{"id":20038,"date":"2020-04-13T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20038"},"modified":"2020-03-28T22:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T22:11:09","slug":"snakeybus-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/13\/snakeybus-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakeybus (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Snakeybus is a weird mix of Crazy Taxi and the classic game Snake.\u00a0 Take control of an ever-moving bus and pick up and drop off passengers at bus stops.\u00a0 The more people you pick up, the longer your bus gets.\u00a0 Pretty soon you\u2019ll see your own bus-snake following behind you!\u00a0 If you stop moving for too long, or fall into a pit, it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 The game gets more challenging the longer your bus becomes.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Play control is pretty simple.\u00a0 Steer with the left analog stick and accelerate and brake with the L and R trigger buttons.\u00a0 But since you\u2019re always moving, you won\u2019t have to use them much.\u00a0 Press the triangle button to view the action from the driver\u2019s seat, and the X button will make you turn corners tighter.\u00a0 As you pick up passengers, a jump meter will fill.\u00a0 Press the R shoulder button to jump, which is handy if your long bus is blocking your way.\u00a0 Pick up passengers at bus stops and drop them off for points.\u00a0 At some point your bus will get full and you\u2019ll have to look for a place to drop them off.\u00a0 Just follow the arrow like how you do in Crazy Taxi.\u00a0 If you stop moving because your bus is too long and crowding the playfield, or if you stop because you hit a wall or can\u2019t move, or if you fall into a pit or water, the game is over.<\/p>\n

There are many maps you can choose from.\u00a0 Some are based on real cities like Seattle, Miami, or Paris.\u00a0 Others are fantasy locations like in a dorm room, generic suburb, or cylindrical space station.\u00a0 You can also choose various modes of play.\u00a0 Classic is the regular rules, while the timed mode gives you a time limit to drop off passengers, very similar to Crazy Taxi.\u00a0 There is also an Endless mode that seems pointless because you can only use it on one map, and an Aerial mode that I couldn\u2019t figure out.\u00a0 As you play, your cumulative score unlocks new maps and buses to drive.\u00a0 You start out with a regular city transit bus, but can unlock a yellow school bus, psychedelic rainbow party bus, double decker, Chinese parade dragon, and more!\u00a0 You can even drive the truck from ClusterTruck!<\/p>\n

The main problem I had with the game is that many of the maps make it very easy to get stuck in a corner and keep you from moving, which can end the round prematurely.\u00a0 And being a physics-based game doesn\u2019t help either.\u00a0 I also wish the game had better instructions, but at least it\u2019s easy to figure out.\u00a0 But if you want a \u201cjust for laughs\u201d kind of game, Snakeybus can be entertaining in short bursts.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Snakeybus is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 It looks like you run over people when you drive through bus stops, but the people just fly into your bus like rag dolls.\u00a0 When the game is over, your bus explodes and people fly out, but again, they look like rag dolls so the violence isn\u2019t very realistic.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may find it a bit difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snakeybus is a weird mix of Crazy Taxi and the classic game Snake.\u00a0 Take control of an ever-moving bus and pick up and drop off passengers at bus stops.\u00a0 The more people you pick up, the longer your bus gets.\u00a0 Pretty soon you\u2019ll see your own bus-snake following behind you!\u00a0 If you stop moving for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20040,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions\/20040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}