Overall, the actual driving of the bus was more good than bad. Personally, I found myself focusing a lot more on being perfect because I didn’t want to compromise my earnings at the end of the route. It’s a simple model, but it works effectively. Signaled before turning into the bus stop? Great! Hit the speed bump too fast? Not great. At the end of the drive, you get paid out based on a pretty simple equation: all the good stuff you did minus all the bad stuff you did. The game throws a lot of curve balls at you while driving, such as fare dodgers, passengers listening to loud music, speeding cameras, and some absurdly placed potholes. You control pretty much everything on the bus, so you must dispense tickets, open and close the doors, and even extend the wheelchair ramp when required. You take the driver’s seat in a bus and drive it around town, picking up and dropping off passengers. No surprise there, it is there in the title of the game. At the lowest level, it’s about driving buses. As someone who finds the idea of driving a bus in real life particularly un-fun, I was genuinely curious how a game could go about turning such a menial, job-like task into something interesting and replayable.īus Simulator 18 has a couple of different levels to its gameplay. Given my own feelings about simulators as a genre, I was intrigued by this trailer. When I first saw Bus Simulator 18, it was in the form of their over-the-top multiplayer trailer, featuring four very excitable people having way too much fun driving buses around town.

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