Bored of shooters? Killed enough dragons? Perhaps you’re looking for something fresh. Something more rural, with classy overtones of nostalgia. Perhaps you’re keen to get away from war and blood and and death and that. What you need, my friend, is a tractor and a field to plough, and an incessant banjo twanging away in the background. The banjo is especially important. Enter Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming, a glossy look at “the golden age of mechanized farming.” It claims to be “the ultimate agricultural driving, workflow and business simulation.” If you don’t like the idea of words like “workflow” appearing in your out-of-work entertainment, hold off judgement until you’ve seen the first screenshots showing a those classic tractors lingering in empty garages, unused and alone. And before you ask, YES. There is a playable demo. It wouldn’t be a proper farming simulator without animal husbandry, of course. The official Agricultural Simulator site has word of some of the extra tasks you can take on as king farmer. It’s in German, so you can thank Google translate for the skewed expressions. “Build on another leg, and you are operating a livestock: cows, horses, sheep, chickens, geese, including game, you can keep on your farm and maintain.” says the site. “If all goes well, you will be able to obtain offspring in some species,” it adds. Move over, Call of Duty, there’s a new horse in town. There’s even a co-op mode that’ll let you and a friend tend to your yard together. Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming is out on May 18.
The sequel of the successful Agricultural Simulator 2011 enters the next round.
An idyllic grange surrounded by invitingly untouched mountain panoramas and unworked fields are awaiting all agriculture fans in the Agricultural Simulator 2012. At their very own farm hobby-farmers undertake the daily tasks of an agriculturist: The producing of food, sustainable resources and the delivery of energy materials. Fields have to be worked and farm animals fostered. To work smaller fields and alpine pastures only machines with less performance are available at the beginning, but the vehicle fleet will constantly be supplemented by more powerful agricultural implements.
Future agriculturists have to invest tactical and clever - the consumption of money by the running costs and seeds must not be underestimated. To realize profit it takes financial and tactical skill.
Numerous models of Fendt, Challenger, Massey Ferguson and Valtra, which vehicles are reproduced in facsimile, are on hand. All machines and tractors can be driven and navigated by the player.
Features:
- Vast gaming world with mountains and valleys
- Exciting career mode with trading feature
- Market place for animals, seeds and machines
- Countless economical circuits: growing of crops, breeding, bio gas
- Agricultural technology of Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Challenger and Valtra
- Realistic physics
- Highly sophisticated co-workers AI
- Day and night cycle as well as varying weather conditions
- Multiplayer via network or internet
