American Truck Simulator

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7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 319 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 58 out of 319
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  1. smoke486
    Feb 4, 2016
    2
    The graphics are not changed, the physics has not changed, the menu has not changed, visual damage trucks do not appear. This is a new game in 2016?
    2 trucks, essentially the same state and 2, you serious?
    Price in Russia at the level of the top games such as GTA 5, Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Battlefront.
  2. HfknK
    Sep 23, 2019
    1
    Definitely a good idea for a driving sim but, it has it's flaws. Maps aren't exact, trucks run well, limited city areas, limited roads for making your own routes, no matter the system, you still have micro stutters and fps loss but, of 'course, that's all blamed on you. Mods actually make the game look more realistic yet, if you have any installed, all blame for the issues you have inDefinitely a good idea for a driving sim but, it has it's flaws. Maps aren't exact, trucks run well, limited city areas, limited roads for making your own routes, no matter the system, you still have micro stutters and fps loss but, of 'course, that's all blamed on you. Mods actually make the game look more realistic yet, if you have any installed, all blame for the issues you have in game are their fault. The game is not perfect, by all means. Most of the accessories are copied from the ETS2 game of which, are all in favor by Europeans and have nothing to do with American Culture or, ideals. Too many kiddy items in them. Ex: PokieMan, Picachu, Starwars, Sponge Bob, etc...,etc.... Basic building types, nothing of real design, unlike, the ETS2 game. Graphics are so-so and if you use anything other than M & KB, you'll have issues unless, you're a geek and know how to modify what you need to make it work. What is it, 2-3 years now and only 5 states and the Canadians are already crying for Canadian loads. ATS still has 46 states to go in my book before, any Canadian deliveries should be added. Many of the truck add-ons are good, more-so for the modded trucks of which, some of them are excellently created. If you have 20 years left to live of which, I don't, you may see it finished. Buy it on sale or, as a package if offered. If you know how to mod, that's your best bet for add-ons.… Expand
  3. DefaltWorld
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Este juego tiene camiones tipicos de las peliculas, pero muy poco realistas, el mapeado es pobre comparado con el euro truck 2, no lo recomiendo, es mejor la entrega anterior
  4. hrsr0
    Feb 24, 2016
    3
    American ats:
    Ets 2 dx 9 ( improved but still same old crap )
    Same pathetic physics from ets 1 sdts ets 2 ( same engine ) NO dmg models ( LOL ) No plausible, authentic physics Even smaller world scale so far in the 2 current available states nevada and california Pathetic redarded on rails AI thats not even worthy of the name ai ( also it doesnt obey the same physics as the player )    American ats:
    Ets 2 dx 9 ( improved but still same old crap )
    Same pathetic physics from ets 1 sdts ets 2 ( same engine )
    NO dmg models ( LOL )
    No plausible, authentic physics
    Even smaller world scale so far in the 2 current available states nevada and california
    Pathetic redarded on rails AI thats not even worthy of the name ai ( also it doesnt obey the same physics as the player )
    Idiotic road signs stop from 65 mph to 0 in 1 meter ( devs are living in their own little world thats got nothing to do with the real one )
    Unreal ramps / exits/ highway exits ( too short , narrow )
    Unfinished game as it is

    Its not a simulator its an truck driving game whoever thinks its playing a simulator its either a lunatic or paid by scs to advertise it, at any rate if you loved ets 2 ats is the same only in america this time.    … Expand
  5. Mark_Rubane
    Feb 6, 2016
    3
    No, this is the second game dummy. Second ETS2.
    In 2016 it is empty and game is not here and close the name Simulation.
    The player should be interested. And what do we see? We see nothing, except - in front - back - front - back. And all of this. The police on the roads - only image sets. Not her actions , for example as in the game Rig N Roll. Here there is just the plot , the    No, this is the second game dummy. Second ETS2.
    In 2016 it is empty and game is not here and close the name Simulation.

    The player should be interested.
    And what do we see? We see nothing, except - in front - back - front - back. And all of this.

    The police on the roads - only image sets. Not her actions , for example as in the game Rig N Roll. Here there is just the plot , the scenario, the management of the state, the struggle for the title of champion of California and a lot of interesting plot.

    ATS - empty and such cards our modders are doing far more for the month.

    Weigh station cargo: it's just a fake, a parody. Where upon arrival my reports for this procedure where excess weight?

    The trucks look like plastic plastic, , there is not the slightest contamination.

    Still have hope that SCS will start making real games of our time, but we were wrong.

