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Not worth it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Definitely a waste of time and money. The driving is realistic and the story line works up to the point called "president's run". This level is close to impossible and leaves you ready to toss the whole game out the window. Without failure you are hurt from all sides by both the police and the bad guys turning your car a wreck in a short time where you eject the disk and send it flying.

Greatest Game Ever !!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This Game is so fun to play if you don't have a car. Inplus you can run from the law and at the end of the day get out of your sit and leave the house instead of the real deal and get arrested. At first it was kinda hard getting past the try out's in the beinging, But I didnt' give up and I made it and I'm half done with the game. I play it ever night and I get better at the turns and speeds all the time.

My Favorite thing to do on the game is to do sharp turns which shows how good of a driver you are on that game. This game is worth [price] but I only paid [price] for it used from a saler on Amazon.com. I turly happy about this game cuz it's hours of fun and you won't get bored unless your like 35 and hate driving in real life.

MC

3rd Best Game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You play as undercover agent tanner. His job is to find and stop someone who is eventually planning to kill the president! You get to pick usually 1 out of 3 missions after you complete the mission you did last so everytime you play you probably will get a diffrent mission!! The game is addicting except for the 1st mission. You dont even do missions, you can take a drive and ram cops and get them pisst. You get to kill cars in missions rescue people give chase and even drive someone nuts in a taxi. theres rain which affects the performance of your car. the only downside is sometimes you go fast and get stuckin buildings that gets me really mad. This a great game and if you like this also try driver2 you can get out of cars in that game!

Wow...what a disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: May 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Driver has one of the coolest premises ever for a video game. That they managed to screw it up so badly is almost a travesty. I must admit that, being a car-nut, I waited patiently for this game to be released. Initially I thought my intense dislike for this game was based on my unrealistic expectations, however, hindsight has not improved my perception of this atrocity.

Driver feels like the sort of game that was given zero usability testing. I'm sure that repeat playing by a third party would have revealed that the menus are difficult to navigate, that the first mission (your interview) is among the most difficult encountered over the course of the game, that the tutorial for that same mission is buried under the aforementioned menu system, that some of the missions are nearly impossibly diffuclt, that the maps are unnecessarily hard to read, that none of the streets have any "curves," but only turn at 90 degree angles, that the final mission is insanely difficult . . . but that's only the start.

The appeal of a game like Driver lies the idea of going on wild police chases through dark alleys, running over garbage cans, driving on the sidewalks, scaring pedestrians. In my experience the best way to lose cops is to find a straight and drive fast. That, in and of itself, is the making of some rather predictable gaming.

Similarly, the levels tend to have similar set ups each time you experience them: the police are generally in the same spots, the other drivers run the same lights, and so forth. The result is what I call the "Ninja Gaiden effect." On the NES game, Ninja Gaiden, you had to jump and fight your way through a series of platform levels. On the more advanced levels, you had to follow an almost exact pattern to be able to complete the level. The pattern was insanely difficult, but predictable. The same holds true for Driver: run a red light, cut between the lamppost and the building, split the road block, etc etc. It's monotonous, and since many of the longer levels are REALLY long, it's not a lot of fun to find out what move you almost certainly MUST make next by trial, error, dying, and restarting.

All this is made that much worse by the aggravating control. Though by no means horrible, it seems as if the game would have been better served by Gran Turismo-esque realism than dropping the Destruction Derby engine on the cars. Though often cited as having "real to life" musclecar handling and feel, the cars feel extremely loose and fidgety, and as anyone who has driven one will tell you, muscle cars are heavy and handle sluggishly.

Worse is that the cars feel light, and seem to have no weight to them and are made of rubber, making them extremely responsive to even a minor bump (which is what every other car in the game is trying to do to you). Graze a cop car the wrong way, and you might be doing an airborne 1080 degree propeller spin into a streetside cafe. With such a hairtrigger response, missions can be blown with a minor slip up by an ill-handling car.

