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This preview is off IGN I was going to try and write this up myself but I would of ruined it lol
Big Mutha Truckers is going to be a tough sell and I don't envy anyone who must try and market it. Between the name and the fact that you're driving a big-rig truck cross-country it will be easy for gamers to confuse Big Mutha with Sega's 18-Wheeler American Pro Trucker. But the two could not be further apart in terms of design. Sega's game is strictly a racing game. Big Mutha Truckers is quite a bit more and, in fact, racing isn't what's going to win the game for you. As odd as it sounds, Big Mutha Truckers is a throwback to old PC BBS text-based games like Space Traders.
Despite her currently appearance, Big Ma was once a fine looking woman, and a big-game trucker. She got around and ended up having four different children fathered by four different men in four different cities. All four kids now work for her company, Big Mutha Truckers. As successful as Ma's been, she's tired of the trucking life and wants to give up the business. She sets up a tournament between her four children. Whoever earns the most cash in 60 days wins the business.
There's quite a lot of ways to earn money, including winning rival challenge races, completing special missions, and trading goods. Trade will remain your consistent money-maker, with other ways a little less reliable. There are five cities to visit and trade with. As with classic PC trading games, each area specializes in certain products and is in need of others. Prices and availability vary and the economy is dynamic, meaning that if someone floods an area with a certain product, it's value greatly decreases.
Each city has its own theme and while every city features a shop, garage, and bar, the inhabitants change from place to place. Every bar has a loan shark, but in Greenback it's a sleazy mobster while in Capitol City it's a busy businesswoman. Bartenders can offer rumors or even special missions to take on for extra cash. In the garage you can repair your truck, buy various upgrades, and design your own logo for the back. The customization tool isn't gonna make you give up on Paint Pro, but it's got some surprising amount of tools and operates familiar to a PC product and not something found on a console. Certainly a great touch. Throw in the shop where you can buy and sell goods and you've got yourself five interactive and unique cities.
Of course, while you're running around trying to sell your goods, your siblings are going out of their way to sabotage you. And getting from one place to the next isn't automatic, you've got to haul your truck there. Trucks aren't the easiest thing to control and each of the siblings has different handling and speed abilities. Crashing into cars is fun, but it causes damage. Hit cops or deliberately ram motorists and you will gain notoriety as a bad a*s, putting the cops on your tail. However, play the nice guy and you'll get the rep of a softie and biker gangs will torment you. When a biker gets close he'll hop off his bike onto the back of your trailer. You've then got to shake him off before he can unhitch the trailer, stealing all your goods.
This idea of good and bad continues as a player with a positive rep will get certain missions and those with a negative rep have different doors opened for them. With four characters to play and two ways to play them (as both good and evil), it looks like Big Mutha Truckers will have plenty of replay value.
The natural instinct when driving a truck is to treat it like a Ferrari. Problem here is that the physics seems pretty realistic and as such none of the big-rig trucks handle anything like a Ferrari. It's incredibly easy to lose control and jackknife. It takes a few minutes to get a handle on the handling, but it's an enjoyable and simple experience. You'll receive a message every time you need to change gears and all you really need to know if gas and break. Somewhat like GTA: Vice City you have several radio stations to choose from, but Big Mutha doesn't appear to have nearly as verbose a musical library of Rockstar's stellar blue-collar crime game.
Big Mutha Truckers is going to be a tough sell and I don't envy anyone who must try and market it. Between the name and the fact that you're driving a big-rig truck cross-country it will be easy for gamers to confuse Big Mutha with Sega's 18-Wheeler American Pro Trucker. But the two could not be further apart in terms of design. Sega's game is strictly a racing game. Big Mutha Truckers is quite a bit more and, in fact, racing isn't what's going to win the game for you. As odd as it sounds, Big Mutha Truckers is a throwback to old PC BBS text-based games like Space Traders.
Despite her currently appearance, Big Ma was once a fine looking woman, and a big-game trucker. She got around and ended up having four different children fathered by four different men in four different cities. All four kids now work for her company, Big Mutha Truckers. As successful as Ma's been, she's tired of the trucking life and wants to give up the business. She sets up a tournament between her four children. Whoever earns the most cash in 60 days wins the business.
There's quite a lot of ways to earn money, including winning rival challenge races, completing special missions, and trading goods. Trade will remain your consistent money-maker, with other ways a little less reliable. There are five cities to visit and trade with. As with classic PC trading games, each area specializes in certain products and is in need of others. Prices and availability vary and the economy is dynamic, meaning that if someone floods an area with a certain product, it's value greatly decreases.
