The Bus Preview (Steam Early Access)
The Bus is the next generation of city bus driving simulation set within the capital of Germany, Berlin, on a sensible scale of 1:1. Transport passengers on different lines across the city with various busses. Manage your fleet and team with other drivers online.
Pros:
- Nice graphics.
- 12.14GB Download size.
- Game settings-traffic and pedestrian density sliders, force feedback, Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, tooltips, tutorials, passenger comments, event frequency slider, units used (European/American), and vehicle sliders including show/hide steering wheel.
- Auto-detect graphics option.
- Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, v-sync, field of view slider, multi-display (beta), bloom, lens flare, Colourblind mode, color-blind strength, resolution scale, view distance, anti-aliasing, shadow/material/texture/effect/mirror, and foliage quality along with light distance.
- Can rebind controls.
- Controller support.
- Bus driving simulator gameplay.
- Editor mode-create/edit routes.
- Road map shortcut (Web-based).
- Free play mode-29 routes to choose from, set the tour date, start time.
- 3 Difficulties-arcade, realistic, and custom. The options are all on/off-automated engine/gear switch/lights/wipers/doors/air conditioning/clearance and start directly from a bus stop.
- Calendar for when you set the date of your journey has a sync option to set it to today’s date.
- Six weather types-dynamic, sunny, precipitation, storm, fog, and fog and precipitation combo.
- Photo mode.
- The police won’t do anything!
- 1:1 scale of Berlin in Germany.
- Day/night cycle.
- Reversing will bring up a camera to help you.
Cons:
- Unskippable splash screens on boot up.
- No Steam achievements.
- Not the fastest loading times.
- No music on the menus.
- Only one mode.
- Crazy over-the-top physics.
- Controls on-screen are detailed for the keyboard but too generic for the controller with prompts like the front face Button.
- Adjusting graphics is a pain as it is all sliders.
- No default graphics quality option.
- The police won’t do anything!
- Wooden Ai animations.
