The faces all look human, but it would have been better if as a whole game was a little more cartoony.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. I would sometimes get the exact same NPC walk on the bus with lifeless faces and simple textures and animations.
But the people, it would have been better if the were more like faceless cartoon characters. The menus are okay, a little buggy at times. The environment and other cars on the street look alright. Yet my company was still functioning and viable, I was able to keep playing as if being ridiculously in debt made no difference, making my consequences of being a good or horrible bus driver absolutely meaningless. I racked up $130,00 in damages in the first hour of playing. With no real-time constraints, a progression of story or great prizes for being the supreme bus fleet in the city, I found that the management side of the gameplay to be rather dull and devoid of meaning.
The management of my company and hiring other people is quite forgettable. There are a lot of controls, some I still haven’t found out what they are for, but overall the actual driving around is the best part of the game.
But after actually trying to follow all the rules and be a good bus driver, I found it to be more fun and satisfying to make money. All these mundane tasks seem so trivial and boring compared to driving the bus like a maniac and seeing how many rule violations and the debt I could accumulate. As the bus driver, you must also open doors, sell people bus tickets and give them correct change, help those who are handicapped and even ask people to turn their music down (along with other various things). Driving the bus is straightforward, go, stop, follow traffic laws (including blinkers).
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