The Scania Truck Driving Simulator puts you in the driving seat
Gamers and wannabe truck drivers will be able to get their hands on a new game that places you in the driving seat of a Scania truck in June.
SCS software’s Scania Truck Driving Simulator rolls out at the end of June, and lets gamers earn a truck driving license, compete in disciplines inspired by the Young European Truck Driver competition; and take part in virtual Scania Driver Competition events.
Sounds good – we’re in!
This is what SCS’ blog has to say about it:
The project is the result of a very productive dialogue we have started with the great guys at Scania CV AB. You could have read our grumbling repeatedly here on this blog about how difficult it is for the company our size to even get noticed by the big guys, be them truck and trailer manufacturers or logistics companies. The “serious” industry too often considers games as something controversial and unimportant anyway, and even marketing departments are usually too conservative and concentrated on traditional media to grasp the idea that the thousands and thousand of people playing truck sims are in fact the ideal audience that they could approach through our game.
Fortunately, when we approached Scania about licensing their trucks for our games, this was not the case. In fact we immediately moved on to another stage – discussion on how we could work together on something deeper. And when such an opportunity appears – you just don’t want to let it pass. This is a chance for us to learn a lot, and also a chance to get our production recognized in the transportation industry in general. We are in this for the long run (or at least so long as we have enough paying customers), and building industry contacts and experience is crucial for us in our quest to build an ultimate truck simulator combining best of both words – interesting for a gamer as well as a professional driver.
Scania Truck Driving Simulator is only about three times the depth and scope of Truck & Trailers, so still a relatively small game, but the variety of activities available in the game makes it way more balanced product. There are driving-school type of tasks in the game for a warm up. There is a big segment devoted to emulating the hard challenges in Scania’s Young European Truck Driver competition (BTW you should really check out what the masters behind the wheel are capable of, just watch a bit of the previous YETD finals). But there is also a lot of fun-to-drive realistic-looking scenarios included, plus a sizable map just for free roaming deliveries. This game is packed with hours and hours of interesting driving for sure. Plus our very first step towards making our games networking-enabled, with the possibility to compete (and see other people’s driving performances) over the Internet.