Review games FS15 Farming Simulator 15

Developer: GIANTS Software

Publisher: Focus Home Interactive

Game mode: single / multiplayer

Multiplayer mode: local network / Internet, players: 1-16

Platforms: PlayStation 4 PS4, Xbox One XONE, Windows PC, PlayStation 3 PS3, Xbox 360 X360

Game release date: 30 October 2014

User ratings: 7/10

It existed long after I left playing Farming Simulator 15 which my own attention began to glaze over. The not due to subject matter, that at it is finest I basically got oddly relaxing what I planted, sowed, and collected the takes, up one fight with lay down the other, with nothing but the opinions with the diesel wail of my Deutz-Fahr to keep everyone company. The trouble happens to beneath, that not really much of an simulation at all. That just tractor porn.

I was initially enthusiastic about Farming Simulator 15 with the obvious strength that reached into developing their undeniably impressive array of agricultural machinery. Tractors and attachments look great, with changes, buttons, and switch all where they should be, plus flashing lights, augers that go realistically, and even caked-on dirt that seems ‘just.’

But less attention to detail have been paid for the remaining game. Even though I chosen to act in america, for instance, my earnings were determined in euros, not dollars; posted speed control were 55, yet the speedometers in my tractors measured KM/H, not MPH. No attempt to actually "Americanize" the setting was promoted to beyond slapping red, bright, with down with nearly everything within eyesight. [Correction: It is possible to change measurements, although that management has barely bearing on the review's conclusion.]

That superficiality goes right decrease. The physics live a joke—roaring over with off rocky outcroppings told me of effort the Mako with Mass Effect—and I attempted ghost-like through fully-grown fields, bushes, and even pedestrians, none that show any track of my card. Yet wooden walls and clotheslines stopped everyone while tight and as dead as if I'd hit the floor like shooting from a flat. With about work, I managed to overturn the tractor, only to discover which there's no opportunity for receiving it straight aside from trip into another tractor—fortunately, I had several—and beat it close to until it bounces back up upon the wheels.

The time acceleration mechanic is especially bizarre. Farming Simulator 15 may series on up to 120 times normal speed, but the setting affects merely the verse of tough time, and not the real rate when anything moves or gets completed. By normal speed, I realized a single cultivator pass through a small field in less than one record; on 120 times standard, that specific same state got two times and 50 close of game point. I considered it is different if I left the job to a hired hand over, the sport way of automating jobs, but it became precisely the same: Accelerated time goes on by additional easily, but the world crawls together at the unchanged rate.

Farming Simulator 15 is a very unguided game. I created with some tractors, basic implements, and also a domain of wheat waiting to be harvested. But the moment that was made, I lived solely about my own, a predicament not stopped by the largely uninformative guide with a quick training manual that describes the basic mechanics but very little more.

Commodity prices fluctuate based upon supply, but while arrows beside each commodity type show whether its estimate is up, lower, before stable, there's no album of older prices, sales, or something that makes the game feel like something coherent is happening under the hood. Not to it really matters anyway, because of the ridiculously generous side missions: I kind nearly 20,000 euros in a day in completing three grass-cutting jobs. Worse, I was given the same property to finish, every only moment.

And as pretty as the tractors are, everything else seems like it could have come out of Farming Sim 2012. Textures are flat, the tow ranges are bad, clipping errors abound, and practically the whole humanity becomes non-interactive. People shamble around aimlessly, like zombies, with over judgment with blank faces, and also the store exactly where I believed all our swanky new equipment was absolutely empty: The purchases simply appeared, like moving, from the square lot. It's really kind of scary.

The unfortunate section is that I really enjoyed the ‘farming.’ Holding our rows straight(ish), pulling charges of canola with corn in my beat-up old Hurlimann, and not really having to think too much on anything. I invested the better part of an hour a single evening just take corn in the take to help the silo, inspecting the harvester trundle along the province under the fun from the moon. I happened actually really playing the game. The LAPTOP was doing many of the creation, yet it was the adjoining I still came to feeling like I was there with a farm. Then the subject was solved, the harvester found the idling halt, and my hired hand disappeared without having a statement. And with nothing more to do, I traded tractors, hired other people to turn over the domain, with quit away in the nights to perceive if anyone needed the grass cut. Tractor Farming Simulator

System requirements Farming Simulator 15

Minimum: Dual Core 2.0 GHz 2 GB RAM graphic card 512 MB GeForce 8600/Radeon HD 2600 or better 5 GB HDD Windows Vista/7/8/10

Recommended: Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz 2 GB RAM graphic card 512 MB (GeForce 8600 or better) 3 GB HDD Windows Vista/7/8