driver is fun to break

[@danielhillier7417]

I remember playing this as a kid and being amazed by how good it looked and the incredible car physics. The physics still look good now, the sliding the weighty feeling of the car.

[@sprolyborn2554]

It's not just that either, the way they model the floaty suspension and body roll is practically 1:1 for these 80s American boats. I loved this series.

[@Psythik]

This was one of the first 3D games I played on PC. I could never pass the stupid parking garage tutorial(and still can't), so I edited the game files to remove it. I still remember the name of the file: *mladder.dml* For some reason they made the tutorial ridiculously difficult. You had to pull over every maneuver on that list in 60 seconds with no mistakes. Which was odd cause the rest of the game was much easier.

[@karelpipa]

@@sprolyborn2554 70s

[@sprolyborn2554]

@@karelpipa the first one he was in was 70s. The one at 12:55 is 80s. As are the cop cars themselves. Most of the car models are 80s cars.

[@Billetheexplorer]

I remember when gta came out on 3d. It was compared to driver but where you also could step out of your car. I was blown away by gta

[@Casketkrusher_]

I remember beating the tutorial level just once as a kid, then shared around my memory card for other kids at my school, I was considered a legend.

[@cocodojo]

Legend is that same memory card's save file is still floating around the internet to this day, saving everyone from doing the tutorial driving mechanics section.

[@fathersunglasses6085]

💪

[@MiXedPlague]

its funny i hear so many struggled with it and i absolutely crushed this game

[@NBFaded2497]

Driver 2 was also really fun. In Driver 2 you could get out of your car and steal other ones. There was also secret cars you could find in special locations.

[@dorkbrandon4422]

Once I found the old mini in Havana my dad hogged the game .

[@abdulqudz89]

i still remember the invincibility cheat code to this day. atop of this, san francisco was the best place to watch cop cars go flying through the air.

[@CrashTestCat]

My god this game was so much fun to mess about on as a kid. Also a bit of an American slang confusion, the term "hot" when referring to that beat up car isn't "this is a nice car" it's saying "this car was involved in a crime, and we need you to dispose of it". Hot referring to "heat", wanted level. I also used to get stuck on the parking garage mission and would have my dad get me past it lol.

[@stanwooz94]

Anyone here that used to venture out into the abyss at the highway corner of Los Angeles where there's this wall you can pass trough? This was on ps1. Discovering glitches like this felt like doing something forbidden as a kid, fearing that the ps1 would somehow self destruct as punishment for testing the games boundaries, as if the constant freezing after finally beating a mission wasn't scarring enough!

[@jamesb1221222]

i havent played since it was relatively new but there was a glitchy area in the LAX part of the map that would randomly flip npc cars. I used that to fly out of bounds, it was cool being were you weren't supposed to be. I think I perfected roof ramming lol hitting at a 45 degree angle sends you the highest.

[@mowvu]

i remember! also on the san francisco level you could jump the map near the bridge entrance before the island

[@seanmichaelmartinez]

Longplay Of Driver

[@Xegethra]

In film editor mode.....

[@DankUser]

Subbed. Long play. At 0.730x speed.

[@Lazarus-aap]

I remember when this game came out for the ps1. At that time gta was still a topview game and I was hoping gta would come out in this 3d style as well. My dream came true 👍

[@communist-hippie]

Me and my late best friend used too play this stoned all the time. Good memories , miss my friend

[@Space_Reptile]

i renember as a kid putting busses on the drawbridge in driver 2, when the bridge opened they would clip through the road as the bridge opnened and now the entire intersection was this black hole where cars would just fall into the floor and then like a minute later rain from the sky

[@davidhamm2613]

As a kid without internet when I rented with game from Blockbuster, I had a really hard time figuring out what. "slalom" was. By the time I figured it out I had a day left to return it.

[@dorkbrandon4422]

That's a bugger, I was like 'Dad what's that word mean?'

[@Manic_Panic]

Me and my cousin used to play "Survival" mode to see who could break the game first. The cops are so ridiculously strong they can send you out of bounds or make you fly really high, then we would save the replays. We couldn't do the garage tutorial but that didn't stop us from having fun with it.

[@MMMaaatttttt]

Yes this mode was so hard! I remember just getting out the park area in the SF map on survival was a skill you had to learn.

