My early enthusiasm, based on a couple dozen hours of gameplay, regrettably proved to be more premature than I could have anticipated. To once again appeal to the Witcher series-hey, there actually was a connection to be made insofar as Saber Interactive ported The Witcher III to the Switch-many months ago I wrote about Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales that ‘it is a pretty niche title that I imagine could only really appeal to people who liked Gwent or enjoy playing card-based video games.’ Then, in my review last week, I basically retracted this, proclaiming that ‘in revisiting Thronebreaker I’ve come to suspect that its appeal extends outside the niche of card-battlers.’Īdd SnowRunner to the list. Us game reviewers and writers often make mistakes. (On the contrary, if you’re happy with your purchase as a result, then… you’re welcome!)
And though I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to assume that anyone actually purchased SnowRunner as a result of my early impressions, if you did… I sincerely apologize. Honestly, you weren’t really thinking that and you probably didn’t read that piece. ‘But wait a minute,’ perhaps you’re asking yourself, ‘didn’t Nestor write back in June that this was a game “definitely worth checking out,” even invoking The Witcher III in the same sentence?! Didn’t he even describe SnowRunner as ‘fun’?!?’
Unfortunately, SnowRunner is also a time-sink which grows terribly dull and repetitive rather quickly. It’s a ‘delivery-sim,’ albeit one with huge sandbox worlds to explore, a multitude of missions to acquire, and a progression system that resembles your typical modern-day RPG with XP, LVLs, and a host of vehicles and upgrades to unlock and purchase as you complete more objectives. Your primary task is to wage battle against its enormous environments as you aim to deliver cargo across extremely treacherous-and monotonous-stretches of road, mud, swamp, and snow. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s the self-described ‘most advanced terrain simulation ever’ from developer Saber Interactive and publisher Focus Home Interactive that puts you in the driver’s seat of one of the game’s vast array of officially licensed, heavy-duty vehicles. These were some of the more interesting takeaways from the 170-plus hours that I sank into the blackhole of futility and boredom known as SnowRunner. trucks, they would reach the moon.’ The moon!
#SNOWRUNNER OVERSIZED CARGO DRIVERS#
Did you know that the ‘first documented use of the word “Truck” was in 1611, and it referred to the heavy duty wheels on the cannon carriages of ships’? Or that ‘Alexander Winston invented the semi-trailer in Cleveland in 1898’? Or how about the statistic that ‘only 6% of truck drivers are women’?įascinating stuff, right? Let me at least blow your mind with this piece of useless trivia: ‘If you could line up all U.S.
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