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| Developer(s) | SoftLab-Nsk |
| Publisher(s) | 1C Company (Russia & UK) Rondomedia (Germany) Cenega (Poland & CZE) Focus Multimedia (UK) THQ[1] (North America) |
| Distributor(s) | 1C Games, Amazon, Steam, Impulse, GamersGate, Gamesload, Xfire, etc.[2] |
| Designer(s) | Igor Belago |
| Engine | VWI (Virtual World Inventor) |
| Version | 3.0.5 (Russian) 3.0.4 (English USA) 3.0.1 (English UK/Czech) 3.0.2 (German) 3.0.3 (Polish) |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release date(s) | Boxed/Retail RUS November 27, 2009 CZE May 7, 2010 GER May 22, 2010 POL June 11, 2010 UK June 25, 2010 NA July 14, 2010[1] Digital Download November 18, 2009 (Russian) April 16, 2010 (English) May 20, 2010 (German) |
| Genre(s) | Truck simulator, RPG, Sandbox, Action-racing, Adventure, Truck tycoon |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Media/distribution | DVD, Digital distribution |
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Rig'n'Roll, acronymed RnR or R&R, is a Sandbox-style truck driving simulation and Adventure racing video game released on 27 November 2009 in Russia and during 2010 in the rest of the world.[5][6][7] It simulates truck driving and management along with associated business strategic activities, and features some of the best known trucks in North America (list below). The action takes place in California and Nevada, USA in the year 2014.
This game was published by 1C and developed by SoftLab-Nsk's Igor Belago, who got inspired from games like Grand Theft Auto.[8] Rig'n'Roll also includes a program for the creation of skins for trucks, license plate, and trailers. The game has modes of racing, single-player missions, regular truck driving, and free cruising in an open world.
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The story in this game begins with a man known as the protagonist, Nick Armstrong, who needs to fulfill his dreams and career of becoming the best CCWA (California Commercial Warehouse Alliance) cargo transporter across California. In order for his dreams to come through—he has to earn more money and compete with the rest of California's import/export trucking company carriers. Later on, he will be able to meet new friends and expand his business.
However in the midst of becoming the best of the best, Nick is caught in a situation with the Storm Express, a shipping company who have been delivering a new designer drug and silencing third party truckers who makes the shipments at the Highway 108 and reports of truckers meeting their end there.
Rig'n'Roll will offer tons of real-life road exploration with multiple missions to be completed and places to visit in non-linear environments. Management in this game is done by using sliders, and much of the game is focused around cargo/truck selection and choosing routes.
The main storyline will involve delivering cargo, interacting with NPCs (hitchhikers) within the scenery, and taking on missions with sidequests in-between. Players will be able to hire or fire drivers, adjust driver AI behavior for both trucks and cargoes, fine-tune their fleet of trucks, view rankings list, improve truck rating statistics, manage and expand their business economy at freight management offices, warehouses, and via a PDA device known as "Black Shark".[9] This game is also called Hard Truck 3: Rig'N'Roll but the name of hard truck was removed after king of the road.
The list of featured trucks in the game:[10]
* indicates a licensed truck.
This game has been in longest development for over 9 years[11] due to the developer of the game mainly focusing on making hardware/software equipment for multimedia, TV broadcasting, VR systems, imaging systems for training simulators, and video game engines for computer games.
Before release, it was also featured at E3 2005, Gamescom, as well as several other Russian gaming exhibitions and developer conferences. A demo was announced for 2009 and then for 2010, but then both scheduled dates were canceled. All cheats were taken out of the game prior to release. Also, modding possibilities, trainer usage, save file hex-editing and hacking of the game were somewhat restricted.
Support for EyeFinity multi-monitor widescreen displays were also implemented in the game.
Rig'n'Roll has so far received mostly fair to positive (mixed) reviews on the Metacritic/GameRankings[12][13] sites respectively, praising the game for its realistic graphics in depicting the Californian scenery, impressive physics, truck designs, music soundtrack, intuitive controls, mission structure, and gameplay variety. But the game was also criticized because of its truck-driving simulation aspects feeling too "arcadey", for having a weak in-game tutorial, a lack of multiplayer, and for frequent delays in development.
Voice acting for Rig'n'Roll were all done strictly in English, except for the Russian version. The list below (in brackets) only tells what language the subtitles, text, and menus will be displayed in...
Patches to improve system performance and optimization were released for Russian version of game. All other versions have these patches included already (hotfixes must be applied manually). The latest patch for Rig'n'Roll Russian version is currently 3.0.5. English US retail is 3.0.4, while the English version hotfix for some downloaded versions is 3.0.1. So any boxed retail version that is newer than the Russian version will have a build # that is greater than the previous release of the game and the latest patch. This can be confirmed while at the main menu, or by looking at the status bar File Version properties info of the game's executable.
Newer patches to fix additional bugs are reported to only be included in the upcoming expansions. So you will have to buy the expansion first to get the patch.
SoftLab-Nsk currently has plans of expanding the game map to Las Vegas this Fall, according to advertisement banners that were put up along the roads and highways of California. Included in this expansion will be a patch for the game to fix certain bugs, including a few more trucks, hitchhiker/storyline missions, and gameplay features such as pedestrians that were either missing/deactivated. The expansion pack (working title) along with the patch will be released at the same time as a free download, but rumors have been reported that they may actually be released at a cost - either through an online digital download service provider or at a retail game store. More information on the expansion and a possible release date is not yet disclosed.[17]
Many addons are constantly releasing for Rig'n'Roll[18], which are much smaller in size than expansion packs. Most cost money, while some are free of charge. They include airbursh kits and more gameplay content to supplement the game's Sandbox-style driving open world. The biggest addon is The Great Race — a total file size of 578.85МB, which is still not even nearly the size of the game's upcoming Las Vegas expansion pack. Future digital download add-ons are expected to be released as well.
The very first major Black Shark add-on modification for Rig'n'Roll: The Great Race[19][20], according to 1CPublishing, is expected to be released on December 2010 in time for the Christmas holidays, or Q1 2011 for all English version copies of the game as DLC. The Russian version for TGR is scheduled for release on November 12, 2010. This addon will feature more of CCWA's Big Rigs championship event called the "Monster Cup", which focuses more on allowing players to compete in several arcade-style truck races with selectable map tracks, rather than just in the usual pick, choose & deliver truck tycoon management RPG-style gameplay approach.
Airbrush kits to wipe or paint the color and dye of your truck to your preference. It is available in the game's repair truckstop as a way of creating skins.