Bus Simulator 18
Whether in the industrial or harbour zone, downtown, in the surrounding villages or the business park, in Bus Simulator 18, you experience up-close the exciting everyday life of a bus driver in a vast and freely drivable urban area. Get behind the wheel of your 8 original licensed city buses from the great brands of Mercedes-Benz, Setra, MAN, and IVECO and transport your passengers safely and punctually to their destinations, either solo in single player mode, or with friends in real-time multiplayer mode.
As a bus driver in the 12 different districts, you’ll face the challenges of the traffic in a big city and everything that entails. Don’t be deterred by freak weather conditions, potholes, traffic jams, fare evaders, accidents, construction sites, night driving and specific passenger requests. On the contrary, take full control of your bus, earn money, gain a good reputation owing to your safe and punctual driving style and enjoy almost limitless driving pleasure in the authentic urban locations. Use the thousands of miles of virtual roads and streets to gain new districts, new buses and new customisation options.
With the extensive modding support of Bus Simulator 18 there are no limits: create routes, build your own buses, create bus liveries, design new maps and share them with the community, or download and install the modding content available from the Steam Workshop to enhance your game experience.
But drive carefully with the buses you build! Don’t cause any damage or accidents and watch out for the speed cameras located around the city, or it could have a negative effect on your reputation, not to mention your wallet.
Bus Simulator 18
Bus Simulator 18 clearly ploughs a similar furrow: driving that isn’t racing, through elaborate environments, earning a crust with which you can ultimately upgrade your vehicles by ferrying cargo back and forth. The cargo here is, of course, flesh and blood rather than miscellaneous ores and produce, but if you’ve ever been on a city bus you’ll known that, half the time, drivers barely regard passengers as humans anyway, so let’s not split the difference there.
Bus Sim isn’t about long, escapist fantasy drives through nowhere places and wild west landscapes: it’s about looping trips through gleaming, idealised cities (don’t expect to see any poverty) and their prettily rural outskirts, stopping regularly to inhale or regurgitate passengers from your lumbering vessel. It’s a very different kind of endurance from a truck sim’s long night drive – it’s about deftly performing the same manoeuvres every few minutes, and occasionally dealing with curve balls such as nuisance passengers, complicated ticket requests or dropping the wheelchair ramp, all the while sticking to strict time limits.
Like so much in Bus Sim, it’s very sweet that it’s there, it’s hugely charming first time around, but the essential cyclic nature of what it simulates keeps this game from free-wheeling into the romantic, road-tripping escapism of a Truck Sim game. I suspect it would all be better suited to a mode within a much more civic transport sim than its own game entirely. Alternatively, a total sandbox mode, as odds as it might be with the regimens and routines of actual bus-driving, might make a less rote alternative to gradual unlocking.
Bus Simulator 18 could do with a lot more polish, and someone desperately needs to proof-read the dialogue captions, which rarely match what’s being spoken. But, like most of these niche sims, I’m glad it exists. It’s given me a chance to experience, in some way, what it’s like to be a bus driver, and I never really considered how stressful the job could be. I think I’ll stick to Euro Truck Simulator 2, where I don’t have to deal with people and can drive for long stretches without interruption, but this is still a fun simulator, with an infectious enthusiasm for this most noble and misunderstood of professions.
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