Original Driver for PSN next Thurs
Ubisoft to show what fuss was about.
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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Yeah that was a bitch to do if I remember especially the slalom!
@ Tiel
Probably EG's error, bad EG!
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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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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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Oh yeah I forgot about the excellent replay movies!
Also I think you're right about GTA4 being influenced by Driver, it's the first thing that entered my mind jumping into a car.
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PS One games are usually £3.49
Theiving cunts...
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I remember the selling point for Driver 2 was roads that curved!
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I was just thinking that too. All right angle corners are no longer ftw.
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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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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.