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It is a good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game DRIV3R is good yes it has it's bad point like any other pour example GTA:VC has a lot of glitches in it as dose it predecessor GTA3.

The game has amazing graphics and the locations are replica cities, the on foot game play is poor to start off with but as you practice it becomes easy, I have heard people saying that the car's are hard to control and slide very easily this is because the car's have been designed to move as if they where on the big screen (in films) not how cars would behave in real life this allows you to throw your car into 180 degree turns and making crashes more enjoyable to watch, the attention to detail beats GTA's hands down because of small thing's like bullet holes in cars and realistic damage. The missions can be a bit tedious but if you keep at it you will get a great feeling when you have completed the mission.

A lot of people complain about the aiming, well if you had just read the manual you would realise you can chose at auto-aim setting making aiming easy. If you are having trouble on a chase mission find out where the turn is and go on free roam and practice that turn so that you can do it plus just driving round the 3 huge cities is fun.

Insulting the Gamers's Intelligence!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

2 stars for optimising the game for fast loading time on the PS2(remember stuntman? took 4ever 2 load)...

Everything else is a BIG disappointment -

Firstly, GTA reference is incredibly BORING!!!!!!

Anybody can model large pretty cities and leave it empty with nothing to do in them which is what REFCUKSHTT (pronounced re-fcuk-shtt) did so no points there

The AI looked and played like the work of amateurs... terrible

The on-foot and shooting is unbelivably WRONG!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!!

The cover art shows tanner driving and shooting AT THE SAME TIME but oh no matey, you dont get that in the actual game so insulting EVERY gamer's inteligence

The driving games never evolved, in fact they have been shrunk down, e.g. Quick Chase only gives you a maximum of 2 mins each

EVERYTHING FEELS LIKE WE WERE ALL STILL LIVING WAY BACK IN 1999 which is very disappointing bcos we've since played the GTAs and the Max Paynes and we know what good developers are quite capable of but reflections (pronounced RE-FCUK-SHTT) have decided to do the absolute minimum over all those years...

This is really SAD!!! SAD!!! SAD!!! bcos you really want to like the game especially if you've been following the series from PSOne like most people and then I heard they are working on STUNTMAN 2! Well you alrady know what you're going to get there...

Bottom line is if they had published this as is 2 years ago it would have been forgiveable, I mean, IMO, they KNOW they are wrong to release this game as is now, but they went on and did it anyway

I took mine back to the GAME store and swapped it for a 2fast 2furious DVD

Not even worth the price of a rental!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was a fan of the Driver series, I even put up with some glitches and AI issues in prior issues. This is not fun, my girlfriend is threatening to return it to the video store because I can't stop cursing at the TV! It's not fun, it's painful. A cop just fell on my hood...right out of the sky.

I love driving games, that's pretty much all I play. I can't even like this. Cars, people, objects randomly appear about a block ahead of you. Handling is unrealistic. You can't ride the motorcycles and shoot. The sound for the motorcycle sounds like a blender stuck on high speed, the cars sound like an out of tune lawn mower. Actually, now that I think about it, the bike sounds like the cars in Pole Position. I'd rather be playing that right now.

If I did my work half as bad as the guys at Reflections and Atari, I'd be out of work! Guess we should be thankful they're not doctors.

A Pleasing Disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok. i have been a fan of the driver series ever since it's first release many many years ago. The graphics, the physics, even the fact that they weren't liscenesed cars. Now that we have the good ole past out of our way, lets talk about driver 3.

I bought this game without reading any reviews. I never read reviews till i explore things for myself. I read the manual and less than halfway through it i came to the credits. Thinking this was weird, i set it down and put the disk in my xbox. bla bla bla, on to the game.

The graphics were standard issue, nothing special, nothing below par for me. the first time i drove a car, i felt like a nascar driver in the dirt, pulling 360's in the road, and i wasn't even going anywhere. Using a little more care, i took off. It's taken me 3 hours of practice to get good with the physics of the cars alone, and that was a disappointment. no sense of speed either.

