Recent reviews by Computerizer

I guess my expectations were too high for this game. Maybe because it was released in 2020, I thought it would support wide screen monitors, and have pretty good graphics, sound, user interface. It has none of those. It has graphics. It has sounds. It has a user interface. Those are the best things I can say about them.

The first thing I noticed was the game started in 1024x768 resolution. On my 4K monitor. So as soon as I could get to the options I went to change it to my native resolution (3840x2160). It turns out that's not an option. In fact, there are only three resolution options. The aforementioned default, 1600x1200, and another one in between that I can't remember now. No 1080p. No 4K. Is this 1995?

Speaking of 1995, the graphics have about the right quality for that. When I turned up all the graphics settings to the highest (which gave me a warning that I need to have at least 1 GB of memory!), it was still quite bad. Low resolution textures, blocky models, etc.

Setting up the game in the first place took quite a bit of dealing with the crappy UX, but eventually I figured out how to get actually into the game. Meanwhile, the menu is overlayed on a scene which is perpetually rotating around, making me dizzy.

There were some sounds playing the roughly corresponded to what was happening in the game. But the garbage truck only seems to have two engine sounds: running and not running. No matter what speed it's moving, it makes the same sound.

Operating the employees and truck is very clunky. Basically, you hit the spacebar to make something happen, Enter to switch between the workers, and arrow keys (?!?!?!) to move them around or drive the truck. They don't move smoothly or exactly like you might expect, but eventually you can get them to do what you want.

The actual process of picking up garbage is extremely repetitive, which I guess is to be expected. It's quite a pain to have to keep switching between workers (one driving and one picking up) and commanding one to do what you want by moving the arrow keys then hitting the spacebar over and over. And when the garbage is actually dumped into the truck, the garbage bin clips into the truck. For some reason the truck doesn't have an opening on the back for the garbage to go into?

On the plus side, traffic seems to react to your presence in the roadway and doesn't run you over.

I stopped after 15 minutes and didn't even finish the first mission because I was too disappointed and bored. I was really hoping for something along the lines of modern vehicle simulators like Bus Simulator or something!