Cookie Cutter of Simulators
It is one of those simulators which seem to have sprouted like mushrooms after a rain. This one however misses a lot of crucial points which would make this game fun.
🔥Seven Biblical deadly failings🔥
Gameplay is not pleasant to play. This comes from many little things which might seem insignificant, but as a whole it creates a gaming experience where you just want to get out of a game. I will try to cover all those details and why this just isn’t a good game.- Infuriating camera
It is annoying to play this game. One of the reasons why it is awkward controls. You cannot move freely as you are locked unto an axis around which you can move. However, this axis is often misplaced and you cannot even get a good look over an object which you are inspecting.
In this case, I’m trying to get a look around a part. I cannot lift my camera above it. I’m also are locked with tank controls. I have to press keyboard to move around the part. This means that if you want more precise with a mouse or are looking at a difficult angle, you can’t properly control your view. This creates a constant frustration as it feels that you have to constantly fight the game. I try to get a better look over automobile’s parts. However, camera axis is locked below a part itself and I have a limited freedom of movement to inspect… - Non existent parts
Game also has a nasty bug which was never solved. In a first second you can see which part I need to replace. I go over the shop, scroll through all the windows, I try to use their bad search function which demands a perfect name and does not find similarly named products. The end result? I cannot find the part. I checked it multiple times. Some cars have certain parts to fix which game simply does not have in the shop for one or other reason. - Plastic graphics
This game looks ugly. Not only it is very grainy, details also lack textures. It is one of those lazy simulators where they really skim on models and it shows. An utterly basic model. Wheel is even lacking textures entirely! Not to mention that model only has basic details inside. It immediately strikes as looking fake.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2941487488
You can see this car from far away. It shimmers. Lighting on it is unrealistic. It lacks proper texture, it is a smooth paint which makes it look like a plastic toy. None of the cars in this game look realistic. They all are like that, just got from assembly line. Assembly line meant for assembling plastic toys!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2941487478
If you go inside the car, it is missing a lot of parts. It is not even remotely realistic configuration and it seems to follow a basic schematic which developer had made and they reused it for all cars with some minor differences to how parts are called or drawn in a shop. When I opened this, I was even more shocked than looking inside of a car! - Poor music selection
Choice of music is very bland. Game like PC Building Simulator at least have some very good hits which are fun listening to. I enjoyed that game a lot more, because monotony could be brightened up by a long list of songs which were not just running in a background. Building ultimate PC was my vision! That song would hype my up! Here however music is in a background and very bland. It is so bland that I can’t even remember if game features songs… - Grindy gameplay
Gameplay is very monotonic. In two hours I’m already bored by it and saw most what game can offer. Watch this short video and you will know about 90% of what you will be doing in this game.
https://youtu.be/sLo4I3uR_9o - Misses the point
The serious problem with this game is that you cannot get immersed into it. It has no fantasy to play on. PC Building Simulator gives me a fantasy of PC repairmen. Coming to my work each day, turning on lights, computers, reading emails. Fixing computers. Then preparing for another day by ordering parts. That game at least made you feel like an owner of a shop. This game however does none of that. You already have a super fancy garage meant for dozen of employees. Everything is tidy, you have insane amount of space. Everything is already owned. Except you have to do all the boring manual labour. There isn’t any depth to what you are doing. Dealing with clients. Ordering parts. Trying to manage your inventory. Managing shipping. Trying to upgrade your repair shop. There is none of that in this game. Owning barely standing garage and trying to build up your reputation, upgrade your garage and to move up into far better place as you expand your business would had made this a far more immersive experience. - Monetisation
Developer provides no support for its older games. He half-asses his game by making a good content patch and then calls it a brand new game for which he asks more money. I just love game hypocrisy. Games as a service is bad. Receiving tons of serious improvements for free is evil for them when it comes to Paradox. However, paying for patches is perfectly fine. Well, gamers would not be entitled dum dums otherwise.
I’m still amazed to this day why this game has such positive ratings with such toxic monetisation model when gamers raise hell for far less elsewhere. However, in a same way they drew an artificial line with Epic and not Steam, they also are ignoring very greedy practices here while over-reacting elsewhere.
📋As cheap as a car salesman on advert📋
This game is pain to play. It has none of the immersion like similarly flawed PC Building Simulator has. It is even more simplified game than it which makes it even more monotonous. Don’t get tricked by positive reviews, it is one of these times when very good reception is actually completely misleading. Calicifer’s Reviews
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