Another update: 50 hours in, at level 27, with only 2 remaining achievements left, and when I finally bought the VIP car with manual transmission, I realized that the game doesn't even take in consideration the clutch, even if there is a key bound to it. What happens is that when I tried to shift to first gear without clutching first (car should stall), the car just moved forward without stalling as if I was accelerating, hahaha. If I do step on the clutch first before shifting to first gear, then it just shifts the gear as expected, but won't move the car forward.

Then it hit me, does the developers even know how cars or traffic work? Hahaha. I tried looking in to the lanes, even though they don't make sense, but now it make sense that it don't make sense, because the devs probably don't know (or not sure).

At first I thought maybe that's just how things are in Barcelona, but I think it isn't. In a 3 lane highway, usually you go towards the right most lane to turn right, or towards the leftmost lane to turn left which also applies to this game. The difference is that when you are in the middle lane, you are free to either turn left or right, hahaha. No wonder the AI drivers always get stuck, and even causes accidents. When you go towards the leftmost lane to turn left and there's an AI driver in the middle lane, they won't care about you turning left because they have the right of way to turn left as well which causes an accident. So that explains why there's always a congestion somewhere, either caused by bad lane design, AI driver being just dumb, or pedestrians not being sure if they want to leave the crosswalk or not. XD

Unfortunately, I think this is still the best taxi driving game right now, but it definitely could use a lot of bug fixes and optimizations. Overall, only buy on sale, and if they didn't abandon the game yet, which I hope they won't. :)



Update: Still keeping it a positive review, but it's sad to see how the developers decided to not implement multiplayer in the future because they just can't do it. Also, once you have a passenger, you can no longer, refuel, clean, or repair your car, which is insane. This logic should be fixed quickly and as soon as possible, because it costs too much to use the emergency refuel instead of refueling normally or cancelling the current task just to do repairs.




Original review:

A really underrated game, it should at least deserve a positive review, not a mixed one. The development team showed that they're not gonna abandon the game and made an effort to listen to the player's feedback and actually added wheel support + custom mapping in case they don't directly support your wheel.

Now, going to the actual problems in the game, the car AI is kind of dumb, and is prone to being stuck in a traffic. The same goes for the pedestrians, who are definitely eager to jump in the middle of the road as you go 40 km/h. If those two issues could be solved, it would definitely improve the player experience a lot.

After that, I guess the game could be boring real quick, so I suggest that they should just do what the Euro Truck and American Truck dev team did, like adding a leaderboard, mod support, and events like in World of Trucks. Overall, it is definitely a decent game.

Another update: 50 hours in, at level 27, with only 2 remaining achievements left, and when I finally bought the VIP car with manual transmission, I realized that the game doesn't even take in consideration the clutch, even if there is a key bound to it. What happens is that when I tried to shift to first gear without clutching first (car should stall), the car just moved forward without stalling as if I was accelerating, hahaha. If I do step on the clutch first before shifting to first gear, then it just shifts the gear as expected, but won't move the car forward. Then it hit me, does the developers even know how cars or traffic work? Hahaha. I tried looking in to the lanes, even though they don't make sense, but now it make sense that it don't make sense, because the devs probably don't know (or not sure). At first I thought maybe that's just how things are in Barcelona, but I think it isn't. In a 3 lane highway, usually you go towards the right most lane to turn right, or towards the leftmost lane to turn left which also applies to this game. The difference is that when you are in the middle lane, you are free to either turn left or right, hahaha. No wonder the AI drivers always get stuck, and even causes accidents. When you go towards the leftmost lane to turn left and there's an AI driver in the middle lane, they won't care about you turning left because they have the right of way to turn left as well which causes an accident. So that explains why there's always a congestion somewhere, either caused by bad lane design, AI driver being just dumb, or pedestrians not being sure if they want to leave the crosswalk or not. XD Unfortunately, I think this is still the best taxi driving game right now, but it definitely could use a lot of bug fixes and optimizations. Overall, only buy on sale, and if they didn't abandon the game yet, which I hope they won't. :) Update: Still keeping it a positive review, but it's sad to see how the developers decided to not implement multiplayer in the future because they just can't do it. Also, once you have a passenger, you can no longer, refuel, clean, or repair your car, which is insane. This logic should be fixed quickly and as soon as possible, because it costs too much to use the emergency refuel instead of refueling normally or cancelling the current task just to do repairs. Original review: A really underrated game, it should at least deserve a positive review, not a mixed one. The development team showed that they're not gonna abandon the game and made an effort to listen to the player's feedback and actually added wheel support + custom mapping in case they don't directly support your wheel. Now, going to the actual problems in the game, the car AI is kind of dumb, and is prone to being stuck in a traffic. The same goes for the pedestrians, who are definitely eager to jump in the middle of the road as you go 40 km/h. If those two issues could be solved, it would definitely improve the player experience a lot. After that, I guess the game could be boring real quick, so I suggest that they should just do what the Euro Truck and American Truck dev team did, like adding a leaderboard, mod support, and events like in World of Trucks. Overall, it is definitely a decent game.