I bet there will be people who would like to see this paintjob without animals on it, as it was with a
prize paintjob for a Texas event 
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I play old games. I play 18 Wheels of Steel still too!
Well, I returned to the first
18WoS a year ago (a loooong after I played it last time), but I found that it has some annoying moments like unexpected bumps at random places (which could damage your cargo when zero damage delivery is required) and difficult navigation in the cities — at «medium» and «high» difficulty maps you can waste a lot of time trying to find a base you need.
HT2, despite some bugs and facepalm-worthy moments, is generally more user-friendly game, and has in-built totally legal cheats. Even if AI competitors drive really fast, you don’t need to fight with them — use one of shortcuts through the forest, swamp or even across the river (!) and your route will be two or three times shorter — noone will catch you
. In
*TS, the off-road driving is needed only if you have chosen the wrong lane at the interchange, and there is a gap in the guard rails
.
So, I play
Hard Truck 2 once a year, but after hiring every driver (last times I managed to do this at the third day of playing
) there is nothing left to do — no high-detailed scenery and enviroment sounds (except of 2 locations with running water
), no giant map and very limited truck customization. The first
SoftLab’s
Hard Truck game from 1998 have too repetitive gameplay and crashes on the systems newer than Windows 98
. There are
dgVoodoo fix for it, but only for the lower modes with
one 2D dashboard for all nine trucks.
Also, there are several more old games I play once every year... like
NFS: Porsche, where the difficulty level is balanced wery well — the first races in
Evolution mode are a good tutorial for a player who never played this game or totally forgot about how to play it, and the later tournaments and unlockable tracks difficulty grows with player’s natural skill growth
— no chances to just buy the fastest car and dominate (the exception is using the car from 1988 in
944 challenge, where all other cars use the basic model from 1982). Despite being older than
Hard Truck 2, this game has much more customization options, more natural-looking scenery, rich environment sound library... and works with modern monitors better
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