Driver 2 Walkthrough - Rio Mission 7: Chase the Gun Man

[@BullworthGraduate]

Whoever came up with the idea for this mission must have been high on drugs or something. This mission is damn near impossible to beat.

[@edsontrator4659]

+Clayton Luce say this to steal the ambulance

[@buster5283]

yeah

[@buster5283]

+Another Sub stake out is fairly easy if you change the cop difficulty in the settings.

[@buster5283]

If the developers put in kind of like of cheat mechanism like they did in the mini games names that you put in for driver 1 on the pc, that would be really helpful right here, especially super speed or whatever they call it.

[@patrickballantine8986]

i agree with you 100% i hated all three of those missions Stake Out took me more tries then any other mission in this game

[@DivideByZer0]

I learned the skill of perseverance from this mission; I played it for a month straight in middle school until I finally beat it. There was no way I was going to give up on the third to last level.

[@AZIZ.ELWAN13]

DivideByZer0 chase the intruder was a pain in the ass

[@hiimpubg360]

@@AZIZ.ELWAN13 not like this one Chase the gunman is hard in an unforgiving way

[@AZIZ.ELWAN13]

@@hiimpubg360 yeah that also

[@antonchigur4299]

You're a much better man than me. I gave up playing it altogether for YEARS then finally came back to it and by some sort of miracle I was finally able to beat it

[@NostalgiaGamesProd]

Believe me man, as you have seen in the video, there were some really close calls with this one. 2:05 I will never forget... my hands were fucking shaking like hell. I was so freakin' nervous about messing this one up. When I finally did manage to stop him, my heart was beating so fast and I was sweating bullets. This is one hell of a mission to play.

[@Slayerx49]

I almost flipped the coin because of this game! I was stuck on this level for weeks and when my cousin came to stay the weekend, she beat it on her second try!! I removed the CD from the console and threw it like a frisbee into the woods!!

[@Oppaismasher]

xD

[@Sprawl1GuitarMan]

Bet you wish you had it now 😂

[@monoelmono9476]

Lmao that's the worst when someone does it straight away. A gut wrenching feeling

[@aara-tg7kc]

I remember reading in a magazine how to beat this mission: "chase him to the mountain and swideswipe him on the right!" GREAT GAME and GREAT story but if you beat this mission you deserve a medal from the United Nations

[@ragerancher]

Ah the good old driver 2 permenant lag and the scripted cars that were impossible to knock off their scripted path.

[@GoredonTheDestroyer]

If by "permanent lag" you mean the game slowing down, that wasn't coded into the game. That's the PS1 having a stroke trying to run Driver 2.

[@modrozelenaalga9607]

@Pablosuper90 You can do that only with the last hit. After you fill his damage scale, it's not scripted anymore. The probability for that to happen is obviously very low.

[@josephwj7199]

@@modrozelenaalga9607 It's not possible because the last hit has to be registered before the infinite mass property is disabled. So if you try crashing into the gunman for the last hit, since that car still has the infinite mass at the time of the collision, you'll be chucked away hard as if you crashed into a wall, while the gunman just eases into slowing down.

[@vibeackermann]

This is where my campaign ended, i couldnt beat this level !

[@JTCPingas]

I hated this mission.

[@Zapix]

Haya, me toó ;P

[@Zapix]

haha, me too! :P

[@deathripp6669]

Me2

[@RC30019]

Me too fuck this mission

[@zlatkomustovic1147]

Why?

[@Shadowdragon_TV]

When that music kicks in for a high-speed chase. Epic classic.

[@julianblake8385]

So nice to see all the hate in the comments. Now I know I'm not alone. I so fucking hated this mission when I was a kid. It took me forever to beat it, I just managed to do it once. And here I am 16 years later, still so fucking pissed at this level again! Daaamn it's hard!

[@Elroiden]

Old school quality! I love it, been stuck for ages on this level when I was a kid

[@maxman1602]

This level, then Find the Clue, then Hijack the Truck are, in my opinion, the hardest levels of the entire series.

[@vamp4403]

agreed

[@hiimpubg360]

you forgot stop the Truck

[@Skiller444]

This is one of the hardest missions, took me forever to beat. My advice is: Try to get your car in front of him, try to block his way. He will then keep ramming you while you keep braking. The Damage will fill up fast. Don't even bother trying to smash into him because, well, you probably know it only makes your car get bounced away.

[@glenndoran6644]

It still gives me anxiety....

