Great Driving and shotting game.One of my top favorite games.This Game Will probally be a PS2 greatest hit! I hope theres a DRIVER 4 !

Great game.. the physics the gameplay, graphics.. they are all good

Best game ever. Funny secrets like taking the piss out of GTA Vice City.

Simply the BEST!

this game is awsome the only prob is it is very glitchy.

Saying it simple; this game is good. I'm a fan of the series and this one is the best yet. Great car chases and more realistic than the previous. the only reason why i didn't give it a 10 was cause of the walking controls. but let me just say that they are way way better than true crime. other thant that this game is worth playing. The problem i see with people who gave it a low or very low rating is that they want to compare it to gta. The gameplay on driver is different. Im also a fan of gta and i got my san andreas copy reserved already but in the mean while driver is going to keep me entertained. if you played driver 1&2 you'll like this one or if you just like good car chases you'll enyoit too.… Expand

People need to stop compairing this game to GTA. This game is better than GTA. If you remember Driver 2, you could do everything that you could do in GTA (subtract beating hookers and shootouts). So really, GTA copied Driver. Driver was better then, and it's better now. Graphics are amazing. Yes, some clunky controls, but then can be forgiven by the gameplay and graphics. great game, a must own.… Expand

This is a good game not great but it is good like I just said, being on-foot is a little janky and slow and sometimes you either screw up because your car sometimes makes it look like it is driving on ice and spins all over the place or that the background music is so loud or you can't hear what the person is saying so you don't know you're directions but everything else is basically great gameplay, graphics and etc. well except the story I mean a cop goes undercover and kills countless numbers of innocent/evil men and cops just to find a ring of car thieves okay wierd.... I enjoyed I hope you do.… Expand

Although I haven't played the missions yet, the Take A Ride-mode alone makes this game a must buy. Graphics are from time to time superb but there are a few bugs in the game, which doesn't disturb the gameplay. Nice cars, NICE cities and lots of action.

I loved playing this game, the free roam portion of it at least, I didn't like the singleplayer as it was too hard back in the days when I played it, the glitches and police AI were pretty bad, but that just made it that much funnier/fun to play, loved doing stunts and watching the police crash their cars while attempting to follow me.

The driving is great, the FPS stuff is bad. Lots of scenery out of reach, or too damn difficult to access. Trying to run around like in GTA made me find zillions of bugs and traps where the character just gets stuck forever... Anyways i recommend it for the franchise´s sake.

A good game to have. The driving was fun but how the crap were supposed to walk?

It's not that bad, but not that good either.. Graphics look great, cars are great, the thing i enjoyed most, was tha ability to kill/die in car-accidents, I've never seen this in any game, ever before. The bad thing about this game is: The missions are SO boring, and it takes long time. I've even heard rumours saying that this game wasn't even 100% finished when they released it, they were probably in a hurry, with GTA: San Andreas being released a short while after.… Expand

