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love the game, but could be better |
| shnookey from bucks, england says (20/Dec/2005): |
I think the driving part of the game is brilliant, however a lot of the missions are pointless and make no sense. I think that freedom is limited in the game, most buildings cannot be entered and some boats lie on the water and you can't drive them! However I have always come back to this game and I seem to play it in random phases. The best thing about driver 3 is the cops. GREAT FUN. I spend ages getting chased by cops and doing crazy stunts while i am at it. The only problem is that it only takes about 30 seconds to get the wanted bar at the top and only cars chase you. No boats, no planes/helicopters - nothin. I expect big improvements in driver 4. Overall, a game worth getting.
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not to bad |
| jordan from holmen/wisconsin says (7/Sep/2005): |
I really enjoy the game but i hate how there are hardly any places you can go into and i agree with another review that its bullcrap that you cant flip out cars your chasing in the missions and how the cars have no grip and then theres no sense of speed. and whats up with taking out things like the crane you get to use in the mission "18 wheeler". just a couple more things i hate how cluddered the third level is. i do like this game, but three years of work, ha my < remove me > at $$! at the airport in the 2nd level you dontsee any planes come in and out. finally i think they should have put in a helicopter, a plane, and a tank just one of each. well everyone i hope you enjoy/ enjoyed the game. later.
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good game, but some things are totaly crap |
| suracer from melbourne, australia says (10/Jul/2005): |
driv3r is a really good game, but some things are totaly crap. like say some person on the street starts ta shooot you first the cops go after you. i was so exited when i got the gamebecause i nthought there would be planes helcopters, ambulences and fire engines but it dont. i loved driver sinced it came out, but driver 3 i found a bit borng some times because the cars dont go that fast,please improve it in driver4,mak ther be planes andeverything, whats tha poit of have an aiport if th no plane, please improve this thanks!
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Its a Good Game But Not 3 Years of Work |
| A gamer from Fairfax/Virginia/USA says (1/Jul/2005): |
The Grapics in this game are a lot better than the first. Missions are hard but possable. But the game dosent seem like 3 years went into it. I wated 3 years for the game to come out and when I got I for 50 bucks and played it I just about s*** my self to see the gameplay it was bad. What pissed me off the most was with a 18 wheeler at full speed you could not nock down a light poleand thats dissopointing for a game that took 3 years to come out. What I liked about the game is that the missions a chalenge and yes I beat the game. and what I didnot like wat what I said befor. And enother thing I did not like was so many glitches and it freezes up consntly. And some more good things when your driveing a sadan the car feels, handles, and has speeds of a sadan and a sports car feels, handles, and has speeds of a sports car. Facts- there are boats but no helocopters. There are 10 timmy guys in every city and theres 3 cityes they are very hard to find tho. when you have unlocked all of them there will be 3 awsome modes you have unlocked 1 mode per city hope you can find them all. I know this is true because I have found all timmy guys and have played the modes. ther fun but I wont tell you what they are you have to find that out your self. And a fact about the timmy guys there only found in free mode and a hint there places where some of your missions took place. But there very hard to kill. Theres a few secret cars in each city to. So its Relly up to you to buy it my advice is to It gives a great chalange. so I hope this review is hlepful to you and try to keep it in mind when you buy this game. Happy Playing
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A GOOD ADDITION TO THE SERIES. |
| RandyOrton/JohnCena fann! from West Midlands,Britain. says (27/May/2005): |
I have played this game but i don`t have it.Its great to have Tanner back after 5 years since they fired off Driver 2,which was the very first 3-Dimensional(3D) driving game where you got to steal cars of the civilians or 911 crew(Ambulance,Fire-Truck or POLICE car) but on Driver 3 you get cars,motorbikes,boats,trucks ect..Ever since Driver 2 landed on PSONE the people who developed those 2D Grand Theft Auto games(RockStar-games) made Grand Theft Auto III and a year later Grand Theft Auto:Vice City and these 2 games fixed all the problems that were on Driver 2,which were dropped graphics,solveble glitches,and better car physics like you can now see through the windows but R* never made as good car damage effects or made crashes sound realistic.any ways Driver 3 beats it two predcessors(Driver 1&Driver 2) and in my oppinion beats GTA3/VC because of the realism the aging Atari and Reflections made 3 real cities Miami again(this was also the first city in Driver 1) but this time more of the city and better looks then the 6-year old original Nice,France and Istanbul,Turkey and i never forget that all the Driver games are set in the 1970`s which most gamers forget. bye
p.s. i hope Atari and Reflections make DRIVER 4(fingers crossed) they will solve the glitches,add aircraft like planes,helicoptors,gliders and some more 911 aircraft like Police-chopper,Army planes/choppers,Air-Ambulances.