[@josephwj7199]

Here's a really big, useful hint for everyone: Try to play this mission when the start timer is at either 2:08 or 2:09. Restart until you get those. The gunman drives on much, much easier scripted routes on those timer presets. And remember that: the gunman is scripted, so you have to scrape their car lightly and maintain contact to do damage. DO NOT try charging or ramming into their car.

[@NGDemonSlayer12]

I'm pretty sure this mission is the reason I traded this game in for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. Fuck this mission.

[@monoelmono9476]

Man this mission is one of the hardest I've played in me life. One moment you thought you were gonna do it and you would smash into another car or drop off the cliff 20 seconds later. After completing driver 1 president mission I wasn't gonna let this beat me. I must have played the mission 200 times in a row to beat the level. So much rage and swearing over a game but I finally did it!!!

[@jayemel]

Know something funny? he actually picked the right car for this chase, the yellow Mercedes Benz is a way more faster than the red Ford Corcel GT most people use since you start the mission close to it. this mission is so designed to play against you that you need RNG luck that the Gun Man won't start the escape at full speed, so you can pick the faster and more reliable car to pursue a locomotive strengthened car and not fail the mission. Just to you know, the Ford Corcel GT in this game has a Speed value of 0E10, most of the basics cars(including the Mercedes Benz) in the game has a value of 1000, which makes according to "Comando52Colton" list, The Fifth fastest car in the game losing by almost every basic car in the game(even the Vegas Limo and Ambulance) and only surpassing the heavy vehicles(buses, Semi and trucks), making the Ford Corcel GT the slowest light car in the entire game(not only the city of Rio), so the programmers for this level, was really trolling us with this stupid unfair and borderline impossible mission.

[@hugolopez1103]

It took me 16 years to beat this fucking mission. I couldnt do it when i was a kid so i gave up until this weekend that i decided to beat this stupid ass game and i just beat this mission today. 16 fucking years! My life is now complete.

[@julianblake8385]

I feel you brother! Here I am, 16 years later trying to beat this fucking mission.

[@sylwek43]

One of the hardest missions in Driver 2, imo.

[@someguy8951]

I've never been so happy to see those 5 words in my life

[@Farksisten]

I never got past this mission... One of the hardest gaming challenges I've ever faced.

[@ralph6968]

this mission is really hard but ,not as hard as president's run from driver 1.

[@TheFrozen14]

No amigo this is far way harder

[@laserbeam3836]

it was harder

[@goomba008]

I beat president's run in under 10 attempts, this took me a couple DAYS (stopped counting how many attempts)

[@eric18993]

President's run is eazy in comparison with this very hard mission.

[@EuSouRCS]

That president's mission was beyond than harder,it's a bullshit bug kind of.

[@SaltNPepperChips]

This is one of the most frustrating levels I've evr played in anygame. After millions of tries I somehow luckily managed to jam my car in front of the target car and it kept ramming me from behind until its damage meter filled up. That was the only way I could beat it, theres no way I could do it normally. Equally as hard as the final level in Driver 1.

[@roymckankakee]

Just beat the shit out of this mission just doing the same as you, in my case for some reason the whole thing went out of controll and ended up in a dumb collision chain, but hey, it did his job. Will post a video when I figure out how to render it.

[@aquaticlibrary]

2:05 I probably would’ve given up hope on this run but you pulled it off somehow

[@SAKIS8684]

This is the hardest mission in this game. It took me over a month to pass it. When I completed the mission, I felt like the happiest man in the earth...

[@hpesojogladih9782]

The RNG in this mission sometimes you're lucky you can get him sometimes you can't 👍.

[@RunLikeHellIV]

You make it look so easy! You mess up over and over and over, and you still win! I spent hours on this, I specifically remember falling down into that black void many times.

[@captainviggo4575]

All we had to do was follow the damn gun man, Tanner!

[@XxBakerxX72]

I have waaay too many memories of this game...I can basically remember almost EVERYTHING I did. So much time in freeroam...I remember trying to do things that weren't even possible, but I didn't research on the internet. I just TRIED it. Even though it may have been so so foolish...Sometimes ignorance is bliss I guess. And I STILL want to play this again!

