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[madness]

There's hype and then there's hype. Atari's promoted its Driv3r as the "Grand Theft Auto-killer" which was just inviting trouble. Prior to Driv3r, the series was appreciated and rewarded with strong sales. When GTA3 rewrote the rules with its open-world gameplay, Atari decided to take their series in a similar direction with a hero that can go anywhere, do anything, and steal any number of vehicles -- but the game did not reward open-world thinking. Delays started getting the better of the ambitious production. And when costs got out of control, Atari ended up shipping the game perhaps a touch early. (First hint: Check the cop AI when you escape pursuit by jumping into the water. Total malfunction.) Driv3r sold pretty well on the basis of its hype, but word of mouth kept it from trailing GTA into the stratosphere and the series' reputation took a major hit.

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So what do you think?


I remembered back to a PC games magazine I subscribed to called "PC Powerplay" they gave driv3r a review and it only scored 4/10. Every year they have a top 100 games of all time and Driver 3 was 42nd on the list. So obviously people enjoy it otherwise it wouldn't have been on the list.

I would agree that the project was a little too ambitious, but I think it would have been possible with Ubisoft who would have the ability to better fund the project. Atari is just a bunch of screw-ups who only got in the business because they were a group of stupid kids with rich parents.

Many could blame reflections a little but I thought the choices they development team made were perfect if only they had more time to finish things up.

[Nikusakken]

I blame Atari for the poor reception of Driv3r. If they weren't so ambitious, it woudn't happen. Of course that I liked Driv3r, but when decided to turn the series into some kind of "GTA killer", they've done a terrible mistake.

I just wish that Ubisoft doesn't do the same mistake as Atari did.

[cleone]

Driv3r was decent. It should defiantly be rated higher than 4/10.

[Nikusakken]

Driv3r was decent. It should defiantly be rated higher than 4/10.

Unfortunately the "bugs and glitches and the inexistent AI" made Driv3r get a low score.

[cleone]

Driv3r was decent. It should defiantly be rated higher than 4/10.

Unfortunately the "bugs and glitches and the inexistent AI" made Driv3r get a low score.

Yeah. The game had a million glitches. I could make the world's longest post with only glitches.

[Driver of DOOM]

But that addexd charichter to the game!

[cleone]

But that addexd charichter to the game!

That is true but that is making many people fall out of interest with Driv3r.

[Nikusakken]

Meh... GTA had many glitches as well. Quite as much as the ones in Driv3r IMO. Probably they didn't like Driv3r because you can't take hookers, use a tank... Overall, just because Driv3r isn't GTA.

[bb_42001]

i have never been a GTA fan.. i personally like racing games more then Driver 3 and GTA style games

[cleone]

i have never been a GTA fan.. i personally like racing games more then Driver 3 and GTA style games

Same here. I like games where you can hop in a car and fly down the street.