Driv3r is a good but glitchy sandbox-style game. You play as Tanner, an undercover cop who infiltrates into a gang trying to sell illegal cars or something like that. Basically you work for both sides: the cops and the gang. First thing you notice is how good the game looks. The cars you drive look good and based on real life cars, the 3 cities Miami, Nice and Istanbul are detailed and look identical to their real life counterparts: The Driv3r team actually went to these 3 cities and took over 70,000 photos and using the data, built the roads, landmarks and other things into the game. The games cut scenes are great as well and I like the way they used motion capture for these scenes and they look like your watching a movie and have a cinematic feel to them. The story is interesting, dark and full of twists. Some of the voice acting is great (especially Tanner's voice actor) and fits the characters well. Driv3r car damage model is probably the best I've seen in a video game: The cars that you drive can take realistic damage. These cars have been built with up to 20 detachable panels and things like doors, bumpers and bonnets can come off your car if your damage your car by smashing it into traffic or a wall. There are a good number of vehicles to drive like sports cars, sports bikes and go karts! There's a campaign to complete and a Take a ride mode which allows you to drive and have fun around the 3 cities and getting into trouble with the police which can throw some good chases at you. There's even a Film Director where you can take a replay that you saved from a mission or a take a ride moment and edit it with camera angles, slow motion and in car views which is awesome; you could make a movie out of a recorded chase! Driv3r sounds great doesn't it? Sounds like the best game in the world. A lot of problems really ruin the game. I encountered loads (and I mean loads) of glitches in the game ranging from cars driving constantly forward with a dead driver inside, pedestrians getting caught on walls and discovering a deserted unfinished Ghost Town in Miami. The glitches may seem funny but some are annoying. Another thing is the AI: The Police are so dumb. If you go into a building (say your safe house), and there's a wall separating you from a policeman, he won't follow you. He'll just either stand and look at the wall or just walk into it constantly and get stuck. Also the police cars that pursue you always seem to keep up with you regardless on how fast your vehicle is. Despite the graphics looking good, Tanner's walking animation is ridiculous: He walks like a crab! Tanner can't fall from a great height either, probably 4 or 5 feet and a chunk of health is gone from your life bar. I mentioned that the Film Director is great but sometimes the game corrupts your movies; sometimes something happens in your movie which actually didn't happen it when you were recording it and that can screw up your movie. Also the Film Director starts recording your game play the minute you start the game. It would have been nice to pick a time to start recording. At times, Driv3r is a poor version of Grand Theft Auto because there are shooting sections and walking sections in the campaign which are pretty poor. What? This is supposed to be a Driving game! Anyway, you have a selection of guns from the usual rifles, shotguns and handguns and in some sections you have to shoot your way through enemies. The shooting mechanics are poor but at least the driving sections are nice. As well as the Take a ride mode, there are some driving games but to be honest, I couldn't be bothered with any of them other than Survival which can be a laugh at times seeing supercharged mental Police cars flying around the place trying to damage your car. The voice acting maybe good but the audio isn't: Tanner sounds like cow when he gets hit or falls from a great height (HUUUUUMMMMM) and the Police chatter is very repetitive. They only say a few lines of dialog. Also the music in the game itself is repetitive and poorly composed. There isn't much to do in Take A Ride mode other than find hidden cars, kill 10 hidden men known as Timmy Vercetti's in the cities or just mess around with the police.To wrap this review up then: Driv3r is a glitchy game that people like to play if you want a laugh but if you want a serious action game, just buy one of the Grand Theft Auto's instead. If this game was given a few months more to iron out the glitches and take out the on foot sections, maybe this game could have been special.… Expand

This game really left me wanting more in graphics, control and gameplay. I did however find the wide variety of cars to be somewhat fun. This game is a rent not buy, in my opinion. To game breaker: Someday you will understand that competition is needed to prevent a monopoly. If sony or microsoft controlled the whole market then they would have no reason to try and gain new customers, which would mean less groundbreaking innovations and just more of the same. You should appreciate sony as I do microsoft and nintendo because with their competition we recieve new and better games every year. I look foreward to Halo 2, San Andreas and the new Zelda. … Expand

Would you people PLEASE stop comparing the game to GTA? Can't a game be good or bad on its own merits? Personally, GTA III and Vice City are my two favorite games ever, but that doesn't mean Driv3r should get a zero because I don't think it is as good as GTA. This game has some great aspects: huge cities, a wide variety of cars, and a good Driving Games mode. However, there are SO FEW missions that 90% of the city's roads are untapped in the story mode, and the free ride mode has absolutely no purpose whatsoever. The graphics are OK, but far from great, and there are a lot of bugs. The lifespan of the game is very short- once you've completed the missions and the driving games, there's very little left to do. Driv3r isn't horrible (it's title might be, but the game isn't). The problem is that the game simply isn't that good. The city goes mostly unused, there's no replay value, many of the missions are very similar, the sound is merely average, and overall, a whole lot of things could have been much better.… Collapse

This game had the potential to be good, but with all of the flaws on it, it ccan barely be called a game. A two year old could have made a better game than this. It was a huge disappointment.

As the commercial says: "Best looking game in the genre." This is true, but it's also the worst playing game in the genre. There's nothing fun to do in the cars or on foot. The cops are complete idiots. The director mode was about the only decent thing in the game, and even that could have been much better. Let's put it this way, I could make a better game.... and I don9;t know what a gigabyte is. Enough said.… Expand

There are many things I would like to say about this game. First, when I began playing I realized that I handed over my hard earned two weeks of work in exchange for a box of chickens posing as turkeys. Have you ever heard a cat bark or a dog meow? Its how I feel about this HUGE GTA WANNABE! The game was put together so horribly that it's as if the makers really want you to think that they played a GTA title and then they said," Dude let's make a copy of this!" After my comments you might want to think why I rated it 4. The game does have its moments but the story most makes me speechless. I'm talking BORING! So anyhow, a nice feature is that you can record videos of you playing and play them back.… Expand

Great driving. Good cutscenes. Good music. Everything else is dreadful. And it's very difficult.

