A Sincere Review Of Expeditions: A MudRunner Game!

Not many YouTubers are bold enough to speak their thoughts on the newest installment to the Spintires Series, However, I'm willing to say what only a few will come forward to say in this review of Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game.

[NProvince]

While I was hoping for driver talent trees; Specialist is also another great feature

This review WAS NOT implying that folks should only listen to content creators that dedicate mass amounts of time to the SpinTires series alone. As most videos made on this channel; it is to give you a different perspective and even if you disagree, I hope it at least made you think about the things presented. Love ya’ll!

[SentinelxPrime]

I reallly just want to see them add in manual gearboxes with realistic engine torque simulation, and better engine audio simulation.

[generaldisarray]

It's looking more and more like a game I would get during a Steam sale.

[RevolutionFalls]

I just want the desert maps, tire pressures, and other new tweaks and features of Expeditions in Snowrunner.

[MrCaryse]

Love your honest review, your not over inflating the information one way or the other. I love both games but for seperate reasons because like you said they are separate identities.

Love the interactive aspect of snowrunner where you can see some visual changes that you are makeing. You are also a hauler so you pick up something from one spot and take it to another, but you usually end up pigeoned into running the same routes back and forth, and if you get stuck your stuck. SnowRunner is fun because its a jump in a truck and go, you figure it out along the way and if you get into trouble you just head back to the garage or pull out a different truck.

In Expedition you are a explorer, your choices of paths become just about unlimited as you play through the game more. All the extra cargo, fuel and roll bars are what i would do if i was planning big money to go put and investigate stuff in the middle of nowhere where you can't visit the store next door and pick up what you need. Expedition is a time wasted with each expedition taking a short amount of time then you have to head back to the Headquarters to start next one, yes you can do some tasks while out on the expedition but some are locked because you may not have the requirements to do them. Expedition is a driving puzzle game on hardmode as regular. You have to preplan your gear, and loadouts for the task at hand. The other thing i noticed is you are kinda encouraged to jump between zones as you progress, the desert area goes from easy immediately into hard and very hard, but if you go to the forested area you can find more easy expeditions to help gear you up more.

[cinemapigeon]

I like Snowrunner but I found a lot of the gameplay loop tedious. I love the exploration and off roading, but having to make 5 trips of cargo to complete a delivery mission got tiring, as it felt like gameplay bloat (although I know that's the core gameplay loop). Expeditions is looking interesting to me since it seems like more exploration and less "make 5 separate trips of large logs across a few maps to a farm" missions.

[misha]

Fair review, Nathan, and I say that as a fellow "Snowrunner". I did have to chuckle a bit, though, at the "repetitiveness" point because, to me personally, that's the one thing that turned me off in Snowrunner. Not the cargo hauls in themselves, I, too, loved the whole haul and rebuild mechanic (and DO miss it in Expeditions), but I didn't much appreciate it when, starting in Yukon IIRC, it turned from "try to figure out how to get this load from A to B" (love that bit!) into "try to figure out how to get this load from A to B and then do the exact same thing 472 more times." I'd rather have 7 different hauls than 7 repeats of the same one.

[adink]

I just finished my first mission in Expedition. I was shocked that the game told me to recover my truck then sent me back to the mission select screen. I was like " that's it?" The ability to overload our trucks to tackle different missions at the same time is what makes Snowrunner fun. You really need to plan ahead and use your 🧠. You feel you accomplish something when you spend 2 hours+ to haul materials to build that bridge because now you can access other parts of the map much easier and quicker because of the bridge you build.

[ToMiKA]

Great review man! I think i feel the same way about it and so unless they do something more to attract the MR/SR crowds like myself, im sticking to SR for now :)

[Oposum]

Good review. Snowrunner is a hard core simulator of offroad trucks and transporting heavy loads on difficult terrains, Expeditions is an exploration game, similar to the scout missions in Snowrunner. If you like the simulation of heavy and offroad trucks - you play Snowrunner, if you like walking in the wilderness with checkpoints, taking pictures of mountains, controlling a drone, watching with binoculars - you play Expeditions. I am a fan of offroad truck simulations and heavy cargo transport.

