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Saw funnyman on Vinesauce play it and it looked fun. It is, with the problem that there's no option to lock your cursor to the game which is a huge problem considering it's a FPS and most people have more than one monitor nowadays.

Either I'm an idiot or it's missing a pretty standard feature that makes it impossible to enjoy the game because I keep clicking out of it every five seconds. Absolutely absurd.

Good

Beyond frustrating. It doesn't matter what I say though because there'll be some idiot telling you to "git gud."

Buy it if you want, I don't care.

So, I'm going to base this review on someone who grew up playing the Gran Turismo games, specifically GT3 and GT5, with that out of the way; I'll talk about Assetto Corsa now.

I really love the quality control and time put into the game, what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality, rather than some racer games giving you 50 cars and massive amounts of race tracks, Assetto Corsa doses you with small portions of cars and real-life race tracks.

From what I hear, they take some sort of car with a scanner on it, drive it around the track and put it into the game, I like to imagine they put the same amount of time into the cars of this game as well. I recently got into this game after feeling nostalgic for drifting around the Tsukuba Circut in GT5 and I have to say it's the closest you can get to a proper Gran Turismo game on PC. I've tried many other racing games in an attempt to capture what made GT so great, and I think I've found it in Assetto Corsa.

It has vast amounts of settings to play with, beautiful graphics, amazing sound design and a very flexible UI that lets you customize every little aspect of your racing experience. Don't like how you sit in a car? You can change that! Don't like your racer's arms? A little odd, but you can remove them! Want to create gigantic plumes of smoke when you drift? Too bad. (Even with the ambient temperature set to 36 Celsius I fail to make anything but little puffs of smoke)

Now, some things that upset me!

Unless you pick a legitimate race car, drift car, or step 1 car, there's really nothing you can do to fiddle with how it handles. Sure, you can toy with the brakes, and suspension, and sometimes the tires! But you don't get custom colours, you don't get to change the rims, nothing. I've tried for hours on getting the Nismo Tuned 370Z to slide, but no matter what I do, I just can't seem to get it right. I constantly find myself going back to the BMW M3 Drift tuned car to satisfy my angular needs. I previously talked about the minor problem I have about this game, and that's why I can overlook it. I'm wanting to do things in this game that the Developers don't intend you to do. This is a racing sim, not a simcade poop racer, so it makes sense that I can't have a bright pink Toyota Supra with flashy rims.

The "BMW Ferrari Porsche-to-everything-else" ratio is crazy. If you add up all the praised Euroformancemobiles and stack them against the other cars, you'll be like "Wow, someone's a little biased to BMW"

All in all, Assetto Corsa does a great job being a competant racing game on PC, it's pretty much the only one I like. Just ask me what I think of The Crew, actually; Nevermind. Just read my review on that one.

Get this game if you're interested in getting into some really great sim racing, if you're also coming from Gran Turismo, this will be a great transition to PC racing games. Only complaint I have is that it's not more like Gran Turismo. (You can't own cars or customize them with different performance parts) But then again, that's not even supposed to be an option, so I can't fault the Devs on that.

I highly recommend this game, on a controller or on a racing wheel, you'll have tons of fun in this racing game.

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number has made me angrier than I have ever been in a very long time. With an overabundance of glass panels and eagle-eyed enemies with guns, this game takes Hotline Miami's difficulty and chaotic gameplay to sadistic levels of anger.

There have been many positive reviews of this game, and I can understand why it's so highly praised; but I hope having a different opinion doesn't bring angry mobs with pitchforks to the comment section of this review. For this reason, I'm going to focus on the negatives, because there's just so much that annoys me with this game, that I find it hard to overlook the positives.

As previously mentioned, the levels are filled with glass and holes in the walls that are very easily lost in this games pixel-style art, I can't count how many times I've been running around only to be obliterated by enemy fire because half the glass panels look like solid walls. The enemies can see you way before you can see them, I found myself holding shift during the entire game so I could maybe get the jump on them before they fill me with lead.

The levels are designed to make you feel vulnerable at every corner, and it worked. If you don't have a gun, you can consider it nearly unplayable, I've found myself strafing out of cover to lure enemies over to me and killing them one by one just so I'd have a chance at completing the level. Half the difficulty of this game isn't in the gameplay, but in the level design. Enemies blend in to the background, different lighting effects and filters hinder your vision and just get you killed. I had the hardest time completing the prison level, because the guys that charge you and bash your head on the ground just look like normal enemies; so you don't realize the threat until you get killed by them over and over and over.

This game's story was vastly longer than the first Hotline Miami, and although some might like it; I can't stand it. They try to introduce lots of characters with different abilities, but all they succeed in doing is confusing me and making me change my style of gameplay after every scene. For example: there's a character that refuses to kill enemies. He incapicitates them with melee weapons and if you pick a firearm; all he does is unload it and make it useless. For the first few times doing this, I thought it was cool. But all it does is make me wish I could actually kill them. It's Hotline Miami for crying out loud, why WOULDN'T you want to kill people?

