The lack of a full sized map in-game is also a huge problem as it is extremely difficult finding your way around at first. The PDA is a nice touch, but having to scrolls through pages like ‘prices’ and ‘storage amounts’ is just annoying: you need those on 1 screen. The UI is a different cup of tea – we found it a little aggrevating. It would have been nice to have the option to ‘straighten up’ when you’re in a field – as people with slight OCD will definitely struggle with the plowing and seeding aspect of the game, which can leave huge gaps. The controls are generally quite good – although steering your tractor in a straight line can be incredibly difficult. It wouldn’t be a problem being so open if the career mode had objectives or more information about what was going on. James: Its biggest problem is the lack of progression – it takes WAY too long to do things, and then afterward you get no reward for a very long time. I know it’s a simulator, and that fields take a long time to plough and sow in real life, but I really did feel that it took an astonishingly long time to make progress. Zyle: Besides the farm itself being a bit overwhelmingly large, so too are the fields. This gives you money and allows you to buy bigger tractors / vehicles / implements. A few hours later you can then harvest your crops with a combine harvester – empty the harvest into a trailer, and drive the trailer to either your silos for storage or the mill/brewery/port for selling it. You then cultivate the field with a different implement, sow your crops with yet another – and once the crops start growing, spray them with yet another. The idea is now that you take your tractor and a plow and start plowing a field. You begin on your farm, where you will find a tractor, a combine harvester, various implements (attachments for your tractor which have different functionalities such as plowing or spraying your crops) and everything you need to manage your crops. The tutorials do a fairly decent job at explaining the basics of plowing, seeding, harvesting and what more – but when you find yourself in your newfound farm you find yourself without guidance or purpose. We would even go as far as to say that for beginning players, the size of the map is plain overwhelming, and we certainly had no idea where to go or what to do. There are enough fields to even keep the most hardcore farmer busy until the late hours. The main game comes as a ‘career’ mode where you are given a large farm on a pretty large map. It will not come as a surprise that the idea of Farming Simulator 2011 is to engage in farming related activities. Don’t be fooled however, Farming Simulator 2011 from Giants Software has absolutely nothing in common with the RSI gameplay Farmville brought to us. Some fans of these social media games enthusiastically sport custom t-shirts for the game and play fanatically every day. It seems that there’s been a huge interest in anything related to farming over the last few years – which is partially caused by the massive success of Zynga Games’ Facebook hit ‘Farmville’.
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