[iansendry]

Nah man I got into snow runner around 2 years ago, and every time I needed to look up a video regarding the game I’d always look for your channel. You have opinions that are very well grounded and base your videos off of facts you are able to provide proof too. I remember your Taiga King video and you went over everything about both vehicles, even some minute details such as appearance upgrades that might also change which vehicle the player uses. I didn’t know much about Expeditions and was thinking about getting back into the Spintires series. However, with the lack visual progress you make, such as fixing buildings or repairing broken bridges, there doesn’t seem to be much in terms of progression. Money and trucks with a few upgrades? Little unfortunate to see tire deflation and rock crawling never make it into Snowrunner, and even more unfortunate to not see a manual gear box option either game. When I’m ready to play Snowrunner again I’ll just pick up the year 3 pass on sale.

[BeatstormX]

This game fails to pass the basics of game architecture, what is the player reward after completing pointless missions, just to get some money to buy inferior trucks compared to Pay2Win DLCs

[teleMenace]

Thanks for your honest opinion about the game, Nathan . I definitely feel the same way about the game

[yourlocalbaltimorerailfan.]

I respect and appreciate that you called it the "Spintires" series. That is the games true name.

[Carnivore-Chronicle]

To sum up the video, Nathan is absolutely correct by saying: "Perhaps there is a better snowrunner in the works."
Thats what i hope also

[LordArthurWellesley]

Still feels like a techdemo for a future Snowrunner patch, but with a full game pricetag. I'll grab it on a sale, and then, maybe there will be modded real life trucks and cars in it, like in Snowrunner (Defender, Hummer, Jeep, Hilux, vehicles that makes sense in a game scenario like this).

[SDONE]

Amazing Review, Agreed with each and every point you made. I think this game is a suitable testing ground for next main "runner" entry. Devs can try what works and what not in this game.

[themanwithnoname]

What disappointed me the most was the game doesent really have much in the offroading department, take mudrunner, EVERYWHERE you went there were going to be deep ass mudpits for you to struggle through, where as in this game i barely ever have to switch to four wheel drive lmfao, this game is more so a rock climber, and the rock climbing aint all tht satisfying to me, maybe im biased but i just dont enjoy it as much as i do mudrunner

[MrMisuma]

This is not something I normally would play, but it seems so calming some how. I’m intrigued.

[Paladwyn]

I just started playing it because it's available on Gamepass. A little late to the party but still.

I've put a considerable amount of hours into Snowrunner, Mudrunner, Spintires (Mostly Snowrunner) so this is coming from a person who's familiar with the franchise.

My opinion is that it's fun in a different perspective. It took me a bit to get around the initial shock of how everything feels, controls are different, you need to let the old system go and refocus on this game's controls. Muscle memory is going to mess you up, a lot, so be aware of that. Roll with it and get used to it and things will flow better.

I like the scouting aspect, realizing it's a different beast of a game I know that I also need to adjust my perspective of what's to be expected. I agree that it certainly feels like there's not much change rather than getting money, but I like to add in a bit of my own head cannon into it, whatever makes you feel as if you're making a difference, but that's not easy to do. I would actually like to see them make Expeditions into a Snowrunner Prequel. What do I mean by that? I'm glad you asked! Well, in Snowrunner we all see the missions laid out before us, see what we need to do. But who decided that? Who found all the stuff that needed fixing? Well, wouldn't it be interesting to have the Expeditions team have done all that? *shrug* Maybe it's just me.

Overall I'm enjoying it for what it's worth, paying nothing certainly helps. Would I buy the DLC like I have for Snowrunner? Eh, maybe? Probably not, time will tell. Still, it's a find little side game to scratch the itch, albeit a slightly different itch.