[@StarDustTF2]

Driver, a Really cool game from my childhood Still mad Driver's last game was a Mobile Boat Racing game...

[@RoyalATPArchive]

We don't count that as a mainline entry anyway so it's all good.. Last game was San Fran

[@StarDustTF2]

@@RoyalATPArchive Have no problem doing that lol

[@janb1033]

mobile "games" don't count as games. they are leagues below anything like a real game like "Driver".

[@yoshimario]

@@janb1033 have you considered that the very first driver was on ios and there are plenty of classic games i can just play on my phone, and if we included emulators, it would be kind of unfair

[@janb1033]

@@yoshimario no, I don't know about a Driver Game for iOS. In my mind the first title was Driver for PS1. Whats the exact title of the iOS Game you mentioned?

[@thrdai]

You had me at Driver is fun.

[@SNOWDUDE13]

The tutorial leaves a lasting painful memory for anyone who dared try it 😮

[@maxdata8579]

I used to force my younger brother to sit next to me as if i was picking someone up.😂 GOLDEN GAME DAYS

[@BarackLesnar]

immersion

[@raposonanquim7987]

Shoutout to all fellow Driver fans that developed heart diseases after playing this too much.

[@trollozori]

I remember Driver 2 being pure chaos, be looking for the next one!

[@moniquesantrifcer1447]

Seems like everyone's dad did the opening part lol

[@derbydriver]

I remember the hype around this game being all about the driving, not so much the story or missions. The driving physics were unlike anything else at the time. Though it was not the first open world mission-based driving game (Body Harvest for N64, Auto Assault for PS1 are just two that come to mind), it was definitely the first to take a stab at “realism”. The bouncy suspension, the weight and mass of the cars transferring during collisions, the hub caps flying off and rolling away… it was all cutting edge stuff. I remember everyone losing their minds when Driver 2 introduced CURVED ROADS. Then GTA3 came out and changed everything forever.

[@daviecrocket9160]

What about destruction derby that was a good one on physics if I remember correctly.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

@@daviecrocket9160 Same developer as Driver actually, along with Stuntman.

[@Corkoth55]

The driving physics look pretty good. The car seem like they actually have some weight to them unlike other games.

[@sparkshot]

"Gunna get a good hit on him here..." Hits wall 🤣

[@Kinkkis]

I want driver remastered 😂❤

[@AlarmingTwitch]

I got this game when it came out and legit could not get past the damn parking garage for two weeks due to not knowing what slalom was. Shit was embarrassing

[@deanblenkinship1614]

same!!! jesus that unlocked a memory haha

[@belther7]

I remember that you can get your car thrown from a tunnel off the map in NY map and in multi levels garage you can troll and make the police cars get on their roofs because they get clipping in the ceiling when jumping

[@tnc4700]

the start of this game was... well... A NIGHTMARE

[@Mobius_Ap3x]

I finished this game so many times and it never gets old! LOL😎

[@AnonymousCaveman]

Damn this is nostalgic. I also couldn't do the intro as I was too young but I used to drive around without getting the police in my tail. Even if you go through a red light it's a felony.

[@mikes0121]

That magazine on the table called the dun 😅🤣

[@IskanderS]

I loved to play this as a kid. I had most fun using bridges/hills to jump on other cars to launch yourself or the other cars away. Coincidentally, I found that Destruction Derby 2 had the same bug and there was another racing game that had this but I do not remember which one it was.

[@vptknrn5939]

This game is impressive for its time and still is till this day.

[@Audiojunkk]

Defo a part 2 please, this was hilarious!

[@PsychoticFemboySlvt]

Please make a part 2,the final mission of the game is absurd! 🖤

[@gunbladelad7772]

Hint : Keep to the pavement / sidewalk and the police can't track you once you're beyond a couple of car lengths...

[@TheRetroEngine]

So much reminds me of Destruction Derby and DD 2 on the Playstation.

[@Kevin_the_car]

Kevin's favourite game

[@TheCarzAll]

Does Kevin rage

[@Kevin_the_car]

kind of

[@Kevin_the_car]

@@TheCarzAll kind of

[@TheCarzAll]

@@Kevin_the_car kind of

[@MiNiBlocksberg]

This was the first game for PC, that I bought with my own money (I was like 11 or 12 years old). I only had Need for Speed 3 - Hot Pursuit and Command and Conquer Red Alert at that time, so the details and damage model of Driver just blew me away. Now, it seems a bit stupid, but hey, its still a classic. Right? At least the music is most definitively still amazing. This game also defined my love for these old 70s (80s?!) Police cars.

