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Game Information
- Platform: Xbox
- PEGI Rating: Ages 16 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Action driving game
- Go deep undercover in Miami, Nice, and Istanbul
- Detailed cities feature approximately 30 square miles of roads each
- Both in-car and on-foot missions
- For 1 player
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The original Driver was one of the most popular and original driving games on the PSone and very much helped to pave the way for Grand Theft Auto III and others. The sequel, however, was a massive disappointment and seemed to prove that the Driver formula could only ever work again on the next generation of consoles.
Now finally Driver 3 (or DRIV3R as it insists on calling itself) is here, and although it's not the disaster that the last game was it's still a considerable disappointment. As you would expect from developers Reflections, who also did Stuntman and the original Destruction Derby, the car handling and physics are excellent--perhaps some of the best ever seen. However, the artificial intelligence of your opponent drivers is almost laughably poor and the incredibly detailed graphics, which look so good in the screenshots, come at the expensive of some disappointingly short draw distances, with buildings and backgrounds suddenly popping up as if out of nowhere.
The game itself is now very much influenced by Grand Theft Auto and you can get out of your car and hijack other vehicles. DRIV3R is still predominantly mission-based, though, and unfortunately the difficulty curve is still as frustratingly uneven as ever with some missions seemingly almost superhumanly hard.
If you're a fan of the series then DRIV3R probably won't disappoint too much, but newcomers to the series may find this has rather more problems than you'd expect from such a heavily hyped title.--David Jenkins
Manufacturer's Description
DRIV3R is an action-packed driving adventure game that stays true to its roots, incorporating the cinematic gameplay and gritty street crime of its predecessors with ground-breaking graphics and three mammoth, wide-open city environments: Miami, Nice, and Istanbul.Featuring Hollywood-caliber production values--with voice actors including Michael Madsen, Ving Rhames, Mickey Rourke and Michelle Rodriguez--and a gripping, narrative story line, DRIV3R casts players once again as undercover cop Tanner who, alongside his partner Tobias, must infiltrate a global car theft ring, an assignment that leads to tire-squealing chases and fierce on-foot firefights while tailing gangsters, chasing witnesses, stealing cars and unloading massive clips of ammo to bring the criminals to justice.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
How can a game that had so much potential for being an excellent piece of entertainment turn out to leave you feeling empty and unterly disapointed. I'm sure many of you will be thinking this after the first 20 mins of playing DRIV3R, It's as if GTA's free roaming game play never exsisted. In honest truth there is only about 3 things actually worng with this game but these three things make the rest of a fairly well made game uterly frustrating. The first major problem is the On-foot sections, they are awkard, fidily and no fun at all. If this had been sorted out then actually it may have turned out to be a marginally better game than True Crime. The second problem is the very linear game-play, it can only be played from start to finish via one route. The third problem, albeit a very shallow one is that although the Car crashes and soundtrack are both of a good standard, it tends to suffer from a few graphical glitches and has a terrible draw distance, even for X-Box you tend not to be able to see oncoming cars until they are allmost ontop of you which makes frantic cars chases on the wrong side of the road to lose a tail much less fun than it should be. Shame really because with a Stunning Intro which is worthy of an oscar alone, a stella cast and a pretty good driving system this still can't avoid being tagged with the name "the game that could have been" if only more time had been spent on the problems the game had rather than the rush to release it, it could have been a very tasty game indeed. It's not awful but the disapointment is gutting.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I was so looking forward to the release of this game, and yes I bought it without reading any reviews as the previous driver games were damn good fun, so Driver 3 being out on Xbox, should be awesome.....
Well, first go of the game, and the graphics looks great. I take my hat off to the pain staking task of the animators.
Then the gameplay starts and at first you got to give it a chance to get used to the controlling of the cars because thats driving games for you. After 20 minutes or so you realise your not going to get used to the controls as the cars are simply not designed to be driven, rather they are designed to frustrate the hell out of you by not handling at all and seem to crash into every little object available.I imagine its easier to get a matress and stick castor weels on it and you'd have more of a machine.As for the running around shooting enemies bit, I never thought an Xbox game would be so cheap and tacky to play.It simply isnt any fun and there's none of the thrills you get with the previous versions of driver.
