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American Truck Simulator will soon receive its third California revampSanta Cruzin'
Santa Cruzin'
American Truck Simulator’s first released version included only the state of California, and its developers have been working their way eastward with each new state added via DLC. Work is currently ongoing on bothOklahoma and Kansas.
SCS Software have got better at replicating the long roads and countryside of the United States, however, so they’ve also been going back periodically and revamping their very first. Five cities in northern California were updated last year in a second update, and work is ongoing on a third phase of revisions that should arrive soon. SCS Software this week shared screenshots of their new Santa Cruz, which has been “revamped from the ground up”.
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The “work in progress” screenshots on theSCS Software blog look gorgeous. American Truck Simulator’s environments are huge and its details are low-poly, but I find it oddly beautiful. It depicts the kind of urban mundanity that most open world games would design out. “The most interesting spot in downtown Santa Cruz is the intersection around the Town Clock,” reads the SCS blog post, “where visitors can enjoy the bustling atmosphere of the city.”
Ed recently placed American Truck Simulator on our list of thebest open world games. Rightly so.
