I've had no previous experience playing either of these games but I've already put five hours into playing Robinson's Requiem and I'm impressed by the level of depth for a game from 1994. I'm surprised that, up until I purchased this pack (during a sale), I had never even heard of these games, especially considering the overwhelming amount of consumer interest in survival/crafting titles. Another reviewer panned this game with a one-star rating for being too much about "trial and error" but the plot of this game revolves around your character's attempts to survive on an entirely foreign "prison planet" -- it's not supposed to be a situation that is easily navigated. This game is out to get you as soon as you touch ground (after crash-landing your ship). It immediately becomes a race to, at the very least, find water and food. The very first instance of readily accessible food (via fruit on a tree) isn't even edible, it will give you food poisoning. It's the same story with the water -- it has to be purified, either through the process of boiling, which involves finding the means to start a fire, or purification tablets which you don't even have in your possession unless you go to investigate the nearby crash-site to recover a bag of medical/survival supplies.
The basic premise of OmniBus does a lot to remind me of the movie Speed because brakes are not an option and your bus is, at a minimum, always slowing gaining speed. Graphically, the game rocks a late 90s aesthetic, like this is something that would have been released for the PSX or the N64 and there's definitely nothing wrong with that. Basically, the game consists of various "worlds" with different stages that each contain an objective that must be completed in order to successfully clear the stage. The objectives themselves are highly unpredictable -- it could be almost anything -- but they are themed to correspond with the world that you're on. This obviously isn't a driving/racing game, I would be quick to classify it as "stunt bus-driving". It's fun but can become rage-inducing and I don't know that it's quite worth the full asking price (which I didn't pay).