[@wekiwisdofly85]

The ultimate test of patience

[@grupoalsalasjuntas1315]

great game, good memories, I liked to drive hours around the Cerro del Corcovado in the city of Rio, in my passenger bus pretending to be a busdriver, ohhh my childhood, where have you gone? : ')

[@BaronTrance]

the most sportive play that I've ever seen on this mission well done what I did was restart the mission hundred times until I get 1:32 time limit at the start of the mission. On that time limit you can overtake the gun man at beginning then keep him kissing your tail with constant speed and it will be the fastest mission in the game.

[@FlavioRicardo69]

+BaronTrance I did the same. :]

[@strikerecho2592]

Everyone: This mission is hard. 😡 BK4: First try.

[@spatnaspolecnost]

man this is only one mission in my gaming history I could not beat lol, great job!

[@NostalgiaGamesProd]

LOL nice, I was eating Chips-Ahoy while beating it the first time !

[@tmheitinga]

followed WOOTinator Hyalyago advice of staying in front the gunman's car and it worked a charm! thanks! took me 3 hours to beat it. Keep calm and destroy the bloody red car. Good luck guys !

[@cinekodakexp]

The first time I was ever able to beat this level was out of pure luck. After many failed attempts, there was one spot where the T-Bird failed to cut across the grass before entering the mountains. That was when I made it in front of the gunman and had him rub up against the rear of my car. I was able to damage him one bar at a time and I completed the mission. I performed the happiest dance and delivered the much needed middle finger towards this mission.

[@MrLobo1024]

It took me so fking long to beat this level.

[@kaineleggett3401]

This is maybe say 1 of 3 missions I remember REALLY well from Driver 2. Incredibly frustrating. One thing I really liked from Driver 2 was the cut scenes and when you went back to play on from where you were there was like a "previously on" splice reel. Also, at the end of the game, "Just Dropped In" was a masterful choice to play imo

[@NostalgiaGamesProd]

Great choice of words to describe my playing! And I did not know that you can miraculously stop him before he even reaches the main roads (believe me, I have tried time and time again to do so, but have never successfully done it). That would have been so sick if I could have pulled something off like that for KZbin. Then even I would be impressed with myself!

[@Brainhorn]

I never did beat this mission as a kid. Cathartic to see someone else do it lol

[@terrymgs]

I remember saving the replay in the memory card when I finally beat this f*king mission. I couldn't believe it.

[@nathanmachado3700]

Saudades desse jogo. Me fez recordar minha infância.

[@duanbruno6785]

Esse jogo fez muita gente feliz kkk

[@KByrd]

I am now taking therapy, thanks to this level...

[@Pawelino1000]

fantastic game,and this mission hehe awesome high lvl,but i like it

[@AR333]

i was stuck at this one forever too when i was younger... i was like 9-10 maybe. Glad to see I wasn't the only one

[@ballsyour1]

Damn right bro... And worse, I was like 8 years-old! I tried it, litteraly, for days and i always fell to the cliff and then I found the trick... dont try to ram it out of the road, just slightly hit him and try to keep the same speed. It seems simple, but it is nearlly impossible. When I pulled it of, you should have seen the look on both my brothers face! Priceless!

[@canaldobasilisco5564]

Man, I beat this mission on touch screen on my cell phone. It took me 3 afternoons to beat it. Ridiculously hard

[@finix7419]

I can't believe I beat this mission as a kid

[@ZackMcLeish13]

i remember me and my brother beating this mission while i was eating a bag of salsa-flavoured nachos

[@NateNightGaming]

I hate how the gunman just simply manages to either: 1. Demolish everything in it's way. 2. Perfectly turns around trees, bushes, walls, corners.etc. The most satisfying moment is where you just get to ram him in the gully and watch him fall to his doom! >:D

[@Alexandre-hk4jq]

Isn't it insane how this game has more car phyisics than GTA V?

[@henriquesampa2008]

HOW TO BEAT THIS GODDAMNED MISSION: Watch the time. If the mission starts with 1:50 left, restart the mission. If it starts with 2:10, 2:40 or more, you can try your luck. Why? With less time, the AI car will drive like a maniac and you can't stand a chance. With more time, the AI car will "slow down" sometimes, especially in the first moves, allowing you to overtake him in the first bend. When you overtake, let the car ram yours from behind, but DON'T let him ram you hard or you will spin and fail. Let him ram you gently, by accelerating a little. You can beat him in seconds if you follow this.

[@Sno1001]

Fuck this level the only game ive never completed

[@NostalgiaGamesProd]

Indeed, that is a rarity! I remember one time stopping him before the cliffs in the yellow car many years ago. Needless to say, I was impressed with myself that day haha.

