Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel
Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel (or 18 Wheels of Steel: Hard Truck) is the first ever created truck simulation game developed by SCS Software and published by ValuSoft. It is part of ValuSoft's Hard Truck series that also includes games by other developers. It is also the first installment of the 18 Wheels of Steel series.
Summary
The truck driving game that started it all: be your own boss behind the wheel of your big rig in SCS Software's first truck driving simulator. Bid on jobs, then hit the road to deliver faster than the competition. Road hazards, low fuel and even the police can affect the timeliness and condition of your deliveries—and impact your bottom line. It's all in a day's work when you're driving big rigs.
- Jump behind the wheel of 7 powerful trucks including monster 18 wheelers, flatbeds and tankers.
- Log thousands of miles as you travel actual US highways across the Desert, through the Mountains and along the Coast, with 15 cities to visit across 11 states.
- Bid on 16 cargo loads, weighing the hazards and payoffs of each delivery.
- Manage your cargo—overloaded or carelessly handled goods can slow your delivery time and reduce your payout.
| “ | Be your own boss behind the wheel of your big rig. Bid on jobs, then hit the road to deliver faster than the competition. Road hazards, low fuel and even the police can affect the timeliness and condition of your deliveries - and impact your bottom line. It's all in a day's work when you're driving the big rigs. | ” |
| ~ Official SCS Software Website |
Gameplay
Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel has very similar gameplay to most other installments of the 18 WoS series, focusing on taking jobs and delivering cargo. The game also features AI traffic, a fatigue simulation, road hazards, weigh stations, a time limit for the jobs and a simple business management simulation, where drivers can be hired and routes set up to make profit. Earlier games of the series also had racing options, but they have been removed in this one.
Load symbols
There are loads with warnings which are indicated by 3 symbols.
- Cup - don't damage your load. Even 1% damage makes $0 earning for delivering that load.
- Stopwatch - deliver your load on time. Even 00:01 delay in delivery resets your earnings to $0 for that load.
- Weight with lb sign - load's mass is excessive. Avoid weigh stations where you will pay a huge penalty ($15000 or more) for overloaded cargo. Drive on the roads without weigh stations. Calculate your route carefully (in this case) before you take your job.
Caution
All 3 symbols listed above may appear below one load.
Maps
There are three maps of different parts of the United States in the game:
- West Coast (easy difficulty)
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Los Angeles, California
- Oakland, California (part of San Francisco)
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Reno, Nevada
- San Francisco, California
- Midwest (medium difficulty)
- Rockies (hard difficulty)
Trucks
The game includes 7 (after updating to 1.2 version) fictional truck models that are not customizable
- Rusty (based on the truck from Spielberg's Duel)
- Topolino
- T1000
- Brava
- Roadmaster
- FreightWay
- Glutton (only available after patching the game to 1.2 version)
- Formula truck (available after confirming cheat truck 8; this requires edition of a configuration file)
Trivia
- In 2020, SCS Software had a limited timed event in American Truck Simulator called Hard Truck Tribute that allowed truckers to obtain the flame paint job that is available in Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel.
System Requirements
| Minimum | |
|---|---|
| OS | Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 |
| Processor | 2.0 GHz Processor |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce FX5700, ATI Radeon 9600, Intel GMA X3000 or better (requires TnL and Shader Model 2.0 support) |
| HDD Space | 250 MB |
| RAM | 1 GB RAM |
Media
Gallery
Hard truck: 18 Wheels Of Steel back cover
See also
| SCS Software Trucking Games | |
|---|---|
| Truck Simulator series | |
| 18 Wheels of Steel series | |
| Other Video Games | |
| Non-Video Games | |