Game review: get on board the OmniBus and enjoy a little carnage and non-stop thrills
It mightn’t make much sense but OmniBus satisfies our urge to wreak a bit of havoc without consequences – and be challenged at the same time
OmniBus
Buddy Cops
4/5 stars
Armed with plenty of time, a little bit of cash and an absolute love for virtual worlds, indie developers can pretty much create anything their creative minds can conceive within the video game realm. It’s a near-limitless playing field and sometimes, when said mind is one of those unique souls that functions on a different plain to the rest of us, you get something like OmniBus.
Available for the PC, it’s almost impossible to initially work out exactly what the point of the game is. In its blockish, rough ’90s-style polygon set-up, you take on an unstoppable bus speeding its way through an outlandish world where one minute you’re doing something as simple as dropping off passengers or herding cows, and the next, you’re toppling King Kong off the side of a building before robbing a train and taking part in a free-for-all demolition derby.