Driver Developer: Reflections Publisher: GT Interactive Category: Driving System Req: PII 266, 64mb Ram, D3D/Glide graphics card, Win95/98/ Might look like: ? Date posted: 5 December '99 Written By: Jerremy - This game was tested on PlayDevil.com Game Machine - A little Introduction Driver's true-to-life modeling of automobile physics, ultra-realistic environments, cutting-edge graphics and revolutionary replay mode allow users to experience the most elaborate, realistic interactive driving experience imaginable. Ehm, haven't I said enough? :) It's HARD! Have you ever had a game were, once you've started it up, you'd say 'Wow', this game is awesome. Because the game play was great and the graphics were great. Well, if you did, then GT Interactive's latest driving/racing game, Driver is not one of those games. I must admit, it has some great graphics, but I thought that the gameplay was kind of hard. After booting up the game, the first thing I always do is find the option screen and turn all the goodies on. With most of the current games, it means that I can still play at full frame rate. So after setting everything to ultra high, I also found the difficulty setting. Seeing it at 'normal', I thought:, "Hey I'm a beginner", I'll set it to easy so that I can play out the game with ease". Boy was I wrong because even at easy, Driver from Reflections is way too hard! There are missions that if you hit something while driving to your objective, you wont make it because you're too slow. Is it just me or should easy be just that, easy. Getting from one point of the island to the other in less than three minutes while avoiding cops is just too hard. Either I'm doing something wrong, or but then again I must also say that I'm not an auto race game expert, and because you were here to read about "Driver" and not my personal feelings, I'll just go on with the review. :)    Drive it, baby In you're an undercover cop who needs to get some bad guys. To achieve this you need to become one of their best drivers. You're already the best one on the force, thats why they choose you for this great assignment. So what you need to do is infiltrate the bad guys, become one of them. To achieve this you'll need to do a whole range of missions, get some bank robbers to a safe house, get rid of some car which could be used as evidence, even get a gang member to a house where hell brakes loose. All of this without getting caught by the cops. Some of these missions though have a nice feature called a time limit. And either I'm doing something completely wrong, or this time limit is simply way to limited. This just ruins the game for me. Its not the graphics, because they look good, it that freaking time limit. The whole concept of the game is great; avoid (or lose) the cops while getting to your goal. And those damn cops will try anything to get you. They'll try to knock you off the road, either alone or with some of their friends (and losing 4 cops is HARD!). If they can't get you that way, they'll even try setting up roadblocks. Which are really funny, but not that hard to get through, since they leave a nice spot in the middle of two cars in which you can kindly slip through. If you were playing Driver, I'd recommend keeping speed while doing this, because the cop behind you certainly will. Next Page Up Previous Page If you want to review your favorite game, or if you work with a computer game company and want your products reviewing, mail info@playdevil.com. All contributions are welcome. Any problems and/or suggestions are always appreciated on webmaster@playdevil.com Nothing of this entire Site, animation & logo's included, may be reproduced, stored, saved, transmitted, in any form or means, electronic, written or otherwise without the prior permission of PlayDevil. Other Logos & Names are Copyrighted Material of its respectful owners. All Rights Reserved. PlayDevil Productions © 199/8-199/9 "rip your own stuff"