The enchantment of the open street and delivering items in a giant previous truck to companies worldwide has – surprisingly – been a highly regarded selection for players. Nevertheless, on console, we’ve been very restricted in our decisions, trying on with envy at our PC neighbours who’ve been touring the world in customised lorries of all sizes and styles.
Truck Driver has helped bridge the hole a bit. Nevertheless the bottom recreation divided audiences with its bugs and glitches, warming few hearts within the course of. Now there’s an enlargement pack that takes us to a brand new location. Let’s drive as we go Heading North.
Truck Driver: Heading North takes us to the Nordic-themed island of Mangefjell. It’s simple to get to from the primary recreation, grabbing a ferry from the mainland; earlier than you may say Good Buddy, you’re there. As all the time Uncle Karl is there on the opposite finish of the telephone to present you recommendation and set you up with some candy contacts for jobs. The island that you’re on is a good measurement too, nevertheless it feels a bit extra empty. Be ready for many lengthy drives considering the fact of human life.
The roles you get come from combination of various folks on reverse sides of the map, with the one story supplied from the conversations with the employers. For instance, a manufacturing facility having issues with supply drivers due to issues with elves; becoming in with a part of Nordic folklore. These additions to the textual content chats made me giggle, serving to give a bit extra substance to what Heading North gives away from the fixed forwards and backwards of delivering.
With a recreation like Truck Driver, you need to know what you’re getting your self in to. It goes with out saying that ought to you not significantly like driving in video games then neither the bottom recreation nor the Heading North DLC might be for you. In reality, apart from that driving, there’s not rather a lot else occurring.
The excellent news is that the sport isn’t overly sophisticated, like others within the style could also be. You’ve gotten your truck and also you look across the island for sure jobs. A typical job might be so that you can join your truck to a trailer for supply, earlier than following the sat nav to the supply level. You acquire money on the finish of the job and expertise factors, with the latter permitting you to achieve new decals or customisation for the truck. Money means that you can motion repairs to your truck and in addition purchase new ones, customising as soon as once more to your coronary heart’s content material.
Driving is fairly easy. Switching fine details on is par for the course, however then it’s only a fast push of the accelerator and you’re off. You’ll should be cautious when travelling although, principally of crashing and activating pace cameras. Going via purple lights will see fines coming your method too, rubbing out that hard-earned money. You even have two stamina bars to be careful for, so maintaining an eye fixed for relaxation spots and gas stops is a necessity.
The island of Mangefjell appears high quality, stuffed with barren – but hilly – landscapes. Small cities seem, as do the economic areas whenever you actioning your deliveries. Don’t consider this as an in depth triple-A recreation when it comes to graphics, nevertheless it does skies very nicely, while the lighting is fairly first rate. The menus are additionally well-designed and simple to navigate via, but in-game there are some moments of visible pop-up when it comes to draw distances. It by no means bothered me, nevertheless it’s one thing to concentrate on. There’s little to say concerning the soundtrack aside from that it has a folky really feel to it. As all the time with these video games, make your music or stick on a podcast.
Truck Driver: Heading North is an okay enlargement. It provides in a superb variety of additional missions and a few fine details of story, informed via the conversations with the employers. Mangefjell appears okay and it has some good skies, however in case you didn’t get on with Truck Driver the primary time round, there’s little right here to deliver you again. Consider it as extra of the identical – and sadly, that does imply the occasional bit of lifeless driving.
However then, that’s what Truck Driver is all about, so you may’t criticise that as you go Heading North.
