Farming Simulator 2009 (Game) - Giant Bomb (2024)

Overview

The sequel to Farming Simulator 2008 contains plenty of new features and improvements. Take on the role of a young farmer on a island and experience the workaday life in the countryside. Choose from many vehicles and equipment and explore the huge island, which is all yours.

The career mode has improved and you now start with a poorly equipped farm and some old rusty vehicles. Your goal is to whip the farm into shape, get more powerful vehicles and equipment so you'll eventually become a successful and rich farmer. In order to become the greatest farmer of them all, you have to experience activities such as ploughing fields, sowing, pressing bales and harvest. The game includes 7 tractors, 4 combine harvesters and over 20 equipment such as trailers, ploughs, sowing machines, balers and cultivators.

There is also a Gold Edition of the game. The Gold Edition includes:

• Seven new machines and pieces of equipment: three cultivators, two sowing machines, a self-propelled sprayer and an automatic bale collector.
• New keyboard, mouse and gamepad controls configuration menu.
• Improved gamepad, joystick and steering wheel support.

Mod Support

Farming Simulator 2009 supports user generated mods, these mods can be everything from a monster truck instead of a tractor, a plane to spray your fields with, or an entirely new island.

Gameplay

The career mode is set on a sandbox island, where you are free to roam. When starting a new career, it lets you pick three different difficulty levels. The difficulty determines things like your starting money, the amount of grain already in your silo, and the price for delivered grain.

Farming Simulator 2009 also features a tutorial mode, where you can learn how to attach equipment to vehicles, how to plow, how to harvest, how to deliver various grains and so on.

The Farm

Your farm is located in the middle of the island, this is where all your vehicles and equipment will be placed in the beginning of your career. In order to attach an equipment to your vehicles, simply move the vehicle to the object and manoeuvre it until a green icon appears, then press the assigned button. Depending on what kind of equipment is attached, a display will appear, showing what kind of commands and features the currently equipped attachment is able to do.

• Silos
  Silos are used to store grain that you harvest from your fields, you can then stack up all your harvested grain in the silos in order to save yourself some time. The silos is located around your farm, there's a silo for every type of grain in the game. To store your harvest in a silo, you have to unload the filled tipper in the correct spot under the correct silo, when a green symbol appears, you can unload the tipper. If you want to fill a tipper with the content of a silo, simply drive the tipper under the silo, and it should start pouring the grain into the tipper automatically.

• Fendt Station
  At some point you need new vehicles and equipment, then it's good that there's a store close to your farm where you can buy all sort of beauties to your farm. You can also sell equipment and vehicles you already own.

Fields

To earn money you need to cultivate the island's fields and deliver the harvest to one of the three grain stations (mill, port, brewery). The prices of the grain types change continuously and not every station accept all types of grain. When you are out on the field and doing your work, you can hire a worker to do the job for you, it will cost some money, but you can do other things at the same time as well.

Vehicles, Trailers and Equipment