Farming Simulator 19 getting new maps, crops, and horses

Focus Home Interactive has announced Farming Simulator 19 with the franchise celebrating its ten year anniversary in 2018. The next entry in the series is landing with two new open worlds (making three in total) set in Europe and America respectively, in which you can develop and expand your farm. It also will introduce new farming activities, new animals including horses, new crops, and new gameplay mechanics.

Farming Simulator 19 has, according to the press release we just received, been given a "complete overhaul of its graphics engine", which promises to deliver "the most striking and immersive visuals and effects to date". Check out the official CGI reveal trailer below, as well as our interview with marketing chief Martin Rabl, filmed ahead of the announcement.

"We're going to have new crops," Rabl told us in Paris, "a dynamic weather system and the sky is not still anymore, so you see actually the clouds moving - they're voxel-based clouds - and they change according to an internal formula so you can look at the sky and then you can see 'oh, there's a rain cloud appearing' and it changes."

"And also the sun is moving, which is also quite nice for sunrise and sunsets. And then all the technical [graphics] features we have like high dynamic range rendering, bloom effects, dynamic light adaption, light scattering."

Farming Simulator 19 is heading to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and it's due later this year.