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Video Games : DRIV3R (Xbox)
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- pantaloons
Bobbins is a word that should only be used on the specialist of occassions. This is one such an occasion. Bobbins, Bobbins, Bobbins, Bobbins, Place in the Chod bin and forget. Bobbins!!!!!!!!
Up the GTA5 (San Andreas)
Rating:
- Hmmmm... No GTA beater!!!
Both GTA Vice City and Driv3r have plus and minus pionts all through Driv3r has mainly a minus side.
The story is in depth and the cut scenes that link missions are seamless almost cinematic quality which was stunning. The variation in vehicles is immense each with completly different physics for each one which can be a nightmare to control at high speeds.
Controling Tanner is fun (not!) he can be very twitchy at times and not aim at the desired target. While the AI is reasonable people run out of their cars if you piont a gun at thier head, which is fun. Or how you can snipe someone driving and their car drifts to a slow halt with the horn sounding.
I would say GTA Vice city is the one to buy as it will last for months (I have had GTA VC for 7 months and nearly completed it) Driv3r i have had for less than a week and completed it. Great!!
If pure driving is your thing then go for Driv3r, creating your own breif clip of a stunt is cool. The car physics great, character physics poor. Story line too brief nto enough playability compared to GTA VC.
But hey a great attempt but another year the game could have brilliant beyond GTA VC.
PS Swimming is neat feature a life saver for escaping.
Rating: - SLOPPY
For a game called "Driver," you may be surprised to find yourself spending quite a lot of time out of your car, and that's where the first significant gameplay problem comes to light: most of the on-foot action is weak. Your control over Tanner is stiff, at best. As you'd expect, the left stick strafes and the right stick steers, as in a typical shooter. You can fire weapons, you can halfheartedly jump, and you can duck to perform some pretty lame rolls. While you probably wouldn't expect much more from a gruff undercover guy like Tanner, all of his movements look stilted and jittery, and the gunplay--despite giving you access to a number of different pistols, submachine guns, an assault rifle, a shotgun, and a grenade launcher--is decidedly underwhelming. The combat in the game isn't tense at all, and it mostly consists of you running up to enemies and blasting them...before they blast back, if possible. However, the game is pretty liberal with the health packs, so you can certainly trade shots with most of your foes without worrying too much. Since most of the game's artificial intelligence is incompetent, you can usually get the drop on the bad guys.
The game's driving portions are better than the on-foot stuff, but not all that much better. You're given a map of the city with a pretty clear indication of where to go, and you're usually in a hurry, so there isn't much time to explore the game's cities in the story mode. The physics behind the driving appear to be designed to give you that '70s-cop-show-car-chase feel, in that everything has been exaggerated. Even the slightest turn around a corner is a tire-screeching, sliding-out affair. Getting slammed hard by a cop car might send you flying into the air, causing you to barrel roll a half-dozen times before crashing back to Earth
The problem is that the driving isn't especially fun, as you constantly feel more like you're fighting to stay in control of the car than skillfully outmaneuvering your pursuers. Sometimes you'll hit a ramp and land just fine; and sometimes you'll land differently and roll your car, forcing you to retry a mission. There are also some discrepancies between what you can and can't drive through. Some objects will let you drive right through them, while others will stop all of your forward progress with a loud, damaging crash. What's more, it's even occasionally possible to crash into objects like streetlights or trees, essentially making it look like the streetlight or other object is growing out of the middle of your car. This causes your car to become completely stuck
The driving AI isn't much better than the on-foot AI, either. Police chases--which happen more often in the game's additional modes than they do in the main story--are especially ridiculous. Cops basically aren't smart enough to get out of their cars and shoot at you unless they can get close enough to you. So, for example, if you were to jump over a guardrail and swim out into the water surrounding Miami, a cop that's pursuing you would simply drive his car into that guardrail, back up, and then drive into that guardrail over and over again. If you can get the cops to get out of their cars, they aren't much smarter. We were able to duck next to the passenger side of a cop car, which caused the cop to get out of the driver's side and simply start taking shots at us with his shotgun. But since his car was in the way, the cop was pumping round after round into the side of his car until we decided to move. Cars in Driver 3 don't explode unless they are repeatedly shot in the engine.
