Unlike real farmers your in game workers don’t have the need to eat or sleep, allowing you to work them round the clock. Real farmers spend hours preparing fields, just like you will in this game. I guess the key thing to remember here is the second word of the games title, ‘Simulator’. Even if you can then load up your trailer with the harvest and travel at full speed down a 60 degree incline and not lose a single thing… Whether it harvesting, sowing, or ploughing, it is exactly the same laborious task with the only difference being the equipment you are in and speed at which you can travel without having your implement fall off. And lets face it, that is the core mechanic of the game. I mean when you are harvesting a crop and the field you are in hasn’t even been fully rendered, that is pretty poor.
And as expected with a game of such a small install size, it is nothing flash to look at but even worse was the incredibly short draw distances. It is never a good sign when the full install of a game on retail disk only requires a few hundred megs, so as you can imagine, this was my first ‘uh-oh’ moment with Farming Simulator. This Farming Simulator is more akin to a five year old playing with his tractors in a sandpit. Surely all this would be included in a simulation of farming, right? Nope. And then there is all the potential influences that can alter your methods and process, weather, pests, fiscal instability… The list is endless. For one, I have grown up around farms and know any kind of simulation of farming could be a very long and tedious process. Now this is one title I really didn’t know how to approach. Barrie finds there’s more muck than brass down on the farm.
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