Next theirs the onfoot missions. Stepping out of my car for the second mission i found myself shooting at the sky. then a moment later, dead. at the time of this review, i have completed 1/3 of the game, and have just gotten used to the onfoot targeting and control scheme. horrible.

The cutscenes further the plot and are pretty, so watch them. they are much better than the game play. however, i have found that it is a very deep challenge this game, so i have tried and tried and tried to get my 50 bucks out of it. after you somewhat master the controls, the game just tests how well you know them more and more with each level. it seems like this happens to fast, as there is only (to my knowledge) 27 missions. if there were a lot more, as in the GTA series, it would be more entertaining instead of an extremely dragged out training simulation. if you can tolerate bad controls, glitches, and a very disappointing 3rd try, you may want to rent this. if you buy it, either finish the game and use the disk as a coaster, or return it. Driv3r compared to the GTA series is like tylenol compared to morphine.

Driving missions are aggrivating, but overall a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When Driv3r came out, people were expecting flawless driving physics, and 'Dukes of Hazard'-esque gameplay. What the game turned out to be, in my opinion, is much better than what I expected, although it is far less realistic than I had anticipated.

It's almost as if video game magazines and websites have been paid-off by Rockstar Games to say as many terrible, generalizing things about Driv3r as they can. I'm going to clarify the untrustworthy comments by these publishers by saying this; Driv3r is mediocre in its mission mode, but kicks ass otherwise.

Driv3r could be considered better than GTA just because of the many outstanding features it boasts. The mission mode is pretty standard; run through levels shooting moderately intelligent enemies, and chase after those enemies in cars. I think the mission mode is the lousiest part of the game, but what makes this game one of my favorites are its free-roaming and replay editing modes. In the free-roaming mode, your character is allowed to explore 3 vast, extremely detailed cities down to the very last street corner. The player can hijack any vehicle he/she wants to (as opposed to a handful of boats floating in piers) enter tons of buildings, and cause the expected GTA-like havoc players crave. What impresses me the most about the free-roaming mode is it allows the player the ability to swim in the ocean and in swimming pools; not only that, but the player does not immediately die when he/she drives his/her car into water... he/she can simply get out of the car before it sinks and swim to safety. The physics are unrealistic, but nonetheless some of the best I've seen; the cars and environments are extremely interactive, and this interaction is as tweaked to perfection as a person could expect in this day and age. The graphics are ASTOUNDING as well, but what completes the free-roaming mode is the player's ability to edit the replay to whatever specifications desired.

The replay editor, which lets the player clip apart and redo their entire run, allows players to put certain parts into slow motion, add motion blurs, and place the cameras wherever they want at any given time in the replay. One can then share their replays with other players via Xbox live. The replay editor is a valuable innovation in the video game industry that other companies need to pay strong attention to.

To simplify my review, I'm going to list the goods and bads of Driv3r, so as to make it easier for people to get a clear idea of what kind of game Driv3r is.

The good:
-Impressive graphics
-Complicated yet arcade-style physics
-Massive, detailed environments
-Fast cars
-Fun weapons
-The ability to swim
-Real-time lighting
-Tons of indoor and outdoor locales

The Bad:
-Annoying Mission mode
-Aliasing is bad at times (though rarely)
-Plenty of cars, but not nearly as many as GTA
-Cars don't go through street lights

The Ugly:
-Driv3r is a game far too many people have been misinformed about

As long as one can look past the lousy mission mode, I guarantee any gamer will be satisfied with driv3r. It's the open-ended, versatile and solid gameplay that gamers look for nowadays. Buy a copy of Driv3r, and help Atari and Reflections know they've made an excellent game, so they'll continue to do so. Oh yeah, and buy it on Xbox. The Xbox version is the best of all 3.

