Hard Truck: Apocalypse

 PC
User Score
8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 79 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 62 out of 79
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 79
  3. Negative: 7 out of 79
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  1. Lhetre
    Mar 25, 2014
    8
    Entertaining game where you drive a truck, follow a series of missions through different environments, fight other trucks, and trade your way to buy a more powerful truck.
    Dogfight is quite well done, pirates will storm you if you pass through their territory. Missions are varied and some are even humorous. You repair you truck in towns, where you will also be able to find new and    Entertaining game where you drive a truck, follow a series of missions through different environments, fight other trucks, and trade your way to buy a more powerful truck.
    Dogfight is quite well done, pirates will storm you if you pass through their territory. Missions are varied and some are even humorous. You repair you truck in towns, where you will also be able to find new and improved parts, accept missions, and do the indispensable trade.
    This game has enormous potential, the main idea is solid gold, but it lacks some polish, mostly form the broken translation which spoils the immersion.
    All in all this is not a perfect game, but it has in store some surprises and the story is quite coherent.
    You'll definitely enjoy it.
    Under Windows 7 the game need some tinkering to work.    … Expand
  2. anmatan
    Jun 19, 2013
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's a wonderful game for me.Atmosphere, music, amusing cars...This makes Hard Truck: Apocalypse a game of my childhood and an example of best game (for me). However, there are some mistakes and bugs in this game, graphics is not perfect, quests are simple and sometimes boring, but nevertheless the atmosphere is perfect and main story is very interesting.… Expand
  3. The_Nametag
    Feb 10, 2020
    7
    It sounds like such a simple question. "Do you recommend this game?" But every now and then a game comes along that makes you really have to think about that. This is one of those games.

    It is a budget title. A game that is massively flawed, but functional. There are bugs, ranging from invisible walls in the middle of the map, floating grass, options such as reversing your mouse’s    It sounds like such a simple question. "Do you recommend this game?" But every now and then a game comes along that makes you really have to think about that. This is one of those games.

    It is a budget title. A game that is massively flawed, but functional. There are bugs, ranging from invisible walls in the middle of the map, floating grass, options such as reversing your mouse’s y-axis not saving when you exit the game, to the game not exiting properly, crashing, and not working on Windows 7 or higher without some tweaking. There are bugs. You will encounter them.

    The game, originally Russian, has some problems in the translation. Voice acting for the main character is flat. He calls out things like “The roof is on fire!” when he spots enemies. There are several more non-sequiturs in the game. The story is fairly generic, limited. However, it does branch out, letting you choose different factions to support during the game.

    The game is not polished. Your vehicle can climb mountains with ease, physics are described as ‘bouncy’. To explain why all the characters’ faces don’t move, the creators decreed that all the characters wear masks (and, yes, the graphics reflect that).

    But the gameplay is there. You can drive around. You can enter combat, with a variety of weapons. Vehicles are done in a fairly strict upgrade process. One chassis is better than another, one cab is better in nearly all stats and slots than another, same with beds. Even with combat, some weapons are clearly better than nearly anything else in their slot (shotguns, particularly the medium shotgun, are fairly over powered compared to other available weapons).

    You can raid, you can trade, haul cargo, complete quests. You can finish the game. It is not without flaws, but it is not without charm. There are problems with AI spawn rates, where enemies will attack in rapid succession outside of a town, leading you into a loop of defending yourself, looting the scraps, returning to sell and repair, and then being attacks again right away. Other times, you will not see an enemy for several maps if you run through them. Yet the game also contains some clever fights (and some generic ones).

    The first map perfectly introduces you to how to play. The next string of maps seems to follow the trope of “they get worse as you go on, because fewer and fewer people will see them”, but began to improve again in time. You do eventually see different environments from what most of the early game looks like.

