Hard Truck: Apocalypse Preview
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You'll spend most of your time in the game driving around the world, exploring and battling. Towns are only a minute or two apart, so you don't spend long stretches just driving. Instead, like in a role-playing game, you'll find encounters constantly, whether it's coming across strangers or a convoy of trucks to bandits and would-be thieves. No one tromps about on foot, so all the encounters are vehicle-based (at least, what we've seen thus far). Hard Truck is played from the third-person perspective, much like an action game, so you'll use the keyboard to control the car movements while the mouse controls where your weapon turret is facing. Combat is all about driving like a madman, putting the cursor on an enemy target (doing so highlights the target in an effect very similar to that seen in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter) and then holding down the trigger until the target is destroyed. You'll start off with a machine gun, but eventually you'll be able to replace that with more powerful guns. As always, there's a tradeoff with the weapon you choose. More powerful weapons might have a slower rate of fire or a long reload time, while lighter weapons have the benefit of being able to put a lot of lead on the target quickly.
