It seems the curse of the lorry driver is that you only ever see the most tedious corners of cities you visit. When you get to the cities themselves, they tend to be Identikit industrial parks with the odd landmark visible in the distance - even the bright lights of London lie tantalisingly beyond your reach. There's barely any variety across the game world, which means that if you were in danger of slipping out of consciousness and jackknifing your truck into a bus full of orphans during the previous games, you're in serious trouble now.
Now with UK Truck Simulator, all we have is Britain's green and pleasant land. With Euro Truck Simulator it was a smaller area, and with less variety. SCS used to make romanticised odes to American trucking that encompassed the USA and bits of Canada and Mexico. In spite of this, SCS Software continues to create games that attempt to capture the glamour of long-distance haulage.īizarrely though, the company's ambition seems to have contracted with each new release. While there's naturally a certain life-on-the-edge thrill to ingesting medically perilous amounts of Red Bull, subsisting entirely on a diet of palate-searingly molten Ginsters pastry products, and gradually becoming psychologically unhinged by the endless solitude broken only by the occasional hitchhiker who you pick up hoping the line "So, a ride for a ride?" works, it's not exactly a desirable existence. It's Unlikely That lorry driver' features very highly on most people's list of ideal jobs.Īs a dream vocation it's been, rightly, shuffled behind astronaut, Formula One driver, fighter pilot and being Tiger Woods.
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