Desert Bus, the infamously tedious bus=driving sim, now has a free VR model.
The authentic recreation, which was initially a sub-game inside the cancelled Penn and Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors, is now finest recognized for its charitable use. The Desert Bus for Hope charity performs the sport as a result of it’s such exhausting going that enjoying by it’s an ordeal – an ordeal you can now expertise with an costly headset wrapped round your face.
Desert Bus VR has simply launched, fulfilling the promise of an eventual sequel we heard practically two years in the past.
The recreation doesn’t value a cent, and, like the unique, it’s principally a giant ol’ trollfest. From the Steam web page description:
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Add your content material…Put the Pedal to the Metal
- Show everybody who guidelines the street as you are taking the wheel of a industrial passenger bus. With blistering speeds of as much as 45mph and a distinguished passenger aspect misalignment, solely the toughest drivers could make it to Nevada and again!
- Experience the real looking penalties of driving off the street with a tow service that takes you again to the beginning in actual time!
- Enjoy the action-packed eight-hour street journey from Tuscon to Las Vegas. When you make it to Nevada, flip round and do all of it once more!
- Tune in to quite a lot of participating radio applications, together with one that includes the dulcet tones of Penn Jillette himself. You may even flip the radio on and off!
- Learn what it’s prefer to be a REAL bus driver with thrilling gameplay that means that you can honk the horn and open the bus door! Tap the fully-interactive air freshener for some hardcore, pine-scented* motion!
Getting Towed Has Never Been More Fun
Play Non-Stop for Hours of Amusement
Fill the Crushing, Oppressive Silence
Get the Authentic Bus Driving Experience
One factor it has over the unique, although, is multiplayer – which means that buddies can be a part of you for the lengthy drive, and, apparently, throw wads of paper at you.
The recreation can be playable exterior of VR, so in case you don’t personal an Oculus Rift or a HTC Vive you’ll be able to nonetheless play. We’d anticipate to see this iteration of the sport function closely in future Desert Bus for Hope charity occasions.
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