A grind fest
Graphics - these are really good, better then I expected it. The game supports AA, high res textures, good lighting effects and still runs maxed on a medium old rig.
Sounds -things are a little "meh" around here, they don't have many sounds for each thing in the world and things tend to get very repetitive. I think they added a single sound for each object -1 for chicken, 1 for cow,1 for bird and so on. The machinery you drive around is way too loud, and you will eventually turn down the volume, you are playing a game, not working at a factory!
Gameplay -this is where things get really bad.
-The game has a weird physics engine which allows vehicles to climb any hill or mountain in the game (more or less).Some "wtf" moments when your fully loaded tractor goes full speed up a mountain.
-Driving around IS NOT FUN. Your various vehicles get stuck in the enviroment with no chance of dislodging them. You have to bring another tractor and ramm them out of place. Sometimes that doesn't work either. Sometimes you get tangled into another car driving on the road and become permanently glued together. These types of bugs are VERY frequent and will have you pulling your hair out after the 20th time it happens.
-Pedestrians look terrible and serve no purpose. You can't run them over, you will just clip through.
-The PDA (the world map) isn't accurate, you can't tell what is what on it. You just get strange symbols and numbers that you have to figure out which is which.
-This game offers more grinding then a MMO, but offers no reward for it. For example, to grow grain, you have to buy a field,1. plow, 2.scrape it,3. seed, 4.fertilize 5.collect the crops.6.load into truck 7.sell the grain on the far end of the map. Every single step involves you driving a small tractor with a different implement over EVERY millimeter on that field, on very low speed (if you speed up you get an annoying pop-up that warns you. Fills half the screen). It takes about an hour easy to get the first 4 steps done, because fields are huge. After all that hassle your get around 6k$ (not enough to buy anything). You can get more by having 2 beehives. That's exactly my problem -why would I go through that grinding when I can buy 10 beehives and be done with it?(that gives 4k/ingame hour for each).
You can hire a computer controlled worker to do your work, but they are idiots and don't do their job right -they miss spots on the field, they move very slow and if you have a tree near the field...you guessed it -they get permanently glued to the tree!
All that grinding I wrote about is for one field only -to be successful you are supposed to plant several...
After a while you will make more money then you can spend, and you will discover there's not a whole lot you can do with it. There's little point in buying new stuff, because to me it's pointless buying a bale making machine for 120k$ that makes hay bales that probably sell for nothing. And require even more grinding.
-I am a patient man, and usually I can overlook the grinding in order to enjoy the better parts of a game.Here is the point where I quit this damned thing: I bought a big tractor for harvesting cereals, the best rig for it and a huge trailer to fill with grain. I grow 3 fields with wheat (with great pain I might add), I fill the combine with cereal, extend the combine arm to the truck aaaand... the arm doesn't fit over the truck! WHY in the name of God would you make a (very expensive) truck that can't be filled with anything from the field?? That basically gets you stuck in the game, and I couldn't take it anymore.
Farming Simulator 2013 is a rage fest, a terrible, unfinished game. Don't buy this game. I really mean it -if you value your sanity, don't do it!