Machinery from Deutz-Fahr, Pöttinger, and Horsch were added (also featured in the FS 2009 Gold edition). For the first time in the base game, soybeans, sunflowers, and oilseed radishes are introduced as growable crops. You plough a field; you set seed and harvest; crops are then sold to make money; and sometimes a slight detour is made over a mountain, then it is back to step one.

The game is all about making more money to progress, but the grind to get it is monotonous, meaning most will lose the will to toil away on the farm long before getting access to the bigger, better machinery. Farming Simulator features equipment from the top 20 vehicle manufacturers, including dozens of new machines. Of course - Farming Simulator 2013 is being patched up, but is has too few interesting changes and too many old problems. And so in no time you’ll be clearing fields, planting crops, and waiting for the produce to grow so you can take it to the market that’s offering the best rate and selling it for profit. At a point it becomes too difficult to manage everything at once, and that’s when it becomes necessary to “hire workers”; an action that puts a given tractor on autopilot who will then prepare the field for you while your bank balance slowly drains in “payment.

Although the farming simulation and economical parts have been well developed, it misses the controversial essential elements that made the PC-version so interesting. Welcome to the new generation of Farming Simulator With a brand new graphics and physics engine Farming Simulator 15 offers an immense open world filled with details and visual effects Manage and develop your own farm: harvesting animal husbandry (cows chicken and sheep) sales of fresh products Discover also the new activity in Farming Simulator 15: woodcutting and its selection of entirely dedicated vehicles and tools Across hundreds of acres of land offered by the new Nordic environment and a renovated North American environment use and drive over 125 authentic vehicles and farming tools from over 40 most famous manufacturers: New Holland Ponsse Case IH Deutz-Fahr The benefits of your exploitation will allow you to develop and invest in new and more powerful vehicles or tools. The combination of the excellent community, unwavering focus on running the business, and the simplicity of the controls and your responsibilities creates a unique business simulation that rewards you proportionally to the amount of work you put into it. The challenge that we praised in that edition, doesn't live up to expectations, which makes the most expensive version of the game the most limited as well. In other words it all looks nice on the surface, but when you try and do anything with it, you can’t.

It’s a reasonably abstracted system that makes a great point about farming – the margins that farmers face are thin at the best of times, start bringing on staff to help and building a sustainable business becomes a real challenge. Some key new features include a redesigned graphics engine and the addition of horse farming as well as oat and cotton crops. The other frills are just a distraction to try and misdirect your attention away from the fact that core gameplay is so limiting.Players are free to explore the surrounding areas of the map, grow from their choice of several crops, and invest their money in additional fields and equipment.