[@SkullSyker]

After hours of trying, millions of restarts I finally beat it. I got it with Jones' car (Red one) and I got him just when he passed the underpass (Freeway). How did I do this impossible thing, you may ask? Get into Jones' car and get infront of the gunman on the big road where you exit the curvy road. Let him just slightly touch your rear-bumper and keep braking slightly so he keeps tapping/scraping your back. This takes some practice, but is rewarding!

[@Hyalyago]

Thanks, buddy!!! YES, you can place yourself in front of him as soon as you hit the road out of the building green zone!!! All you have to do is to act quick!, choose the first car you face as soon as the game starts, SLAM on the gas like Hell and cut to the right between the trees (he would take the bend correctly). That makes you lead his way. That's the easiest part.

[@RanThaMan]

Yup I never got pass this one.

[@TheNinjaRichie]

it took you 2 years!!!! (*o*). ive been doing this mission for the past two days and i intend to complete it in less than a week, and congratulations on passing the mission you deserve it.

[@maxwellhowig510]

Yes, I specifically remember I had to retry this mission more than any other in the game. Yeah, you totally need the yellow car cause the Orange car's stats are noticeably lower, worth the pause/turn around. I remember even the strategy guide made fun of this mission's difficulty; it said "your opponent drives highly crazily, he must be on his cell phone".

[@josephwj7199]

The yellow car being faster is a complete misconception and misdirection. Both cars have about the same performance when trying to catch up with the gunman because the gunman car is rigged that way. The only thing that makes you catch up better to the gunman is the amount of time on the timer when the mission starts, which is randomly selected from several presets.

[@carybo777]

i can imagine that...i was in the same situation in so many different games but youre absolutely right by saying it's a hell of a mission!

[@Lancer265]

Currently playing Redriver 2 and holy shit I suffered a lot with this mission !!! I don't even remember how I passed it when I was kid. The biggest flaw is that not only the enemies can boost their speed like crazy, but also they can be as heavy as a fucking Tank 😡 Idk what the developers were thinking when they made such mechanics...

[@Themaskplague]

This was the mission where as a kid I just couldn’t beat it 😂😅

[@SubZero.319]

Used to play when i was 7 years old :D It was like playing GTA IV, San andreas, at it's time :D

[@marwanelattar8299]

I remember this damned mission, I hated it ... Broke my controller & I last managed to stop him after many many many attempts, days of hand shaking & screaming 😅😅

[@Larry3200]

This is the mission I that actually made me give up this game when I was young, I thought you had to ram the driver before the time runs out and kept messing up. after all these years I now know that all I had to do was to stick with him! I'm gutted.

[@dobias28]

This mission costed me two weeks of my life

[@TEK0701]

omfg this fckin mission, so much memories and broken controllers.

[@carybo777]

damn, i've been playing driver 2 for 8 years now, but i still couldn't beat this fuckin mission^^

[@henriquew11]

I tried so hard to beat this level as a kid that, after so many tries, I used to stage the intro cut scene as if I was the main character in real life

I first played this mission 2002, beat the mission during pandemy in 2020.

[@goomba008]

Of all the thoughtless missions in this game, this one takes the cake. The gunman's car, because it needs to follow its path, seems to weigh 50 metric tons and bounces you like a ping pong ball in addition to other cars. To make matters worse, the trees have hit boxes much bigger than their graphics, the white fences have invisible pieces protruding that stop you in your tracks, the distance to make you "lose" him is needlessly short, the framerate keeps varying or slowing down to a crawl and theres a low time limit to top it all off. Yup that was my rant about this 21 years old shitty sequel to a great game.

[@someguy8951]

It's so bloody annoying like bruh when I hit your car react accordingly instead he pushes me like 2688 metres back

[@Lesnik837]

Как же я бесился на этой миссии...)) Ну и не только на этой, конечно, это ж Driver 2))) А ещё ожидал, когда же дадут пострелять! Дождался только бомб, которыми в тебя кидают...

[@GamePoklonnik]

Oh my God, I just spent over 3 hours on this... The ONLY way for me to ride was to overtake him almost at the start and then let him crash into me until his lifebar ran out. That way I finished the mission in about 20 seconds. Yes, it is possible, but you have to be able to stay in line with the gunman while he crashes into you, and you have to be VERY lucky

[@makcrow1992]

Oh jez, this mission certainly kept me busy for a long time. those were the days...