more cars would be great(i am not moaning about the lot we have already got)
more motorbike additions
and ANY thing that will make other reviews be more proud of the Driver games,so Atari and Reflections(who might never read this) play the GTA games see what the other reviewers that are not pleased with on Driver 3 and make Driver 4(if they make it) supierior to the R* GTA games,keep Tanner as the main charicter and heres the cities which would be nice Chicago,New York,Rio and London,England so Driver 4 can be sure-fire success. bye and sorry my review is long.
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What the! |
| Jake from Canada says (27/Apr/2005): |
First of all i beat the game and they make fun of tommy becauces he cant swim ha! god they should shut up they can't even make a game with out people dropping from the sky or cop cars cheaply droping onto your car we waited 3 years and i got all exited then when i bought it i was sooooooo mad at them the cars dont even go fast like if your on the level "The chase" Your car has no grip at all or control and if you cetch up to her and ram her car your the who flips not her its like her wheels are super glued to the road you cant flip her car you need to chase her it took me 5 week to get past it i think this game is a HUGE dissapointment to me! Like come on the story line is ok until it get up to the last map its annoying and a waste of money if should be $5.oo instead of 50 its like they just worked on it for 1 year then stopped and said "OOOH we worked on it for 3 years so you better buy it! they should just shut up and a tip to them you should have stopped at driver 2!
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Take it or Leave it |
| a gamer from nottingham says (31/Mar/2005): |
What can i say for the driver series well they have definatly come a long way since they first brought the series out, they have improved on the graphics and the sound and iam afriad thats about it.the worst thing which i found on the game was the controls i just hate the charecter controls and the driving controls.I also found that this game can keep you emused in the take a ride mode entering buildings and i liked the idea that you had to find 10 timmy's in each city but come on the missions are to easy and i know that some of you out there found it hard and very frustraiting(babies).
iam not a huge fan of the driver series i perfere the getaway.
A summary to my fews in this game are that it has no signs of realism in and where are the areoplanes if you could fly this would make me give this game a higher score but i'am afraid that this game is RUBBISH!!!!!!
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| me from nottingham says (30/Mar/2005): |
well hear we are 3 games is how many the driver producers have thrown at us!Over the years the graphics have improved the missions have improved and the rubbish driving controls have stay the same but wheres the gameplay gone???????
yes the game keeps you interesteed at the start but after you have found all the secret cars, all the timmy's and had a look at the buildings(yawn)your left to drive around looking at the beach and sailing.
although iam not a huge fan off the driver series more of the getaway series but i did enjoy this game.
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Dont know why everyones moaning |
| Andrew Bullingham from Tewkesbury,England says (23/Feb/2005): |
Hi y'all i brought this game a few days ago and i gotta say im liking it. Its quite a hard game but im sensing the end is close. The one with the fork-lift u must pick one up CAREFULLY drive to the gap but line up on the right side of the gap so u just extend the side!! Graphic are good like the driving but on foot is a bit strange!!!!! Lots of different missions with a nice mix of shooting and driving!!! Havent noticed many glitches apart from the electric poles in mid-air and cars coming from nowhere but that aside its a good game. Not quite GTA but still worth a look at !!!!!
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half right! |
| robert hodgkins from manchester, united kingdom says (13/Feb/2005): |
i am not that impressed with it really!the handling on foot is just weird and out of control. the handling in the cars are rubbish too(especially the go-kart). the game is very good for the money now in dollars, pounds or whatever currency. it is really alot of fun to play and anybody who buys it will discover lots of new things and suprises. sometimes you will come across a timmy vaelliece out of suprise and there is certianly alot of action and adventure! the graphics of the game is detailed but a bit fuzzy and out of shape at times but i would still recomend buying the game. it is still alot of fun! my final summary is half right.
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dissapointing but ok |
| A gamer from united kingdom says (13/Jan/2005): |
i heard reviews about the game and thought it would be a good buy. so i decided to buy it. i played it and i thought that the game was very dissapointing but at the same time ok. the lacking of tanners movement was like a 2 year old girl in a wheel chair that has flat wheels. and when i was chased.this cop car just spawned on top of my car stopping me dead. but apart from all this its not a bad game. the driving bits are great and the graphics are sex but its like the programers
(reflections) just stopped working on the game when it was only 65% complete thats why i said hugley dissapointing but ok at the same time. dont let the missions and dodgy walking spoil your driving fun.