Once again, we got game company greed destroying what should have been a fantastic gaming experience. Driver 3 could have been better than GTA but the gameplay doesnt even match playing poor demo disk games you get free with magazines.
Well, first go of the game, and the graphics looks great. I take my hat off to the pain staking task of the animators.
Then the gameplay starts and at first you got to give it a chance to get used to the controlling of the cars because thats driving games for you. After 20 minutes or so you realise your not going to get used to the controls as the cars are simply not designed to be driven, rather they are designed to frustrate the hell out of you by not handling at all and seem to crash into every little object available.I imagine its easier to get a matress and stick castor weels on it and you'd have more of a machine.As for the running around shooting enemies bit, I never thought an Xbox game would be so cheap and tacky to play.It simply isnt any fun and there's none of the thrills you get with the previous versions of driver.
Once again, we got game company greed destroying what should have been a fantastic gaming experience. Driver 3 could have been better than GTA but the gameplay doesnt even match playing poor demo disk games you get free with magazines.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
OK, OK so people are comparing this to the GTA series and some think that this is unfair. However, after playing for countless hours on the recent GTA titles and enjoying every single minute of them due to the mix of driving, on-foot and superb non-stop comedy, I couldn't help but think that Driv3r could have been so much more if it had combined these elements in with what can only be described as the most well rendered environment for this size of map; it'll blow you away to look at. Obviously they couldn't just replicate the GTA formula, but to learn from the success of their approach would have helped them to identify what gamers are looking for in this genre.
A mixture of poor enemy AI, terrible on-foot/aiming controls, poor viewing angles and a non-configurable controller set-up shadow all the positive elements to make it hard work to persevere with the game.
By focusing on the looks, they forgot about the content (as most games these days seem to do). Driv3r will be filling up the "2 for £30" shelves quite soon.
100% disappointing, roll on GTA:SA, there'll be no risks there, style AND content.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Doesnt work on xbox360
very cheap but can only give 3 stars as when i went to play it i found out you cannot play this on xbox 360 , so little gutted
Published 2 months ago by Jay
DRIV3R
i cant say much becuse i got this game but the problem is i have a xbox 360 consle not a normal xbox so when i put this into my xbox 360 consle it said that i have to update it. Read more
Published 13 months ago by sam
Best u can get for under 18 years old.
Best u can get for under 18 years old. good game play good good graphics love it,hope they will make a new one.
Published on 12 Mar 2010 by Mr. R. T. Beaumont
Quite a good game.
I have not played Driver 1 or 2 but I have played this one. The graphics are good but not superb. Sometimes it is hilarious because civilians jump off cliffs and policeman bounce... Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2006 by Samuel. Wild
How bad could the game be?
Well basically i bought Driv3r because i had some spare cash and it was cheap, i now regret that decision and would of rather eaten my own shoe than by it again. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2005 by "grazwelsh"
This Game Is Only For Some People
After playing this game, I found that I thoroughly enjoyed this game. But I also understand why some people wouldn't. Read more
Published on 16 July 2005
A Solid Game
The game Driver 3 was dissapointing to many people because of the expectations. Many people thought it was going to be like the Grand Theft Auto series, full of carnage and... Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2005
Drive you mad !
I bought this game two days ago and for once didn't check out the readers reviews on Amazon ( that was my first mistake )
My second of course was buying this lump of rubbish... Read more
My second of course was buying this lump of rubbish... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2005
MY REVEIW FOR THE BEST GAME IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!
This is the best game ever made(belive me!)It is cool the graphics are unbeleveble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you will never get teierd or frustrated with this game. Read more
you will never get teierd or frustrated with this game. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2004 by Josh Parry
Flawed but very enjoyable
It's true that the out of car handling is poor, but easily overcome.
Despite the overly negative reviews by gamers who either are immersed in GTA stylke unrealistic driving... Read more
Despite the overly negative reviews by gamers who either are immersed in GTA stylke unrealistic driving... Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2004 by "fugedabowdit"
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