Ubi trademarks Driver: The Recruit

By Ellie Gibson Published 27 April, 2009

Could an announcement be imminent?

Ubisoft has trademarked the game title Driver: The Recruit.

You can see for yourself over at the website of the US Patents Office. The patent refers to "Game software and electronic game programs". It covers software stored on disc and cartridge as well as downloadable games.

So could another instalment in the Driver series be on the way? Looks that way. The BBC, Sony and Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot have all previously suggested there's one in development.

Roll on E3...

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • gribb #1 3 years ago

    As long as there won't be any god awful on foot sections, the game populous will be happy

  • Eraysor #2 3 years ago

    How they are ever going to better GTA, I have no idea.

  • DFawkes #3 3 years ago

    I loved Driver 3, and to some extent the PSP Driver game. Certainly more than the driving in GTAIV, though like has been said they really need to keep you in the car. As soon as you get out, you're competing directly with a lot of good games.

    It's called "Driver", not "Driver and Runner with some Walking when appropriate". That'd be a silly name.

  • OnlyMe #4 3 years ago

    Driver is not in the same genre as GTA. Driver is (or should be) closer to Need For Speed: Most Wanted than GTA. But instead of races, you have hollywood style car chases and other stuff in the same vein. At least, it used to be, until Parallell Lines.

  • Baranga #5 3 years ago

    Needs more Vin Diesel.

  • beckyh #6 3 years ago

    How they are ever going to better GTA, I have no idea.

    That is very easy - just be like Saints Row 2 :-)

  • makeamazing #7 3 years ago

    Driver 3 was a terrible game, was buggy and badly designed, heres hoping for better!

  • WJF #8 3 years ago

    Wasn't Driver 3 called 'Driv3r' in that annoying 'replacing letters with numbers makes me c00l, hurhurhur' way?

  • metalangel #9 3 years ago

    Driv3r was Driv3l. And the sequel wasn't called DrIVer. (apologies to John Walker, I know he's reading this from astride his giant bat)

    Here's your announcement, leaked by me:

    Horrible driving series Driver, famed for such standouts in hair-tearing frustration as 'The President's Run' and 'the alleyways of Havana', is being dredged up yet again by ill-advised publishers who think the name has any cachet. The game will feature a stylish advertising campaign to make it look good on the cover of EDGE and appeal to simple-minded imbeciles in Game, but will continue to be vastly inferior to ancient stuff like Die Hard Trilogy and GTA2, never mind the current gen favourites Saint's Row 2 and GTA IV. Gamers can expect more boring maps, terrible AI, vindictive cops and dull missions when the game slops onto the usual platforms in November where it will be roundly ignored in the Christmas rush. A patch to make it possible to finish the second mission will be hurried out the door a few weeks later.
    Edited by 1 at 27/04/09 @ 14:34

  • OnlyMe #10 3 years ago

    Tsk, if you can't beat Driver without cheating, you're not a real gamer. I never used cheats, and I don't consider myself particularly good at any games.

  • polaris70 #11 3 years ago

    Roll on E3...

    I don't think there will be an E3 this year.