Description:

Assuming the role of a young farmer, experience the 18 hours-a-day lifestyle of running a busy farm in the middle of beautiful, rolling countryside. You start the game by choosing from a small collection of basic vehicles and machinery to explore your fairly sparce farmland which measures a mere 4 km2. Playing in Career mode, your aim is to whip the farm into shape, expand your fleet of farm machinery and become as successful a farmer as possible. As you progress through the game you’ll need to visit the local agricultural machinery store to trade in your old vehicles and equipment for newer kit. You can choose between seven beautifully detailed tractors, four combine harvesters and over 20 tools such as a plough, seeder, baler and a self loading wagon.

By way of a licensing deal with the AGCO Corporation, owner of the high specification Fendt brand, Farming Simulator features wonderfully detailed tractors and combine harvesters. A similar collaboration with Pottinger allows for the inclusion of many authentically detailed agricultural plant and machinery.

With the Gold Edition, you also get four completely new missions: grubbing, seeding, spraying and bale collecting, seven new tools and vehicles: three grubbers for cultivation, two seeding machines from HORSCH, a spraying machine and an automatic bale collector. There's also a new configuration menu for a free key assignment of keyboard and gamepad and support of more gamepads, joysticks and steering wheels.

Farming Simulator also contains various missions and tutorials to complete as well as featuring a realistic day-and-night cycle with changing weather conditions. You can also activate computer-controlled vehicles which will help you get your work done.

Minimum system requirements:

•Microsoft Windows XP or Vista

•2.0 GHz Intel or equivalent AMD processor

•1 GB RAM

•1 GB available hard disc space

•Nvidia Geforce 6800 Series, ATI Radeon X850 or S3 Chrome 430 GT graphics card (minimum 128 MB VRAM)

•sound card

Supported accessories:

• Control Pad
• Keyboard
• Mouse

Information:

• Number of players: 1
• Development Company: astragon
• Software House: astragon
• Video Dimensions: Combo
• Publisher: Excalibur
• Point Of View: First-person / Third-person