Other games have promised the free-spirited thrill of the open road, but few have delivered it quite so well as SCS Software's truck simulator series. Maybe it's something in the mundane honesty of their sojourns, where long stretches of tarmac between the likes of Southampton and Sheffield pass by with a soporific hum while you fuss over each vehicle's exquisitely detailed cabin.
Or maybe it's in their wonderful partnership of simulation and systems, where you crunch through 12-speed transmissions and feel the weight of a creaking 50-foot gooseneck trailer through each spin of the steering wheel while slowly building an empire of your own; where big business mixes with the small, satisfying chore of a cross-state drive to pick up a set of chrome door handles for the latest addition to your fleet. Pitched somewhere between a blue-collar OutRun and a greasy spoon Elite, it's no wonder these games have grown so popular in recent years.
American Truck Simulator, SCS Software's long-awaited follow-up to 2012's Euro Truck Simulator 2, sings to those same rhythms, only this time with a West Coast lilt. It's a homecoming of sorts, not just to the country that SCS Software first explored with 18 Wheels of Steel, but also to the natural hunting ground of these beautiful beasts of industry, and to the land of the great American road trip.
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