At least controlling the behemoth trucks is an interesting challenge. At first, it's a far cry from maneuvering the little sports cars you race in other games. Once you start to get the hang of it, however, the novelty wears off. Either way, make sure you have a gamepad. Steering wheels aren't officially supported, and keyboard control is awkward at best. Like the racing mechanics, the buying and selling of commodities also suffers from simple-mindedness.
Little graphs and indicators basically tell you what to buy and where to sell it, so the game quickly becomes an exercise in numbing repetition. Buy stuff, drive for a minute or two, sell stuff, repeat until you slump over in your chair, defeated by the monotony of it all. Happily, the little casino games such as blackjack that you find in each city make for fun diversions from the rest of the game. Middling voiceovers and mediocre graphics can't salvage the thin gameplay.
There's nothing outright horrific about Big Mutha Truckers 2; in extremely short bursts, it can even be a bit of no-brainer fun. But there's too much that's underdeveloped and gruelingly tedious over the long haul.
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That honour will fall to whomever can rustle up the most cash in a day period through foul means or fair, be it transporting commodities or carrying out dubious jobs for local villains.
Anyone remember King Of The Road? This is essentially a comedy version of that game, with the humour poking fun at residents of the Southern United States, as well as relying on the fact that 'truck' rhymes with a sexual swear word. There are even five G TA-style radio stations, albeit playing largely incongruous music.
The audio, which exhibits an over reliance on five tunable radio stations and lengthy scraps of repetitive dialog between each of the characters, is similarly underwhelming. The discourse can be amusing at times -- especially a talk-radio program where a redneck host waxes on about "women-folk" issues -- but the absence of any audible engine or vehicle sounds including crashes during Big Mutha Truckers's multiple driving and racing sequences is a curious oversight.
The regrettable absence of any multiplayer options and the game's mouseless, cutscene-heavy interface are additional reminders of Big Mutha Truckers's console roots. One especially galling feature, however, is that the five to ten-second cutscene transitions -- where your selected character moves from one dialog screen to the next -- cannot be interrupted or bypassed in any way, no matter how forcefully you bash the enter key.
Through all of its console-related birth defects, Big Mutha Truckers still manages to deliver decent value for the money as long as repetitive gameplay mechanics, an AWOL multiplayer component, and the occasional graphic or audio hiccup don't end up forcing you to the side of the road.
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