Driver 3 is full of the sorts of glitches and problems that final retail products shouldn't have. The graphical issues that are in the retail version of Driver 3 for the Xbox are the sorts of things that may make you wonder how this game even made it through Microsoft's submission and approval process and onto shelves. While the game itself isn't completely broken, it's uninspired and frequently frustrating or boring. Consider that, along with all the glitches, and it adds up to be a game that isn't worth your time or money
Rating: - Looks good, and, er, that's it......
OK, OK so people are comparing this to the GTA series and some think that this is unfair. However, after playing for countless hours on the recent GTA titles and enjoying every single minute of them due to the mix of driving, on-foot and superb non-stop comedy, I couldn't help but think that Driv3r could have been so much more if it had combined these elements in with what can only be described as the most well rendered environment for this size of map; it'll blow you away to look at. Obviously they couldn't just replicate the GTA formula, but to learn from the success of their approach would have helped them to identify what gamers are looking for in this genre.
A mixture of poor enemy AI, terrible on-foot/aiming controls, poor viewing angles and a non-configurable controller set-up shadow all the positive elements to make it hard work to persevere with the game.
By focusing on the looks, they forgot about the content (as most games these days seem to do). Driv3r will be filling up the "2 for £30" shelves quite soon.
100% disappointing, roll on GTA:SA, there'll be no risks there, style AND content.
Rating: - Lovely looking unplayable mess of a game
I was so looking forward to the release of this game, and yes I bought it without reading any reviews as the previous driver games were damn good fun, so Driver 3 being out on Xbox, should be awesome.....
Well, first go of the game, and the graphics looks great. I take my hat off to the pain staking task of the animators.
Then the gameplay starts and at first you got to give it a chance to get used to the controlling of the cars because thats driving games for you. After 20 minutes or so you realise your not going to get used to the controls as the cars are simply not designed to be driven, rather they are designed to frustrate the hell out of you by not handling at all and seem to crash into every little object available.I imagine its easier to get a matress and stick castor weels on it and you'd have more of a machine.As for the running around shooting enemies bit, I never thought an Xbox game would be so cheap and tacky to play.It simply isnt any fun and there's none of the thrills you get with the previous versions of driver.
Once again, we got game company greed destroying what should have been a fantastic gaming experience. Driver 3 could have been better than GTA but the gameplay doesnt even match playing poor demo disk games you get free with magazines.
- pantaloonsBobbins is a word that should only be used on the specialist of occassions. This is one such an occasion. Bobbins, Bobbins, Bobbins, Bobbins, Place in the Chod bin and forget. Bobbins!!!!!!!!
Up the GTA5 (San Andreas)
Rating:
- Hmmmm... No GTA beater!!!Both GTA Vice City and Driv3r have plus and minus pionts all through Driv3r has mainly a minus side.
The story is in depth and the cut scenes that link missions are seamless almost cinematic quality which was stunning. The variation in vehicles is immense each with completly different physics for each one which can be a nightmare to control at high speeds.
Controling Tanner is fun (not!) he can be very twitchy at times and not aim at the desired target. While the AI is reasonable people run out of their cars if you piont a gun at thier head, which is fun. Or how you can snipe someone driving and their car drifts to a slow halt with the horn sounding.
I would say GTA Vice city is the one to buy as it will last for months (I have had GTA VC for 7 months and nearly completed it) Driv3r i have had for less than a week and completed it. Great!!
If pure driving is your thing then go for Driv3r, creating your own breif clip of a stunt is cool. The car physics great, character physics poor. Story line too brief nto enough playability compared to GTA VC.
But hey a great attempt but another year the game could have brilliant beyond GTA VC.
PS Swimming is neat feature a life saver for escaping.
Rating:
- SLOPPYFor a game called "Driver," you may be surprised to find yourself spending quite a lot of time out of your car, and that's where the first significant gameplay problem comes to light: most of the on-foot action is weak. Your control over Tanner is stiff, at best. As you'd expect, the left stick strafes and the right stick steers, as in a typical shooter. You can fire weapons, you can halfheartedly jump, and you can duck to perform some pretty lame rolls. While you probably wouldn't expect much more from a gruff undercover guy like Tanner, all of his movements look stilted and jittery, and the gunplay--despite giving you access to a number of different pistols, submachine guns, an assault rifle, a shotgun, and a grenade launcher--is decidedly underwhelming. The combat in the game isn't tense at all, and it mostly consists of you running up to enemies and blasting them...before they blast back, if possible. However, the game is pretty liberal with the health packs, so you can certainly trade shots with most of your foes without worrying too much. Since most of the game's artificial intelligence is incompetent, you can usually get the drop on the bad guys.
