Farming Simulator - Xbox 360

Description

Welcome To The Greatest Farming Simulation Farming Simulator amazed the video games industry when its PC version (PC & Mac) became a global best-seller, with more than 1 million copies sold within one year. Now the extremely popular Internet sensation arrives on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with even more farming fun added to the game. Farming Simulator brings a whole new experience to the video games landscape, offering up hours of casual–simulation gaming in a huge open world that becomes the player’s blank canvas. The sandbox aspect of the game appeals to players of all ages, while the vast array of vehicles and machinery from the biggest manufacturers in the business will delight agricultural enthusiasts. Manage Your Own Farm Breed Your Cattle 100+ Authentic Vehicles For the first time, the phenomenon that has rocked the PC world comes to console. Loaded with bonus content for both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Farming Simulator puts you in charge of a working farm where you will plant and harvest crops, raise animals, buy and operate machinery, and sell goods. Gear up and get growing!
Key Features A brand new American farming environment in addition to the pre-existing European farmLoads of challenges representative of a true farmer’s lifeNew animals to breed and crops to growLarge tractors and farming machines faithfully modeled after true farming brands such as Case IH, Deutz-Fahr, Lamborghini, Same, and HorshThe ability to create your dream farm in an open world full of possibilities

Features

• Moveable buildings and objects in a huge open world that you control
• Over 20 licensed brands including Case IH, Deutz-Fahr, Lamborghini, Same, Horsch, Amazone and many more
• Career mode with economic system, animal husbandry & purchasable fields
• All new environment modeled after American agriculture
• Hours of fun and strategy as you learn to become a working farmer

Customer Reviews

SimDriveASlowVehicle
Shane H.

Ok...I love sim games. This one really has potential and all the good that has been written about it holds true. It really can be fun however there is one major flaw that turned me away. And a minor one or two. I'll just point out these issues and be on my way. If there is a way around this in game play, please let me know.1) The biggie. The first few times you shuffle all your equipment to a different field to go through the harvest process is novel and fun as you putz along on your slow tractor or your combine. This quickly grew stale however. I found myself straight line shooting it over to the next field. A little off-road action with my combine. Yeah! Falling off cliffs and generally trying to shortcut the process. Here is where the developers could have stepped up. When you start to plow/harvest or whatever your field, you can 'hire' someone to do the job for you. The AI takes over and you go on to manage the rest of your farming kingdom. Why couldn't they have allowed a similar mechanism for the equipment transport? Take this trailer to field 9...off it goes as your hired hand drives it over to the field. The only solution I could come up with in the existing game mechanics is to buy a set of equipment for each field. It isn't realistic but it would save the boredom of driving a tractor to the field, drop off the plow, drive the tractor back to the other field to get the hauler, and so on and so on...2) Minor complaint. Night time. What if I don't want to be the robot that drives my tractors around 24/7? I went back to my farm house around 10pm since it was dark and I had to wait for my fields to grow. A good day when all the work got done around the farm! And then I just had to stand around? I went into game settings and maxed out the time interval to 120. Is that 2 hours per minute? I wanted to wait until the crack of dawn to get up and get my chores done. 3 - 4 minutes of standing in my driveway...How about an option to walk up to your farmhouse door and sleep? Am I missing something?3) Minor complaint. When walking around on foot, it is like being in molasses to turn around. I'm not expecting Battlefield level of simulation here but this sure could have been tweaked a bit. Maybe it really is a farm robot you are controlling and that is all the faster it can turn.Those are the big complaints. I love sims. I love to manipulate my resources and come out with the best solutions. I just couldn't love this paint drying exercise.Since I'm on this rant, here are a couple ideas that would have been neat to see in a game like this:1) Foxes or coyotes in the hen house! Grab the shotgun! I know, gun culturez...but, darn it, I live on a farm. This is a simulation. It is what we do.2) John Deere. 'Nuf said. Read more ›

Super fun for all ages
David Lechoix

Call me a glutton for games that reward you, but this one fits the bill. Something about seeing the fruits of your labor on a glorious screen is just so...fun! The graphics are absolutely amazing. Yes, you have to have patience. This isn't an immediate gratification type of game. Like a real farmer, you have to work at it! But that makes it all the more fun. Not for short attention spans! If you like to strategize and use your brain a little, this is a game for you! If you want a shoot-em up, action packed kind of experience, you'll be disappointed.

