An example of a "Great idea, horrendous execution".

The good:
- Extremely complicated driving system. Full on simulated law, traffic decision, with rules and signs enforcing you - the driver, to drive accordingly to the law.
- Good vehicle simulation. Fuel usage, braking system, mechanical failure,... The general feeling of driving a vehicle around town is very good and semi realistic, although this can falls short at times.
- Excellent optimization. Runs great on a variety of spec. Both my i3 4gb ram laptop and a i7 12th with 3070 run superb with little to no slowdown.
- Nice variety of weather effects. Rain, foggy, snow all affect the vehicle capabilities on the road, with corresponding effect on grip, visibility, and braking effectiveness.

The bad:
- Dated graphic. I understand this game has been going on for quite sometime, but the environment reeks of boredom, the vehicles are no different - interior looks like it was ripped from a 2002 game, which for today standard - doesn't look appealing too much.
- Small selection of vehicles & maps. Barely any space to drive around, as the maps are separated into segments - either for optimization purpose, or to prevent conflicting road rule (?). Either way, this make driving around very, very boring after a while. The small selection of vehicles doesn't help much neither, but thankfully there're mods for that. Lots of vehicle mods to choose from.
- Little activities on Free Play mode. You can drive around, get some random assignment for zero purpose, and try to become a Grab driver or a shipper via the phone (F key). Aaand that's about it, nothing more.

The ugly. Very, very u g l y.
- Abysmal programming. Bugs are EVERYWHERE - from randomly violating the law, passengers sometime act like a b**ch as they suddenly become very picky at their drop off point, etc...
- The worst of it all (You know it's soo ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad this deserves it own point). CRASHES
Yes, no not crashes in traffic accidents. It's actual, actual GAME CRASHES. This game like to throw a crash error ANYWHERE, ANYTIME it wanted. Oh so you want to load a map? Nah here's a tga file loading error, good luck ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reboot it. Oh so you managed to load into a map and strolling around for 3 minutes? Nah here's a freezing crash, good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ luck taskkill it. Or even better, you just booted up the game? Nah here's a "bad" exception error, go ♥♥♥♥ yourself or something.

It's a niche game when it works, and when it does sometime the game's great. But all of that great points were completely shadowed by the crashes. Does not recommending this game. I have 6 hours on this game - over an hour was spent to diagnose and try to fix it only to be met with a crash. Buy this one ON SALE ONLY, AND ONLY IF YOU HAVE WAY TOO MUCH TIME TO SPARE.

I don't criticize graphics and overall content, as it is pretty decent.
However there are things, that made me stop playing after several hours... of trying.

I have Ryzen 3 4300G (IGPU) with 32 GB RAM (4 GB shared VRAM) and the game isn't playable.
Actually on low settings i get like >100 FPS, and on medium >30 FPS. So you may ask what's the problem?
The problem is this: for several seconds... Yes, you read it right!
For some reason it constantly drops, and after a couple of minutes it's less than 10!
I know, that integrated graphics have their limitations, but come on, it's 2024 and they are quite popular.
I can play solid looking games without a problem.

Another problem is, that while steering and braking both work fairly well, then the clutch is rather a nonsense. Even if you release it rapidly, you can't practically stop the engine, and instead you get automatic transmission effect. For a game pretending to be realistic it's quite basic principle. As for gas pedal, its release should have much stronger impact on slowing down engines rpm and then the vehicle.

Also the fueling tend to be problematic. I accidentally emptied a custom vehicle and there is no way to refuel it, neither conventional, nor cheatcode.

The A.I. isn't that bad certainly, still there are often strange moments with it, and why it's my fault of its bad behavior.?

we need more maps on this bad boy + the most realistic school driving game that ever existed