• Publisher: ValuSoft
  • Release Date: Dec 3, 2007
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  • Summary: North America’s open roads await! You ain't working for the Man any more! You're the owner of your own trucking business and you call the shots. Build your empire one rig at a time to dominate the roadways and outbid the competition. Can you handle the pressure? Your American Dream starts bebehind the wheel of your own big rig. Bid – May the best man win. Do you take what the company is bidding for a job or do you move on and lose valuable time? Remember – Profit is King. Haul – Start behind the wheel transporting 45+ types of cargo including livestock, chemicals, and mobile homes, cross country to bring in the big bucks. Handle – These beasts don’t drive themselves! Back up to loading docks, manage your fuel, and maintain your trucks in peak condition. Dominate – Move it better and faster than your competition. Build your reputation coast to coast as you long haul across 48 states, Canada and now Mexico! Grow - Build your business and add rigs to your fleet. Own up to 37 mammoth machines and trailers. [ValuSoft] Expand
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  1. I'd like to have seen more impressive rendering of the incredible geography of the continent, but nevertheless: 18 Wheels of Steel, you are weird and brave. We salute you. [Apr 2008, p.79]
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 20
  2. Negative: 8 out of 20
  1. AustinSims
    10
    18 wos is the Awsomest game ever to play on pc.
    Me and my cousin play it all the time and have fun playing it.i hope they make a second one.

    :)
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  2. great game! im a huge fan of the 18 wheels of steel series and they really out did themselves with this one by adding mexico and some new cargo. i highly recommend this game if you just like to drive and have fun on the open road. PROS: great graphics, descent geography, and very little glitches, and realistic physics and you run out of gas
    CONS: the AI is extremely stupid and frustrating, every once in a while there will be a random tree in the middle of the road, handling of the trucks is a little hard if you use a key board, and the crash generator is poor, as in you can get damage but it's not really visible unless you get it high enough then your axles bend and you loose performance. other than those problems it's a great game and i really enjoy playing it.
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  3. ThomasS.
    7
    Has a great potential - the current release has some issues regarding stability and gameplay - hope it will be smoothed out in future updates -special controller to drivel the playertruck is mandatory. Expand
  4. ShaneS.
    4
    Painfully boring. Lacks many important details such as trucking laws. You repeatedly get fined for driving too many hours yet nothing in the game tells you what is allowable. The detail is poor and missions are long and boring. Expand

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