A great game
Kevin Robb

With all the guns and fighting games out there it is nice to have a game that teaches an un-appreciated skill, farming.

Get your farm on...
BugabooBandit

I'm a fan of the Sim genre and this is a super fun game! The first farming style Sim game I played was this on PC (which I loved) so I was thrilled when I heard it was coming to console. The graphics are superb and it has a good control scheme. An addictive game that you can find yourself immersed in for hours on end.

Highly Recommended!!!
Amazon Customer

Love this game!!! My son and I can't seem to put down the controllers. Great game for all those farmers inside of everyone

Love it!
Eileen Stout

Really glad to get this game on xbox. My son has played it on the computer but the xbox version is much better.

Something that he can learn from
Hoffman

Wow my son loves it... And it's not filled with blood and guts.Now he's asking for the other simulator games for Christmas.Graphics are good too !

Over 120 Hours into it
Matt

I downloaded this game off of Xbox live on Black Friday and have not stopped playing it since. There are two maps you can play your career on, one is European and the other is American. I chose American...You start off with one field on your farm and a handful of low end, basic equipment. Couple of tractors, an old combine, sower, tipper, etc. What I didn't figure out till later was that there was a bit of each type of produce already in the silos. So with your silo inventory plus your starter field ready for harvest you can get off to a pretty nice start. Pay attention to your PDA as it updates hourly for pricing on the market and it will tell you where to go and get the best return for your product. I found it best to wait for fields to come up for auction, which happens fairly regularly. You can save significant coin this way. For example a field that normally goes for $550,000 I got for $300,000 at auction. Selling the produce when market demand is highest will allow you to build your empire and upgrade your equipment pretty quickly.Here's what I liked most about the game:-The equipment is rendered nicely graphically, for a simulator.-You can play in real time, or speed up the clock which helps to get past night time hours and waiting around for crops to mature-You can do all the farming work yourself, however there are also certain tasks you can hire out, which turns out to be quite helpful as your empire grows.-Animals provide extra income and with the exception of cows are very low maintenance. You can basically tend to these animals when you have nothing else going on.-It's family friendly-Lots of equipment optionsHere's what I knocked off a star for:-Limited equipment slots. You can only own a very limited amount of equipment. While this may be for realism, my stance is, I can build the bank account to over $5 million, but I can't add a few extra tractors, combines, or trailers? So basically I can be a multi millionaire farming mogul, but there is a limit to what my inventory could be? Lame.-I can hire a worker to: seed, harvest, plow, and till....but I can't hire for fertilizing, baling, or foraging? What's the logic there?-In order to hire for harvesting potatoes or beets, it will only work with the most expensive equipment....otherwise hiring is impossible? HUH?-The tutorials are helpful, but there is so much that is unexplained. For example, I STILL can't figure out how to sell the milk my cows are making or re-use their solid manure. There are icons for help, but they are very vague and are not comprehensive.Overall the game is freakishly addicting, and while there are a few items that frustrate me and I wish were improved, it is a very enjoyable game. I remind myself that it's a simulator that was under $40 and that to expect perfection on what was undoubtedly a low budget game is a bit harsh. I have seen other reviewers calling for multi-player....I disagree that adding it would add to the enjoyment of the game. Why do we need multi player in every single game?? I think that having another person meddle with the planning & administration of my farms would be annoying.**Update**- As someone pointed out I have since learned that the milk is picked up automatically.- The solid manure is next to the cow pen, just takes a little while to build up. Had to wait on this to build up a bit before I delved into green houses since they require solid manure.- There are achievements for collecting horseshoes, these must be on the European map though as I have yet to see one in over 200 hours of game play. Read more ›