[@NostalgiaGamesProd]

Haha, good thing I read this before attempting to provide any tips. But for future reference (for anyone else who might be stuck and reading the comments section for tips), I would use the turns on the cliffs to your advantage. He seems to slow down on the turns and these provide time for you to do major damage to his car.

[@Hyalyago]

hahaha, it's been a pleasure, friend. You were lucky I guess. That's a trick not always works in the practice as in the theory. To be honest, after I wrote about it I kept searching more KZbin videos about this same mission and what would be my SURPRISE when I found more people did it MY WAY and uploaded it here!!! XDD

[@zlatkomustovic1147]

I love this song it make my hair stand up:p

[@ccutter2]

This damn mission was the reason I never beaten this game

[@Hyalyago]

EXCELLENT RUN!!! You were intrepid in a tricky chase. I LIKED THAT!!! You've proven yourself too tough in this run. Your car choice was the best. Did you know? you can stop the gunman right in the first corner to the right just exiting the building if you're lucky enough. Also you can place yourself in front of him and stop his car making him to crash yours, if he doesn't make you turn 180. I did so once.

[@TerraziUtopia2010]

For me this was the hardest mission in the whole game. Now I struggled like crazy to beat this mission & I finally did but man I hate this mission. Another mission that I struggled so much with was Find the Clue in Havana. They give such little time to crash all 4 cars to find the clue. I really do miss playing this game though. Good memories it brought me. 😇

[@Spectre15rus]

Gun Man, was a best driver ever) but in 1000000000000 time, i beat'em :D

[@TerraziUtopia2010]

Spectre15rus same!!!! 😃

[@vamp4403]

Guys, I just noticed something about playing this mission. You know how " Driver 2 " have the " red " disc or " silver " disc for this game. Either you have the original release for this game or the " greatest hits collection " which is the silver disc. If you try to go in front of the hitman car and stop and let him ram the back of your car until his is wrecked, it's harder to do on the " red " disc because he will do alot of damage to your car, and you'll fly out of no where. Do this on the "silver " disc, and it's easy as hell

[@wekiwisdofly85]

The biggest test of my patience was this mission and the presidents run driver 1. Must have gone through 3 controllers trying to complete the mission

[@jakesteven1980]

Some retries extends the time length of this mission. The lag was supposed to be a helpful sequence. The beige car is slightly faster and well handled than the red car. It takes luck to hit the target from the deadly part of the ledge at full speed. And my record of tries for this mission so far is about 40 in 2 hours.

[@juang6653]

I really wanted to finish this game but this mission stopped me :'(

[@NostalgiaGamesProd]

I have tried to push him down the mountain during the many times that I have played this mission. It's weird, the AI in this game are really solid it seems. It's almost like they are bricks lmao! If I ever do manage to push him down the mountain, I would feel so victorious!

[@Junior22G]

This mission was like a nightmare, i till remember those days

[@defaltmarkowicz4887]

Pain in the Arse this mission was.

[@TheNinjaRichie]

i just passed this mission after days of trying, I JUST WANT TO SHOUT OUT LOAD!!!

[@mneerhalmnieir1548]

Nice work NostalgiaGamesProd

[@gamersin]

It took me ages to complete this mission first time =D

[@NostalgiaGamesProd]

In Driv3r, Tanner is still paired with Tobias Jones. Even though Jones seemingly died in this cutscene, it is assumed that he probably lived due to the fact that he is in Driv3r, unless Driv3r's story takes place before Driver 2's story. In that case, one can assume that Jones dies in the shack. It's really hard to determine whether Jones is alive after this mission because we don't see him again for the rest of the game.

[@NostalgiaGamesProd]

Oh do I ever, thats all I ever use at the start of every mission in this game, the O button. Just press it and burn rubber baby haha.

[@TacticalViper6]

omg ur the best driver ever

[@revo8778]

This mission is responsible for broken controllers, shattered televisions, and over a thousand smashed Driver 2 jewel cases. Fuck you Reflections. Your games make people rage.

[@mikailone]

I remember that at some point my brother and i(16-12) were restarting the mission if we can't turn the first corner very well and we did it maybe 100+ times.

[@terryjennings2356]

I literally spent years trying to beat this mission and never could.

[@Kawamanimes]

i was trying to push him off the mountain one day, & instead of me pushing him .... HE pushed me off the mountain xD lmfao