Welcome to the wild and crazy world of, erm, Farming Simulator 2012.
This agricultural app is all about growing, harvesting, and selling crops, and then using the profits to expand your farming operation. Along the way, you'll unlock new vehicles and buy plots of land.
Cultivating crops and feeding the masses is a noble career that has been around for most of recorded history. Granted, back in the early days it was more about essential survival and less about simply making a living off of the land. Still, food doesn’t just appear on store shelves every morning. So how better to show the realities of the agriculture field (no pun intended) than trivialize it in game form?
John Bedford (Modojo): Over here in Euroland, we have something of a fondness for the more mundane simulations that probably pass most other countries by. Bus-driving, street-sweeping, ski resort management, airport firefighting, the list is endless and caters to even the most unlikely of tastes. If getting up at the crack of dawn, working for 20 hours, going to sleep, and then getting up in the pitch dark to do it all over again the next day sounds like a reasonable way to exist, then you're probably already a farmer. If you're not, and are wondering what all the fuss is about, the good news is that Farming Simulator 2012 is now available for every iOS gamer to immerse themselves in.
Pocket Gamer: If you're anything like me, your first reaction to the name Farming Simulator 2012 will be to laugh. "I wouldn't want to be a farmer in real life!" you'll say, "so why would I want to be one in a video game?"
And you're right, of course. All the vehicles move at an excruciatingly slow pace, there's loads of waiting around for crops to grow, and the basic mechanics are tiresome and repetitive.
