Euro Truck Simulator 2 a game widely known to be heading to Linux has begun it's closed beta and I have been lucky enough to have been gifted a copy to test, here's my thoughts on this odd title.
So it's a truck driving game where you run your own truck driving delivery company, odd but it's these types of games Linux needs to satisfy everyone.
If you remember I interviewed them a little while ago and so It may come as no shock I was picked to test!
Honestly when I first loaded up I really didn't expect much from this title as it's not one i would usually pick up and play, I am pleased to say I am more than pleasantly surprised by this one!
First thing that put a smile on my face, you can start in my home city of Plymouth! Cool eh?
The driving aspect is very nice, they give you 8 different views so hopefully you will find the one you want! It does take a little getting used to, I may have crashed a few times trying to get out of where I was parked...
The performance of the game play was great, everything felt fast (as fast as slow trucks are...) and fluid and the interface seems to be designed really well and gave me no confusion.
I will do a proper review in good time once it's polished up and out in the wild (no issues found yet!). Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
QuoteTravel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore from the UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and many more, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits. If you’ve got what it takes to be part of an elite trucking force, get behind the wheel and prove it!
So it's a truck driving game where you run your own truck driving delivery company, odd but it's these types of games Linux needs to satisfy everyone.
If you remember I interviewed them a little while ago and so It may come as no shock I was picked to test!
Honestly when I first loaded up I really didn't expect much from this title as it's not one i would usually pick up and play, I am pleased to say I am more than pleasantly surprised by this one!
First thing that put a smile on my face, you can start in my home city of Plymouth! Cool eh?
The driving aspect is very nice, they give you 8 different views so hopefully you will find the one you want! It does take a little getting used to, I may have crashed a few times trying to get out of where I was parked...
The performance of the game play was great, everything felt fast (as fast as slow trucks are...) and fluid and the interface seems to be designed really well and gave me no confusion.
I will do a proper review in good time once it's polished up and out in the wild (no issues found yet!). Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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muntdefems 10 Apr 2013
Not a very impressing HQ, to say the least... :P
I've never played a game like this and I'm curious. How does the driving simulation part work? I expect you don't have to play for hours and hours just to do an international delivery. :O
I've never played a game like this and I'm curious. How does the driving simulation part work? I expect you don't have to play for hours and hours just to do an international delivery. :O
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As someone who uses the Ferry terminal in Plymouth at least 3 times a month, I have nothing nice to say about Plymouth. The game on the other hand, it looks awesome and I'll buy it when it's out of beta. :)
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As someone who uses the Ferry terminal in Plymouth at least 3 times a month, I have nothing nice to say about Plymouth. The game on the other hand, it looks awesome and I'll buy it when it's out of beta. :)Hah ouch, I like Plymouth personally :P, although I actually live outside of it now!
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Played it for a couple of hours under Windows. At first it felt like a really boring game because every delivery mission takes about 10-15 minutes on average and your maximum speed is 90km/h. Graphics also aren't that mind-blowing as in - let's say Battlefield 3 - even on all settings maxed out, so there are no ultra realistic graphics to distract you and you start to wish there was a way to drive faster.
However, the game somehow still managed to pull me in after a while and the landscape is actually pretty diverse and reflects the area of Europe that you drive in. It's also fun to discover the various cities and recognize their landmark buildings. I also started enjoying the challenge to drive and park these big vehicles. When you drive at night and it's pitch black outside, with only your trailer lights visible in the rear mirror and you listen to music on the built-in Internet radio, it actually develops a pretty relaxing and immersive experience.
The game is not without its faults though. Computer controlled traffic often drives terribly slow (30km/h in cities and 60km/h outside of cities, even when 50 and 90 are the max permitted speeds) and will really annoy you as you often cannot pass due to the low acceleration of your heavy truck. Sometimes traffic in front of you will also suddenly yield to imaginary traffic, forcing you to wait forever or making you slam the brakes to avoid a crash. When traffic gets stuck, I found that changing the graphics settings will also reset the traffic simulation, so at least there is a way to get back to driving without restarting a mission (can also be used as a cheat to make slow traffic disappear :p )
So all in all, I would give it a 7/10. It's not a game for everybody and it is not without issues. However it pulls off what to me appears as a credible reproduction of what it must be like making a living from driving trucks and provide a decent amount of fun at the same time. Thus if you're someone who enjoys simulation games, this is definitely a game to check out.
However, the game somehow still managed to pull me in after a while and the landscape is actually pretty diverse and reflects the area of Europe that you drive in. It's also fun to discover the various cities and recognize their landmark buildings. I also started enjoying the challenge to drive and park these big vehicles. When you drive at night and it's pitch black outside, with only your trailer lights visible in the rear mirror and you listen to music on the built-in Internet radio, it actually develops a pretty relaxing and immersive experience.
The game is not without its faults though. Computer controlled traffic often drives terribly slow (30km/h in cities and 60km/h outside of cities, even when 50 and 90 are the max permitted speeds) and will really annoy you as you often cannot pass due to the low acceleration of your heavy truck. Sometimes traffic in front of you will also suddenly yield to imaginary traffic, forcing you to wait forever or making you slam the brakes to avoid a crash. When traffic gets stuck, I found that changing the graphics settings will also reset the traffic simulation, so at least there is a way to get back to driving without restarting a mission (can also be used as a cheat to make slow traffic disappear :p )
So all in all, I would give it a 7/10. It's not a game for everybody and it is not without issues. However it pulls off what to me appears as a credible reproduction of what it must be like making a living from driving trucks and provide a decent amount of fun at the same time. Thus if you're someone who enjoys simulation games, this is definitely a game to check out.
