![]() Even the driving controls have amped up difficulty, they’re all so sensitive. The trouble is, all of this is overcomplicated for people who are just starting out, or don’t want to go all hardcore farmer. You thought the tractors were detailed? Try factoring in a multitude of different currencies to use, an actual economy depending on what difficulty settings you’re on, fluctuating stock prices, a weather cycle, side quests… if you’ve got the guts to try and take this behemoth on, there’s a hell of a lot to do. Yes, all you can do is farm in a eerily silent, Stepford neighbourhood, but the choice. While you might think that’s pretty damn basic and you’d get all that done in a weekend, I’ll stop you right there. The gameplay itself consists of one thing: farm. Sure, you can jam out to the four tracks on four whole stations in your vehicle, but once you step out of the cab, there’s dead silence, not even birds singing in the trees! I don’t know, maybe I was expecting something more along the lines of Harvest Moon? But you can’t have neighbours or actually interact with anyone outside of the odd quest to plough someone’s field, and it results in some creepy, empty wasteland that feels somewhat threatening. We’ve come a long way from the old PC simulators, and now you can ogle tractors in 1080p.Ĭharacter and animal models, though, are leagues further behind – awkward, blocky, and you can’t even customise your farmer! Though that might be a bit more useful if you could actually interact with anyone in your game – Farming Simulator 17 is weirdly devoid of life. Ever wondered what a combine harvester looks like up close? Or how detailed the paintwork would be on a suspiciously pristine tractor? Well now you know! When it comes to the actual farming equipment and vehicles, I can safely say it looks authentic to a layman. Yet although the environments look pretty good, there’s a lot of popping in from textures and certain animations, which was quite a surprise given how nice everything else was. There’s one thing I can’t fault this game for, and that’s the detail. (maybe with a quick look at the tutorials this time). “I played Sims Farm!” I thought, until I remembered I could never figure out how to work Sims Farm, but a safari and a national park were close enough, right? So I booted the game up, was pleasantly surprised and bemused at the rock music accompanying dramatic shots of tractors, and jumped straight into the campaign mode (on the Easy setting, natch) because tutorials are for wimps.įive minutes later, I had crashed my tractor into a tree and couldn’t get it unstuck. Just not when I have to pretend to be a farmer. I know the horrors of the Error Code 12’s, I know how to decorate a house, and I have far too many lists of baby names scattered about my computer bookmarks. ![]() I’ve played hundreds of thousands of hours of The Sims 1, 2, and 3, and almost melted my computer with it. ![]() ![]() Platform: PlayStation 4 (reviewed), Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Mac.įamily Focus: Click here for more information. ![]()
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