Driv3r

by Atari

Product Features

• A mysterious man has ordered the theft of 40 top-of-the-line sports cars. You'll travel around the world, tracking this ring down - from Turkey to France to Miami
• Drive through immense, detailed cities and explore every street and alley
• Exciting mini-games like avoiding a dozen cop cars, or pursuing suspicious vehicles
• Get on foot and carjack any vehicle in the game -- more than 70 to choose from
• Collect all kinds of crazy weapons - from standard pistols & submachine guns to grenade launchers

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000TSR4C
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 21, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (145 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,957 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #97 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Adventure
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Amazon.com Preview

Developer Reflections has revealed that Driver 3 is based on an enhanced version of the Stuntman engine. Aside from basic optimizations, the updated engine now allows for vehicle doors to be opened and features self-shadowing from the various vehicle parts. Moving on from the cars of Driver and Driver 2, Driver 3--like Vice City--allows you to get behind the wheel of any vehicle in the game, with larger trucks and boats added for good measure. Sadly, though, the game will not feature any licensed vehicles. Providing more than the single cities featured in other games, Driver 3 is set in Miami, Nice, and Istanbul, with huge areas of each carefully re-created. Each city will weigh in with around 30 square miles of roads, plus interiors to explore, so it's going to take you a long time to see everything the game has to offer.

Product Description

DRIV3R - The fun and thrills of the original Driver, combined with all-new gameplay mechanics, bring you the next great racing-action game! Play as Tanner, the undercover cop from the first two hit Driver games. This time he's out to bust an immense car-theft ring -- but his secret is about to be uncovered. If Tanner doesn't work fast, the mission is over - and so is Tanner's life. Realistic driving physics and crash models - if you can think of a way to wreck the car, you can do it

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not GTAVC, but a Fun Driving Game, June 27, 2004

By 

Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Driv3r (Video Game)

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!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is actually a very good game, April 13, 2006

By 

Anthony (Virginia Beach, VA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Driv3r (Video Game)

This is a very fun game. You can obvisouly tell a lot of time went into it, it's just that it had some flaws that caused people to not buy it, like the fact that people will randomly sometimes fall from the sky, but bugs like that don't happen to often for anyone to care. The music and sound effects in the game are also really good. It is also really fun to just cruise around in free mode and the graphics are pretty impressive. A couple gripes about it is that you cannot shoot while driving the car. Also, it is kind of difficult for a game. Overall though, its a good game that just got overlooked.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Game!, February 19, 2006

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Driv3r (Video Game)

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!

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