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not even close

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

ok it is alot like gta exept for the fact that it has no features ecxept for free roam. missions are very linear. you can drive a car and that is about all the fun your ever gonna have. i can see that kids want gta. this is not even close to as much fun as some other no blod gta clones. here are a couple i think did a good job. true crime new york is the closest. mercinaries is the best graphics and gamesplay. it gives more features than even gta. one of the less popular clones is mafia. that game is just hands down the best one. u want a non vilent gta go buy mafia. the last one is probably the most different. it has everything gta has besides xxx even the mass amounts of blood. they gave it a great twist. we have all thought to ourselves at one time hey how about a tony hawk were you can kill and steal cars and stuff. the game that did the un thinkable is none other than total overdose. so my point is that driver sucks so just dont even bother renting it.

Impressive graphics don't make up for a lackluster game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a few weeks ago from Target for $23.52 (it also included a 2nd disc with tips) I had a $5 coupon as well. This game is unbelievably frustrating I can't believe reflections spent nearly 3 years developing this game. While the graphics are nice and some how impressed me some what it doesn't make up for the frustrating and dull gameplay. Here is a list of cons because there just aren't enough positives things to say about this game.

CONS
Driving controls are very sensitive and your car tends to slide like as if it were on ice

on foot controls (I like to call it run n gun) are cumbersome to say the least and the aiming system isn't very good at all either.

Did I mention that this game is on the difficult side and sometimes very frustrating? I was on the mission where you had to stop the gator for good and trying to drive and shoot at the same time just PO'd me right off.

I have played other games similar to this True Crime Streets of LA The Getaway and of course GTA. Driver may of pioneered this genre but this installment was just poorly put together. Many games of this genre may come and go but Grand Theft Auto is still king of the genre. If you are really interested in checking out this game I strongly recommend renting this (I wish I had done so) or waiting for the price to drop to under $20.

This is the worst game ever!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: March 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played GTA of course and even True Crimes and i have to those games are far better than this piece of junk it's horrible it doesn't even make sense that it you bump into a pole your mission is over you can't even chance someone down, the driving controls are the worse ever for a game it just plain sucks don't even rent it!!!

do not buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

do not buy game it is really bad. I own this horibble game now and i wish i did not.

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.

Hunk of crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This the worst game I have played in a long time. Do not be fooled by commercals, it is not that fast paced and the controls are garbage. So in conclusion- PURE GARBAGE! The people who made this should be forced to play it forever.

AWFUL....Don't waste your money...wait for GTA:San Andreas

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was one of the many people who eagerly awaited Driv3r's release. I have been playing this game most of the day, and have been completely unimpressed by the game altogether. In some ways, i enjoy the game. The look of Miami is impressive and expansive and the vehicles are fun, interesting and realistically tough to drive. Unfortunately, that is about all there is to say on the positive side. The graphics and movements of the characters are awful and the gameplay is painfully slow. If you fail a mission, prepare for extended re-viewed cutscenes and immediate replay over and over. As i enjoy the "realism" of the game and the hyped ability to enter houses, buildings and the like, the negatives far outweigh the positives. I don't know how to best describe it, but this game far from met any expectations i have had. The previews were cool and so are the ones for GTA, but this one definetly doesnt have the gusto. Rent it if you really wanna give it a try, but dont waste your well-earned cash my friends, this one's a stinker.

Driver 3 sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game from blockbuster only becuase it was out of stock and was guaranteed in stock. It was not even worth the gas to get to the store. All the "online compatable" feature is is just sharing replays of levels. The levels are hard and frustrating. I enjoy a hard game, but this was just stupid. Every try is "he got away" or "you Lost him" If you want a good game, get the GTA double pack for the same price.

Driv3r

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst ever made games....Long cut scenes....A story that jumps around too much...And when they say you can go anywhere and do anything they lie....It is very hard and confusing....

Argh... It's like 1998 all over again!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Way back in the olden days I played a game called Driver for PC (what a rush), car physics were funky and cool, Miami at night was moody and mysterious and the cop chases... well for get about it, it was great! And all that painful pop-up? Come on it was 1998 after-all. Well here we are, it's 2004, Driv3r has been loooong awaited by those of us who adored the first offering from Reflections and now that we have it, all I can say is... "what the h#ll?!" I'll only review this on the graphics merits, so if you like the game play and can numb yourself to the absolutely pathetic textures look away now. Talk about pop-up, "holy.. where did that car come from Batman", the AI vehicles (not to mention buildings trees, power poles and peds) appear out of nowhere not more than a block away at times, they don't fade in, they just appear like some crazy magic trick. Textures tear and flicker and quite frequently disappear all together just to reappear again. Now mind you the lighting effects are beautiful (note Miami at dusk bathed in that golden tropical glow), but there is absolutely very little draw distance and the unbelievable amount of graphics glitches that are found at ever turn are utterly disappointing and inexcusable, they may have passed muster back in the day but not at a time when Project Gothem 2 and Grand Tourismo rule the roads. I went back and ran PG2 and recounted Wreckless last night just to make sure I wasn't being too hard on poor old Driv3r but I came away being even harder on it. Great video games start with (can you imagine) great graphics! Call me a graphics geek but if a title can't draw me in visually then the journey for me and that title will be a short one. How the creative teams at Reflections and finally Microsoft let this pass to distribution with so many bugs to work out is beyond me, Xbox has so much riding on the quality of the games to sell itself that allowing such a shoddy example of workmanship find a place on store shelves is inexcusable. On the upside however Driv3rs' opening cut scene is the most cinematic I've ever seen, and frankly stunning! The levels (cities) are huge and exacting in their detail but the clipping and over-all poor graphics execution relegates what could have easily been one heck of a game to the "should-a, could-a, would-a" file. Simply put... I was expecting so much more and got far less than I could have ever imagined from Driv3r and how sad.

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