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Pure Farming is a long story and a development on the run. If the game was originally released a year ago, the decision to postpone its release date to refine the whole could well pay off. The testers are unanimous, PF is THE game that propels agricultural simulation in a new graphic area. And not least since it is the environment Unity, mastered by the Polish studio IceFlames, which drives the whole. No need to present this graphics engine, we refer you in the test version preview, edited a few weeks ago. The preview version had some limitations: the "first farm" mode was absent, the unfinalized farm challenges, and the free game mode, called "sandbox", was limited to the "Germany" card. But that's not all, and I think this is the most important point of the game: the import menu of mods, unveiled a few days ago, was not available. On the options side, everything is there! Depending on your hardware configuration, you can fine-tune the graphics settings. Know that I tested the game on 2 very different configurations, and that it remained at least playable on the smallest (based on a small Intel Core i3 backed with 8GB of RAM and an Nvidia GT640, in short the Josephine's config). Unity is not a particularly greedy engine. You also have the ability to manage vehicle radio via an mp3 stream or your own playlist on your hard drive. Ideal for listening to news and playing at the same time. In addition to the "first farm" mode for novices who discover the world of agricultural simulations and who will be guided through a scripted tutorial to apprehend materials and commands, a "farm challenges" mode offers specific missions in race against the watch. But the mode that will seduce the vast majority of players is the free mode. This is nothing more than the career mode of Farming Simulator. And to attack this mode, you must first choose your map and some options like the starting budget, the weather and the time of day. The choice of the starting map is important because each of them has its own cultures and materials. So on the map Colombia you will be brought to grow mainly coffee and hemp. The Japan map will offer rice and cherries, the Italian map allows the cultivation of vines and olives and finally the USA map, the largest and most complete, offers more "traditional" cultures. For those who have pre-ordered the game, the Germany card, offered for the occasion, gives access to sheep farming and canola cultivation. Note that the design of maps does not have much to do with competing titles and that the sets have much more relief and details, which give them a more realistic side. On the farm side, Pure Farming offers a different approach that some will consider a step ahead, with animals that are born, evolve, die and produce that varies with the age of the animals. Note that for the moment, the corn crop is not present but it should arrive with the addition of future maps. To help you in your tasks, you can call on workers. If they do their job well, like other agricultural simulations, they are limited to 1 per field. Pure Farming puts you in the shoes of a farmer responsible for all these farms and able to travel around the world. Also you can juggle from one card to another, by plane. Each trip will cost you $ 1200, to which you will have to add some tickets if you also want to move equipment with you. In the end the long-awaited Pure Farming is likely to find its place alongside existing simulations. Simple without being simplistic, the 3 game modes can gauge the difficulty. The gameplay and approach of farming offered make this first version, a game of choice for the solo player. While waiting for the future development of the multiplayer function. My entire review on ****