Time for another fun filled game review! This time we go over a crap classic... 18 Wheeler American Pro Trucker for the Sega Dreamcast! This game is based on a trucker's life of driving from truck stop to truck stop...and it's just as exciting as it sounds.
Ah, truckers. The backbone of America. Our favorite, reliable, dirty, foulmouthed, road soldiers. The one's we count on to get all of our necessary and less than necessary crap. They should be revered as heroes. We should pray for them before we go to bed. We should hold parades for them. But we shouldn't be making video games based on them.
18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker is a craptastic game. It's boring as all get out, and makes you wonder what would compel a human being to even fathom the idea of making a game about "driving truck".
I mean, you drive around on a freeway, trying to beat your competitor to the destination point. You run into cars, killing innocent civilians to gain time so you can get through the level before the time runs out. And even though running into minivans and destroying family vacations sounds like fun....it really isn't. At least not in video game form.
You have a boss who talks to you over the CB saying things like "be careful not to have an accident". Reminds me of something my mom would say. Then your competitor talks to you over the CB saying things like "I'm the best trucker in the U.S.A.!!! AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!!!!" Reminds me of something my dad would say. So you feel like a child driving a 2 ton killing machine while your parents are fighting on the phone.
So yeah, that's about all there is to it really. It's pretty damn shallow. Though I guess I should point out that while the levels aren't exactly exciting, graphically they look pretty good. Especially back when this game was created. And you really get the feeling that you are driving down an actual highway most of the time.
But that's not enough to fool you into enjoying this game...though maybe I'm being too hard. Maybe being a trucker really is a miserable existence that makes you regret getting up in the morning. If that's the case, then the developers of this game created an absolutely flawless simulation.
