I can recognise certain landmarks and familiar roads that I’ve driven on in real life, but there’s very little simulation of real-life here. Of the 16 major cities included in the game, none of them look particularly good. To be fair, some effort has gone into making the interiors of trucks look good, but everything else is really quite poor and not up to the standards that players would expect these days. Instead, we’re left with a very shimmery game that doesn’t look great at all. A little bit of anti-aliasing would have gone a long way to making the game hit the absolute bare minimum, but I don’t think the budget extended that far. Not that Germans have ever had a problem turning a blind eye to bad things… That’s the idea behind the game, and if growing a fictional logistics company is your idea of good fun, you’ll enjoy this game, but you’ll have to look past plenty of bad things. You have to manage the expenses, too, and if you thought filling up at the Tankstelle in real life was expensive, try filling up a truck with 1200 litres of fuel… Very expensive. You save that money up, buy yourself a better truck, maybe even an employee to drive it, and your money comes in quicker.
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The concept of the game is that you start your own haulage company – every little German boy’s dream – and you start with one truck, one driver (yourself) and you have to work contracts to get money. Trust me, I’m not German, but I’ve lived amongst them for years now, so I know a thing or two about Germans. That’s not to say it won’t find an audience – I’m positive that in Germany it will find a following, as the game takes place in Germany and it’s made by a German company, and Germans love nothing more than other German things, but they don’t like other Germans.
The basics are there and the core of the game works, but it has absolutely nothing else going for it. There is Truck Driver, but I tried it on release and tried to slit my wrists afterwards, so that’s a no-go. At this moment in time, there aren’t many competitors. I’ve put hundreds of hours into Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator on PC, so I know my way around a big rig.Īerosoft’s On the Road – Truck Simulator aims to plug the gap that has been left wide open on consoles. These weird simulators tend to be peaceful, easy to play, and generally inoffensive.īear in mind, this isn’t my first time simulating the trucking business. Take Bus Simulator for example I played it last year and I’m a little embarrassed to say that I got sucked into it big time. They’re usually weird, janky, but a little bit wonderful.