    No, I'll pass. This is not a game 2016.    … Expand
  6. vlad31
    Feb 4, 2016
    0
    I've been ETS2 fan from 2012 release, and for 2 years of developing I expected more than just 2 states and 2 trucks, shame on you SCS, by the way, the game is beautiful
  7. iuifwef
    Feb 3, 2016
    0
    It's a game with a wealth of potential. Unfortunately this game has a rushed feeling. Its like that half of cheese burger your room-mate left in the back of the fridge. you know you wanna eat it, but a fresh warm cheese burger is so much better
  8. bprzdyt
    Feb 4, 2016
    0
    There are 50 States in USA, great truck history. In American Truck simulator we have just two states ( 4% of USA map ) and TWO trucks . Omg. when I started game first time I felt like I playing demo version. But dont worry , DLC map coming soon! just 10€ each.

    Game is not wroth money at the moment. You should wait for dlc maps and buy complete version later. But how long will it    There are 50 States in USA, great truck history. In American Truck simulator we have just two states ( 4% of USA map ) and TWO trucks . Omg. when I started game first time I felt like I playing demo version. But dont worry , DLC map coming soon! just 10€ each.

    Game is not wroth money at the moment. You should wait for dlc maps and buy complete version later.
    But how long will it take them to create the entire map if make the two states took them two years ?

    Sorry for my bad english, i hope u understand,    … Expand
  9. Thirdrail
    Feb 4, 2016
    2
    SCS is, without question, my favorite company in gaming. Their "thank you for the 20 tons of sand" post was one of the greatest moments in the history of video gaming. I will always love these guys.

    That aside, American Truck Simulator is a steaming pile of hot garbage. The map is just awful. "Downtown" San Diego is where Old Town should be, and looks nothing like any part of San Diego.    SCS is, without question, my favorite company in gaming. Their "thank you for the 20 tons of sand" post was one of the greatest moments in the history of video gaming. I will always love these guys.

    That aside, American Truck Simulator is a steaming pile of hot garbage. The map is just awful. "Downtown" San Diego is where Old Town should be, and looks nothing like any part of San Diego. At least no part of San Diego I ever saw, in the decade I lived in or around it. Real downtown is visible as cluster of buildings in the distance, to the South, but it's just background, you can't drive to it. The 5 is equally misrepresented. No San Onofre (the reactors that look like boobs), no Discovery Cube, no junction with the 210 or 605 (neither of which exist, either). Los Angeles is about three blocks wide, and so is San Francisco. The whole map is incredibly small, and scaled down, compared to even single countries in Euro Truck. (California and Great Britain are about the same size in RL, but this ATS's California is about half the size of GB in Euro Truck, with far, far fewer roads and towns.)

    Worst of all, the California 1, America's finest driving experience (I say this as someone who has spent the vast majority of his lifetime to exploring the highways and towns of the US.), isn't even continued north of San Francisco. ATS California is like the California you would design if your only experience with California was playing Grand Theft Auto games. The sad part is that if SCS spent even a quarter of the time on the map as they do on their dashboards, this game would be a thousand percent improved.

    And I can hear the counter to this already... but, Third, it's American TRUCK Simulator, not American California Simulator! Well, amigo, if that's the case, this game is even more of a failure than I am already calling it, because it only has two trucks, and they're virtually indistinguishable from one another. As a pure truck simulator, this is the equivalent of a promotional flash game you'd play in a browser on a manufacturers website.