This game is possibly the single glitchiest, buggiest, most boring and pointless GTA rip off ever released. It is so unbelievably mediocre that I actually took to switching the PS2 off after the first mission. The graphics look lame, the cutscenes look like rejected scenes from a Pixar movie and the voice acting is terrible. The one good reason to play this game though is the excellent driving mechanics and car chases. There is a wide range of vehicles to drive including sedans, sports cars, convertibles, vans, trucks, police cars and even a go kart! But apart from that, its a terrible game. Seriously, just a waste of time and money.… Expand

It's NOT GOOD. It's NOT worth half the money. You can't be serious if you rate this a 10.. it sucks big time. It's a major dissapointment, an huge anticlimax after all the waiting. No brilliant detailed graphics at all (everything looks terribly pixelated), the controls are terrible and the camera's rigid. All the cars drive the same (they all have the same saggy suspension that's fine with american cars, but not in place with smaller european vehicles) so the driving bit feels terribly dated. In fact *everything* feels dated. It feels like Driver 1 and it looks like driver 1. I guess they never intended it to look good on PS2. It feels and looks like a very bad PC-port. They should have spent more of the huge advertising budget on PS2 optimalization and learned from Rockstar. Shame on you, Reflections and Atari! … Expand

This game sucks u cant even run through a light post when ur driving. the graphics are good tho.

I have to agree that this game stinks, it graphically only looks a little better than the Playstation original. The on foot sections are truly appalling with useless AI and dodgy aiming controls, to compare it to GTA 3 or Vice City is just ridiculous as it just isn't in the same league. You have to pay £5 more for this game in the UK and I'm sure it's just to pay Michael Madsen and Ving Rhames who did the voices. It certainlt isn't for good game play or graphics. Stay clear of this mess!… Expand

This game is so disappointing, i played some missions and it was extremly boring, i thought i was playing playstation 1 going on the standard of the graphics. The way tanner runs is laughable and the whole game just feels jerky and unfinised. i do NOT recomend this song at all.

On your first play of this absolute disaster, smash the semi into a sapling or a park bench. This will dismiss the notion of any type of realism in this game. Then start playing: Chase a guy, run from the cops, and you've pretty much seen almost everything this game has to offer. And the difficulty??!? Someone at Atari/Reflections should be repeatedly punched in the face for making a game so repetitive, and yet nearly impossible to finish! These people have the audacity to think that they're in competition with the GTA series? Laughable!… Expand

This was going to be a killer-game, or a publisher-killer.
I think it could be the latter.
After so many delays, and pumping so much money into this, Atari *had* to release it in order to try and recoup their losses.
You can only polish a turd so much. This is an expensive turd - adios Atari.

I have 4 words for all you PS2 owners that have given this game a bad review, YOU ASKED FOR IT! Anyone who has been backing Sony for the last 4 years deserves a piece of crap like this game. If this game, along with the GTA franchise and all others on the PS2 would have been made only on XBOX where they belong, none of you would have anything to bitch about. So as long as you keep spending money on your PS1.2's and back Sony in the largest scam in the last 100 years, you'll keep getting graphically inferior games just like the PS3 will churn out. Sony's hayday has been over since Microsoft took over the videogame industry and it will stay that way for a long time. But, they will still pay off all the big name companies to get you Sony Only's all the games you want so that no one could see how they would really do on top-shelf hardware. Now, I know all of you are going to piss and moan over my comments so go ahead. While you are bitching I will be playing better games on better hardware and backing a company that will make it's next system an actual next generation system, not an upgrade of a turd that never was! Losers.… Expand

Game Breaker should really shut up. as if there are no bad games on the Xbox. Anyways, DRIV3R really is a piece of garbage, that i will agree wit Game Breaker. I hated he series from the beginning, my friend rented it recently and i played it for five minutes and thought WHOA what a piece of crap such garbage. However, Game Breaker, Sony is well in the lead of Microsoft in the gaming companies, sorry to say but check the stocks lately.… Expand