    This is a game that doesn’t feel done, but does feel like the devs had a clear idea of what they were trying to achieve. And, gameplay wise, it is solid. And it is fun, if that’s what you want. So, in the end, do I recommend this game? Yes, I think I do, if that is the kind of game you’re looking for, and if you can look past its many flaws. But this game won’t appeal to everyone.    … Expand
  4. prohodil_mimo
    Jan 30, 2013
    6
    Actually, the game was no good. It had poor graphics, weak plot, raw setting, questionable fighting and economic models.
    But this was freaking hard truck postapocalipse Action-RPG!
    Yes, there are a huge lot of games, which implement one of these parts on the highest level. Nowadays there are even some acknowledged to be good ones, which contain more than one part of this list:    Actually, the game was no good. It had poor graphics, weak plot, raw setting, questionable fighting and economic models.
    But this was freaking hard truck postapocalipse Action-RPG!
    Yes, there are a huge lot of games, which implement one of these parts on the highest level. Nowadays there are even some acknowledged to be good ones, which contain more than one part of this list: Borderlands, Rage, Fired Up for PSP...
    Maybe this **** just worked in Russia for some reason. Maybe space or pirate games were enough to enjoy such gameplay elsewhere. But personally, if anyone will ever decide to reanimate this idea, they can count on me.    … Expand
  5. carefuL124
    Nov 30, 2012
    10
    One of the best games for me. Very interesting atmosphere of the apocalypse. Good work of the composer. Unfortunately, only in Russia understand the meaning of this fascinating game
  6. Vital51o
    Nov 25, 2014
    10
    ex machina - a very rare and unique in its kind game. published in 2006, she touched the hearts of many gamers CIS countries and Eastern Europe, it is filled by a spirit, an atmosphere that delight each player to play it. 10/10
  7. Gua
    Apr 7, 2014
    8
    I'm not a fan of car game but Hard Truck: Apocalypse is one of the best russian games in my opinion. The only thing I didn't like is the music. I would advice Hard Truck for every fan of post apocalypse and open world.
  8. devrimpasa123
    Jan 24, 2014
    10
    Where is download?? I can't download my game. Help me please. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  9. Alkej
    Jan 17, 2012
    3
    This game is bad, but grows on you. But as it grows it doesn't stop being bad, you just start tolerating it a bit better, like you would a mangy shabby old dog who poops all over the place and bites your friends when they come over. You can't help it, it's not that you like that dog, it's just that you have to keep it for some inexplicable reason. 3.5
  10. iddqd4
    Feb 13, 2018
    8
    此文本在此處，以便分數將顯示在我的配置文件中。 還有幾個字母適合這些標誌。
  11. beermatt
    Aug 21, 2020
    10
    Cheap and cheerful, but what they did, they did well. Really well.

    If it's not your kinda game then you won't like it, but if you want a good offroad driving-shooting-action-adventure games roaming the wastelands making your own way, then you'll love it. Or at least would've done a few years ago. These days it's graphics are dated of course, would love to see an updated one with    Cheap and cheerful, but what they did, they did well. Really well.

    If it's not your kinda game then you won't like it, but if you want a good offroad driving-shooting-action-adventure games roaming the wastelands making your own way, then you'll love it.

    Or at least would've done a few years ago. These days it's graphics are dated of course, would love to see an updated one with modern graphics. Even still, if you can cope with the aged graphics it's still good to play now.    … Expand
  12. ruvinisimus
    Jun 8, 2018
    3
    не, ну как можно играть в такой графоний в два ка восемнадцатом? сделайте ремастер штоле...
  13. aristarkh
    Jan 9, 2020
    9
    Интересная игра с неплохим лором и сюжетом. Содержит иллюзию нелинейности, хотя разница заключается в порядке сюжетных арок и мотивации героя. две концовки, одна из которых канонична, за счет продолжения. Локации не пустые, хотя маловаты. Бои прикольные, хотя могут и утомить. Квесты интересно выполнять, иногда попадаются отсылки к реальным событиям и людям, одна доставила). Для меня однаИнтересная игра с неплохим лором и сюжетом. Содержит иллюзию нелинейности, хотя разница заключается в порядке сюжетных арок и мотивации героя. две концовки, одна из которых канонична, за счет продолжения. Локации не пустые, хотя маловаты. Бои прикольные, хотя могут и утомить. Квесты интересно выполнять, иногда попадаются отсылки к реальным событиям и людям, одна доставила). Для меня одна из лучших российских игр.… Expand
  14. kuccy1
    Apr 9, 2020
    6
    This is is a very old Russian game made with little to no budget at all, and you can see it from the overall looks of the game and terrible localization to English. But despite all that, it is an enjoyable game if you give yourself up to it and ignore the mediocre vocal acting.
  15. kryvian
    Jun 12, 2021
    8
    This game has some bugs like the race mission and the petrol mission, that if you don't know how to handle them, they'll break your game.

    That said, this is the most cherished game from my childhood, the blend of combat, upgrades, trading/transport and exploration is something you simply don't find these days. I honestly wish they'd remaster/remake this game.

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#79 Most Shared PC Game of 2006

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Metascore
45

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 8 out of 11
  1. GameSpot
    44
    Hard Truck: Apocalypse takes an interesting premise and strips away all but the most mundane elements, leaving you to drive down a long and unexciting road to nowhere.
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  2. Eurogamer
    40
    The more interesting large-scale fire fights and planning truck upgrades provide some reasons to stick with it, along with nostalgia for dear old Interstate 76. If only Targem had concentrated on lending the missions more of the depth I76's sported, the other faults would be far more forgivable.
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  3. GameZone
    45
    Just too boring to recommend to anyone looking for a good car-combat game.
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