18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul

Your American Dream Starts Behind the Wheel of Your Own Big Rig! North America's open roads await! You ain't working for the Man any more! You're the owner of your own trucking business and you call the shots…

70 3 December 2007 ESRB E

Racing Real Time Strategy (RTS) Simulator Business

18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul is a racing developed by SCS Software, released 3 December 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul is

18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul is a racing game developed by SCS Software and released in 2007. It was published by ValuSoft. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Your American Dream Starts Behind the Wheel of Your Own Big Rig! North America's open roads await! You ain't working for the Man any more! You're the owner of your own trucking business and you call the shots. Build your empire one rig at a time to dominate the roadways and outbid the competition. Can you handle the pressure? Your American Dream starts behind the wheel of your own big rig. Bid - May the best man win. Do you take what the company is bidding for a job or do you move on and lose valuable time? Remember - Profit is King!

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are business. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium® 4 1.4 GHz or 100% compatible, 256 MB RAM and 64 MB AGP DirectX® 9 and T&L compatible video accelerator card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul launched on 3 December 2007, within three weeks of Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Assassin's Creed and Crysis. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Assassin's Creed, Crysis.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul — frequently asked questions

When did 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul come out?

18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul was released on 3 December 2007 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul?

At minimum, 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul needs Pentium® 4 1.4 GHz or 100% compatible, 256 MB RAM, 64 MB AGP DirectX® 9 and T&L compatible video accelerator card graphics, 540MB hard drive space of storage.

How many GB is 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul?

The PC version needs about 0.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("540MB hard drive space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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