German Truck Simulator

For those who wanted to know how it’s like to drive a truck with a full cargo across the autobahn, playing German Truck Simulator gives you that chance. The game offers a realistic feel on how the truck handles and behaves in various conditions as well as on the responsibilities and difficulties of engaging in a transport of this kind.

At the beginning of the game you get to choose the city you start off in and are presented with your contract in which it states how much you get to make on every delivery. You are given your first task after a short tutorial and off you go.

There’s a chance that the truck you’re stuck with at the beginning will seem way to slow for how much your patience might last. However, while on the road the scenery changes a lot and along with the ongoing traffic, you’re distracted from that apparent inconvenience. As you start to successfully complete deliveries, your bank account increases and you can buy a new truck from one of the 7 major European manufacturers that are represented in the game.

After that, it’s only a matter of time before you get to create your own transporting empire across all of the 18 major cities that are available on the map.

German Truck Simulator has that last word in its name for a good reason. It manages to recreate actual conditions as much as the limits of virtual driving allow. For example, running a red light just as you leave the parking lot for a delivery and mildly hitting two cars leave you with a negative budget of nearly a thousand euros and along the way you might just need gas.

Traffic has its good and bad moments, just like in real life and you have to take into consideration a lot of things while driving, such as turning on the lights, signaling when you make a turn or change lanes, parking correctly and so on.

From a graphics point of view, German Truck Simulator does very well. Truck details are spot on, the world around is divers and really well created and if you don’t mind the tedious start of it all, then you are really going to enjoy this game.