![]() JCB Pioneer: Mars is a survival game set, of course, in Birmingham. And I hadn’t even hit a lightning tornado. After driving these machines around Mars in real life, I honestly understood how that would make for a really fun game. I had a chat with JCB Pioneer: Mars’ producer Andy Santos (you can read my interview with him here), who also got to have a go and was just as thrilled to live through the encounter, and we commented on how the redness in the rock being mined in the quarry looked just like their game. ![]() ![]() I was expecting at any moment to drive the thing into the huge crater at the centre of the quarry, as I’m a bad enough driver in a regular vehicle. See where JCB Pioneer: Mars stands on our list of Upcoming PC Games! And now they’re sponsoring a videogame about surviving on Mars, which is as good an excuse as any to explain why I was put behind the controls of a JCB 540 Telehandler and an 110W ‘Hydradig’ Wheeled Excavator.Ĭheck out our interview with JCB Pioneer: Mars’ producer Andy Santos! I can confirm that yes, it is that JCB, the makers of high-powered telescopic handlers, loaders, excavators, diggers, forklifts, engines, tractors and more. The first thing you probably noticed about JCB Pioneer: Mars is those three little letters at the start of the title. I’ve attended many preview events over the years to check out videogames on behalf of you fine folks, but I can’t think of a single time where one involved being taken to a quarry and getting to try out heavy machinery. ![]()
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