#SHIP SIMULATOR XBOX 360 SERIES#
#SHIP SIMULATOR XBOX 360 PS2#

There isn’t much else to say about Ships Simulator because there isn’t a lot to experience in the first place. It manages to stand out because it’s the only aspect of the experience that doesn’t have immediate glaring problems. The beat when doing the jobs has a nice groove to it, reminiscent of smooth jazz or blues. Or at least it’s the best thing about Ships Simulator.

On the bright side, the music is pretty decent. The draw distance for objects is laughably short and the game still doesn’t run at a stable frame rate. Most of the colors are dull gray with a complete lack of proper shading and lighting. The rain looks like white lines that just pass through.

#SHIP SIMULATOR XBOX 360 PS2#

It honestly looks worse than many early PlayStation 2 games, and the PS2 was a relatively weak console compared to the competition. In my opinion, graphics (or at least art style) is a priority in simulation games as unappealing visuals can immediately take a player out of the immersion. Video games are bigger than ever these days compared to the ones in the 80s, 90s, and even 2000s, but Ships Simulator is one of the ugliest games I’ve ever seen. There are a few other tasks to do with other boats such as using crewmen to extinguish fires and stuff, but these mostly boil down to menus. You’ll spend more time adjusting the boat to the dock than actually reaching it. While the boat sections control better than the freight, the experience is very slow, and docking requires too much accuracy for the clunky movement. The boat has gauges that you adjust with the left stick to make it turn or accelerate. There are toggles to increase the speed such as 4x the normal speed, but even at 4x speed it is still agonizingly sluggish to accomplish anything.Īfter the freight is taken care of, you get to pilot the boat itself. On top of all that confusion, the experience is extremely slow. You can’t keep the camera in the same place because the giant crane will usually block your vision. If you happen to want a better angle to see stuff, the controls stay the same so “up” becomes “left” and so on. What’s even worse is that the controls do not change with the angle of the camera. I had to use the awkward “claw grip' method just so I can accurately move the crane around. With a gamepad, you use the left stick to control the camera, the D-pad to move the crane, and a combination of the right stick and the D-Pad to raise or lower the crane. These controls are demonstrated by moving freight from trucks to the boat. The confusing way of displaying currency is followed by even more confusing control methods. Weak Points: Poor graphics controls do not change with the camera angle lack of content I spent longer in the tutorial than I should have because I thought I bought the wrong stuff and didn’t have enough money to even finish the tutorial. Despite using the dollar sign and “K” usually means “thousand” in a currency sense, you only have “500 dollars” as the “K” for some reason is used as the currency. The currency to buy stuff is displayed as “$ 500 K” so anyone would assume that means you have around 500,000 dollars as a budget. One of the first things Ships Simulator does is put you through a rather confusing tutorial. The goal is to acquire ships, fix them up, and then send them to the port. That in itself is fine because it is an indie product after all and I can't be too harsh in regards to that context. Starting up Ships Simulator, the presentation isn’t the best with a very basic user interface. They are all different games from completely different developers-and they all show up when put in a search engine.

This title is specifically called “Ships Simulator”, which is completely different from “Ship Simulator”, “Ships 2017/2022” and “Ships Simulator 2024”. Looking up information for this game is almost an exercise in frustration and already set bad vibes for me. Thank You Ultimate Games for providing us with a review code!

#SHIP SIMULATOR XBOX 360 SERIES#

Released: Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

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