It’s time to replace your American Truck Simulator street atlas, drivers. The large stateside truck ’em up heads deeper into the midwest as we speak with American Truck Simulator – Idaho, including miles and miles of the state’s valleys, potato pastures and chilly arduous tarmac to haul your method throughout – and a brand new Viewpoints characteristic to present you a recent perspective from exterior the cab.
Admittedly, what little I learn about “the gem state” comes from a 15-second look at its Wikipedia web page and a handful of Noah Gervais travelogues. I do know that Craters Of The Moon National Park seems pretty, thoughts, and I’m glad to see the volcanic hellscape made the leap into SCS’s facsimile.
From Boise to Ketchum, as we speak’s DLC provides 11 cities and cities from throughout the state – knitted along with 3,300 miles of highways, roads and trails to tear down in your 18-wheeler. Jobs will centre on increasing the native timber and farming industries, and also you’ll be capable to park at correctly genuine relaxation factors that I’m advised “truckers will know from the real world”. I’m a author, not a trucker, so I’ll want any drivers within the feedback to substantiate that for me.
New to the collection are Viewpoints, which offer a pleasant little cinematic shot of landmark buildings, pure wonders, whereas offering slightly perception into the historical past of the land. Idaho additionally arrives trying a bit nicer than its predecessors, courtesy of a small graphical update that added SSAO to the truck ’em up final week. It’s a small contact, and hardly groundbreaking, however positively helps so as to add slightly extra physicality to the game’s highways.
Fellow newsie and Midwesterner Lauren Morten was a little lukewarm on an enlargement going down in her personal again yard. But hey, when you’re up for one more digital road-trip, American Truck Simulator – Idaho is out now on Steam for £9/€12/$12. After that, ‘Murrica Trucks is heading up the Rockies for a trip to Colorado.
