System requirements for maximum rendering quality recommended by the gameGPU website:
The minimum
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
RAM: 1,5 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MBRAM Radeon HD 3690 or GeForce GT 220
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 9 GB free space
Effective
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2,4 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MBRAM Radeon HD 4670 or GS GeForce 8800
Winchester: 9 GB free space
Optimal
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 3,0 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MBRAM Radeon HD 4830 or GeForce GT 8800
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 9 GB free space
Official description of the game
You are invited to try yourself in the role of a Russian driver who arrives in California in search of success in the field of long-distance transportation. Ahead of you are large and small cities, hot deserts and flowering valleys, the Pacific coast and the snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountains, and most importantly, miles and miles of American highways. “Truckers 3: Conquest of America” is a continuation of the famous game series. However, this time the game world was not invented by the developers, but copied from the real world.
The player will leave hundreds of miles of Californian roads under the wheels of his powerful car from San Francisco to Reno, from Eureka to San Diego. The player will have to win the respect of corporate clients by proving that he is the fastest and most reliable truck driver in California, achieve recognition among truck drivers by participating in races and simply encountering them in various situations in everyday life. During the game, the player will also have to confirm his qualities as the leader of a powerful transport corporation that claims primacy in the field of long-distance transportation in the state. In addition, the player will be involved in a fascinating story with an unexpected ending. He will find new friends and deal with hidden and obvious opponents, uncover a conspiracy, but this will require all the experience and strength he has.
Features:
• Licensed trucks, including Freightliner, Western Star, Sterling, and over thirty types of semi-trailers.
About a hundred technical improvements, many options for coloring the body and design of the cabin of each car.
• Modern highways of real California, recreated on a scale of one to ten.
• Realistic object physics and damage system, taking into account many different factors.
• More than three hundred tasks, on the completion of which the hero’s reputation depends.
• Supports three-pedal gaming wheels with Force Feedback and other controllers.
• The state of California is recreated in the game on a scale of 1:10;
• Twenty thousand kilometers of real-life roads await players;
* You can visit more than forty large and small American cities.
Review: Playability
If you are a fan of a hefty steering wheel and an endless string of game roads, then this game is just for you. There is something unusually attractive about it that can find both its supporters and opponents.
Truckers 3 is not an arcade race, although the features of chases appear more than once in it, so the controls are appropriate. It will be very difficult to drive with the wind, especially considering the multi-ton load on the shoulders of the tractor. The game has some kind of plot, but still, so you will find small game videos made from game graphics. This is not to say that they are so modern, but they introduce some dilution into the routine life of a “truck driver.”
In general, the plot is monotonous to the point of disgrace, only occasionally rare chases allow you to disperse the despondency. But again, terrible controls kill all the fun in the bud. Game bots sometimes behave so stupidly that it really hurts the eyes.
We invite you to check out the first 10 minutes of the gameplay video along with the intro. We hope it will help you get an idea about this project.
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Again, we can emphasize that Truckers 3: Conquest of America is only for fans of this series. They will probably be able to really enjoy this game.
Review: Game Graphics
The game cannot boast of anything other than good car detailing. The surroundings are very wooden, even the chain-link fencing can feel like a concrete slab to your tractor. And at the slightest accident, your truck falls apart almost before your eyes.
The dynamic change of time of day only benefited the game, slightly raising its graphical authority in our eyes. Unfortunately, the weather conditions were not so great. It is not clear why it can rain even in cloudless weather. The environment is bright and rich and allows you to cover up its low-level content. In general, the control prevents your eyes from being distracted by anything other than the road and your gaze remains focused only on it.
Another game characters are so clumsy that there are simply no words. The graphics didn’t come out today, that’s for sure, but they have the appetites of tomorrow, which we’ll look at in the next section.
Review: Resource-intensive game
To play Truckers 3: Conquest of America, you will need a dual-core Core 2 Duo 3 GHz processor and 2 gigabytes of RAM.. The game is extremely unoptimized – the load is distributed only between two cores, and even then it does not load them 100%. Moreover, it is very clearly visible that performance is limited by the central processor; owners of any video cards will have a hard time.
All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality by the Fraps program in the most resource-intensive part of the game.
We tested video cards from the lower price segment at a resolution of 1024×768, video cards from the middle price range were tested at a resolution of 1280×1024, and video cards from the upper price range were tested at a resolution of 1680×1050.
Testing at maximum Low End quality settings at 1024×768 resolution
Testing at maximum quality settings Midle End at 1280×1024 resolution
Testing at maximum High End quality settings at 1680×1050 resolution
It is clear that the game is terribly unoptimized. Everything depends on the central processor – the game doesn’t even try to use all the CPUs it has, leaving the lion’s share of them inactive. So we can only wait for the release of a patch that will fix this terrible problem.
Conclusion:Truckers 3: Conquest of America will find its supporters among fans, but the quality of optimization is appalling.
