Review roundup of Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game
It's time to leave camp and put your extreme driving skills to work on a scientific mission: Expeditions: A MudRunner Game is now available. But does Saber Interactive's recipe for Snowrunner or Mudrunner also work here? We've summarised the test results to give you an idea.
Expeditions: A MudRunner Game invites you to explore the wide open spaces of Colorado, the Grand Canyon in Arizona and the forested landscapes of the Carpathian Mountains. The gameplay and graphics engine are tried and tested, but does this new iteration have what it takes?
As of writing, on both Metacritic and OpenCritic, the average score is 79/100.
IGN: Expeditions: A MudRunner Game certainly isn’t a replacement for the supremely addictive SnowRunner, but its more untamed wilderness maps and huge truckload of exploration-focused missions do see it function as a very worthwhile complementary experience – despite some aggravating mission gating and a bit of an unfriendly map screen. Its unique brand of slow-paced bushwhacking won’t ever be for everybody, but successfully taking a truck on a trek through terrain that the toughest trailblazers would fear to tread is still an oddly satisfying challenge that proves the journey is always more important than the destination.
RPS: These ruts in the road prevent Saber Interactive from delivering a soil-cold classic, but Expeditions: Mudrunner nonetheless succeeds in its primary objective, to build a world where the car and the ground are at irrepressible odds, and it's your job to make them work together to crack the case. That case might prove to be mundane fly tipping rather than anything juicier, but watching our dynamic duo constantly wrestle with one another for supremacy never ceases to be entertaining.
Hardcore Gamer: Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game has a lot of tidying up to do to become what it should be, but there's a wonderfully-rewarding game in there once you've learned its quirks.
What did others say? Take a look below.
Critics' scores for Expeditions: A MudRunner Game
- Gameblog - 8/10
- IGN France - 8/10
- actugaming - 7/10
- jvmag.ch - 7,5/10
- IGN - 8/10
- TheSixthAxis - 8/10
- God is a Geek - 7,5 / 10.0
- Pure XBOX - 8/10
- Hardcore Gamer - 7/10
- Shacknews - 7/10
- VG247 - 8/10
- Push Square - 8/10
- CGMagazine - 9/10
- GameSpew - 8/10
- Worth Playing - 8/10