over time, meaning you have to get out of there quick-which is easier said than done when your back wheel has carved into a patch of sloppy mud, spinning hopelessly. Your life is made more difficult in the Chernobyl DLC by the inclusion of radiation hotspots. These little self-contained pockets of drama are what keep me playing. You have to make use of your differential lock and winch to claw your way out of the mire, without destroying your truck in the process. But what I love about it is how something as simple as driving from A to B can become wonderfully tense and challenging if you encounter a particularly rough stretch of terrain. There isn't a huge amount to do in Spintires. Your job is ferrying increasingly precarious stacks of logs from place to place, and that's it. You play as a logger-one of many who have travelled to the exclusion zone to harvest its wood, according to what I will generously refer to as the DLC's story. It needed to be bleaker.Ĭue the game's recently released Chernobyl DLC, which dumps you in a radiation-poisoned chunk of Ukraine that includes parts of the city of Pripyat, a load of mud trails and forests, and the reactor itself. But for someone on the Spintires dev team, this wasn't quite bleak enough. It's a game about navigating old Soviet trucks across muddy, waterlogged terrain, and it's kinda brilliant-a gruelling battle against nature where you try and heave a stubborn lump of metal through the sludge, wheels churning, engine wheezing, belching black smoke into the grey sky.

SPINTIRES 2014 FOR ANDROID SIMULATOR

Spintires is a sim so niche it makes Munich Bus Simulator look mainstream.

Spintires 2014 for android