28:25 haha, as a ginormous fan of Iggy Pop I loved your reference. I've played this game a couple of times, once as a young kid and recently too. Flawed but I still love the atmosphere. Especially the stealth missions. (Rooftops, the Istanbul one)
Solid review on a game I have fond memory of playing when I was younger. I remember feeling a rush every time I got to play this cause I couldn't get my parents to buy GTA, but they thought Driv3r was a racing game when I got a copy of it from my older cousin. Thanks for the cruise through memory lane.
that was a great retrospective. I spent my childhood and my teen years mostly with grand theft auto but I really like the driver series and especially driver san fransisco which is like the best racing game I can recommend to anyone. I didn't knew driver was a game till I was 16 and when I found about what happened with the series, it made me sad that such an iconic and good concept had to meet its tragic end. PS : driver san fransisco is the bestest end a series could have.
@@BearsinGamesNeo-qt5wwI didn't play the game so I can't empathize with your fondness of parallel lines but I just want to wish you good luck in what you are doing buddy .....you are doing a great job!!
I can’t get over seeing the third person walking animations. It’s like an alien’s first attempt at possessing and controlling a human body that has more or less limbs than it, so it’s just making stuff up on the fly. 😭
A great lengthy video. For me (played the PS2 version), I found the on-foot controls better if I massively reduced the sensitivity but you can only do this from the main menu. (even then there's a weird quirk where first person has faster sensitivity than third person.) Funfact: early leaked versions of the game outright forced first person mode when you were on-foot, so you were always intended to use first person for interiors. (Honestly they probably should have added a hint in the tutorial about that.) Driver 2 has a bit of a difficulty problem imo (yes, even by this series standards) and it has frame rate issues on actual hardware which is partially why a fan made PC port was made.
Also, and I'll make a short about this some time (youtube keeps bugging me to make shorts) the PS3 cannot properly run Driver 2, with tons of visual bugs. At least the PS3 slim - perhaps the Fat that had the actual PS2 chip could run it better.
@@BearsinGamesNeo-qt5ww Same with Stuntmant/Driv3r, those also have issues with PS3 emulation and PC Emulation. The AI breaks and doesn't follow it's pathing, making anytime you have to follow someone impossible. Apparently this is due to floating integers, I'm not very tech savy but basically the PS2 due to it's hardware produces very specific floating integers and emulation/PS3 give different integers which break it. (The PC version of Driv3r I think changed how these worked which is why the PC port works and notably the PAL/NTSC versions of Stuntman have different AI pathing routes since they had to make new paths due to the version differences.)
@@samz8691 Oh whoa, that's really cool! For PS1/PS2 games I'm recording off of my old PS2 Slim with component out, I don't have anything like a Retrotink so it's just straight into the Startech HDMI + Analgue USB 3 box I have, but Resolve has good de-interlacing for the most part and nearest neighbor scaling to reduce blur as I bring it up to HD
There isn't any kind of motion blur on the cars to imply speed... but there is motion blur on the taillights at night. Only, it doesn't depend on speed at all, so if you're wheeling around a parking lot at 5mph it looks ridiculous.
@@BearsinGamesNeo-qt5ww probably had a video shop membership, so rentals were """free""" I used to rent out MGS and Knockout Kings like every other week lol
Broken ≠ Bad This game was all levels of jank but it was also bags of fun.. I must've spent over 100hrs making action films in the editor 😂 It wasn't a very good product; but it was a brilliant game
I was gonna say that's basically the one part of the game where you really need to know english, but I guess it does put up stuff like "FOLLOW THE TRAIN!" as well
![ILLSLICK - KILLSHOT REMIX [FULL VERSION]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RIK8RrqIAzE/mqdefault.jpg)
I can't describe the shock i had after seeing the views AFTER i finished the video, how is something this good has too low views?
I'm still starting out!
28:25 haha, as a ginormous fan of Iggy Pop I loved your reference. I've played this game a couple of times, once as a young kid and recently too. Flawed but I still love the atmosphere. Especially the stealth missions. (Rooftops, the Istanbul one)
Dusk was such a vibe in this game ❤
Solid review on a game I have fond memory of playing when I was younger. I remember feeling a rush every time I got to play this cause I couldn't get my parents to buy GTA, but they thought Driv3r was a racing game when I got a copy of it from my older cousin. Thanks for the cruise through memory lane.
Uh oh, did they ever figure that one out??
that was a great retrospective. I spent my childhood and my teen years mostly with grand theft auto but I really like the driver series and especially driver san fransisco which is like the best racing game I can recommend to anyone. I didn't knew driver was a game till I was 16 and when I found about what happened with the series, it made me sad that such an iconic and good concept had to meet its tragic end.
PS : driver san fransisco is the bestest end a series could have.
Thank you! Yeah, Driver SF was a really great game. Though I do have some fondness for Driver: Parallel Lines too
@@BearsinGamesNeo-qt5wwI didn't play the game so I can't empathize with your fondness of parallel lines but I just want to wish you good luck in what you are doing buddy .....you are doing a great job!!
