I also thought it was the best, I couldn't stop playing it. I was also short on money at the time and sadly I just decided to wait for the PC version as I couldn't afford a PS2 or XBOX. So that was just another couple of months wait which I really didn't want to have to sit through looking at everyones fan videos just waiting to get that game, then I finally got it and played it for 2 entire days non-stop.
And then after that I played it most of the holidays at 80% of the days.
Then a year passed by of me playing it for about 3hours a day and then my computer started performing pretty bad and I couldn't play it anymore even after reinstalling windows performance was terrible my computer was just getting old.
So anyways DPL was just about to be released and then I decided to purchase a XBOX and I got both DRIV3R and Driver: Parallel Lines. At the time xbox's and ps2 were quite cheap just about at their cheapest prices.
Then 2 weeks later the xbox dropped it's price by $100 and I was quite annoyed, expecially after borrowing money from someone and I owed them $100 if only I had waited a few more weeks I would have received tha discount.
Then on the xbox version I played through it time after time and I increased my playing time per day by an extra hour making it something like 4 hours a day.
Then I finally got a PS2 and I purchased DRIV3R on PS2, my first impression wasn't all that good mainly because the PS2's graphics really sucked. But it was alright but I'm happy I never first purchased the ps2 version first because I really thought it didn't look that nice at all.
Now I haven't played a single game in over 2 months, I seem to be getting too much homework these days and it's really holding me back
The holidays are coming in about another 4 weeks and I'm putting a new computer for me together tomorrow and the first game I'm going to install will be DRIV3R and I'll be playing that on full quality for ages making many exciting replays and more

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I plan to start playing DRIV3R a lot more on PC again and when Driver: Parallel Lines comes out on PC I'll make it a mixture however if there is no Film Director in Driver: Parallel Lines on PC I'll probley still continue playing DRIV3R for a significant amount of time.
So that is both the past, present and future of me and DRIV3R.