Sometimes this is done for you as a customer sends their car in with a list of problems, but at others you will need to figure it out for yourself. To fix any given car, players must first move the car to the area of the garage they want to fix it, then it’s down to identifying the issue at hand. This will allow you to upgrade available tools, shorten the time it takes to do certain actions and, more importantly, increase the size and quality of your garage. With each job you complete however, you’ll slowly see things start to progress and with the money you earn and XP gained, you’ll soon begin to level up, and earn skill points to spend on the skill tree. Your starting garage isn’t quite as fancy as the one in the tutorial, but then with basic jobs to start you off such as oil changes, putting on some new rims and changing the brake pads, you don’t need anything all too fancy.

After completing the introductory tutorial that showed the basic controls and what each of the contraptions in my garage could do, guiding me through a basic oil change on one vehicle, and a more in-depth engine build on another, I was set to start off on my career as a car mechanic. For me, as someone who’s knowledge of the inner workings of a mechanical vehicle are highly limited, the Normal mode was perfectly adequate. You can play the game in Normal mode, Normal but without Tutorial, Sandbox mode, or Expert mode. To kick things off, players have a few options to choose from. So it’s not hard to figure out what this one’s all about thanks to yet another creative game title, but if you’re sat there with a dazed look and very little knowledge on the inner workings of the internal combustion engine, haven’t a clue where to find the water pump, and have never picked up a spanner in your life, fear not, this is a game that will be just as accessible to you as it is to the biggest of petrol heads out there.

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