Yeah, that is what I'm trying to say, maybe that menu was originally meant to let you chose from rain, cloudy or clear sky, dawn or early morning, apart from just day and night, it would be super, you know, like in Midtown Madness (Rockstar's pre-gta game). I'd really like to drive in early morning through the empty streets of Chicago breaking silence, and there is someone somewhere hear a distant echo of squeal of your tires. ECHO.... Echo... echo.... reflecting from walls, yeah! You drive through a morning fog. Sunshine is starting to filter into dirty alleys. Than you reach the highway, and an exciting panorama opens. I remember those magnificent skyscrapers so beautifully being reflected in a lake. I was bewitched by it when I played D2 for the first time, In the first mission I always took the highway to look at the lake and the buildings on the other side. Actually, I thought that taking highway was the only way to catch the witness.
And in the video it is so awesome at dawn that the driver even lost control when that panorama opened!
Choosing weather, time of day - oh, how I miss these common features of the rally games I played at the time, and Midtown Madness which I played even earlier, I think MM was my first 3D game. There you also could change traffic destiny. By the way, it was my channel, where the youtube vid is from. If you guys are looking for rare gameshark codes and other fun stuff about games of that period, mostly Driver and Driver 2, enjoy my channel