Had this on the 2nd monitor as I was playing another game and the "Please truck, papa needs in that trussy" got me killed xD
haha whoooops hopefully I didn't wreck your KTD ratio
I can’t get over seeing the third person walking animations. It’s like an alien’s first attempt at possessing and controlling a human body that has more or less limbs than it, so it’s just making stuff up on the fly. 😭
The jump animation especially is priceless
Really enjoy your presentation style here and the jokes are on point. Subscribed
Yay! Thank you Mister Woods!
THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD OMGG
Hey this is really good. It deserves more views
Thanks KVR! I'll try to go as in depth as this with all my future open world game reviews.
now THIS is my type of cake
Underated channel, great video sir!
Thank you very much!!
More of this, please!!
I'm capturing footage for the next open world review, and I'll have a shorter video out in a little bit.
“Papa needs in that trussy” 😂😂😂
It was a trussy based gameplay mechanic!
A great lengthy video.
For me (played the PS2 version), I found the on-foot controls better if I massively reduced the sensitivity but you can only do this from the main menu. (even then there's a weird quirk where first person has faster sensitivity than third person.)
Funfact: early leaked versions of the game outright forced first person mode when you were on-foot, so you were always intended to use first person for interiors. (Honestly they probably should have added a hint in the tutorial about that.)
Driver 2 has a bit of a difficulty problem imo (yes, even by this series standards) and it has frame rate issues on actual hardware which is partially why a fan made PC port was made.
Also, and I'll make a short about this some time (youtube keeps bugging me to make shorts) the PS3 cannot properly run Driver 2, with tons of visual bugs. At least the PS3 slim - perhaps the Fat that had the actual PS2 chip could run it better.
@@BearsinGamesNeo-qt5ww Same with Stuntmant/Driv3r, those also have issues with PS3 emulation and PC Emulation.
The AI breaks and doesn't follow it's pathing, making anytime you have to follow someone impossible.
Apparently this is due to floating integers, I'm not very tech savy but basically the PS2 due to it's hardware produces very specific floating integers and emulation/PS3 give different integers which break it.
(The PC version of Driv3r I think changed how these worked which is why the PC port works and notably the PAL/NTSC versions of Stuntman have different AI pathing routes since they had to make new paths due to the version differences.)
@@samz8691 Oh whoa, that's really cool! For PS1/PS2 games I'm recording off of my old PS2 Slim with component out, I don't have anything like a Retrotink so it's just straight into the Startech HDMI + Analgue USB 3 box I have, but Resolve has good de-interlacing for the most part and nearest neighbor scaling to reduce blur as I bring it up to HD
For Xbox I've gone through 4 Original Xboxes in the past year recording footage, they just keep dying on me
There isn't any kind of motion blur on the cars to imply speed... but there is motion blur on the taillights at night. Only, it doesn't depend on speed at all, so if you're wheeling around a parking lot at 5mph it looks ridiculous.
I remember being so disappointed with Driv3r when I got it home after purchase; it sucked major arse. Great video btw, high quality and funny
Yeah, same here. I think I enjoyed this playthrough more than I did the initial one back in 2004 at least.
I used to rent driv3r all the time (probably about 2 months aha) just to complete it and mess around in the open world :3
the worst part was a year later you could buy the game for like $3 used haha
@@BearsinGamesNeo-qt5ww probably had a video shop membership, so rentals were """free"""
I used to rent out MGS and Knockout Kings like every other week lol
I heard the guy who made this video mixes bottles of half-drank Diet Pepsi into one big, gross Diet Pepsi and he makes his friends watch him
that's insane why would anyone do that
damn I did love this the cars all felt so great to drive
Parallel Lines is pretty great too, same physics model
@@BearsinGamesNeo-qt5ww also true but the music in driv3r was better.
Quality subbed mate
From UK
So was I correct about the ZX Spectrum??
I had really tried to like this game and later I have just completely forgotten about it, not a bad game though. Also awesome review :D
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm gonna do GTA 3 for my next one, that's a biggy.
Bro, you seriously gotta play Driver 2
Yeah! I've played a bit more and really enjoy it, I should have played it back when it came out but got pushed away by the reviews.
@BearsinGamesNeo-qt5ww reviews in 2000? I buy games from looking at cover photos until 2010
Broken ≠ Bad
This game was all levels of jank but it was also bags of fun.. I must've spent over 100hrs making action films in the editor 😂
It wasn't a very good product; but it was a brilliant game
Same here! And doing the survival mode, I just love the survival mode.
They had ambition but rushed it for competition and failed
Driv 3R! 😂
Everyone's favourite game!
For all me and that parking garage were concerned, Driver 1 was a permanent free roam cop chase simulator with no story whatsoever
A lot of kids that didn't know english and played games for the vibes will understand
I was gonna say that's basically the one part of the game where you really need to know english, but I guess it does put up stuff like "FOLLOW THE TRAIN!" as well
I played the crap out of free roam in this game. Why? Because I wasn't allowed to play gta
I did too, but just because I really enjoyed the driving games