Each city has its own theme and while every city features a shop, garage, and bar, the inhabitants change from place to place. Every bar has a loan shark, but in Greenback it's a sleazy mobster while in Capitol City it's a busy businesswoman. Bartenders can offer rumors or even special missions to take on for extra cash. In the garage you can repair your truck, buy various upgrades, and design your own logo for the back. The customization tool isn't gonna make you give up on Paint Pro, but it's got some surprising amount of tools and operates familiar to a PC product and not something found on a console. Certainly a great touch. Throw in the shop where you can buy and sell goods and you've got yourself five interactive and unique cities.
Of course, while you're running around trying to sell your goods, your siblings are going out of their way to sabotage you. And getting from one place to the next isn't automatic, you've got to haul your truck there. Trucks aren't the easiest thing to control and each of the siblings has different handling and speed abilities. Crashing into cars is fun, but it causes damage. Hit cops or deliberately ram motorists and you will gain notoriety as a bad a*s, putting the cops on your tail. However, play the nice guy and you'll get the rep of a softie and biker gangs will torment you. When a biker gets close he'll hop off his bike onto the back of your trailer. You've then got to shake him off before he can unhitch the trailer, stealing all your goods.
This idea of good and bad continues as a player with a positive rep will get certain missions and those with a negative rep have different doors opened for them. With four characters to play and two ways to play them (as both good and evil), it looks like Big Mutha Truckers will have plenty of replay value.
The natural instinct when driving a truck is to treat it like a Ferrari. Problem here is that the physics seems pretty realistic and as such none of the big-rig trucks handle anything like a Ferrari. It's incredibly easy to lose control and jackknife. It takes a few minutes to get a handle on the handling, but it's an enjoyable and simple experience. You'll receive a message every time you need to change gears and all you really need to know if gas and break. Somewhat like GTA: Vice City you have several radio stations to choose from, but Big Mutha doesn't appear to have nearly as verbose a musical library of Rockstar's stellar blue-collar crime game.
It sounds like it's got a lot of character this game. And it's out on the 29/11.... I'm definately buying it, along with Splinter Cell of course.
Yeah, I plan on getting Big Mutha Truckers. It seems like the kind of game I'd like.
This preview is off IGN I was going to try and write this up myself but I would of ruined it lol
Big Mutha Truckers is going to be a tough sell and I don't envy anyone who must try and market it. Between the name and the fact that you're driving a big-rig truck cross-country it will be easy for gamers to confuse Big Mutha with Sega's 18-Wheeler American Pro Trucker. But the two could not be further apart in terms of design. Sega's game is strictly a racing game. Big Mutha Truckers is quite a bit more and, in fact, racing isn't what's going to win the game for you. As odd as it sounds, Big Mutha Truckers is a throwback to old PC BBS text-based games like Space Traders.
Despite her currently appearance, Big Ma was once a fine looking woman, and a big-game trucker. She got around and ended up having four different children fathered by four different men in four different cities. All four kids now work for her company, Big Mutha Truckers. As successful as Ma's been, she's tired of the trucking life and wants to give up the business. She sets up a tournament between her four children. Whoever earns the most cash in 60 days wins the business.
There's quite a lot of ways to earn money, including winning rival challenge races, completing special missions, and trading goods. Trade will remain your consistent money-maker, with other ways a little less reliable. There are five cities to visit and trade with. As with classic PC trading games, each area specializes in certain products and is in need of others. Prices and availability vary and the economy is dynamic, meaning that if someone floods an area with a certain product, it's value greatly decreases.
Each city has its own theme and while every city features a shop, garage, and bar, the inhabitants change from place to place. Every bar has a loan shark, but in Greenback it's a sleazy mobster while in Capitol City it's a busy businesswoman. Bartenders can offer rumors or even special missions to take on for extra cash. In the garage you can repair your truck, buy various upgrades, and design your own logo for the back. The customization tool isn't gonna make you give up on Paint Pro, but it's got some surprising amount of tools and operates familiar to a PC product and not something found on a console. Certainly a great touch. Throw in the shop where you can buy and sell goods and you've got yourself five interactive and unique cities.
