Driver: San Francisco

1. JohnR

   Oct 8, 2011

   10

   Excellent production values and an enormous fun factor. The city, music, cars and story create a 'Starsky and Hutch' style. Humor in variousExcellent production values and an enormous fun factor. The city, music, cars and story create a 'Starsky and Hutch' style. Humor in various dialogues is genuinely funny. Driving/shifting mechanics are perfect. The handling, feel, response, and sound of each vehicle feels very right. This is a brilliant driving game!… Expand

   • 18 of 24 users found this helpful
2. Henners

   Apr 21, 2012

   10

   OK I actually signed up to write this! Just thought I should mention I love old car chase movies which probably affects my score somewhat!OK I actually signed up to write this! Just thought I should mention I love old car chase movies which probably affects my score somewhat! Anyway, this beats all the other Drivers into a **** hat. The driving model is superb - really fun and exhilarating to drive, realistic enough to be challenging but not too realistic to be annoying. The plot is pretty far fetched but so much more interesting than pretty much every other game of it's type, probably even GTA which can get a bit staid. The jumping mechanic is really cleverly done and adds so much to the game and removes annoying bits in such games as if you smash your car up you just jump into another one but it doesn't feel like cheating at all. The plot really grabs you and it's all served up in a 70's style cop setting which is very well done. The icing on the cake is the bunch of old car chases from films complete with cars and driver models (ie starsky and hutch, bullitt etc. etc.). 10/10 game, one of the best/most engrossing I've ever played. Highly recommended.… Expand

   • 1 of 2 users found this helpful
4. rovaira

   Jul 21, 2012

   9

   I just picked this up on Steam for sale and I'm glad I did.. This game is amazing. I thought the game would be boring because you can't leaveI just picked this up on Steam for sale and I'm glad I did.. This game is amazing. I thought the game would be boring because you can't leave your car, but I was totally wrong. The driving experience is amazing and you can shift to another car quickly while driving. The graphics and sound are great. The main storyline is pretty good as well. The missions are also done pretty well. The one gripe I have is you have to do some kind of work around to get ti to work with a dual action logitech controller, but I haven't done that yet. The control keys are pretty easy to use. The arrow keys, space bar, and sometimes the mouse (for looking around). The open driving experience I havent found elsewhere and I've been gaming for 25+ years.… Expand

   • 2 of 3 users found this helpful
5. Artoorzyn

   Mar 26, 2017

   8

   Wciągająca rozgrywka z intrygującą fabułą i świetnym soundtrackiem. Model jazdy jest bardzo przyjemny, grafika bardzo ładna, a shift toWciągająca rozgrywka z intrygującą fabułą i świetnym soundtrackiem. Model jazdy jest bardzo przyjemny, grafika bardzo ładna, a shift to rewelacyjny pomysł. Misję są ciekawe i niesztampowe; szkoda tylko, że nie można wyjść z auta i brak broni, ale nie jest to niewybaczalna wada.… Expand

   • 0 of 1 users found this helpful
6. JaydenPickens

   Feb 20, 2019

   7

   Tanner returns boys! This is my third fav Driver game (right after Driver 4 & 2) and I love what they have done here. The city (San Francisco)Tanner returns boys! This is my third fav Driver game (right after Driver 4 & 2) and I love what they have done here. The city (San Francisco) lives, lots of cars and people everywhere. The thing that makes me sad though, is that you can no longer run over people with your car... you could kill people in Driver 4 and the rag doll of bodies was fun, but here sadly no. It's a massive minus of the game to me. The other one is that the story is kinda pointless. At least most of it. I don't want to spoil it, but it's just stupid. Everything else is just good old driver. Pickens approves!… Expand

   • 3 of 3 users found this helpful
7. dandalis

   Aug 30, 2017

   6

   Driver San Francisco for me turned into love/hate affair. It has the potential to be a very good open world driving, racing game, but isDriver San Francisco for me turned into love/hate affair. It has the potential to be a very good open world driving, racing game, but is completely let down by rubbish car physics and driving model. Driving feels like youre on ice all the time, all the time you turn and slow down your car it loses grip and you slide all over the place. That is made even worse by the traffic amount in this game, there are games in which i often wish there were more cars on the road, but on Driver SF there just too much damn traffic which very often turn into you, hit you in blind spots and go crazy when you barely touch them. Plus it seems there are no brakes in the game, the one that should function that way is just another handbrake which doesnt allow you to slow down normally from high speeds, it instantly locks up and causes you to slide all over the place. Of road handling in the game is different kind of bad and annoying, it makes you question what kind of an idiot was responsible for such handling model while developing the game. However if youre just cruising around off missions and activities driving can be serviceable and decently fun, but when it counts it can be become a nightmare.
   
   Really only thing that kept me playing was the enticing story that i really wanted to see how it plays out, altough the ending of the game made me question ''Is that it ?'', its tad disappointing in my opinion, i wanted something more compelling. Also the way game transitions from CGI cutscenes to in game footage during in game cutscenes felt bit way off and weird, however the CGI parts are really well done. I've never been to San Francisco in real life, closest thing i guess has been San Fierro in GTA San Andreas, but the city felt very well made for the game, and the adding of pedestrians roaming the streets added the alive factor thats missing from most open world driving games.
   
   Graphics for a 2011 felt bit dated, also game is bit too dark, i often ran into walls and objects that i simply couldnt see while driving fast and focusing on driving itself. Also there was no way to get rid of black bars while playing in my native 16:10 aspect ratio, but it didnt hurt the experience too bad. I wish the HUD wasnt so huge aswell, especially the annoying hint and boost bars, thay made felt like game is straight up console port, but atleast the game ran extremely well with locked 60 fps, without single crash, tho sometimes i saw some visual artifacting occuring, which bugged me out thinking my GPU might be on its last legs.… Expand

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8. ThatGreekGeek

   Jan 21, 2017

   0

   In usual Ubisoft fashion, the game is a bad port of a console game that literally doesn't even work. I don't know if the game is any good onIn usual Ubisoft fashion, the game is a bad port of a console game that literally doesn't even work. I don't know if the game is any good on the consoles (it was well-received), but the PC version is a disaster. Barren options menus, crash-prone, no longer available on Steam (and if you already have it on Steam it launches Uplay anyway) and, most importantly, extremely poor gamepad/wheel support.
   
   Simply put, if you plug in anything other than X360 controller, the game crashes on launch. Reportedly, at times it crashes even WITH a 360 controller. This is a port of a racing game that doesn't properly support racing wheels, forcing you to play with a keyboard or, if the stars allign, maybe a 360 gamepad.
   
   On top of that there are reports of corrupted saves and problems with system compatibility, crashes and other problems that require messing with local files, reinstalling and manually deleting saves to fix sudden hangs and crashes that make the thing unplayable.
   
   Ubisoft is the worst AAA company when it comes to PC gaming and they need to be held accountable for distributing product of this quality. 0/10, the game doesn't launch, it's useless.… Expand

   • 0 of 2 users found this helpful

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