Instead, now that the Year 2 season pass is also out, you’re looking at two $24.99 season passes on top of the $39.99 asking price if you want everything. Considering the Xbox One version is now on Game Pass, it would have been nice for Switch owners to be thrown a bone. There’s already been four major content drops in the past year, and you might expect to have that included as part of the Switch game to make up for the year-long wait. The final disappointment is that, unlike MudRunner, SnowRunner doesn’t include any of the previously released DLC. Again, it isn’t massive but it’s distracting nevertheless.
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The noise plays for a few seconds then there’s a noticeable split-second gap, then it starts again. There seems to be a weird issue where the engine noise is badly looped, especially when your truck is stationary. That’s not to say it's the ugliest game in the world, mind you at times when the sun is going down and it's causing reflections to shine on the Alaskan snow, it look quite attractive. The environments are often quite blurry, whether playing in handheld or docked, and the pop-in can verge on ridiculous at times with trackside detail like bushes drawing themselves in just a few feet in front of you. It does its best but it’s clearly struggling at times. It’s generally quite awkward, though, and there’s no way to just snap it behind your car once you’re past a hazard. A game like this requires you to switch to the third-person camera a lot, though, so you can rotate around the car and get a better view of where it’s positioned. The first-person in-car view is perfectly fine, there are no real issues there. One thing that does warrant criticism, though, is the camera.
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Simply getting over a hill or muddy field can be a satisfying achievement here, and that’s not a criticism! As long as you know what you’re in store for, before long (not long after the annoyingly clunky tutorial is over, in fact) you’ll get into the flow and grow to appreciate what counts as success in this game. The pace, then, can be extremely slow, which may initially sound counterintuitive to people who associate vehicles with speed.