There are six maps for you to play on, and you must strategize and do well on each map to open the next one. The single player mode does not have a story, but it doeshave some sort of purpose, as you are tasked with delivering logs to the various lumber mills on the map. With this negative experience under my belt, I thought would try the single player mode, and I kept my expectations low. Needless to say, I was very frustrated, and I just had to stop. I spent an hour trying to do this, but to no avail. Well, I can say that I suck at parking a trailer, as I never got it to line up the way they wanted me too. You need to back it in and line it up perfectly straight when you drop it off too. The very first challenge has you driving a truck, with a trailer, and you need to deliver that trailer to a marked destination on your map. I was like WTF, to learn how to play I must play a mode that isn’t teaching me, instead it’s a mode where I need to face challenges with a pass or fail. There is a tutorial, but it is as basic as they come, and the game even tells you to check out the challenge mode to ‘learn’ more of how to play. What you must know is that it is not a game that holds your hand. There are a few modes for players to enjoy, including Single Player, Multiplayer, and Challenge mode. Publisher Focus Home Interactive thought it might make a good console title, so they got it ported over to the Xbox One, and it has made the transition pretty well. By gaming standards, it garnered quite a following, and this indie game has been a hit for quite some time. Spintires: Mudrunner is not a new game per se, as it was released on PC about 3 years ago. It’s also a game that when I first started playing, I hated, but after an hour or two I started to see the ‘hook’, shall we say, and I was somewhat enamored by what Saber Interactive created. It’s a game that actually makes you think when playing, as you navigate through muddy trails, tree lined dirt roads, deep water puddles, and even cross a river or two. Yes, like so many driving games out there, you drive vehicles, but these vehicles are off-road monsters that can tackle some pretty rough terrain. I checked out the game’s trailer and discovered that it is a title that is not your traditional driving game, and I thought “why not”. When looking at our list of those games that still needed to be reviewed, I came across a title called Spintires: Mudrunner.

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