Of course, while you're running around trying to sell your goods, your siblings are going out of their way to sabotage you. And getting from one place to the next isn't automatic, you've got to haul your truck there. Trucks aren't the easiest thing to control and each of the siblings has different handling and speed abilities. Crashing into cars is fun, but it causes damage. Hit cops or deliberately ram motorists and you will gain notoriety as a bad a*s, putting the cops on your tail. However, play the nice guy and you'll get the rep of a softie and biker gangs will torment you. When a biker gets close he'll hop off his bike onto the back of your trailer. You've then got to shake him off before he can unhitch the trailer, stealing all your goods.
This idea of good and bad continues as a player with a positive rep will get certain missions and those with a negative rep have different doors opened for them. With four characters to play and two ways to play them (as both good and evil), it looks like Big Mutha Truckers will have plenty of replay value.
The natural instinct when driving a truck is to treat it like a Ferrari. Problem here is that the physics seems pretty realistic and as such none of the big-rig trucks handle anything like a Ferrari. It's incredibly easy to lose control and jackknife. It takes a few minutes to get a handle on the handling, but it's an enjoyable and simple experience. You'll receive a message every time you need to change gears and all you really need to know if gas and break. Somewhat like GTA: Vice City you have several radio stations to choose from, but Big Mutha doesn't appear to have nearly as verbose a musical library of Rockstar's stellar blue-collar crime game.
Big Mutha Truckers is going to be a tough sell and I don't envy anyone who must try and market it. Between the name and the fact that you're driving a big-rig truck cross-country it will be easy for gamers to confuse Big Mutha with Sega's 18-Wheeler American Pro Trucker. But the two could not be further apart in terms of design. Sega's game is strictly a racing game. Big Mutha Truckers is quite a bit more and, in fact, racing isn't what's going to win the game for you. As odd as it sounds, Big Mutha Truckers is a throwback to old PC BBS text-based games like Space Traders.
Despite her currently appearance, Big Ma was once a fine looking woman, and a big-game trucker. She got around and ended up having four different children fathered by four different men in four different cities. All four kids now work for her company, Big Mutha Truckers. As successful as Ma's been, she's tired of the trucking life and wants to give up the business. She sets up a tournament between her four children. Whoever earns the most cash in 60 days wins the business.
There's quite a lot of ways to earn money, including winning rival challenge races, completing special missions, and trading goods. Trade will remain your consistent money-maker, with other ways a little less reliable. There are five cities to visit and trade with. As with classic PC trading games, each area specializes in certain products and is in need of others. Prices and availability vary and the economy is dynamic, meaning that if someone floods an area with a certain product, it's value greatly decreases.
Each city has its own theme and while every city features a shop, garage, and bar, the inhabitants change from place to place. Every bar has a loan shark, but in Greenback it's a sleazy mobster while in Capitol City it's a busy businesswoman. Bartenders can offer rumors or even special missions to take on for extra cash. In the garage you can repair your truck, buy various upgrades, and design your own logo for the back. The customization tool isn't gonna make you give up on Paint Pro, but it's got some surprising amount of tools and operates familiar to a PC product and not something found on a console. Certainly a great touch. Throw in the shop where you can buy and sell goods and you've got yourself five interactive and unique cities.
Of course, while you're running around trying to sell your goods, your siblings are going out of their way to sabotage you. And getting from one place to the next isn't automatic, you've got to haul your truck there. Trucks aren't the easiest thing to control and each of the siblings has different handling and speed abilities. Crashing into cars is fun, but it causes damage. Hit cops or deliberately ram motorists and you will gain notoriety as a bad a*s, putting the cops on your tail. However, play the nice guy and you'll get the rep of a softie and biker gangs will torment you. When a biker gets close he'll hop off his bike onto the back of your trailer. You've then got to shake him off before he can unhitch the trailer, stealing all your goods.
This idea of good and bad continues as a player with a positive rep will get certain missions and those with a negative rep have different doors opened for them. With four characters to play and two ways to play them (as both good and evil), it looks like Big Mutha Truckers will have plenty of replay value.
The natural instinct when driving a truck is to treat it like a Ferrari. Problem here is that the physics seems pretty realistic and as such none of the big-rig trucks handle anything like a Ferrari. It's incredibly easy to lose control and jackknife. It takes a few minutes to get a handle on the handling, but it's an enjoyable and simple experience. You'll receive a message every time you need to change gears and all you really need to know if gas and break. Somewhat like GTA: Vice City you have several radio stations to choose from, but Big Mutha doesn't appear to have nearly as verbose a musical library of Rockstar's stellar blue-collar crime game.