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Content
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| Quality : |
14.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
14.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
59.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
9.0 / 10 |
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As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Pretty entertaining.
2. One of the original reality sites.
3. Price can be found cheaper now.
4. Still growing.
1. This site charges more than their network.
2. Could get old if you're not into it.
"If you're into reality sites, don't miss the original, Bang Bus!" |
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Ahh the good old Bang Bus. For our internet porn history lesson today, I'll let you know that Bang Bus was a pioneer in the "reality" sites you see all over the place today. The basic premise is that a couple of dudes will drive around in a van, pick up some random chicks, and bang 'em in the backseat. The girls supposedly don't know what's coming. Once they convince them to strip, suck, and fuck someone, they kick them to the curb and drive away all excited about what they achieved.
Anyhow, logging into the member's area, you're presented with their latest episodes. You'll also find a list of their top voted photos (looks like the BangBus members enjoy closeups!) and a few links to other sites your membership gets you into. If you're into reality sites, you've got your dream come true here as that's pretty much all they produce it looks like.
The main content here is their videos, so I'll get right to it. Each scene is pretty long, although there's no timer running so I can't really tell you exactly how long. I'd say around a half hour or so is the norm. However, there's a ton of talking initially as they get to know the girls before they skank it up. The good news is that the commentary is pretty funny if you can get past the bad acting at times! Whoever's behind the camera usually has some funny/obnoxious comments to make which keeps things lively. After a while, they'll ask (beg?) the chicks to just get topless or something, which obviously leads to blowjobs and anal sex pretty easily. After they're done with her, they kick her out on her ass and take off without so much as a goodbye kiss.
Video quality isn't great. If you check out the full video, you're stuck with Windows Media as your only option, and you gotta wait for the whole thing to download before you can jump around in the video (it does start streaming right away, however). The better bet for me was to view them in clips so I could jump to what I wanted to see quicker. Their Windows Media offerings (for high quality) was at 256kbps, which was a bit low for me. The 200% size was ok but not great to look at. If you want to download a file that's like 5 times bigger you can check out the MPG option which might be better, and they also have Real Video as an option as well. There's no real option to download the whole video in one shot, which was weird.
The pictures seem to be an afterthought here. They are just vid caps of their videos, and as such are about what you'd expect from that. They are 640x480 which just barely gets the job done. There's no zip download option, but I'd much rather watch the actual video anyway.
The big bonus here is all the other sites you get access to. They're all in the reality niche and are cool sites on their own. This will help make up for their horrible update schedule. Hopefully somewhere, at some site, they may come up with a few updates a month. Bang Bus itself was last update over three weeks ago, and the last update before that was four MONTHS ago. Like I said, hopefully between all their sites there's always something new to see.
Overall, I like the content. I don't know how long they can keep it up since it's all very similar, but at least it has some good entertainment value. If only the quality was better, and updates were more frequent, the site would be way up there. Oh well, you can't have everything :) Definitely worth a checking out if you're into the reality sites, as they wrote the book on it.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 06-07-04 |
While the site looks much the same, thankfully there's a lot more to see these days at Bang Bus. First off, the network now offers 11 other sites included with your membership (which I think is more than there were before). Also, updates have returned to normal with a new episode each week being cranked out. They're now up to almost 75 episodes, and growing quicker than ever.
The Windows Media video quality has been improved to 500kbps, but still doesn't look quite as good as other reality videos. Still, it's a bump up from before. I can also now increase the updates score, as well as the values score. I still don't like their pricing structure as it's awful high - but what can I do about it??
Score increased from 85.6 to 87.9.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 04-12-05 |
Well the reason we wanted to look at this site again was because of a price change on all their sites. What used to be a quite expensive treat at $35 a month was dropped to $24 a month on every site of theirs except Bang Bus! You can still get this price because of the network access, but I really can't figure this one out on their end.
Thankfully the site is still alive and well, and has over 100 episodes up now which has got to be one of the larger reality sites out there. Combine this with the always-on entertainment, it's no wonder this site is as popular as it is. Definitely worth a look here for sure, even if you've been before, but do yourself a favor and find the cheaper join options.
Score decreased from 87.9 to 87.5.
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