Oh man this was rough. Virgin GTA player vs chad Driver player.
Driver (1-3) taught me skid and spin recovery so well that it allowed me to recover through a full 360 on an off ramp without incident…other than my heart beating out of my ears.
What a memory this unlocked!! The physics of this game made you feel like you were 100% driving a real car. I almost want to play it again now, but honestly I bet that not being able to actually drive as a kid was half of what made it so mesmerizing.
Now it might just be like driving to work :(
I love my emulators and I have to say that whilst the game has obviously aged, there’s still something a little satisfying about throwing the car around in these games.
That said, the map - which looks like it was designed on graph paper - leaves a bit to be desired nowadays. It does get a little boring.
Driv3r really should have been the pinnacle of the series, but it just stands as a testament to why you should never rush your game out. San Andreas was quite possibly the most hotly anticipated game of all time; they were never going to beat that.
Driver San Francisco is the pinnacle in my opinion
My brother and I were, like, 7 and 10, respectively, when we played this. Some things on the list were obvious, others (the heck is a “slalom”?!) we had to guess just by doing every possible thing you could do with a car. A couple day’s work, bada-bing bada-boom.
People definitely would’ve given up nowadays.
Completely untrue. They would watch some loud obnoxious guy on YouTube teach you how to do it in a clickbait video that’s 10 minutes and 5 seconds long with a sponsor.
It’s a possibility, if they really wanna play the game. Nowadays we are so spoiled for choice that we would just either switch to another game or pick up the phone.
When you have rented the game for 24hrs and the tute takes 3 of them.
What game is this?
I remember renting that game when I was 10 or something. We tried for hours to get through that tutorial without success.
Taken directly (sounds, too) from The Driver (1978)
Was there more to the game than this?
Even though I could skip it, I couldn’t let a TUTORIAL beat me.
It beat me.
I remember trying to figure out what slalom meant for so long lol
How old are ya’ll exactly?
Old enough to DRIVE, KID.
I’m going to tell my mommy on you
Old enough to prefer Driver 2 to Driver 1 because it had better graphics.
I had no trouble with this as a kid, seeing people always complain about it is wild. I even picked up the game again last year on emulator to try it again and best it first try once I fixed input lag issues
You wanna talk impossible?
The actual last mission of this game on the hard difficulty might as well be RNG for now fucking hard dodging the NPCs that spawn are, as they’re faster than you
Holy fuck, that last level! Dude, you have unlocked some deep seated trauma.
This shit was SOOO hard!
I honestly had to use a Gameshark code to get past it.
Bro, I played this for years not knowing what half the things were and had no goddamn idea there’s more game after this!
That was easy. Knocking down pedestrians. Even harder.
Couldn’t believe the intro.
I loved the driver movie as a kid.
I get GTA flashbacks. This was definitely boss level.
I just beat this level yesterday!
It becomes easy… Once you know what the tricks are supposed to be, which the game doesn’t tell you at all.
For me, these were the tips I needed:
- There’s a dedicated button for burnout, which makes it super easy to do the 360
- the slalom only counts if you do the pillars on one side of the garage BOTH WAYS
- To do a backwards 180, drive backwards, then push one direction, then halfway through push the other direction.
Supposedly the PSX version also has a video in the options menu which shows you a dev completing the course, with button prompts on screen.
Oh, and there’s a cheat code in-game to skip this level entirely.
I managed to pass this as a kid and a friend invited me to his house so I could pass it for him. That was my peak and my life has gone downhill ever since.
