For others, the initial fun will fade and this will be a short ride.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. Fans of these kinds of simulation titles – or those whose lifelong dream is to be a bus driver – will dig Bus Simulator 18. When all is said and done, it might be too accurate of a simulation, and not enough of a fun game.
Although I do find Bus Simulator to have a lot more to keep me interested than Farming Simulator – including a decent multiplayer mode, it’s still just not enough to counterbalance the banality of the core experience long-term. Once I mastered the basics of driving, and all of the dashboard buttons, and grew my bus business, the novelty wore off and I was faced with the cold reality that I was still just a schnook driving a bus most of the time.
In the end, despite all of the extra customization, RPG elements and other details, Bus Simulator 18 still gets to be boring after a few hours. Their voiced banter, which includes repetitive or even unrelated comments, also does little to enhance the realism of the experience. Many are even exact duplicates, and I encountered many instances of as may as three identical characters boarding my bus, all in a row. NPCs get on and off awkwardly, moving like robots, and their faces look last-gen with no discernible range of expression. The models, however, feel very basic and boring – especially the people who ride your bus.
There’s a high level of realism to the models and city environments with minimal bugs, clipping or collision-detection issues (flaws I have found in other Simulator games). The game’s visuals come courtesy of the Unreal 4 engine, and I’d say they are solid but uninspired.
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