Let it be known, that i am not a car/ truck guy..
A forewarning, bit of a learning curve at the beginning, but you will do just that, learn. Don't capitulate to your weak flesh and mind and look up what to do on google. Use your gray and the steel provided to persevere.
So, it is, surprisingly fun, more so than i was expecting at least. There is actual gameplay here that unfolds that i was not expecting. Saw one review that described Snowrunner as the "darksouls of driving games" .... in a weird way... this is actually spot on. the world is empty, aside from the occasional wildlife, leaving you with that lonely, lost feeling. The world is your enemy and your vehicle is your weapon. You watch the land, learning its form and how to move around it. cutting through it inch by inch, taking your time not to fall for its traps, but even the careful fall victim to the sneaky earth, ready to envelope you at any time. but fret not, you are not without power, not without tools..
... you will learn to wield them or you will yield to the elements... never to be heard of again..
game play = shockingly like a 8
graphics = 8 ( in my opinion, graphics really dont need to be better than this)
performance = 5 , you have to disable HAGS to reduce stuttering and while this removes pretty much all of it, there still some hitching/ getting bogged down in certain scenarios, seemingly huge jumps in gpu utilization for what appears to be no reason, especially if you want to run msaa x 8 at 1440 +
AGIAN, IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU DISABLE HAGS.
overall = still 8, the random performance bogs are either 1.) ignorable or 2.) you can remove them by reducing graphics settings. they are, ultimately, entirely avoidable.
The game is just that, a game, and these days, that is appreciated. Soo many devilopers (intentional) these days dont know what a game is, they probably have never studied game science, and probably have never really played games in their life. They took some shat class at their local community college or devry or Full Fail University, that taught them the basics of coding and how to work with blender, adobe, photoshop, and unreal engine 5 and think they are qualified to make games that affect generations of people. They use it as a vehicle to show the world their "Art" and try to push their agendas or pander to a specific group of people for some cringy social media virtue signaling, to show how "enlightened" they are. When your meme of a social message becomes more important than the product, you are no longer a developer, but instead are a "Deviloper". You have become a parasite, who's whole existence is a faux pas.
Anyway, game is game, and game is good.
Have a good one gents, 07
