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Not GTAVC, but a Fun Driving Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: June 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Driv3r is an obvious offshoot of the blockbuster hit Grand Theft Auto - Vice City. Unlike Vice City's mythical city, Driv3r uses real life streets of Miami, Nice and Istanbul.

While this is obviously riding on the coattails of Vice City, it would of course be a mistake to want any other game to be exactly LIKE Vice City. Why would you buy it if it was an exact duplicate? Instead, Driv3r has you as Tanner, a FBI agent stationed in Miami, going through its real streets, getting sucked into a conspiracy.

The graphics are really pretty impressive. On one hand, you get a general person-model like in Vice City - reasonably good, not Splinter Cell high quality. The clouds overhead are quite nice, the shadows falling off your car and buildlings are quite impressive.

The car models, as you might expect coming from a car-driving game company, are quite spectacular. They're all "clones of" - no real car licenses here - but they're quite nice. Even better, if a car manages to blow up, the bits that go flying are quite recognizeable as well.

We found the default driving view a bit annoying - it's right "behind" the car so your car ends up blocking the view of what is ahead of you. We'd rather have a high-and-behind view that gives you a better look at what you're driving towards.

There are a few shooting missions and a ton of driving missions, again as you might expect. The cut-scenes and plot are all nice to move the plot along. The voice talent is impressive - Mickey Rourke, Iggy Pop, etc.

The sounds in general are quite well done. The engine sounds, squealing tires, ambient noise, soundtrack, all fit the mood. Again, this company has done driving games for many years. It's what you would expect.

There are definitely a few bugs in this game. We were driving our car in a convoy with other cops to get to a crime scene - and the cop behind us rear-ended us and drove us into a building. There are the usual random clipping problems that you get in games like these. Also, the game really expects most players to have to replay a given mission many times to get the timing down exactly right. If you make one small mistake, you miss your opportunity and lose the mission.

There are fun rewatch-the-cool-part options, making this like an action movie. Many items in your world are destructable, depending on the size of what you are driving. In a small car, you can take out the smaller light poles but not the larger ones. In a large truck, just about anything is game.

If you loved the driving aspects of Vice City, or other racing games in general, then Driv3r is probably a great game for you. In addition to the missions there is free driving options and mini-games to play with.

If, however, you really liked the sneak-around-and-shoot missions, you probably won't like this one. Your money would be better spent on other shooters on the market.

Still, I had great fun with this game, once I accepted that it was very perfectionist-minded and required great driving skill. The more you play, the better you get, the more fun you have!

Driver 3 review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 21
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've played the first two Driver's and they were good. The first Driver was just a driving game, like the name implies. It had a good story line and the missions were very challenging.
Driver 2 is basically the same thing but with a few improvements. First of all the main improvement is that you can get out of your car and jack another. One of the other advancements is that there is a multiplayer. Now the multiplayer is not much fun but it does provide entertainment.
Driver 3 looks awsome. You can do everything that you can in Driver 2 plus you get weapons, finally. The graphics are much improved and the levels look a lot better than they do in the first two. There are more cars and alot more to do. I haven't played it and I'm not sure if they kept the multiplayer, but I hope that they improved and kept it. I'm getting it and even if you don't like the Driver series I still reccommend this one.

Awesome Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: February 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is really good. I love it. I don't know why ESRB rated it "M". It has no blood, or anything like that. They should really rate it "T" (teen). GTA : Vice city was better, but my mom made me sell it because u can slice people's heads off and blood squirts out of their necks. It's pretty disgusting. Anyways, this is the best game out of the 20 games I have. Don't listen to any other bad reviews that are rated 1 star. Those people need to learn what games are REALLY like when they're good or not. Great game!

Not perfect, but still a good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: June 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game, I was disappointed. Why does Tanner move so stiffly? And how bushleague are these shoot-outs? And why isn't this more like GTA? During the second mission (Chasing Baccus), this game was making me think that this game played like the perfectionist Stuntman and that made me angry. The mission kept failing cuz I was TWO blocks away! Frustrated, I was thinking of all of the ways that I could offload this game ASAP. And then...I really started playing this game and putting time into it and then I came to the realization that this game isn't supposed to be GTA. Originally, my mind deceived me because Driver 3 starts out in Miami (much like Vice City) and it seems like a free-ride game, with your character carjacking and riding motorcycles and boats. But, IT'S NOT GTA! That's the problem that people who dis this game have. Stop comparing it to GTA! CUZ IT'S NOT! True, this game is not perfect -- the on-foot missions are more similar to Max Payne, and sometimes, the game is a little too unforgiving. But now that I've spent time to actually figure out why the game reviewers were from one extreme (6/10) to another (9/10) and nothing in-between. To me, the bad reviewers couldn't give this game a chance on its own merits without reference to the GTA series. That's why I give this game a 7.5-8 out of 10. Driver 3 is more like Sony's The Getaway which had some severe flaws in the gameplay but overall was still a good game.