DRIV3R is Highly Underrated!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have read some of other reviews from people and I think they're being way too harsh. I think driv3r is an extremely fun game with decent graphics and great gameplay. People are saying that the controls suck, and I do agree that they are DIFFERENT, but you just have to get used to them like any other DIFFERENT games. I would hardly call these guys gamers, if you are a video gamer then you would just get used to the controls like any other hardcore or even good normal gamers. Anyway, I think DRIV3R is a great game for any console, right next to GTA:

Pros:
-Fun driving system with variety of vechicles
-Good graphics
-Cool and interesting undercover mode
-Hard to get used to, but fun on-foot gameplay and controls
-Highly fun Take A Ride mode

Cons:
-Graphics suffer glitches at times
-Sometimes frustrating story mode
-No multiplayer

Stop bashing this game, people!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Just so everyone gets a little education, if it wasn't for the Driver series, the GTA series wouldn't be where they are now. Reflections were the innovators of the driving-through-the-city type of games.

Now, stepping away from the education.

I've played all the Driver games. They contain a great storyline, as if it was a detective movie you were playing (kind of like watching Shaft or Lethal Weapon). They're more action than side missions, special jobs, earning money, etc. Driv3r is no different. While the cities aren't as big as GTA: San Andreas, the cities are big enough for you to explore around. The cars handle very well, although sometimes they slide a little too much when you take a sharp turn. Reflections targeted towards realism than just driving around and crashing everything, like in GTA 3, Vice City or San Andreas (you can drive in the opposite lane in any GTA, pass a cop and they just sit there and do nothing, but in Driver the cops go after you). Where Driv3r fully shines is with the Movie Director (a feature that's not in any of the GTA games), in which you can make your own movie out of the game you just finished playing (the GTA series have a camera angle view that makes it look like a movie, but it won't record it in memory). Change camera angles, blur effects, slow motions, are a few of the things you can do. One feature that's not included in the PS2 version is that the XBox version you can sign up on XBox Live and upload your movie so other players online can view it. Driv3r is fun, and it won't compete with the GTA games, but it's entertaining in its own way.

Do You Like Bugs?

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

Driver 3 for the Xbox is a third person action game, where you play a cop out to chase down and kill crime syndicates. The game is similar to Grand Theft Auto in concept, but not at all in execution. You can walk or run around on foot missions and explore the cityscape or you can cruise around with a vehicle of your choice. You can play the single player story mode if you want to see the story or you can play free-mode where you can roam around doing whatever you want. I did enjoy the fact that your character can swim in water, I also liked some of the map level designs. You can get on a highway and gas it or go through narrow alleways, you can also enter many of the buildings. Some of the weapons are fun to use although the aiming system is very clumsy. The overall feel of the game is very unplolished. There are tons of glitches with the sound effects, music, graphics and collision detection. Driver 3 was rushed and needed more beta testing before being released to the public as a finished product! Just to give you an example of some of the bugs; My game character's body got stuck into invisible objects, or his body went through (like a ghost) into a car, the in-game music stops or starts sparadically, ditto with the sound effects, headshots are not always fatal, the police and enemy A.I. is very stupid but cheats to compensate its stupidity, the game graphics are grainy and crappy, the framerate is low and there is no sense of real speed when driving vehicles. This game tried to be like Grand Theft Auto, but failed miserably. Why get a cheap clone of GTA, when you can get the real thing for a good price?

Pros:
+Free-Form gameplay
+large city maps
+lots of vehicles
+your character can swim
+go inside buildings
+pilot boats

Cons:
-tons of glitches
-stupid A.I.
-terrible graphics
-slow vehicles
-music cuts off abruptly
-sound effects cuts off abruptly
-bad controls
-week sound effects
-terrible camera system
-boring missions
-GTA wannabe
-terrible collision detection
-not very fun

criticts

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game and after reading these reviews I'm starting to get mad at the pencil-necked geeks who critisize every
single flaw that normal people that that actually go outside never even notice. Like some people complain that the enemies never take cover or duck, they're friggin' mobsters,and last I checked they almost always do that...of course don't complain to them or they'll screw up your face.

listen if you're interested
in this kind of game get it
or at least rent it first

just to be safe.

The Long Awaited Driv3r

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: May 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Driver 3 looks incredible. This time around you can actually use guns. You can also enter buildings. The first Driver rocked for PC. But Driver 2 sucked. I don't think this game might have what it takes to topple crime game giants like the GTA series.

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