Game Zone: American Truck Simulator

by daiashi

About The Game

Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California and sandy Nevada. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the states.

Game mechanics are based on the highly successful model from Euro Truck Simulator 2 and have been expanded with new features, creating the most captivating game experience from SCS Software.

American Truck Simulator puts you in the seat of a driver for hire entering the local freight market, making you work your way up to become an owner-operator, and go on to create one of the largest transportation companies in the United States.

Features

• Drive highly detailed truck models officially licensed from iconic truck manufacturers.
• Your truck is your new home. Make it yours by changing cabins, chassis, paint jobs, adding tuning accessories or more powerful engines.
• Lots of different cargoes to choose: From food to machinery to hazard cargoes. Multiple types of trailers -- from reefers to flatbeds, from dumpers to lowboys and goosenecks.
• The longest trailers (up to 53 ft) will challenge your skills and patience while hauling and during parking.
• Deliver your cargoes to a rich variety of companies and locations like refineries, oil storage, gas stations, car factories, or roadworks.
• Various simulation settings for trucking enthusiasts: Air brake simulation; different types of brakes: retarder, Jake brake, trailer brake; multiple types of transmissions straight from real trucks, brake intensity, and more.
• Feel like inside a real cabin: Adjust your seat, mirrors and position your head to get the best view of the road.
• Drive safely, follow the rules and speed limits -- police will fine you if you aren't careful!
• Ensure that you are not delivering overweight cargo -- you may be checked at the weigh scales.
• Use the route adviser as your personal assistant during the travels.
• Try the life of a truck driver for hire. By delivering the cargoes safely and improving your skills, become the owner of your own, successful company!
• Build your own fleet of trucks, buy garages, hire drivers, manage your company for maximum profits.
• Make your trucking time better by listening to your favorite songs via built-in music player or streaming your favorite radio stations.
• Capture your favorite moments with a photo mode offering rich set of editing options. Great support for steering wheels, gamepads and other input devices.
• Long-time support of the game, including new features.
• Obtain challenging Steam achievements and collect all hand-painted Steam trading cards.

System requirements:

Fully updated PCLinuxOS and Steam




Hardware:

Minimum:
    OS: PCLinuxOS


    Processor: Dual core CPU 2.4 GHz


    Memory: 4 GB RAM


    Graphics: GeForce GTS 450-class (Intel HD 4000)


    Storage: 3 GB available space



Recommended:
    OS: PCLinuxOS


    Processor: Quad core CPU 3.0 GHz


    Memory: 6 GB RAM


    Graphics: GeForce GTX 760-class (2 GB)


    Storage: 3 GB available space





About The Company

SCS Software is a privately owned game and 3D software development company located in Prague, Czech Republic.

Since its founding in 1997, the company has concentrated on creating licensable 3D engine technology. Their game engines powered over a dozen commercially successful games, including best selling games Deer Hunter II and Deer Hunter III, or the critically acclaimed Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project.

Starting in 1999, they began offering full-scale game development services as a third party developer/contractor. With eight finished games under their belt, they now have a very experienced team capable of building games in a variety of genres. Using their own game engine technology as a base, they can guarantee very competitive prices, state of the art visuals, solid game design and passion and dedication to make your game stand out.




Some Gameplay Screenshots












Getting It To Run

Install Steam (if you don't have it installed already), then start it. You will need to create a new account, if you do not already have one. Once you have Steam up and running, go to the store tab. Click on the Linux tab if you wish and search for. Click on and download the demo. If you have updated your system, including graphics drivers, you should be good to go.

American Truck