[@DeaZzZeR]

flooby is a progamer damage 99% and still losing cops lol

[@liltich6312]

Didnt eexpected driver to be such a cool gamer, even on the ps1! the bouncy cars are funny heh

[@akaMyThought]

I always like the Action Camera view when it would swap to the cops pov chasing me.

[@akaMyThought]

9:12 lol! 😅

[@00wrongun]

Loved this game especially stopping just over a hill and watch the cop cars fly overhead , quality

[@whiskeyclone11]

Part 2 Part 2 Part2!!! Also keep the sound effects you add, love 'em

[@theboycee1]

This game was revolutionary. The driving and sliding physics were chefs kiss. The tutorial is a piece of piss too

[@JomasterTheSecond]

I hope this means Driv3r is on the horizon.

[@BarackLesnar]

No, horizon is a forza game 😋

[@blueelem7372]

Wow this takes me back to 1999 I spent many years playing this game it's a great game but I still remember how much it pissed me off

[@PaulTheFox1988]

Easy way I've found for the beginning mission is burnout all the way to the opposite wall to get both burnout then speed and then slam on the brakes at the last possible second to get brake test, from there reverse until you're going fast enough for a reverse 180 and come to a rest, from there do a 360 but allow the car to swing around an additional 180 degrees to face back towards where you came from, go forward and complete the 180 then head for the nearest end pillar for the slalom before finishing with a lap. This method definitely isn't the fastest, but it can be done in 35 seconds if executed perfectly. I loved this game on ps1, the wonky physics when hitting the roof or underside of the cars gave me hours of fun, and the best map for taking advantage of this was undoubtedly San Francisco, and my perfect version of the game would be the pc version with the physics of the ps1 version, that would be an absolute riot.

[@Lwalker1989]

Sometimes it shoots you cross the map when u hit the roof of cars lol

[@tiggytiger11]

As a kid I used to be hung up on that parking garage because I could barely read and had no idea what a slalom was. Check out the movie The Driver from 1978, it's where they got a lot of the inspiration for the game.

[@UKTHUGZOFWAR90]

This was one of the best games when I was a kid

[@chris67bug]

I played this game to death back in the day. One thing i never managed was to be able to do a doughnut in the training mission in the desert at the beginning. Some day i will go back and do it!

[@Manabi.Okiniiri]

peak ps1 physics XD

[@randellcrawford6361]

Part two pls. I made some GameShark codes back in the day that gave the cars hydraulics. Depending on what buttons I held, it would adjust individual ride heights of each wheel. I had front, back, and side to side.

[@Speeder975]

Hey pal! (pun intended) Absolutely great vid. I grew up playing Driver and loved it, you’ll notice my profile picture is a Driver screenshot (and it’s about fifteen years old)! Now having brought that up, there are some quirks to the game that I think are golden and will add even more replay-ability than it had before you knew them! My first point - my profile picture is from a Miami mission, one you haven’t done because you haven’t tried pressing the forward or backward on-screen buttons during the mission select. In each city, you can choose between a selection of 2 or 3 missions in some situations. Check your voice messages! Big point number two - Difficulty select! Located in Main Menu > Options > Gameplay > Cop Difficulty. By default, I believe Cop Difficulty is set to medium. Personally I set it to hard for the added challenge. Definitely try it out! But it’s up to you if you’d like to complete the story with ‘hard’ cops before you do so with ‘medium’ cops. Thirdly, check out this run-through of Miami missions by me! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnnUd35pYpein7csi=rWEzljhhKkxC0fLK But I’ll warn you that I’ve done a few different missions compared to this video of yours. So if you watch before you try them, they’ll be spoiled! 😵

[@Royal_Rails]

broo i felt that at 4:07 Driver sucks when it comes to saving. it forces you to complete at least three missions back to back weather you want to or not lol

[@xX_Gravity_Xx]

I think people forget just how incredible this game was bac when it came out. Only other games that came close were stuff on the PC.

