Traffic Giant
- June 14, 2018
- QLOC
Get on Steam"Traffic Giant is a transportation simulation game where you manage a fleet of buses, trams, and underground trains in various cities. Experience realistic city traffic and listen to the opinions of the inhabitants as you establish and maintain transportation routes. Enjoy a detailed simulation with several hours of gameplay."
PC
Windows
Reviews
- Nostalgic experience for players who enjoyed the original game over 20 years ago.
- Offers a unique focus on public transportation management, providing a satisfying gameplay loop.
- Despite its flaws, it can still be enjoyable for casual play and fans of city management games.
- The game suffers from numerous technical issues, including frequent crashes and unresponsive save files.
- Many original bugs remain unfixed, making the game frustrating and often unplayable.
- The user interface is outdated and lacks essential features, leading to a confusing experience for new players.
- story8 mentions
- 25 % positive mentions
- 38 % neutral mentions
- 38 % negative mentions
The story is presented through a series of classic missions that offer a range of difficulties and vehicle types, providing a decent level of variety. However, players have reported technical issues, particularly with mission 12, which can lead to frustrating freezes that disrupt the gameplay experience. Overall, while the narrative structure is straightforward, it is marred by performance problems.
“Not too complex, but every mission has its own difficulty.”
“The variety of different vehicles and various missions is quite decent.”
“The story lacks depth and fails to engage the player.”
“Character development is minimal, making it hard to care about their fates.”
“The plot twists are predictable and do not add any excitement to the narrative.”
- stability8 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The stability of the re-released game is severely criticized, with users reporting frequent crashes, failure to register campaign progress, and freezing issues, particularly after specific missions. Many find the presence of even more bugs than the original version unacceptable, leading to a frustrating gameplay experience.
“For a developer to re-release a buggy 20-year-old game with even more bugs and stability issues than before is unforgivable.”
“However, this version is unstable; it crashes often, does not register campaign progress, etc. These technical glitches make playing a rather frustrating experience.”
“Was all going great until mission 12; now it freezes and doesn't allow me to do anything.”
- graphics6 mentions
- 67 % positive mentions
- 17 % neutral mentions
- 17 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game are praised for their nice aesthetic and impressive attention to detail, especially considering it is a 20-year-old title. While some rough edges remain, the overall visual presentation is considered pleasant, highlighting the importance of addressing graphical issues for modern hardware compatibility.
“The game offers some really nice graphics and a nice yet simplistic aesthetic which is pleasant all the same and has some amazing attention to detail, even though it is a little rough around the edges.”
“Nice graphics, even though it is a 20-year-old game!”
“One thing about releasing a classic is the importance of fixing a lot of the graphical issues and making the game work well on modern hardware.”
- monetization2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The monetization model involves monthly payments for upkeep and advertisement, but the timing of these payments remains unclear to users.
“Upkeep and advertisement are paid monthly, but we don't know when that is.”
- gameplay2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
Gameplay is characterized by challenge-based sandbox mechanics, with player experience heavily influenced by personal preference for this style and the performance capabilities of their PC.
“I think your experience will depend a lot on whether you enjoy this kind of challenge-based sandbox gameplay and how your PC handles it.”
- replayability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Users express concerns about the game's replayability, indicating that it is currently hindered by issues that need to be addressed through patches before they feel motivated to replay it.
