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Bus & Cable Car Simulator
The Bus- & Cable Car-Simulator is compatible with
steering wheels, but the vehicles can very well be
controlled using the mouse and the keyboard.
The gameplay
The game starts with a quite rundown, but rentfree
apartment in Nob Hill, a district of San Francisco.
One of the goals of the game is to escape
that apartment and move to a more beautiful one.
For this, the player needs to earn the necessary
money. In addition, he starts out with a car that
is not exactly what you would call state of the art.
This can also be changed with the right amount of
money.
Essentially, the beginning of the game is all about
working a couple of shifts as a bus driver. In order
to do that, you get to one of the three bus
depots of San Francisco in your pickup truck. Having
arrived there, you choose a schedule in the
dispatcher’s office.
Basically, there are six different kinds of schedules:
The City Route, a line with lots of stops and short
distances between them; CrossTown, including lines
taking you to more rural areas with partially
long distances between the stops; ExPress, with
rather long lines, mostly large and broad roads
and long distances between the stops; Trolley,
a line travelled on by trolley buses; Cable Car, a
classic with a total of 3 lines you can drive on and
Streetcar, the historic line exclusively used by historic
trams.
Day and night
SIMULATOR WORLD 2/2013
The game has its own time system with the minutes
passing quicker than in reality. That way the dynamic
day and night system linked with the dynamic
weather and traffic system can be better appreciated.
In case the player returns to his apartment
and goes to sleep, a leap in time is possible.
Fleet of vehicles and direct travel
After visiting certain places on the map – either in
your private car or during your shift by bus – they
are enabled as destinations for direct travel. Hence
you can select these places and can be transferred
there from wherever you are.
At the beginning, the player only has a short diesel
bus at his disposal which he needs to make
money and collect experience points. In the exhibition
hall of San Francisco you can have a first
peek at all vehicles available in the game – and
also purchase them. Provided you already have
that kind of money.
A second possibility to expand your fleet of vehicles
is the reward system.
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