Cities are often depicted with the shortest of visual shorthand – a few warehouses, the odd landmark if you're lucky. No one seems to have told SCS's countryside crafters that rural Britain features long green things called hedges. The further you get from central Europe the less convincing the landscapes become. The only time when the game itself loses concentration is when attempting to evoke certain regions and sounds. Tiredness can't kill in ETS2, but it can leave you jack-knifed in a ditch, feeling awful with a substantial repair bill to pay. One minute you're cruising along contemplating the sunset over the central reservation, the next you're on a rain-lashed country road at night, waiting for the right moment to pass a painfully slow pantechnicon. Periods of smooth, almost soporific motorway motoring nestle between passages of edgier wheelwork. The fact that it isn't is largely down to good-if-not-quite-OMSI-standard physics, and varied road layouts and scenery. Spending 90 minutes ferrying a tank of propane from Sheffield to Prague could (should?) be tedious. this is Eddie Stobart: The Game in all but name. Contract perusing, truck pimping, skill upgrading, driver hiring. Slowly (or rapidly if you go to a bank) you amass the funds to buy your first rig and rent your first yard.

You start as a low-skilled, truckless lorry jockey, forced to take work from established haulage companies.

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