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GTA NFS Underground Parallel Lines Mash-Up

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What's right:
Very big environments, nice day/night transitions, convincing city skylines,much freer use of the city during missions than Driv3r.

What's wrong:
Presentation is Widescreen only (16:9 Anamorphic or Letterbox).
Twitchy, skittish handling of the cars - in previous Driver games drifting around corners with a touch of handbrake was a predictable, enjoyable experience. In Parallel lines, the behavior of the cars under the same conditions is infuriating. They tend to slide uncontrollably into a spin, or lose forward momentum drastically.
The 'Burnout' accelerator is gone! This IS a Driver game? Huh?
The cars suffer from an aggravatingly sluggish response time when you need to reverse, and your character still refuses to enter cars frequently, without a lot of messing about. When under fire, and knowing your car is about to explode fatally, you try to exit the vehicle quickly but your character will lazily climb out, carefully turn around, and calmly shut the door - while you are being exposed to a hail of bullets.
Bullets, incidentally, that do a crazy amount of damage to your health so quickly.
The missions fix one of Driv3r's mistakes, in that at least now you have the freedom to use your own routes across the city, but the central missions are *very* easy whereas the sub-games (racing in particular) are 'hard'.
Manual aiming is waaaaaaay over-sensitive. Analogue steering control is also waaaaay too sensitive in the race games.
The biggest problem with Parallel lines is the sound. In Driv3r, the big V8 cars had a nice, bassy, throbbing engine note (the other cars sounded terrible). In parallel Lines, all the cars - and in fact ALL THE SOUNDS - are very compressed, MONO and very weak. A big step backward.
Despite 'Stereo' 'Surround' and 'Mono' settings, only the ambient noises are affected, the Music and Engine sounds are not.
The music soundtrack, both 70s and present day, is a *great* selection of tracks, but they too are in VERY compressed quality, and are MONO! It gave me a headache when I tried to play with headphones, seriously. You can't quickly turn off the music in-game without resorting to the menus, and there is no facility for identifying the tracks! They are listed in the instructions, but trying to work out which is which, especially when many are instrumental!?

The game doesn't know what it's meant to be - Need For Speed Underground, GTA, Driver, what? They cherry picked elements from the most commercially successful driving games without any attempt to refine their own franchise. This doesn't feel like a 'Driver' game. Incredibly, the deeply flawed Driv3r LOOKED and SOUNDED better, and if they plan a future version on PS3, lets hope they go back to the gameplay and handling characteristics that distinguished the first 3 games and stop trying to ape the games they imagine they are competing with.

This Game The Dumbest Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: March 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is so stupid terrible even.The driving part of the game terrible story lines terrible.Everything about this game is terrible.They try to copy grand theft auto 1.2 and 3 but no way.Please if you thinking of buying it DONT STOP way did i buy it 39.99 down the drain.Thats why its 39.99

The Backbone Of Driver - The Chases - Is G.O.N.E!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The thrill of the chase is gone....
Now youre just driving from A to B just for the hell of it...
So dont waste your money buying... just rent!

Quite clearly Reflections are dellusionally disoriented...
They sacrifice the very thing that uphold the fans interests..
- the ALMIGHTY chases...the chases??!?! thats unforgiveable
- powerslidding round bends
- the movie director
- did i say the very flavor of driver - the chases - is gone?!
- the speedy chases - the speed

And decided to do a GTA clone!!!
They sold their souls to the devil.... for money
I hope they blooooody see this review in uk to see how they phukked! up really badly and let the fans down!!!

there were better designed chases in driv3r but still not enough

a star for the 70s tunes and a star for upgradeable cars

Too easy, too short...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: June 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is FAR too easy, and FAR too short.

The driving aspect is pretty good, with nice crash sequences.

The on-foot aspect totally sucks, the aiming aspect totally sucks, when the guys run, it looks gay...

But like I said, this game is far too easy and short, just when you think it's gonna get good, it's over.

I bought this game June 2nd, and here it is June 19th, and I've already beaten it, come on Atari, make it a challenge.

Bottom line, rent this game, don't buy it, save your money, I feel ripped off!

...San Andreas this is NOT!

Truly horrible

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game simply fails to offer the richness of play of the GTA series. In Driver, the buildings are simply scenery to drive around; boxes painted with textures. Add to that some very dodgy vehicle handling and traffic that edges around dumbly at snail speeds, and you have a major problem suspending disbelief and getting into the game. I got bored with it about half way through and gave up.

