New Gameplay video shows small town Weaverville and its surroundings in different weather conditions. It also presents several ingame trucks such as Titan El Dorado, Titan Alpine and Hercules Liberty.

Youtube version can be found here.

This review from one of the leading Russian 3D gaming software and hardware sites focuses on a player’s freedom in the game, where one can travel anywhere in thoroughly modeled California from the start. Game world is in general 10õ compressed compared to real life state, but different factors were used for highways, city streets and other road types to make it feel ‘right’. While trucks are restricted to certain roads and you can’t drive everywhere, most cities have distinctive look and feel, which helps the immersion. There are fourteen drivable trucks in the game (players start with a Freightliner Argosy) and a steering wheel controller is recommended to utilize their capabilities fully. They are also customizable – various truck components are simulated along with their condition.

In RignRoll players can concentrate on whatever appeals them more – developing their company like in a tycoon type game, completing main and side quests or just driving around looking at scenery (it’s really beautiful sometimes, in spite of dated graphics). Economical (there is also main story) victory requires dominating freight traffic market in California.

Bottom line: a game for people who like a car travel and find it romantic.

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Graphics: 7 out of 10, Sound: 8, Singleplayer: 8, Multiplayer: none, General Feel: 8.

An optimistic intro video, where a friend helps main hero Nick to open his own “Nick Trucking” freight company and feature looks unclouded for him, quickly becomes a harsh in-game reality, where a powerful rival company tries to put him out of business (there are 7 competitors in total).

At first, player can only accept orders in Oxnard area and must open branch offices, buy trucks and hire other drivers to expand his trade empire. Careful management of vehicles and personnel is required to overcome the competitors and take the lead position on the freight traffic market. For example, hired drivers have favorite trucks and perform best while driving them; they also have ambitions and may leave if you’re stingy.
Developers chose to model California state because scenery between its parts varies greatly. Police is harsh and can really make your life miserable, so careful driving is advised. Sometimes player receives requests for help from fellow truckers by radio, and in some cases refusing may have grave consequences. There are a full-blown main story (which you may completely ignore) and many side quests like giving a lift or delivering special cargo. It’s a pity that story have only one (happy) ending, but you must work hard and don’t miss main quests to see it. Player may also concentrate on an economic development to receive “Golden carrier” title or try to pursue all goals simultaneously.

Bottom line: a step forward. Game will benefit from some polish, but this is a success.

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Summary: Cool, 8 points out of 10.

Let’s face it – it’s likely that you dreamed of becoming a locomotive or truck driver when you was a child – there is a certain degree of peculiar charm in this truly masculine work. And what do you have in reality now? Most of us have a tedious work in a stuffy office. That’s why these game series are so popular.

Your task in the future (2042) California is simple – drive an 18-wheeler between around 30 small and big cities including photorealistic parts of San-Diego, Los-Angeles and San-Francisco and deliver various cargo loads. Safer and quicker delivery means better future offers. There are also many NPCs you can interact with, each one with a different behavior.

Graphics are up-to-date: glare effect on vehicles (up to 50 different types of them in the game), a load of various weather conditions, detailed cockpit view, but the picture is good, not spectacular. This is understandable – the world is seamless and your travel won’t be interrupted by a ‘Loading’ message unless you do load a saved game.

In RignRoll you can have everything to feel you are a real hauler. It can be recommended to all fans of two previous titles and to anyone who missed them.

Rating: 88%

Long-distance drivers are much more common than racing ones in reality, while in video games everything is the wrong way around: you see tons of racing games on the market and only a few ones where you can be a simple honest toiler. This game tells us the story of a Russian emigrant who arrives in California to develop his own freight traffic company.

To succeed, player must be a good driver and competent manager. Expanding your business, competing with rival companies, beating off the organized crime – it’s all in the game. Impressive selection of vehicles, physics which takes into account the weather conditions, complex economic simulation and even the RPG elements – this is a thorough piece of work. This game is truly the only one of its kind, displaying both the romantic and prosaic aspects of long-range freight traffic.

Rating: 4 stars out of 5.

The new video demonstrates a variety of locations and landscapes of virtual California reconstructed in Rig'n'Roll. It also shows night and day changes as well as various weather conditions.

Youtube version can be found here.

A new gameplay trailer for the upcoming truck simulation Rig’n’Roll is available for download.

Hi-res version can be found here.