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[ram]

i played the ps2 demo of the game. here are my short impressions:

- framerate is better than in driver 3, but with many cars onscreen, there is still slowdown
- visuals dont look really better than driver 3 and are low-res
- on foot animations of "the kid" are still horrible
- driving with the cars is better, but overall the physics are clearly from driver 3.
- there is also a progressive scan mode
- game seemed streched in 4:3 - i fear, the 16:9 picture is the standard one
- music was ok (you could switch it with the digipad)
- the driving areal was small and there were only a few pedestrians on the streets

--> overall, nothing great is coming here, it feels just a little better than driver 3.

 

[Wario64]

Is there still on foot missions? If so, I'm skipping this one again. Driver was only great when it just had driving missions

 

[ram]

in the final game, yes. in the demo no! but you can leave your car anytime and steal other cars.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

so which mag are they gonna bribe now?

 

[radioheadrule83]

Is there still on foot missions? If so, I'm skipping this one again. Driver was only great when it just had driving missions

From the latest Edge magazine, from the game's producer Gareth Edmonson:

We were never truly worried about GTA until GTA III. It was good fun, but it seemed -- I don't know whether this is accurate -- to be a bit of a budget title. Obviously though, when we saw GTA III we went 'Oh God, they've done a good job of this'. There's no question of what they've achieved.

The main thing that they took was the open city -- go everywhere, do everything type of game. But their focus was never really on the cars. Driver's was however, and Driver 3's should have been, but for various reasons wasn't. Which is why, with this game, the focus is very much behind the wheel."

 

[bishoptl]

so which mag are they gonna bribe now?

Good question.

 

[johnjohnson]

Any news if there's going to be an X360 version?

 

[black_13]

Fuck the gameplay, the soundtrack to DRIV3R was one of the damn best soundtracks in a video game.

I drove around the city listening to it just for that and I later bought the CD.

Hopefully it's at least the same deal with this one, especially since I've read that your going to play some part of the game in the 70's and then jump to present time.

 

[Shinobi]

so which mag are they gonna bribe now?

:lol I notice the hype for this game is a lot more muted then the last one...