![]() ![]() The physics are excellent, creating a nice distinction between the big rigs and the smaller trucks. As you chew through the mud, the vehicles feel genuinely heavy and unwieldy. The muted colour palette, bleak overcast skies, and ageing Soviet machinery remind me of the STALKER games-as does the feeling of being constantly at war with your environment. There are trucks with articulated trailers, and big chunky ones that look like they’ve been rusting in the Chernobyl exclusion zone for the last thirty years. They can cut through forests and wave between trees, allowing them to uncover the ‘fog of war’ that initially obscures the map and reveal wider roads and trails for your big haulers to squeeze through. Your garage is filled with an array of vehicles to plough through the mud in, including nimble jeeps that are good for scouting the area ahead. You learn that the big trucks can often brute force across anything with a head of steam. I don’t pretend to understand much of the underlying math and science, but I intuitively know the peril of driving certain kinds of trucks over certain patches of road. ![]() Deformable terrain, traction physics, truck weight, torque, yadda yadda yadda. Superlative exploration aside, what makes this game work is the basic interaction of tires with the ground. Let’s see, on the map, it looks like this leads to, uh, someplace I haven’t explored, so I have no idea. Oh, wait, I’ve been driving along some sort of wash or gully and someplace where there aren’t any trees for whatever reason. Moddable with Steam Workshop, create your own vehicles or maps.Spintires is about roads that sometimes aren’t even roads.Highly detailed audio system, with true to life vehicle sounds.Physics vehicle simulation with deformable tires, wobbling body parts and detailed exhaust smoke.A dynamic weather system, featuring rain and wind.7 maps based on the beautiful harsh lands of Russia with physics-based trees, bushes and rocks.10 highly detailed soviet inspired vehicles and trucks with various attachments.Interactive water with physics-based water animations.Deformable terrain with detailed mud particle effects.A physics sandbox that is vastly moddable with a huge modding community expanding the horizons every day – try some of the mods available on the Steam workshop or have a go at creating your own with the included Spintires Editor. Offering a truly immersive driving experience, watch in amazement as your vehicle becomes entangled in trees, bogged down in mud or swept away by river currents. Unlock and use more capable vehicles, or install one of the vast amounts of attachments available to help you along the way. Winch yourself, or friends out of a mudslinging exercise and explore the depths of Russia, finding garages and fuel stations to keep your vehicle alive – carry logs and bring them to the objectives without becoming lost or stuck in the mud. ![]() Spintires boasts a quirky new experience every time you play. Featuring a highly unique physics-based deformable terrain and water interaction technology. The ultimate off-road challenge, climb aboard incredibly detailed soviet inspired vehicles and venture across the rough and tough terrain motherland Russia has to offer. The award-winning, million-seller indie hit, Spintires®: The Original Game. As of this writing, two months after the delisting and with no official word from Oovee, it is questionable if Spintires will return to Steam once again. This post by user Unster is particularly succinct and includes links to the USPTO filings released to the public so far. Unfortunately, many of the details of these proceedings are confidential but users on the Oovee forums have compiled much of the factual information available. It would appear that their latest efforts have removed the original Spintires from Steam, either due to a new court ruling or a similar DMCA takedown claim filed with Valve. Thanks to a ruling in 2018, Saber dropped the name from its MudRunner titles but has continued to fight over the property. In 2017 Saber Interactive launched the spin-off title, MudRunner, and initially included ‘Spintires’ in the name. Oovee and Saber Interactive have long been embroiled in legal disputes over ownership of the Spintires property and usage of its name. The matter was settled at the time and the game returned to sale on August 15th, 2019 before being delisted again on January 4th, 2021. Spintires was delisted and unavailable on Steam between August 1st and August 15th, 2019 after an “unverified individual from Russia” filed a DMCA takedown with Valve (original post deleted, reposted on Reddit). ![]()
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