NEVER TRUST GAMESPOT WITH REVIEWS!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

GameSpot are a bunch of punks who set standards too high!
First of all they rate overated games like GTA and Halo with 9`s-Halo:CE deserved a 9 but HALO 2 deserves 7.5!
GTA:San Andreas doesn`t deserve a 9 either those games deserve an 8.
IGN are a more honest buch-sometimes they rate games a n incy tinsy bit too high like Metal Gear Solid 3:Subsistence doesn`t deserve a 9.8 but more of a 9.4 its one of the BEST games on PS2-But its still ONLY an updated version of the hit Snake Eater.I am an MGS fan.
Though i agree with GS on their reviews on the Splinter Cell games(muwahahah) i think SC is a bit too realistic than fun.Metal Gear thrashes all the stealth series and thats coming from an owner of XBox AND PS2! Hitman then comes 2nd.(i give all the Hitman games 8 myself).
I herad that GS gets bribed into writing in 9`s from the developers themselves so they can sell the game-it weren`t the case with MGS3 though that game got an 8.7 from those GS punks while MGS2 got a 9.6(9.6. is alittle too genrous for that game i admit) MGS3 deserves a BIGGER score than any MGS game(until MGS4 and future games).
DRIV3R was quite krap but not enough for a 5.3-it deserves a 6.5 like what D:PL got.
I have all the GTA games,Driver games,Getaway games and even TrueCrime.
And in fairness of this D:PL deserves a 7.9 as it DID EVERYTGHING it promiced apart from WOWWW! you can actually customise your car-Right its a GTA clone right a way cos it can do that.
IGN has less fanboyism on their boards,more THOUGHTFUL reviews,No fanboy actually reviews(top review) games.
Far Cry:Instincts is a great XBox game that got a 9.2 thats fair enough but why does HALO 2 deserve a bigger score exactly?
Trust mags,trust IGN,trust teamxbox or whatever just DON`T trust GS.
they can take their fanboy 9 rating and shove it up their...

The Best GTA Clone To Date

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Driv3r was a big disappointment--while the driving portion of the game was decent, the on-foot portion was flawed. It was difficult to target enemies, the collection detection was off, and there just wasn't much to do (especially when compared to the GTA series). With this next game in the series, I thought Reflections would go back to what they are best at--driving (along with Driver, they were responsible for Destruction Derby and Stuntman). I was wrong. Parallel Lines is even more like GTA than Driv3r ever was, except this time they got it right.

As with GTA, the environment (New York City/New Jersey) is enormous and packed with pedestrians and with vehicles you can steal. The time of day progresses so that you can drive at night as well as in the daytime. Instead of hidden packages, there are star tokens to collect. You can accept missions to advance the storyline, and you can take on side missions (races, assasinations, taxi missions, repo missions, etc.). The graphics are good, with the best videogame representation of New York that I have ever seen. The physics are fine (no funky flying boxes to knock you over, as in Driv3r), the voice acting is decent, and the cut scenes are excellent. In short, it offers the same open-ended structure that the GTA series does...just with less to do (fewer buildings to enter, and fewer challenges). Some elements from the prior Driver games have also been lost--there is no longer a replay editor, you can't swim, and there are no "take a ride" or "driving game" modes (because these are now part of the main game).

Parallel Lines was a pleasant surprise that almost makes me forget the last Driver game. Reading the online reviews, I cannot understand how reviewers can rate GTA a 10/10 but then rate this game (the best GTA clone to date) a 6/10 because it is "repetitive" or "boring." Frankly, I think that GTA has become a "sacred cow" of the videogame industry (just like Metal Gear) that no reviewer will dare criticize. Don't get me wrong--Parallel Lines is not a "Game of the Year" and it isn't better than GTA, but it comes closer than any other game (True Crime, The Getaway, Roadkill, etc.) ever has. While you are waiting for the next GTA game to come out, you might want to pick this one up. It is a lot of fun if you enjoy vehicle mayhem with adult overtones [Rated M].