    No, what made Euro Truck what it is, and put SCS on the map, was that someone made finally made a game about the joy of driving, as opposed to the thrill of racing. And it was wonderful. ATS, however, is not wonderful. It's a cheap ploy to milk cash from one of the most benevolent, supportive communities in all of gaming, and SCS should be ashamed of themselves for every wildly insulting inch of what they've done here.    … Expand
  10. TAFM017
    Feb 5, 2016
    4
    Right. It's the exact same as ETS2, same EVERYTHING but new trucks. Being from europe, I have no interest in the exact same game with the only difference not being able to go to my country.
  11. Shveda
    Feb 13, 2016
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Nothing different between ETS2 and ATS !
    Players will not have own trailers in ATS like Haulin,LH.
    Players cant sleep in the truck like in Haulin,Long Haul...
    The carrier will be same like ETS2 what carrier in ETS2 with 2 jobs you make 150 000Euro and you buy last model of truck with big engine transmission full extras and etc. for 2h or max 5h game.
    This is not a carrier. Carrier is to start with old truck used without your trailer to work hard for companies who pay very little money to learn to save money to buy used or new trailer.to save money again and to buy some new truck or used but in good condition....
    To make contracts with companies and to drive for them or they to give you better payment loads...
    You cant see your truck on own parking lot like Haulin and Long Haul.
    Or to see them in a Traffic.
    You can find loads for you drivers and you trucks or rental trailers somethings like in PTTM. Or Haulin.
    Now in ETS2 you are not THE BOSS you just buy one truck and the driver make what he wanna whatever he is the boss not you.
    You cant control you driver and how many to pay him,when to go in service station,what to load...
    What is real in one game where you need to up levels and add points to can drive ADR Loads long distance and etc....
    And you cant pay for ADR Certificy and to add on one trailer adr sign.
    This points will tell me can i drive economically or not....where have realism in that or simulation ...or for long distance and etc...
    Scales they dont show you how many is your weight and if you are overweight or not HOW ITS REAL just only if you pass or not...what scale is that.
    SCS can make players to lift up and down every axle who have airbags or on the trailer now they rework this function from ets2 and to put into ats and players to slide tandems.
    In one interior in one truck have maybe more from 20keys they cant make one key to move they cant make one sensor on dashboard to move and work like from real life.
    They cant make better simulation and the condition on one truck to depends from the driver to see him oil sensor,water sensor,brakes if this truck need oil to change filters and etc player to can waste one engine and when repair him to cant make him like brand new and other parts get him comply with the rules on the road !
    Because they one day will get driver license and will drive similar like in the game ! RECKLESS ! ! !
    Sorry guys but its not a simulator ! Simulator was PTTM,Hard Truck,Haulin but not that with every game or version they recede from the simulation and real life...    … Expand
  12. RickJamesBish
    Feb 18, 2016
    0
    Simulator ? That is stretching it a bit. I was expecting much more and being $19 I should have known not to expect much. A more appropriate title might be "Pimpulation" since it seems this game is geared at accessorizing "Pimping" your ride. Some form of time compression is understandable but when you can make a 4 hour trip in 10 to 15 minutes that takes all of the simulation factor outSimulator ? That is stretching it a bit. I was expecting much more and being $19 I should have known not to expect much. A more appropriate title might be "Pimpulation" since it seems this game is geared at accessorizing "Pimping" your ride. Some form of time compression is understandable but when you can make a 4 hour trip in 10 to 15 minutes that takes all of the simulation factor out of the equation. Then there is the lack of accuracy for the areas. I live in CA. Have lived in Bakersfield, been to Fresno, Barstow, Oxnard, etc. This simulation falls well short of coming even close. The only real similarity are the names. I would have expected to drive through any given town and been able to tell where I was by how it looked or by the familiarity of the route taken to get there. Not the case. I would have much rather seen them concentrate on getting details of a select area than just throw some names on a map and get the landscape characteristics close. Definitely not what I classify as a simulation.… Expand
  13. fgn9
    Feb 23, 2016
    0
    ATS is to short not polished at all . riddled with game breaking bugs . The critics must of never actually played it . they rave how awesome it is while it is broken and inaccurate on every level . IT IS NOT A SIMULATION just a driving 1A title cheap made .
    SCS has not changed their game format in 20 years the game feels dated out of the gate , you cannot get out and walk around or do    ATS is to short not polished at all . riddled with game breaking bugs . The critics must of never actually played it . they rave how awesome it is while it is broken and inaccurate on every level . IT IS NOT A SIMULATION just a driving 1A title cheap made .
    SCS has not changed their game format in 20 years the game feels dated out of the gate , you cannot get out and walk around or do what truckers do , After 20 years you are still stuck setting in the truck . The developers are inexperienced lack the knowledge to develop a true modern AAA title . Their games feel cheap cheap cheap .    … Expand
  14. kidnepp
    Feb 7, 2016
    1
    The parking is painful to play, I expect mini game, bar, unique mission, driving mate, in depth story line added to this game. But same old same old. I NEED SOMETHING NEW!!!

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76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. CD-Action
    May 1, 2016
    65
    After having played ATS for over a dozen hours I put it aside and returned to Euro Truck Simulator 2. Right now ATS is just a foundation for a game and it will take a couple of DLCs to fill it properly with content. [04/2016, p.60]
  2. Edge Magazine
    Apr 10, 2016
    70
    Fundamentally a curiously lovable game - one of long, lonely roads, of painstaking parking manoeuvres, and slapstick write-offs when simple turns are misjudged. There's nothing else quite like SCS's brand of cargo-hauling action. [April 2016, p.119]
  3. IGN Denmark
    Apr 6, 2016
    65
    A fine delivery of the simulated life of an American truck driver and the logistics of the job.
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