I don't consider myself a great driver and I'm not a big fan of cars either, but i love driving. My vacation usually goes a little bit on that. I say "where do you want to go? Can you go by car?"And if the answer to the second is yes, my double joy.
Take the kids to Disneyland? Let's go. On the route through the French Riviera? Charmed. On a honeymoon? To travel the West Coast and join Route 66, please. It does not matter if it is speaking, with a good soundtrack or alone and in complete silence, give me a steering wheel and an entertaining road and you will make me the happiest person in the world.
Adventure to the known
Alluding to that of “you don't know what you have until you lose it”, it has not been until now, weeks after taking the car for journeys of just over five minutes, that I have noticed how much I miss throwing myself on the road having planted a point on the map.
Guilty? A SnowRunner that, despite having little or no connection with a vacation trip, has taken me to those remote American roads riddled with treacherous curves, huge star-studded skies and nature as the only company.
For those who don't know it, SnowRunner plants us on three open world maps (Alaska and Michigan, from the United States, and Taymyr, from Russia) with a relatively simple premise: drive where you wouldn't dare.
With the premise of exploring the map to discover new transport missions and expand your catalog of vehicles, trucks and trucks in its majority, carrying the beams and planks necessary to build a bridge is always a challenge that little understands speed and skidding.
Mountains of snow to get stuck in, rivers with enough force to drag you, and mudflats where the wheels sink a little deeper with each new rush. It is challenging, complicated and, as you may have already imagined from the introduction, it is also very satisfying.
I didn't know where to go except everywhere
I acknowledge that I am playing my ball and generally only go on missions related to tasks that involve break new ground or invite reach remote places. In the few hours I have been with him I will have completed five or six missions, but much of the first two maps no longer have a mist covering them.
As in real life, place a point on the map and try to get there intuitively, using detours and that terrifying as well as exciting "Let's see where this path takes us”, It has become the perfect pastime of these last days. And, just like in real life, both what you discover when you get there and what you experience on the road never disappoints.
A new tower from which to clarify the map more, an improvement in the lost transmission between trees and lakes, a new truck that will allow me to navigate the mud with greater comfort, or even a summit that allows me to see everything driven from a bird's eye view. It is simple, it is effective and, behind these four walls and with the soundtrack that I prepared for the Mother Road playing in a loop, tremendously effective escape therapy.
Crossing the United States shows you how wrong you are about what you thought you knew about the country and its people, and the idea of big traffic-ridden cities like New York or Los Angeles soon shows a much wilder, more open and friendly face. One of those trips that, especially by car, I will never tire of recommending.
In comparison with SnowRunner I would like to see more towns that serve as a point of interest on their maps, other vehicles on the road and the possibility of reliving every moment in which an animal that crossed the road to greet in front of the headlights, but I am not usually more pedigree that conformist and, in this case, SnowRunner I don't have the strength to demand much more from him.
