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PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
Ubisoft will re-release the original Driver on the PlayStation Store next Thursday.
The game will cost EUR 4.99 (GBP 3.99), and chauffeur us back 10 years to the heady days of PSone in order to see what all the fuss was about. PSone games on PSN are typically compatible with both PS3 and PSP.
With a Metacritic average of 87 per cent, Driver remains the top-rated game in the series so far, despite numerous attempts by developer Reflections to revive Tanner and his mission-based driving.
Not that Ubisoft has stopped trying. Earlier this month the BBC revealed that Reflections was working on "a whole new version" of Driver.
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It's tempting, but, nyeh, I dunno. I can't help but feel that Driver seemed good at the time simply because the GTA games were still 2D, and the sandbox crime-em-up genre hadn't taken off yet. Maybe it's telling that once it had any competition, every other game in the series I tried was unspeakably bad.
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Vertical Stand
07/08/08 @ 14:24
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There's a PSP port of Parappa, so more likely have that on the store for download at some point, now Um Jammy Lammy that's the game we really need on PSN.
@muters, hmm it could be, but not a hard price to find out, I remember the handling being nice and bouncy, and I like the car only aspect of it, thats where the sequels went wrong, stick with what you do best,unique selling point etc, rather than trying to be like GTA... |
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I wonder if they have fixed the bugs yet?
Theres one particular one that sometimes occured when watching a replay after successfully completing a mission. For some reason your car hits something that wasnt there the first time around, which stops everything until your car explodes.... at which point the game tells you you've failed and need to do the whole mission again. Was a great game (particularly liked the car physics and the fact that hubcaps fell off and rolled away under heavy braking) but it was clearly not finished.
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most recently on 07/08/08 @ 15:35
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Killing the final level did give such a sense of Achievement, though, before those things were synonymous with gamerscore.
Considering the hardware it was running on, with a full replay of every mission available, it was something of a technical achievement. Outside of its' own franchise, it has taken Halo 3 to offer similar post-mission video options (and in some ways to show how it should be done). GTA IV's physics owe much to the first Driver, too, if my thumbs interpret correctly. |
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Agent_Llama
07/08/08 @ 15:10
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Definitely the best in the series, a great game. But yes, that final level was an utter, utter bitch.
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wewillselfdestruct
07/08/08 @ 16:52
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I was just thinking that too. All right angle corners are no longer ftw. |
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neonemesis
07/08/08 @ 17:15
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Take a ride mode was only fun on this game when you activated cheats for invincibility seeing as how you can't ditch your car for another but it was worth it just to jump off hills and slam police barricades metres into the air. In fact, I think the glitches such as collisions sending you flying higher than buildings and that square bit at the end of the golden gate bridge where it was possible to jump the wall and get trapped outside the road made the game hilarious. Good times.
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Fucked if I'm doing the President's Run ever again. I think I resorted to cheats in the end.
At least with virtual memory cards I can make one just for Driver, so I don't have to wait 2 minutes for it to load in the save icons of all my other save games on Memory Card 1, one by one; then another 2 minutes to load all of the icons of my save games on Memory Card 2, one by one, after every mission, success or fail, before even asking me if I want to save my replay, which I didn't, and before every time I actually wanted to save, even though my save was the first slot on the first card. I'd like to nut-punch the stupid bastard who came up with that idea, and attach electrodes to the nadgers of whoever let it through QA in that state. |
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I usually end up playing Driver once or twice a year - my cousin in Gloucester still has it - and I definitely think it's aged very well indeed! It honestly never gets old just having fun and messing about: seeing how many cops you can lead on a merry chase round a car park, or how close you can get without getting rammed into a lamp-post or oddly indestructible bench.
And the director feature is probably my favourite feature in any game - used to have a screensaver made up of one of my movies, where my car pinwheeled end to end from one alley, across a four-lane road and into another alley, with five cops in hot pursuit. 'Twas like being in a game based purely on Blues Brothers car-chase scenes. Awesome. Will definitely get this once I take the plunge and finally get a PS3. |
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