Not to mention the boring dialogue between action sequences. What's the point? After finishing a level, you're so on edge and amped up that you just want more of the game, the whacky 80's pink and cyan font is NOT something you want to stare at, but they make you because that's how the story unfolds. I don't care about it. They bounce between time frames like some sort of Crime-Drama or Quentin Tarantino film, and it just gets disorienting.

I'm going to try and not spoil the overall story for anyone reading, but whenever something happens to the characters in the game, I feel nothing. A good game makes you feel connected to the antagonist you're playing as, but everytime something happens to them; I don't have a care in the world. In fact, I feel pleasure when anything goes awry for them because it just reminds me that I don't have to bother with them anymore.

The game's music is great, I have to mention. And I'm a little disapointed that you don't get to play as Jacket; the character of the first Hotline Miami again. But that's all this game is to me, a disapointment. Dennation Games took the difficulty of Hotline Miami and said "Yeah, let's make it harder and stretch the game out with pointless dialogue and useless cutscenes for characters that no one cares about".

Anyway, that's my review, I don't like it as much as the first Hotline Miami. And I uninstalled this game the moment I got done with it. There was zero satisfaction upon completing it and I have nothing but bad memories.

Sorry if I upset anyone, but that's how it is.

Only a few hours in but it's good so far

My favourite game by Valve, great fun with friends or just by yourself with great custom map capabilities.

I've been hyped for this game ever since ATS was revealed.

It shows great potential, and I'm looking forward for the rest of the game to come out.
American Truck Simulator has two trucks. Two.
It's got two states, 4% of all of the USA.

When Euro Truck Simulator 2 came out, it had WAY more cities and trucks from the get-go, It felt like a finished game that didn't need any improvement.

I paid $30 for ATS and I'm very underwhelmed with what I got.
American Truck Simulator feels like a demo. It upsets me when I go to the map and see that I can only drive through Nevada and California.

I've heard that SCS will be adding the remainder of the cities and trucks into the game, but if they decide to charge money for those other states and vehicles, I'm done.

The other fourty-eight states should have been released with the rest of the game to begin with. They have plenty of time to do it right and I would've patiently waited another 2-3 months for a full game to come out rather than a small portion of it.

Don't get me wrong though, I like how the game handles, it runs smoothly and the scenery looks great. There's more action in the backgrounds, tumbleweeds cross the road, jet fighters fly past you at breakneck speeds and helicopters patrol the area.

The game is fun...


...but not that fun.

It's mediocre, I got a taste of ATS, and now I want the rest.
I can't recomend it to anyone until the devs put the rest of America into "American Truck Simulator".

I don't like it

A great game with lots of trucks and road to explore. It's hard to get into because at the beginning of the game you say to yourself "This is going to be boring and stupid".

Oh boy are you wrong.
It's relaxing to play with a racing wheel, I use a Logitech Driving Force GT, have it clamped to my desk and it's such a great game. I normally throw on a few albums of music and just go from England to the furthest East, collect an enormous amount of money and repeat until the music stops or I get too tired to do another job. (Btw, if you ever go to Poland in this game, you'll learn to hate tollboothes, they're literally everywhere)

Graphics look good for a simulator like this, you only get speeding tickets if you're caught in a speed camera, and it's easy to run. I've got a GTX 770 and I run it maxed out, 60FPS until it starts to rain, then I get around 50 FPS. It's not noticable and it's not immersion breaking in the slightest.

ONTO THE ACTUAL GAME, AND NOT THE SETTINGS OR PERIPHERALS

This game is amazing. There's a lot of trucks to buy, customize and drive. Including such brands as Volvo, DAF, MAN and Majestic.

There's plenty of customization for your rigs as I said, including but not limited to:
different chassis
ability to add air horns
extra lights
bullbars
And even the ability to change the standard interior to a more luxurious one when you level up enough.

It's got some minor role-playing traits like different skills and different truck stats that you can only unlock if you're high enough level. And it's perfect!

The different payloads you can haul are even more plentiful, ranging from logs to helicopters. You can rest up at gas stations, refuel your truck at the pumps, and take ferries to get across the water from England to the rest of Europe.

The DLC that you can buy is great, except for the Poland DLC (Again, tollboothes can cease to exist please) All of the aesthetic DLCs for paintjobs and customization could be ignored without any losses. I of course ended up buying the Canadian Paint Job pack.


If I had a few tips for anyone that wants to play this, wait until you can buy a high-powered Volvo, and then take out a massive loan to get some more trucks and drivers.

The 86 hours of this game I played were continous, I only took breaks to eat and sleep, just like a real trucker.
I rate this game a solid 10/10, for immersion, relaxing gameplay and awesome things to discover.