And when you finally do get to park the bus at the end of the day you still have all the paper work and financial management to take care of to keep the buses running the following day. Trouble can occur within the bus as well with punks who try to skip paying, kids playing loud music, passengers littering up the bus, and people demanding special treatment. There is a lot of situational driving including weather effects, night and day routes, and surprises like road construction, detours, traffic jams, and other delays that will threaten your timer. I highly recommend toggling the side mirrors to “On all the time”, so you can actually see when it’s safe to pull out of a bus stop. What really threw me is that traffic stops and starts but I could never see lit signals, so I was just going with the flow and hoping I didn’t get T-boned when I pulled out into the intersection. Otherwise, it is stop and start and countless intersections or trying to merge into a roundabout. The driving part is honestly pretty boring, and you seldom get out of third gear unless your route takes you out of the city. This slightly makes up for the lack of controller buttons but trying to zoom in and hit switches with the fast-moving analog cursor is troublesome and wastes valuable time when you are trying to stick to a schedule that is constantly haunting you with the digital timer ticking away in the corner. Once you hit the road you can drive from behind the bus or from super-detailed cockpit views with interactive controls. Keyboard shortcuts and a radial menu pop-up help make things flow smoothly once you learn them all. Whatever happened to the days of EXACT CHANGE? And then you have the random actions like dropping the bus down for a wheelchair rider or yelling at a slowpoke passenger blocking the back door. Parking brakes, lights, turn signals, ignition switch, front and back door toggles, and even a cash machine to sell tickets and make change. About 60 minutes into the game my controller stopped responding entirely and I had to start a new game to get it working again.īus Simulator 18 is heavy on the “simulation” with a checklist of actions so lengthy you’ll think you’re piloting a Boeing 747 instead of a Mercedes Citaro K. While I did enjoy the analog steering and triggers for gas and brake it’s ultimately simpler to just stick with keyboard and maybe mouse steering. You’ll definitely need to keep a keyboard handy, even to get past simple tutorial commands like hitting X to use the passenger mirror. I was impressed that Bus Simulator 18 actually supports most popular wheels, but I chose to play with my Xbox controller which has far too few buttons to accommodate all the possible commands required to play. I had a few issues with the game the most critical being controls. There is an unprecedented amount of customization available in designing your own company logos and skins for the buses as well as plenty of modding opportunities thanks to Steam Workshop support. You get to pick and choose your buses, plan your routes for optimum efficiency and profit and even hire/fire your own staff. Bus Simulator 18 takes the concept to the ultimate extreme in both behind-the-wheel and behind-the-scenes strategy management for operating your own successful public transportation company, and is even bold enough to assume you have friends with their own aspirations of driving buses that will play with you online.Īside from the opening tutorial test drive and a few guided missions after, Bus Simulator 18 pretty much presents you with an open world with which you can craft the bus company of your dreams.
Who am I to judge – they still have yearly truck driving sims too.
Bus simulator 18 wheel support driver#
It’s been just over ten years since I reviewed a game called Bus Driver on the PC, and apparently there is something about the blue-collar concept of driving a bus that has endured with the gaming culture for over a decade.
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