Euro Truck Simulator

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Euro Truck Simulator
Euro Truck Simulator Box Art.jpg One of the many box art covers for Euro Truck Simulator
Developer(s) SCS Software[1]
Publisher(s) See Publishers
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)
  • EU August 29, 2008, April 15, 2009 (Gold Edition)
Genre(s) Vehicle simulation game
System requirements

See System Requirements

Euro Truck Simulator is a truck simulation game created by SCS Software, using OpenGL, set in continental Europe. The player can drive across a depiction of Europe, visiting its cities, picking up a variety of cargos, and delivering them.

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[edit] Gameplay

A LKWLog trailer attached to a Swift Truck.

Players choose their starting country, from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom(V1.2 & V1.3 only). Initially players only have access to their starting country, except if it contains less than three cities. In this case one or more adjacent countries will be accessible as well. For example, starting the game in Italy or Switzerland, you get connection to the other for free. Then, players choose their first truck with a budget of €100,000.

After this, players can start taking jobs from various fictitious companies and delivering cargo to various cities in their starting country to earn money. This money can then be spent on a new truck, upgrading the current truck, expanding the business to other countries and obtaining a license to drive flammables and chemicals.

[edit] Trucks

As the game is set in Europe, it features European truck designs exclusively and all trucks use models based on real trucks, with actual working instruments such as flashing indicators, temperature and low fuel warning lights, wipers, and gauges. If you would like to change the controls, on the Main Menu, you can click options, then the Controls option. From there, you can set most of the controls in the game. If you happen to be driving and you would like to change the controls, press the ESC button and click on Options. Then click on Controls and from there you can change the controls.

[edit] Release

Version 1.0 of the game is already completed. Euro Truck Simulator was shipped to stores in Germany on August 6, 2008. Release date in Poland was August 20 and the release date in the UK was August 29.

Version 1.2 is already released for UK CD (Excalbur) and Online Download versions, but is yet to be released for CD versions from the other countries' respective publishers. The new version adds the UK (including driving on the left, and London, Manchester and Newcastle as cities), a Dover-Calais ferry, more roads in Germany and Poland and improved DirectX compatibility.

[edit] Publishers

There are several different publishers, depending on the country. Following is a list of all the publishers in the certain country.

Country Publisher
Germany Rondomedia
Portugal PlayGames
Russia Akella
United Kingdom Excalibur Publishing
Poland TopWare
Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia Seven M
France Anuman
Scandinavia Wendros

Please note: other countries also sell this product.

[edit] Patches

On October 10, 2008, SCS Software released teaser shots of their first patch. The shots include pictures of more local roads in Germany and Poland, as well as a UK addition to the game.[2] The release date of the update, although only available if the full game is purchased, was April 15, 2009, and it is being marketed as 'Euro Truck Simulator Gold Edition', by publisher Rondomedia[3]. The Gold Edition game is currently on sale at Amazon.de.

A free patch containing the Gold Edition contents was released on April 17, 2009, although only compatible with UK Published (Excalibur Publishing) CD version of the game[4]. A patch for those with the Trymedia online download version of the game was released on the official Euro Truck Simulator website on April 18, 2009[5]

[edit] System requirements

System Requirements
Minimum Recommended
Windows
Operating system Windows XP or Windows Vista
CPU 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent
Memory 512 Mb (Windows XP) 1 GB (Windows Vista) 2 GB (Windows XP) 2.5 GB(Windows Vista)
Hard drive space 600 MB of free space
Graphics hardware 128 MB video card: GeForce 4 (not MX!) or better, ATI Radeon 8500 or better 256 MB video card: GeForce 6 or better, ATI Radeon 9800 or better
Sound hardware 100% DirectX 9 compatible sound card


[edit] References

[edit] External links


[edit] External links

Euro Truck Simulator From:Billy.A.p

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