(...)Driver 3 is an excellent game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: July 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Dont believe all the negative reviews regarding Driver 3 untill you actually play the game for yourself. I am an original Driver fan and have been playing the game since the first two on ps1 and I also have a copy of the super rare 1970s film "The Driver" starring Ron O'Neal that inspired this very series. Driver 3 has incredible graphics, Miami has never looked better. The cars, though fakes of classics, look great. There is some need for improvement in the handling department but it doesnt take away from the game's fun. I have read that many people have said this game is "too hard", well Driver has always been a challenging game, it is for skilled players of driving games. The shooting game, which runs on a poor man's Max Payne engine, adds a very exciting element to the game. Though it can be difficult to get used to, it can be mastered to some effect, the one thing Reflections should have improved on was aiming. Overall, Driver 3 is a great game filled with great missions. If you want something that is fun and challenging, pick this one up.

Where's My Driver?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: June 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What the hell happend to this game? I have been looking forward to this game for quite some time now, and I'm highly disappointed in it, now that I have it. I thought this would be good to tid me over till GTA: San Andreas, but OH NO, this game has to SUCK!

First off, the graphics. How can developers keep making games that are blocky, lacking any color, and just plain look like crap? After seeing what the PS2 can do with Metal Gear and the Gran Tursimo series, it's totally uncalled for that anyone can make a game look this bad!

Second, the controls. Now I've like the Driver series since the first one, which I thought was great, but Driver 3 seems to be lacking something that the first one had plenty of, DRIVING! Who the hell thought that someone, who would want to play a game called DRIVER, would like to run around and shoot stuff? The driving/running/shooting worked for GTA, mainly because it controlled better. Even GTA's lock-on system of firing is much better than Driver 3's "Ok, just stand still while I line up my crosshairs, this might take a minute". Even with "auto lock" on, it still paled in comparision to GTA. It's a good thing that the A.I. is about has smart as a pile of bricks, cause you'd never be able to kill anyone if they could actually think.

Lastly, the gameplay. Now the mission based gameplay might have worked for the first 2 Drivers, but this is a time after everyone and their mother has played GTA, with it's oh so sweet opened gameplay. With GTA, you could do whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted. If you wanted to do a mission, fine. If you wanted to just kill everyone you saw with wearing a blue shirt, fine. If you wanted to sell drugs from the back of an ice cream truck with 2 large "mounds" on it's roof, YOU COULD! But on Driver 3, if you play the storyline mode, THAT'S ALL YOU PLAY! Oh, there's other modes, where you can drive around, pointlesely, or where you can do different kinda races, but they are seperate from the storyline. If you felt like just chasing after crooks (after all, you do play a cop), instead of trying to destory a bar armed only with an uzi, you'd have to quit your storyline game in order to start up the race, WHAT THE HELL? Couldn't the developers just put this good stuff together? Would it have been so hard to make this game open-ended, where you could distract yourself from the poor graphics and sucky controls by flee from the cops? I don't think so.

I can not recommend this game to anyone, the graphics suck, as do the controls. And if a fan of the series doesn't like the game, you know the game is pretty sorry.

Not Worth The Money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: February 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I first tried this game, I really liked it. I bought it, and for about a week, i still liked it. But then, as the missions got more pointless and boring, I lost some interest. So, for a week or so, I jsut drove around and this got extremely boring, seeing as there is nothing exciting to do. Now, DRIV3R is at the bottom of my pile of games and I haven;t playied it in a month or so.

This game has many things wrong with it, that maybe they will fix in a DRIV4R. First of all, it only has three levels and they are not very exciting. Secondly, the graphics are mediocre at best, except on the cars. Thrirdly, the cars that are available to you are not very good or fast. Actually, you don't know how fast you're going, theres no speedometer. Lastly, you really need to put infinite ammo, immunity, and invincibility cheats on to enjoy this game, otherwise, it is very easy to die or get arrested.

All in all, I do not recommend this game to anyone. If you really want to try it, go and rent it, but you probably won't like it.

A guaranteed full 3 months of fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Talk about bang for your buck. I'm stilling playing this thing months later.
The awesome crash physics make this better than other gta wannabees. The story is very interesting although there are not that many missions. But still enough for you to enjoy again and again.

I wish this game had more vehicles - there are about 10 in each of the 3 cities. And they are not real licensed vehicles. Also, the police are not that intelligent as they are in GTA.. always the same crashing psychos. And you never get arrested and sent to jail. The game simply ends at that point.

You get to pilot boats too but, unfortunately, no airplanes or helicopters.

Disappointing!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had high expectations for this game because it took so long for it to be released. I figured the extra time was going to be used to perfect the game. Apparently it wasn't.

The graphics are nothing spectacular. I was disappointed.

The only thing that seemed to be different about the cars was the way they looked. All of the cars seemed to drive at the same speed, which wasn't fast enough. A sports cars should fly down the road, but in this game a sports car never went that fast.

The handling is horrible!! It is an effort to turn a corner without hitting something.

The on foot missions are weak.

In all fairness, I only played the game for one hour, so I may grow to like it more, but so far it is not worth buying. Rent it first, if you like it then buy it.

Just a couple of weeks...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

(...) I want everybody to know that this is a must-buy! I watched all trailers and it looks so damn good! I wonder what its gonna be like to play...
Third, I want to share some of the features:

-Drive not only cars but also Boats, trucks, go-karts and Motorcycles! Some say there's also a Forklift...
-Great car physics, the most realistic ever!
-Great damage system. You can even shoot actual bulletholes in the car and they wont dissapear!

Just a few more weeks...

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