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this game... |
| Elliot from Brusly, Louisiana says (10/Jan/2005): |
is really hard, Nice is better than Miami in my opinion, I love France. Some of the missions in Nice were easier then the Miami ones to me(i had a hard time killing gator). But I can't get passed the mission where you go to the Boathouse with dubois. theres this room with a forklift, I don't know what i am supposed to do, they(jericho and calita) took my weapons so i cant kill the guards, the bridge is broken, am I supposed to use the forklift to pick up boxes and make a bridge? cause the gaurds shoot the boxes off...at first i try to be calm and then i do it fine and get to the other side, but as soon as i get there the gaurds shoot me and i die, and i get really angry. I usually don't get mad at games when I lose but this mission is impossible to beat...
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Looks Cool, But...... |
| John from USA says (31/Oct/2004): |
SO MANY GLITCHES! SO MANY GLITCHES! SO MANY GLITCHES!!!!!!!!! I can't even begin on how many glitches there are in this game.. To me this game was put out without having it "touched up". SO many things go wrong, cars coming out of the sky out of nowhere, trees and power poles floating in mid air not in the ground, people getting stuck in the graphics, you can even push cars through the buildings. VERY slow refresh time, SO MUCH MORE. I have even found MANY places in each city where you can fall through the graphics and into the bottom of the city. I just wish this game could have had more time to finish. I am not sure if the XBOX version is any different as far as all the glitches. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNTIL THE PRICE DROPS TO $19.99!!!!! It is definitely not worth $49.99!
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Had potential - but they blew it on this one. |
| David from Denver (NC) USA says (28/Oct/2004): |
The premise behind Driv3r was good, interesting storyline & all, but the vehicle just doesn't carry the load in this case. You can have fun with it - the fact they made the drive-around part (where you can learn your way around a city, operation of various vehicles, weaponry etc.) into a progressive game wherein finding & killing 10 "Timmy Vermicelli's" (a thinly veiled fun-poke at GTAVC's "Tommy Vercetti") unlocks an absolutely insane '18-wheeler killfest mode' was a nice touch....but there's no end to it! Once you get to that point, they just keep coming....and when you discover how easy it is to just sidestep 'em & blow the two Timmys inside away (only one is armed), it quickly becomes boring. Also, some of the places the Timmys are hiding are ridiculous - not places where you'd go in normal travels; it's almost as if the programmers intended for you to have to look up cheats to use. Oh yes, when you kill a Timmy, run over to his body (quickly - before he dissolves) & take a closeup look. Water wings? *LOL* Another 'poke' at GTAVC. (Tommy can't swim, remem?)
The game is buggy as hell - the worst I've ever seen in a PS2 game. Frequent game lockups where the graphics freeze & only recourse is to reboot the system; not to mention the & 'impossible situations' where your character easily gets into places he can't get out of....e.g. falling between a dumpster & a wall & he can't turn, jump or get out - and you lose all progress you've made in that mission.
The missions (the main game) - I've noticed a pattern...first one mission will play as you might expect, with a so-so level of difficulty that might take you 3 or 4 tries. Then the next mission is ridiculously difficult. If you DO luck thru it (and in too many cases, luck & not skill is the only way to pull it off), the following mission is stupidly easy - you finish it in 5 minutes & wonder what happened; is there another sub-level coming up? (the game has a few of those too.) Case in point - in Nice where you've gotta get to Carlita & save her from the truck running her down....then you gotta chase down & kill Fabienne. I've literally burnt HOURS, must've tried 500 times or more....I just can't do it. And I'm no slacker with the buttons either. In fact, this one mission is the very reason I'm here - trying to find a way around it. All the complaints these other reviewers have made about light poles crashing you, come out here. They're very skinny, and if that didn't make 'em hard enuff to see, it's also at nighttime! Her car is faster than yours...accelerates like a rocket. If you do get close (gain ground on the turns - if she's not so far ahead that you don't see her make 'em!)....she'll pull away from you in an instant. But what is so especially frustrating - and infuriating - is how the game will lock up your brakes & spin you out, proclaiming "Mission failed - Fabienne got away" and she's about a half-block away, in plain sight, with the big red arrow over her car pointing to it!! If she gets a little ahead of you, you don't get the CHANCE to chase her down! What the "F" kinda fair gameplay is THAT?
I can empathise with the other reviewer that said he'd never thrown his hand control so much as with this game. *LOL* that was funny. But believe me, I understand!
