11/17/2023 0 Comments Farming simulator 17 maps xbox oneThe game straddles a line between being very authentic, with lots of appropriate branding and companies represented and being approachable as a simulator. A nice touch although I didn’t recognise anything as being licensed. The game includes a few fictional radio stations as well to provide your ears with something to listen to. The core loop of getting in a vehicle, attaching the appropriate tool, going to the plot and driving many rows until the task is finished is surprisingly relaxing and oddly engaging. Whilst there are a lot of activities involved in the game, there is a lot of driving up and down fields with different vehicles and attachments which is inherently repetitive. It would be really nice to be able to set complete work schedules for an individual worker or plot, but sadly you can’t which leads to a lot of micro-management which feels unnecessary. The lack of setting up automated “routines” for your workers is a shame, as they essentially vanish once they finish the task you set them doing. You can see at a glance where is currently paying the most for each crop type and head there to hopefully make some profit. This is one activity you can’t hire a worker to perform so you’ll be loading up trailers and venturing into town quite frequently. Your farming empire has costs, from wages to maintenance, but you can offset that by selling your produce to a variety of locations around the region. As well as field crop activities you can also purchase and maintain livestock and also partake in some logging, using a chainsaw to fell trees. To ease the amount of micro-management involved, you can hire a worker to take over an activity so you’re free do something else. Each of these activities uses different vehicles and attachments, so it involves a lot of jumping between vehicles. The core gameplay loop consists of cultivating plots, planting crops of your choosing, fertilising them, harvesting and then storing/selling those crops. These let you jump into a variety of machinery and perform a timed task to earn some money. It’s extremely free-form which can be a bit bewildering, in a nod to those requiring at least a little structure you can take jobs from other farmers at plots of land every now and then. It’s up to you what crops you plant, what animals you look after and where you do that. The game has two regions one European, one American, both full of fields, buildings and roads. Farming Simulator 17, however, definitely has it’s heart in representing farming in a serious manner. Goat Simulator springs to mind for example. Simulator has become a bit of a loaded term in recent years, with it being applied to games that are anything but serious recreations of a real world subject. You start with some basic farming hardware, a tractor, a trailer, some attachments and, yes, a combine harvester. I say tasks because it just kind of plonks you into the world and lets you loose. Does it succeed?įarming Simulator 17 tasks you with the responsibility of looking after a whole region’s farmland. Giants Software’s newest entry in the series hopes to entice you in with it’s oddly relaxing trip to the country. If you’ve ever had the urge to cultivate crops and sell harvested goods then Farming Simulator 17 has probably gained your interest. Reviews // 6th Nov 2016 - 7 years ago // By Simon Brown Farming Simulator 17 Review
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