Best DRIVER game yet!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love GTA and Driver the same,i have been playing GTA since Grand Theft Auto III,and Driver since the original one on PS1.I hated the first two GTA games(GTA and GTA2) as we no longer live in 2D graphics,if that game came out for SNES it would have been a classic in GOLD-of coarse VERY controversial and probably banned in most places.
GTA1 came out before the original Driver-when the first Driver came out those games were NEVER compared.
Driver 1 was am excellent game then-No you couldn`t get out of the car and steal a car-But you could have excellent fun nonetheless.
You had a DAMAGE bar and a FELONY bar.Damage bar can be filled up by crashing the car or flipping it.FELONY was gained from heat by the Police(or more informally Cops) if Tanner(the main character) got wreckless the felony would fill up and the more agressive they get,though the Cops never actualy arrest Tanner but simply bash down his car.You had FOUR good scaled cars that pushed PS1 to the limits.You have the glitz of Miami,the bumpy hill of San francisco,the wather drenched streets of L.A.
and the traffic-jamped city of New York which are all for Tanner to have fun in.
Driver 2 was a great sequal,you could now skip out of the car and go get another,cars are a few civilian cars,Cop cars(though its tracked by the Cops and they will be on Tanner with full heat),Firetrucks and i think ambulances.
You had four NEW cities:Chicago where the best place to pull a stunt was although thye Cops are very good,and aggrevesive,Havana where the Cops are easy to lose,Las Vegas and Rio.This game had the Hitman style villain called "Jericho" with his sawn-offs he is better than any GTA villain i`ve saw yet.
DRIV3R was a dissapointment it came out after GTA:Vice City,you could now kill and jack motor-bikes,boats and the cars-I liked it better than GTA3 but not as much as Vice City,still a good game but poorly recieved.It features three cities:
Miami:Tanner hasn`t been here since the original Driver and its more glitz than ever.
Instanbul
and NICE,France(Nice is the wrong name for there when a character like Tanner goes there)
But sadly this game sees the death of badazz Jericho:(

Driver:Parallel Lines is the brst game yet! although you don`t play Tanner you now play TK he arrives in the gangster world as a lapdog at 18 years old he is a very good driver this portion of the game is set in 1978,(SPOILER...)now the game is set in 2006 and he is out to get revenge.
Both dates 1978 and 2006 are set in New York-combined the NY is equaivalent of all three cities from DRIV3R.
I have completed and enjoyed all the GTA games and at the same time Driver games,i await the rumoured Driver 5 and GTA I.V. on the PS3!
I don`t like any of GTA`s clones(not Driver,Driver camo out first)) except The Getaway(both games are O.K.) but the Getaway was originally made to be a Driver wannabe but since GTA hit the scene they added well GTA stuff.I await The Getway III thats also for PS3.
I don`t like either of the TrueCrime games-not "SOL.A." nor NYC.
Parallel Lines done New York better than the way TC:NYC did.
Mafia was krap.
The Godfather ain`t out yet
nor is the ScarFace game
and nor is the SA clone "Fear n Respect"-which are obviously gonna fail to GTA since GTA keeps topping and topping itself.
I enjor D:PL more than i do GTA:SA at the moment-But if both games came out together-SA would only be a lil over D:PL.
I currently await the "Driver 5 vs. GTA I.V." rivalry-GTA actually might lose,or will the GTA series continue to dominate?

well it might be worth checkin` out this game,or will the Driver series just collapse?!

Not too shabby!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty cool. The cars are cool, the missions are fun, the driving is fun, and the variety of cars and customization options is good as well. Car sounds are fairly good but not great yet. They should have allowed your character to jump and swim and they also should have included boats in the game. Driving missions are a blast but just cruising around in a boat is a nice break from the driving and lets you explore....but PL does not have this unlike D3 which does have it. but the graphics are better in PL though. D3 had that Miami Vice feel to it, but PL feels like it's original roots...pure driving fun. At least they have trucks and such in PL which is a plus. Free roam is now a part of the game and it allows you to roam freely until you choose and drive to your next mission. So you can tease cops all day between missions if you like. Get too much heat and they send copters and swat after you! lol If you are a Driver fan, then I recommend this game to you.

A GTA Clone Except it's not by Rockstar Games. With Cheats Section

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Another game by Atari and Reflections Interactive. Driver: Parallel Lines is similar NOW to GTA games except it's not by Rockstar. The graphics were great. It sure really beats Driver, Driver 2 and, Driv3r. Set in the city of New York, USA. Not like in Driv3r you choose Miami, Nice or, Istanbul. It's an open storyline.
I played it with a friend and it's a cool game. We shot and shot many people until the cops arrived and shot TK. Good thing I have cheats than can make my character invincible Another Cheat I entered was for all cars. I think I entered it all.
Here's the list:
GUNBELT ... Infinite ammunition.
GUNRANGE ... Unlock all weapons.
ZOOMZOOM ... Infinite nitro.
ROLLBAR ... Cars are indestructable.
TOOLEDUP ... Upgrades cost nothing.
CARSHOW ... Unlocks all vehicles.
IRONMAN ... Player invulnerability.
KEYSTONE ... Police vehicles vulnerable.

Got it?
Don't need to thank me.

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