The game's driving portions are better than the on-foot stuff, but not all that much better. You're given a map of the city with a pretty clear indication of where to go, and you're usually in a hurry, so there isn't much time to explore the game's cities in the story mode. The physics behind the driving appear to be designed to give you that '70s-cop-show-car-chase feel, in that everything has been exaggerated. Even the slightest turn around a corner is a tire-screeching, sliding-out affair. Getting slammed hard by a cop car might send you flying into the air, causing you to barrel roll a half-dozen times before crashing back to Earth
The problem is that the driving isn't especially fun, as you constantly feel more like you're fighting to stay in control of the car than skillfully outmaneuvering your pursuers. Sometimes you'll hit a ramp and land just fine; and sometimes you'll land differently and roll your car, forcing you to retry a mission. There are also some discrepancies between what you can and can't drive through. Some objects will let you drive right through them, while others will stop all of your forward progress with a loud, damaging crash. What's more, it's even occasionally possible to crash into objects like streetlights or trees, essentially making it look like the streetlight or other object is growing out of the middle of your car. This causes your car to become completely stuck
The driving AI isn't much better than the on-foot AI, either. Police chases--which happen more often in the game's additional modes than they do in the main story--are especially ridiculous. Cops basically aren't smart enough to get out of their cars and shoot at you unless they can get close enough to you. So, for example, if you were to jump over a guardrail and swim out into the water surrounding Miami, a cop that's pursuing you would simply drive his car into that guardrail, back up, and then drive into that guardrail over and over again. If you can get the cops to get out of their cars, they aren't much smarter. We were able to duck next to the passenger side of a cop car, which caused the cop to get out of the driver's side and simply start taking shots at us with his shotgun. But since his car was in the way, the cop was pumping round after round into the side of his car until we decided to move. Cars in Driver 3 don't explode unless they are repeatedly shot in the engine.
Driver 3 is full of the sorts of glitches and problems that final retail products shouldn't have. The graphical issues that are in the retail version of Driver 3 for the Xbox are the sorts of things that may make you wonder how this game even made it through Microsoft's submission and approval process and onto shelves. While the game itself isn't completely broken, it's uninspired and frequently frustrating or boring. Consider that, along with all the glitches, and it adds up to be a game that isn't worth your time or money
Rating:
- Looks good, and, er, that's it......OK, OK so people are comparing this to the GTA series and some think that this is unfair. However, after playing for countless hours on the recent GTA titles and enjoying every single minute of them due to the mix of driving, on-foot and superb non-stop comedy, I couldn't help but think that Driv3r could have been so much more if it had combined these elements in with what can only be described as the most well rendered environment for this size of map; it'll blow you away to look at. Obviously they couldn't just replicate the GTA formula, but to learn from the success of their approach would have helped them to identify what gamers are looking for in this genre.
A mixture of poor enemy AI, terrible on-foot/aiming controls, poor viewing angles and a non-configurable controller set-up shadow all the positive elements to make it hard work to persevere with the game.
By focusing on the looks, they forgot about the content (as most games these days seem to do). Driv3r will be filling up the "2 for £30" shelves quite soon.
100% disappointing, roll on GTA:SA, there'll be no risks there, style AND content.
Rating:
- Lovely looking unplayable mess of a gameI was so looking forward to the release of this game, and yes I bought it without reading any reviews as the previous driver games were damn good fun, so Driver 3 being out on Xbox, should be awesome.....
Well, first go of the game, and the graphics looks great. I take my hat off to the pain staking task of the animators.
Then the gameplay starts and at first you got to give it a chance to get used to the controlling of the cars because thats driving games for you. After 20 minutes or so you realise your not going to get used to the controls as the cars are simply not designed to be driven, rather they are designed to frustrate the hell out of you by not handling at all and seem to crash into every little object available.I imagine its easier to get a matress and stick castor weels on it and you'd have more of a machine.As for the running around shooting enemies bit, I never thought an Xbox game would be so cheap and tacky to play.It simply isnt any fun and there's none of the thrills you get with the previous versions of driver.
Once again, we got game company greed destroying what should have been a fantastic gaming experience. Driver 3 could have been better than GTA but the gameplay doesnt even match playing poor demo disk games you get free with magazines.