![]() ![]() Of course at the other dock you’ll then need to unload a certain amount of containers onto trucks waiting. You’ll have another mission to bring the ship to another dock which is how they introduce the awkard sailing controls. This opening mission will show you how unintuitive the controls and camera is, so prepare for a few hours of that going forward. The Container Ship will have your first missions about using the dock’s lift to load those containers from the back of semi-trucks onto the vessel. Each mission has a tight play area and you need to stay within its boundaries. You’re actually quite restricted to where you can go, and with how slow the overall gameplay is, you wouldn’t want to sail out to open waters even if you could. Even though this is a Ship Simulator, you can’t sail the open seas. The container Ship missions are generally quite straight forward, but the Construction Ship was easily the most time consuming due to its frustrating and annoying crane controls. ![]() Every vessel plays very unique from one another, each having their own types of missions as well. Why this is a part of the gameplay I’m unsure, as it’s seemingly just meant to be something you spend a portion of your profits on.Īs you complete missions you’ll earn money, eventually able to purchase an oil rig-like vessel that has a crane, meant for moving material and construction, and then the transport vessel with a unique submerging ability. Wait a few seconds and the repair is complete. This is done simply by choosing the broken part on a menu then clicking a button to repair. Once you buy the Cargo Ship to begin you’ll first need to make any repairs before it’s seaworthy. This is easy due to only being able to afford one of the three ships, so why it’s prefaced like a choice I’m unsure. To begin your naval career you first must choose a ship to purchase and repair. I’ll be honest, if I wasn’t reviewing the game I would have given up long before completion, and I was glad it was over and could uninstall. When the credits rolled, it was seemingly stuck and I was forced to quit out, not a great final memory to the experience. Having completed all missions including the special extra one, it was tedious, boring and frustrating to do so due to its poor controls and even worse visuals and audio. ![]() Missions will vary from loading cargo containers, unloading them, bringing cargo from one dock to another, gathering parts from the ocean, rescuing crew, warding off pirates and more. Each of these ships have eight missions per, and once complete a special extra mission will unlock for a total of 25. You begin with a Cargo Ship, then a Construction rig, then a Heavy Duty lifting ship. While there’s no overall narrative or story, you’ll eventually being taking over three separate vessels, each with their own mission types and objectives before moving onto the next. Think of the massive cargo container ships that hauls hundreds of containers across sea, or the oil rig stations that are colossal in size, those will be the type of ships you’ll be utilizing for a variety of different missions. Not just regular boats though, the massive ones that you see by the docks and ports in major cities. Ships Simulator aims to recreate the role of controlling, well, ships. This to me felt a little disingenuous, as it’s not really advertised as the same game from 6+ years ago, though when you press the Xbox Logo button it’s clearly labelled as Ships 2017. Same game, same logo and font, same 2017 era of graphics. Turns out it’s actually the same game, simply ported for console. Simulator games usually aim to recreate certain jobs or careers, and while Ships Simulator is no different, there was a lot more arcade-like gameplay to it instead.ĭoing some research, I first noticed that Ships Simulator looked basically identical to another game, Ships 2017. Given how long I’ve been reviewing games, I’ve played my fair share of sim games, though nothing quite like Ships Simulator. Ships Simulator is the latest sim title from Ultimate Games, a studio with a plethora of sim based games under their belt. ![]()
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