But this has gotten too long...so rather than go on, bottom line is this thing does indeed exhibit much suckage. The reviewers who've suggested renting before buying - that's good advice. I just hope you don't get hooked on the few good qualities before you've had a few opps to test your hand control against a wall too. These people who are telling you they 'finished the game in only 10 hours' etc? Not without using cheats they didn't! I'll give you that on non-PS2 platforms, maybe....can't say as I haven't used 'em. But on PS2's - yeah, right....and geese don't $#< remove me > at !.
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My review |
| MonkeyBot from Mars... says (13/Sep/2004): |
I hate to say it but this game isnt to good because first the controls for on foot are too choppy and weird. The car controls are ok but not too good. Also the police are dumb and have no AI or crappy AI. And also no matter how many people you kill only the cops come after you were is the ****ing S.W.A.T team for crying out loud only the police what bull sh*t! I mean come on and also there are way to many glitches in the game the only good thing about this game is the cut scenes so I am taking it back to the store now because its such bull P.S they make fun of Tommy V, from VC (vice city) just because he cant swim this game sucks don’t waste your money trust me.
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This game is amazing! |
| Jack from Columbus ,Ohio USA says (11/Sep/2004): |
Everyone who thinks this game is 2 hard is just a baby so if you need to go cry about do it by urself. I dont wanna hear it. I'm 12 , I bought the game 3 days ago and i am more than half way through it. it's called a real challenge. vice city is so easy that its not even worth it. you beat it in one day and then its boring. plus u cant swim, and the story sucks. I'm not sayin vice city isnt fun cuz it is but its mindless. this isnt 2 easy and isnt 2 hard the graphics r amazing and the cops actually do supthin if u break laws. O i no so hard u have to think about what ur doing and not just mindlessly slaughter people like in vice city. buy this game. its sweet.
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Big waste |
| Ryar from somewhere idiotic says (30/Aug/2004): |
This is by far the worst game I've ever played on the Playstation 2. The graphics are good, but that's it. The driving is so lacking that when you are driving a corvette looking car at top speed, it feels like you are going about 30 mph. The weapons are alright, but the controls out of your car are extremely sluggish. It's cool that bullet holes show accuretly on the windshields and the forklift is fun for about 5 minutes. Other than this, I am going to say that this is the worst game I've ever played for the Playstation 2, Instead wait for GTA San Andreas in October for a better deal with more features than this game.
3 out of 10.
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I can't figure what the hype was all about |
| musickid from N.Y. says (21/Aug/2004): |
I like most people was excited when I saw the advertisments for Driver 3. Instead of renting it, I went out and spent the $50 for it.....BIG MISTAKE. I have never thrown my controller as much as I have since I bought this game. The driving, shooting and overall movement of the cast is crap. I have no trouble repeating scenes a few times to get it just right and accomplish the mission but some of these seens are absolutely outta hand. If someone can tell me how to catch Carlita can you please email me? By the time I turn the car around she is gone. I have made it as far as the tiny side streets and I loose her. I am quickly loosing my patience and this game is headed for ebay!
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big disappointment |
| andy from Belfast says (5/Aug/2004): |
i know were all the money went with this game, on the ads and hollywood moviestars salery's, in a nutshell this game is bad, repeatative and cheap, the animation is poor, storyline weak, and gameplay rubbish. I would advise anyone to avoid this game, I've had it a week now and I'm gonna trade it in, it's annoying because it was the biggest hyped game ever, I won't be buying Driver 4.
1. the ferrari sounds like the car on the old arcade game Pole Position, i know thats a small point but the games called Driver surely they could've gotten that right.
2. the AI of the baddies is pathetic
3. tanner on foot is terrible
4. sometimes you can shoot the villians through a wall
5. controling the car from the outside viewpoint is like steering a ship
6. some of the levels are unessesarily difficult, to make up for a bad game
eg. I'm now a fair way into the game now and I find myself repeating the
same basic pursuit for the 3rd time.(different city, different car but same
level)
I could go on but I won't, don't buy it, it's bad.
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disapointing |
| meat uop from england says (4/Aug/2004): |
it is very disapointing to many glitches espectially the fact that half the time you cant get in your car and you freeze. it is absolutey gay it works but the game is not as good as it was cracked out to be. i like more cheese than the cheese monkey that eats jobs for a living i dont think cheese on cars is good for the ears but no more eggs have been used since the day we soted out the monkeys no use eating cars cus no one can have a metal ear in there mouth for more than a ninute so people can not be alod to be inthy jilloplike in the bill jill op had tea
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