The level environments was supposed to be one of the huge plusses of the game: enormous levels based on real cities with real landmarks. The game does succeed to an extent. I can find the Brooklyn Bridge, Sunset Strip, the Battery, etc, but more often than not, the representations are weak and barely distinguishable from the rest of the level. Additionally, as anyone who has ever played a driving game can tell you, tracks with a lot of corners are more fun than simply going straight. The levels have EXCLUSIVELY 90 degree corners like those found on city blocks (that includes the overpasses and freeways). Regardless of your ambition to make things more interesting by winding through some curvy roads, the play is forced into more predictable patterns by the board design. To repeat an earlier point: taking the corners allows the cops to catch up, going straight almost always allows you an easy escape.

In short, Driver is a game with enormous promise and cool missions that fails repeatedly. Some people LIKE this game, and like it a lot. I suppose it would be fine for people who don't particularly enjoy the racing genre and indeed, if there ever was a car game for non-racing fans, this would be it. However, everything that I enjoy about racing games (the cool cars, the feeling of control, the feeling of speed, the ability to do things that I would never be able to do in real life) are compromised by a lousy driving engine and the extremely inflexible/intolerant gameplay. It's the sort of experience that made me RUN back to Gran Turismo, Colin McRae, Crash Team Racing, or ANYTHING ELSE that has cars in it.

Oh, and they didn't even bother to get licenses for the cars used in the game, so your Ford Mustang looks like someone stole the Ford emblem (boo!).

Driver very fun!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I got Driver . I played with it so much it was very fun.I hit a cop car into the air and it hit a building and spilt in half!!When the tragty happend,I played Driver in the New York level.It was kinda depressing because you start of in front of the Twin Towers.If you like raceing,I would recomend it.

The best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the best car game ever made. I get so bored with typical racing games. This brings a whole new dimension into video games. To me, the most fun part about this game is just taking a drive through the cities. It's so great to be able to drive however you want without having to pull over every time you hit somebody. They did an outstanding job in making this game.

A SO ,SO GAME

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

YOU WILL LIKE THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED IT BEFORE. IT IS A SO SO GAME. I KIND OF LIKE IT. THE ONLY THING I LIKE ABOUT IT
IS TAKING A RIDE. BUT DONT TAKE ME WRONG IT IS A GOOD GAME.

Fast and furious.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

"Driver" is the realization of any driving fanatic's dream, which is to get behind the wheel of a flashy car and speed through a crowded city on a joyride, avoiding cops and other pitfalls. Even without going through the story mode, you can have fun exploring the well-detailed cities, and perhaps ramming a few cars off the road in the process.

In terms of graphics and sound, this game excells at both. Despite some pixilation and bleed-through, the graphics are fluid and fast-paced. The music is funky, 70's era driving music, just the thing needed when attempting to outrun three police cruisers. The story mode takes you through four cities: San Francisco, Miami, Las Angeles, and New York. You are the driver for a mob cartel, and you must get your clients to and from their various jobs. You must get them there quickly, safely, without getting caught by the cops or wrecking the car. My biggest complain about this game is the horrible "Driving Test" that you must complete before engaging in the story. You are given 60 seconds to perform various moves with the car, and you have to do them all. It took me about 30 attempts to get them all right.

The best thing about "Driver" is the intricate attention to detail. The car shows damage just like a real car, and you even loose hubcaps at sharp turns. The cities are huge, and well detailed. You can cruise through Chinatown in San Francisco, speed down the ocean-side expressway in Miami, or tear down Wall St. in New York. The designers of this game went all out.

Whatever your taste is, this game will become one of your guilty pleasures. It is also a great way to relieve stress, which can only be a bonus. Any Playstation collection should have this game in it.

This game sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I really hated this game, it is so complicated and no fun at all. I looked at the back and thought it could be fun. Every step you have to do just right and then when you do it right, you still don't pass the level and what not. If you like complicated, challenging, and non-fun games you'd like this one. Comming from a 16 year old this is what i think.

DONT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I read the back of this game thinking that it wold be a good game well guess what IT'S NOT!!!! it has poor gameplay and is really hard to get past the first part and i am a very experienced gamer.Do not buy this game unless you like very boring games.

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