ok iv just fond out driver 4 is out but sadly its bad just as bad as the 3ed one
http://www.yougamers.com/reviews/6801_driver_parallel_lines/
http://www.yougamers.com/reviews/6801_driver_parallel_lines/
Driver 4!?
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I actually thought Driv3r wasn't that bad. It had a good cinematic storyline and some of the missions were fun. Some of the environments were cool too.
What let it down IMO was bugs, a somewhat clunky interface, a few dodgy or frustrating missions and incredibly stupid AI (standing still while you gun them down).
I completed the game and I've certainly played worse driving/action games.
What let it down IMO was bugs, a somewhat clunky interface, a few dodgy or frustrating missions and incredibly stupid AI (standing still while you gun them down).
I completed the game and I've certainly played worse driving/action games.
Sone said:i loved the mission in driv3r where you drove through the mall, actually i liked nearly all the driving missions just the shooting was pants
Yeah like the poster before you said, some of the driving sections are decent but the sections on foot just come off as really bad imitations of the GTA3 series.
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Completed this the other week, as I mentioned above I kinda liked (some of) Driv3r so at £7 it seemed too good an opportunity to turn down.
And well, what can I say, I kinda liked this one too
The sections on foot are much improved, it's a lot less clunky and altogether a more well put together game. It's shorter, and the storyline is weaker, but with fewer glaring flaws it's one of those games you can sit back and play for a couple of hours in the evening with your brain disengaged. They've obviously taken a leaf out of Rockstar's book and tried to make it a little more freeform, with multiple missions available at once, cash earnt to buy upgrades etc. Sadly that area of the game is a little underdeveloped (or at least, there's little incentive to spend much time on the non-story missions).
As you'd expect from the Driver series, the best sections are still those where you are behind the wheel, with standout missions including a section where you have to tear around the city diverting a motorcade into an abush, and 'fixed' races where your job is to ensure that another car wins by disrupting all the other competitors (queue manic Carmageddon style trips the wrong way round the track!).
The game was fairly straightfoward on normal difficulty, and I have to say that in particular the sections on foot were made rather simple by having health packs seemingly every 10 yards through the levels. Still, with the game using a checkpoint save system, that's arguably better than some of the GTA series, where a moments lapse or piece of bad luck can see you back to square one.
Graphically it looks decent, and it ran pretty much perfect maxed out at 1680x1050 4xAA 16xAF for me.
So in summation, it's not a great game but fans of the genre could do a lot worse than pick it up. I recently reinstalled GTA3 and loaded up my most recent savegame (August 2002!) and found that actually, drIVer is arguably better in some aspects. It's nowhere near the quality of Vice City or even San Andreas, but there's enough there to keep you playing through to the end.
And well, what can I say, I kinda liked this one too
The sections on foot are much improved, it's a lot less clunky and altogether a more well put together game. It's shorter, and the storyline is weaker, but with fewer glaring flaws it's one of those games you can sit back and play for a couple of hours in the evening with your brain disengaged. They've obviously taken a leaf out of Rockstar's book and tried to make it a little more freeform, with multiple missions available at once, cash earnt to buy upgrades etc. Sadly that area of the game is a little underdeveloped (or at least, there's little incentive to spend much time on the non-story missions).As you'd expect from the Driver series, the best sections are still those where you are behind the wheel, with standout missions including a section where you have to tear around the city diverting a motorcade into an abush, and 'fixed' races where your job is to ensure that another car wins by disrupting all the other competitors (queue manic Carmageddon style trips the wrong way round the track!).
The game was fairly straightfoward on normal difficulty, and I have to say that in particular the sections on foot were made rather simple by having health packs seemingly every 10 yards through the levels. Still, with the game using a checkpoint save system, that's arguably better than some of the GTA series, where a moments lapse or piece of bad luck can see you back to square one.
Graphically it looks decent, and it ran pretty much perfect maxed out at 1680x1050 4xAA 16xAF for me.
So in summation, it's not a great game but fans of the genre could do a lot worse than pick it up. I recently reinstalled GTA3 and loaded up my most recent savegame (August 2002!) and found that actually, drIVer is arguably better in some aspects. It's nowhere near the quality of Vice City or even San Andreas, but there's enough there to keep you playing through to the end.
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Epic thread revival! Thanks for the mini-review hangtime.
I was wondering if many people played this game, the first in the series is one of my favourite ever, but I think you'd be hard pressed to see PL as being the same series as the original. As a game on it's own it seems ok from what i've played, but I quickly lost interest tbh. It lacks the ingenuity and interest that the GTA games had, and as a clone it's about 3 years too late.
Still would love to see a true-to-original update to this series, with beautiful 70's motors and american cities. Being on foot is not needed imo for this series, it was always about the driving.
I was wondering if many people played this game, the first in the series is one of my favourite ever, but I think you'd be hard pressed to see PL as being the same series as the original. As a game on it's own it seems ok from what i've played, but I quickly lost interest tbh. It lacks the ingenuity and interest that the GTA games had, and as a clone it's about 3 years too late.
Still would love to see a true-to-original update to this series, with beautiful 70's motors and american cities. Being on foot is not needed imo for this series, it was always about the driving.
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thats what we need, a new carmageddon, god that game was hilarious fun. the cars were insane
