There is a breed of games out there which tend to get ignored by the mainstream games press, they are games you probably don’t even know exist unless you are one of those who still look for PC games on the highstreet. I am talking about games like UK Truck Simulator, Demolition Company, Driving Simulator 2011, Dive to the Titanic and a whole heap of similar, very niche titles.
I admit it, I like UK Truck Simulator, I have had loads of fun driving up and down the road network of the UK delivering my furniture here or my logs there. Surprising really, I was expecting to play it for an hour and give up, but I constantly get pulled back into it knowing that I have left it with a delivery due in Plymouth in 12 hours, a long hard slog from Felixstowe. Unfortunately not everything is sunshine…
I have often found myself interested in truck simulator games, I like to wonder what it would be like to drive an articulated lorry around the motorways of the UK. Unfortuntately most truck sims have been focused on mainland Europe or America. Things are about to change though with the upcoming release of UK Truck Simulator from SCS Software.