Customer Reviews

Driver (Mac)

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Ever wondered what it would be like to run from the police instead of just pulling over when those pretty red lights are in your rear view mirror? Well Driver lets you do just that. You are the wheel man in this great game. You start out as ex-stockcar racing driver who is hired by the local law enforcement to go undercover and infiltrate the local organized crime. But when your hired, it seems as though your boss forgot to tell the rest of the force you were a good guy. You begin in a cheap hotel room with a decent ride sitting outside, a car similar to a 69' camaro. You get Jobs or missions by answering the telephone in your room. These consist of anything from giving someone a ride, driving your car through the front of a store window, or even being the get away man for a bank robery.

Driver pretty much gives you total freedom to go anywhere in the city you are currently at. The controls are very simple to learn, but for anyone who wants to realy experience this game I would advise buying a steering wheel, it realy enhances the game play. The actual game is pretty tough, the police can downright be insanely tough to get away from. The graphics are wonderfull, providing great eye candy around every corner. While you drive around, the game records your every move letting you later on make a movie of your most recent drive. The options in this director mode are wonderfull. Enabling you to recreate those cool car chases from the old 70's and 80's flicks like "Gone in 60 Seconds."

Overall Driver is a great game that will appeal to anyone who likes driving games. It provides fast furious chases, a mix of different scenarios, and some great extras. You may find it a tad difficult at first but stick with it, and in the end you will be happy you did. Don't pass this one up, a must for anyone who likes any type of driving game.

Driver is a revolution in the cargames genre. It's fast , cool and it has really good car chases. The graphics is very good, and you have full control over the car almost the whole time, except if you are running at max speed and try to take the curves without slowing down. One cool feature is that everything is recorded so you can save and edit the chases afterwards. Then you can alter the camera views and angles, in just a few minutes you have a really cool car chase scene. It's one of the best driving games in all time.

I bought driver about a year a go after playing it on my friends Dell. The graphics on this game are simply amazing. The maps are very detailed and the game is fairly fun. The one problem I ran into was that the game was too difficult. I was very disappointed that after several tries and much practice I was still not able to get to the missions part of the game. This makes the game a whole lot less fun but over all this is a great game. I would not recommend this to people who are not serious gamers.

The JUMPS, the CHASES, the ACTION it's ALL GOOD!
I bought this game one year ago and have been playing it everyday since. I LOVE getting hit by the cops into the sky and watching it over and over on the replay. I LOVE raming into the other guy in front of me. There is so much I love about this game but there are a few reasons why I couldn't give it five stars.
There aren't enough slots to save your replays.
Very hard missions. I still can't get to New York after one year of playing.
I can't save during or after some missions! Very annoying.
But, that's just the mission mode. There are other modes you can play wich are vey fun. Such as pursuit where you try to ram someone, and a whole lot more. This game can be annoying sometimes but overall it is a very FUN game. It's definitely worth the price.

Driver is a good game the graphics are awsome the controls are good and the game play kicks butt.You will get hooked onn this game like hell.If you are looking for a driving game you found the right game.

The game has nice graphics and usually acurate physics models, but it was very poorly written. It demands more out of my system than Unreal Tournament (thats a lot for you non-UT players). I have a 300 MHz G3, 128MB of RAM and an ATi Rage Orion, but the game runs like a wet brick. I have all but the ESSENTIAL extensions turned on and the graphics quality dulled, and I still get no sound. I'll get a *chirp* on occasion from the action going on on the screen, but that's it. In heavy traffic the framerate will quite often slow to maybe one or two per second. That's like driving at 80 mph into on-coming traffic with someone behind you playing "peek-a-boo" with you. Sometimes the ground will suddenly disappear along with the road boundaries leaving you to work out a "Marco-Polo" scheme to get around by moving in one direction until you crash into something you can't see. Unless you can somehow discern which way all the cars seem to be going, you're screwed and lose time on timed missions and often the police (who obviously CAN see the road) ram you into a corner and pummel you, all very frustrating. And since when are small saplings as strong as brick walls when you slam into them at 70 mph, but public phones, mailboxes, and fence rows are like paper maché! Another complaint is that the drivers of the other vehicles are STUPID. I'm going into on-coming traffic and they just ride along like lemmings. And when police sirens are going off, they don't care. They have accidents WITHOUT my help 1 time out of 10. And WHY can't I hit people? ... But they just dart out of the way at the very last moment. Hitting one is like trying to push together the same poles of two magnets. I had one cornered once and all he did was run <i>through</i> the wall!

Driver is a good game the graphics are awsome the controls are good and the game play kicks butt.You will get hooked onn this game like hell.If you are looking for a driving game you found the right game.

Driver and Unreal are my two favorite games now.

If you like Unreal better than Quake because it has a plot, and you liked Starsky and Hutch, the Blues Brothers, or Dukes of Hazzard for the car chases, this is the game for you. The main difference between this and most other driving games is that it has a plot and precision counts. There are excellent training courses for getting you up to speed as a hired gun wheelman. It took me a while to learn how to get around corners without totalling the car, but the provided practice games were more than enough to allow me to pass the mob's driving test after a day or so of play.

Unlike a previous reviewer who had bad luck with a G3/300, I also have a Beige G3/300 with Rage Orion and get excellent results, full frame rates, no hiccups, but only with the rear view mirror *off*. The only difference could be I have 150MB to his 128M and virtual memory *off*. (The game requires 85M) I saw none of the vision problems of this same reviewer. The only problems I have with the game is the somewhat cumbersome user interface for selecting games and the fact that it has to reload each level (not too long, but cumbersome) even if you are starting the same one over.

I play NASCAR with a joystick so I was worried about the keyboard control, but I prefer the keyboard for this game, it is well tuned for keyboard only. Just arrow keys for acclerator and wheel, plus another key to pull the hand brake to skid smoothly through tight turns into alleys.

Lots of driving games get old for me pretty quick without human opponents, not this one. Maybe once the plot line is through I'll get bored, but so far I end every game grinning and wanting more, even if the cops busted me.

Maybe that's the real draw, it is so realistic you feel like you could be driving in your own neighborhood, doing all the things you wish you could do. This game lets you do that...unless the cops are watching.

One of the best most fun games you will ever try. The only problem is if you are under about 550 MHZ you may experience some slowing in the game like longer loading and pausing in the game to finish the loading sequence.

The game was fun though the graphic was disappointing because of negative distortion. The other thing is that the box claimed that each of the cities are familiar, it should have been none of the above. First of all, the police vehicle marking is all wrong- the San Francisco Police vehicle is black and white- though the rear is black, not white as it is shown here in the game. The other thing is the badge. The star with the SFPD logo is not placed since the marking may have been unknown. The other thing, the MUNI buses, the street cars and the other San Francisco landmarks are missing, misplaced or poorly designed.