Driver: San Francisco dated for the UK

By Robert Purchese Published 7 July, 2010

Shift yourself to the shops in November.

Driver: San Francisco will be released in the UK on 26th November for PC, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.

Retailer GAME confirmed the date to Eurogamer as having come direct from Ubisoft. GAME is one of the two official pre-order partners for Driver: San Francisco.

Those pre-orders are open now and for £60 offer a yellow toy car, map and some in-game goodies.

Driver: San Francisco takes place inside the head of cop Tanner, who's fallen victim to a coma. In his dream he can drift out of his body to possess the driver of any other vehicle, and he can do so mid-chase.

The resulting Shift mechanic has had a profound effect on the new Driver game. Christian Donlan picked up a pad for Eurogamer at E3 and investigated.

Driver: San Francisco at E3.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (27) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Dolly #1 2 years ago

    Hopefully its a return to form.

  • brseg #2 2 years ago

    @EarlBassett - yeah, you need to check out the videos of this. Its true, thats what he does...
    I wouldve taken a more logical approach of being able to control any other vehicle. Without the coma bit.
    Edited by 1 at 07/07/10 @ 14:01

  • ChaK #3 2 years ago

    the coma thingy making you change car idea is absolutly aweful.

  • Dylbot #4 2 years ago

    So, did they lock the dev team in a room with some mescalin for a few days or something? Because astral projection car chases sounds pretty fucked up.

  • brseg #5 2 years ago

    it also opens up far too many easy jokes for lazy internet people ... 'the character you're playing is so bored he's already in a coma' etc etc etc :p

  • CosmicGypsy #6 2 years ago

    @ChaK

    Aweful?

    Do you mean it fills you with Awe?

    or is your spelling just awful?

  • Ilinx #7 2 years ago

    The shifting thing could make for some really interesting gameplay, IMO, but the way the devs/writers are trying to crowbar it in as a plot device is just plain embarrassing. If he can dream he's shifting cars at will, then he might as well dream that he can shift into flying green aircraft carrier that sprays dewy droplets of love.

  • CosmicGypsy #8 2 years ago

    Seriously though, looking forward to this. Might be a slightly crazy concept but if it is fun who cares?

  • tenaciousdt #9 2 years ago

    i read that as 'shit yourself to the shops' for some reason.

  • NunianVonFuch #10 2 years ago

    @tenaciousdt funny, I read it as "Shift yourself in the shops". Thought it was a new PR thing, sadly no!

  • metalangel #11 2 years ago

    @Dolly: the Driver games never had form. I expect this will be just like every other game in this rancid series, full of ridiculous time limits, unfair AI and controller-throwing frustration.

  • Boomerang #12 2 years ago

    @CosmicGypsy

    Picking holes in peoples' spelling and grammar on the internet is like wandering into an old folks' home and pointing out the wrinkles and soiled y-fronts - it's pointless and comes with the territory.

  • fongy #13 2 years ago

    I was mildly curious about this game... until I just read this article...
    "shifts" + "coma story" = ugh!
    With games like GT5, NFS:p and my personal fave TD2 just on the horizon... I can see this being left for dust....
    I wouldn't touch it with yours...
    ;)

  • Fl0yd #14 2 years ago

    Far be it from me to point fingers but, from my point of view, saying that "Pointing stuff out is pointless" in such a pointed way doesn't really prove your point.

  • bratmandu #15 2 years ago

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you invent tipp-ex?

    Seriously though, haven't all driver games, save maybe the first one, been hyped but then a bit of a let down?

    Hard to get excited about it or am I the only one?

  • DrunkDec #16 2 years ago

    Sounds like Wheelman.....shudder

  • metalangel #17 2 years ago

    @EarlBassett: Until you played Midtown Madness which came out at the same time, that is.

  • imamazed #18 2 years ago

    Driver 4 was a return to form imo. Hopefully this improves on it.

  • makeamazing #19 2 years ago

    Shifting from car to car from a coma.... where do they get these game designers from with these out of the world ideas (literally out of this world).... was seriously considering it, but going to have to wait until i get a feel from the reviews now as that idea just sounds lame.

  • romelpotter #20 2 years ago

    Who said the games industry wasn't in crisys! Who???

    Lost interest in this series after Driv3r

    Driver 1 was awsome though, the last two missions were just the dogs bol....


    ...sorry, I drift3d into a coma for a bit then but i'm back in the room now!
    Edited by 1 at 07/07/10 @ 19:22

  • tenofspades #21 2 years ago

    And you have to chase Neo?

  • bad09 #22 2 years ago

    Some downright idiotic coma induced car hoping and unreasonable DRM mean I'll drive right by this one without stopping Ubiscum.

  • SpaceMonkey77 #23 2 years ago

    Lol. I'm so done with this series.

    It wants to be Bullet, and is just a 70's movie self indulgent wank fest. This game is already DOA, because Call of Duty 7 is out in November and will bury Driver in Vietcong digital corpses. And if Ubi delay it to October, Medal of Honour will trump it too.

    Ubisoft, of all the games to pick up, you get this Driver cheese, and we can't even get BG&E2 or I Am Alive instead. I'd much rather play those two, that more lame Driver crap. Its time to take this Driver car to the junk yard for good. Its rusty, cliched and not at all sure why we should even play it.

  • RandomRash #24 2 years ago

    @ tenaciousdt #10 'i read that as 'shit yourself to the shops' for some reason.'
    i think you have a case of dyslexia diarrhea

  • BBIAJ #25 2 years ago

    sisi88 needs putting in a coma FFS...

  • Boomerang #26 2 years ago

    @Fl0yd
    Your point is? :)

  • Acrid #27 2 years ago

    My expectations are so low for this game I can only be impressed by it.