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If I had the Logitech Steering set of controllers, then I'd probably enjoy this game like crazy :)
(By enjoy, I mean crashing into everyone hehe. Can't road rage in real life, so virtual will have to do).
(By enjoy, I mean crashing into everyone hehe. Can't road rage in real life, so virtual will have to do).
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Liam, why don't you record us a video?
Thanks,
Jack
Thanks,
Jack
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The game is not without its faults though. Computer controlled traffic often drives terribly slow (30km/h in cities and 60km/h outside of cities, even when 50 and 90 are the max permitted speeds) and will really annoy you as you often cannot pass due to the low acceleration of your heavy truck. Sometimes traffic in front of you will also suddenly yield to imaginary traffic, forcing you to wait forever or making you slam the brakes to avoid a crash.Well, it's a no-nonsense driving simulation game. What did you expect, a GTA clone with trucks?
Which is why this game is probably not for me. If I want a boring drive in the countryside, I'll go in my car instead. Except that driving bores me. I still can't see the appeal of this game. Played flight simulators (Microsoft's and FlightGear) and they didn't pull me in much either. Hope a Linux demo is released once the beta is over.
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There's more to it than just driving throug the countryside. There are trucks to buy, drivers to hire, garages to expand, loans to pay back. You all seem to miss management part of the game which is very satisfying.
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There's more to it than just driving throug the countryside. There are trucks to buy, drivers to hire, garages to expand, loans to pay back. You all seem to miss management part of the game which is very satisfying.Indeed the majority of the game is driving but their is a full management sim behind it as well. Trucks have upgrades and all sorts.
It's actually quite challenging.
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Liam, why don't you record us a video?I can try but no promises on how it will look, I don't exactly have the most powerful unit around :(
Thanks,
Jack
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The game is not without its faults though. Computer controlled traffic often drives terribly slow (30km/h in cities and 60km/h outside of cities, even when 50 and 90 are the max permitted speeds) and will really annoy you as you often cannot pass due to the low acceleration of your heavy truck.
Hey, that sounds terribly familiar, that's like driving in some European countries except that real trucks do pass.
It seems like a management game with a driving bonus. Definitely not an action game.
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You guys are understanding me wrong. It's obviously not an action or racing game. However, in real life you can expect the vast majority of traffic to drive at least permitted speed, if not faster, when there is _zero_ other traffic and the road is pretty or totally straight.
I'm not talking about hundreds of cars and trucks moving slowly in rush hour style (doesn't exist in the game). It's simply one or two cars / trucks crawling slowly in front of you when there is zero reason to not go faster. This happens with at least 75% of the computer controlled vehicles whereas in reality you perhaps have only about 10-20% of drivers who drive way too slow. To me this looks a lot like dumb or buggy "AI" and not like a realism thing.
I'm not talking about hundreds of cars and trucks moving slowly in rush hour style (doesn't exist in the game). It's simply one or two cars / trucks crawling slowly in front of you when there is zero reason to not go faster. This happens with at least 75% of the computer controlled vehicles whereas in reality you perhaps have only about 10-20% of drivers who drive way too slow. To me this looks a lot like dumb or buggy "AI" and not like a realism thing.
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You guys are understanding me wrong. It's obviously not an action or racing game. However, in real life you can expect the vast majority of traffic to drive at least permitted speed, if not faster, when there is _zero_ other traffic and the road is pretty or totally straight.
I'm not talking about hundreds of cars and trucks moving slowly in rush hour style (doesn't exist in the game). It's simply one or two cars / trucks crawling slowly in front of you when there is zero reason to not go faster. This happens with at least 75% of the computer controlled vehicles whereas in reality you perhaps have only about 10-20% of drivers who drive way too slow. To me this looks a lot like dumb or buggy "AI" and not like a realism thing.
That's pretty realistic for me based on my daily driving, and also dumb, but maybe it's just me. Anyway, I would expect that could make it more interesting since you can try to pass them.
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Let me first explain that i'm not a gamer, all of the time a spent on a computer is coding & testing (since 83)
For my son (a truck addict) i bought ETS2 (w7), and i have to admit: this is a game worthwhile playing and worth every cent of it.
Some people just like to drive, nothing wrong with that, as the graphics are unbelievable.
But this game has quite some educational aspects: buying garages, trucks, hiring/firing drivers.
And even if you get bored with it, you can add community mods (there seems to be over 1300 of them):
Not just new trucks and lorries, (70-tons, ultra wide, ultra long) but some even manage to add new maps (russia, africa)!
(sheer fun to detect all the bloopers)
To be honest: if it would costs 10-times, i would still consider every cent worth while.
Can not wait to get an official linux version, as it currently is the single reason for having W7 on my kids pc
There are only two negative aspects on ETS2:
- it is highly addictive (just another job, for some extra XP's
- some mods are onofficial bunddled with malware/virus/trojans, so people on ms have to be carefull
For my son (a truck addict) i bought ETS2 (w7), and i have to admit: this is a game worthwhile playing and worth every cent of it.
Some people just like to drive, nothing wrong with that, as the graphics are unbelievable.
But this game has quite some educational aspects: buying garages, trucks, hiring/firing drivers.
And even if you get bored with it, you can add community mods (there seems to be over 1300 of them):
Not just new trucks and lorries, (70-tons, ultra wide, ultra long) but some even manage to add new maps (russia, africa)!
(sheer fun to detect all the bloopers)
To be honest: if it would costs 10-times, i would still consider every cent worth while.
Can not wait to get an official linux version, as it currently is the single reason for having W7 on my kids pc
There are only two negative aspects on ETS2:
- it is highly addictive (just another job, for some extra XP's
- some mods are onofficial bunddled with malware/virus/trojans, so people on ms have to be carefull
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