ETS2 feels a little bit more like the work of lorry driving, a little less like the imagined romance of it. You're on the other side of the road you'll rarely see as many lanes as you do on US highways you have roundabouts big and small to contend with you're far more likely to find yourself queuing to join a motorway towns and cities don't tend to be built in neat grids and so have far more changeable and counter-intuitive road systems speed limits are often faster, to the point that, as an ATS veteran, I was mildly shocked by how fast passing traffic hurtled past me.Īll told, navigation is just that little bit more complex, and that means there's a little less of the elbow out the window, free-as-the-wind cruising that characterises ATS. The essential driving experience is meaningfully different too.
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If you want the epic, full weekender truck sim experience, there's simply no contest.īut, in practice, more roads and different scenery is only the half of it. The headline difference between Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator is clearly the geography - the US sim has got the big landmarks of California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, but its European sibling has the sheer mass of landscape granted by its UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and now Italy modules. Three things: 1) it's remarkable how different ETS2 feels from ATS, despite broadly being the same game 2) Italia is the prettiest Truck Sim module yet 3) even so, the Truck Sim games now badly need a big visual overhaul. This Mediterranean allure of this week's massively-expanded Italy DLC proved especially irresistible. But ATS, in its current South-Westerly configuration, is a game with a heavy reliance on rock and sand landscapes - evocative for sure, but while we await a hoped-for move to greener states such as Oregon, ETS2 is there to fill the verdant gap.
I've spent a lot more with American Truck Simulator than I have with its by-now much larger predecessor Euro Truck Simulator 2, mostly because a more distant land seemed more romantic than one I am already part of.