[@redactedaudioworks9407]

My dad used to be able to beat the parkade first try with a keyboard on the pc version. Pure chad gamer energy

[@ZRock7771]

Wow, I remember driving around in the garage until my dad had to take over. I never made it past that part either lol. Funny we've had the same exact experience.

[@CasioSilver]

lmao I was the kid that could beat the tutorial since I read how to do it in a magazine and learned the cheat codes. Gosh, I remember coming home from school just to put on the invincibility cheat and flip cop cars on those exact slopes lmao flew over the map a few times since you can get even more air if you go faster. I learned how far I could go before cars would despawn and where to get optimal setups by flipping cars and moving them Bloody good time that was, I wonder if I could still muscle memory that cheat code XD

[@ZaikPoints]

Finally

[@Trash432]

I tried to play this when I was younger back in the day but I never even got out of the tut. Oh man I wasn't missing out on much.

[@Servbot42]

I spent countless hours on this game and Driv3r. This one in particular gets really insane when you add the “batman nitro” cheat, falling cars, and flip over cheat so you dont die I would fly so fast through San Francisco you would see a disc loading sprite while the game paused.

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

Maaan, I remember playing this along with my big bro, good times that I miss, sigh Not sure if it was the first or second game, but in the like "infinite cop chase" mode, I once got slammed so hard by a bunch of police cars that they sent my vehicle flying through the stratosphere, I eventually land on top of a building, which didn't have collision, so I sank under the map, and it was just so crazy that something like that happened, ahah

[@Mrphillycheesesteak]

I loved the video! Make a part 2 where you do more car jump shenanigans!

[@yansanent]

Bro this mission. As a kid absolute pain

[@jacekatalakis8316]

The physics still are really fun and decent even now. Also, the cheats, you could on PC at least if I'm remembering it right launch cars up to the top of the playable area so they bounced off the skybox. I used to get a wanted level, sit at one end of a bridge, and watch the cops fly over my car and usually end up wrecking their cars as well. And the Director mode was a boatload of fun too. As decent as Parallell Lines was in parts, the original Driver was just arguably the peak of the series. That orange car you got in NY I always wondered why on PC since I never had the PS1 version LA was always at night though when the other cities were day or night it felt like

[@_Braised]

You should definitely make a part 2- you'll find you can get the pounce going more often and higher by hitting the undersides rather than the roofs. Also try out the Survival driving game- you won't be disappointed ;) especially the San Francisco one!

[@HumdrumAnt]

I got a Jean Paul aftershave ad at the end lmao

[@98-SR5]

6:50 The tension is palpable. I couldn't look away.

[@toastedg1]

Your supposed to weave through all lanes to lose the cops. If you use the rear view you will see if you turn they turn also. I loved this game and driver 2

[@TheLastEl1te]

You need to check the map to plan your routes.

[@VGMMarkH2]

Terry crews voice still holding up as a gangsta on the answerphone machine

[@benconway9010]

What?!?! You serious? The voice on the answer machine is Terry Crews’s voice?!?!!!😮😮 I didn’t know that was Terrys voice?!!

[@zCREz]

That was fantastic, lmao!

[@EvanSchatz]

Get us outta heah!!

[@001Neal100]

Play the survival mini game in San Francisco with the invincibility cheat on. That's the best mode for complete mayhem. You start at the top of a steep hill in all directions. Also the PC version has much better graphics, and more range of vehicles, but I never got the music to work.

[@bogar30]

Great content, you're really underrated

[@KamataArushi410]

Try NFS Porsche unleashed on the PS1. They have the same launched into the air glitch when you crash someone head on

[@aminemokhtari128]

this is the first 3d game i ever played in my life, in fact i was calling it big gta and gta1 i call it small gta, and btw you drive very good nice skills !! seriously because i recently Replayed 1 2 3 PL SF, and I know how hard the car handling was

[@PostalDude988]

I used to play the bootleg version of Driver and I just now realized that there's cinematics and cut scenes

[@Iwasherelol14]

I remember figuring out what slalom meant when I just gave up and drove goofy😂

[@toastedg1]

I would love to see emulators let you use RTX Remix for ray tracing to make the games look better

[@JosephQPublic]

I had no idea what a slalom was when I was a child. In fact, I have no idea how I passed the tutorial, I just remember driving around and playing the missions.

[@YourLocal_L3]

ur finaly back

[@LeightonW87]

You should try the survival mode, the police go insane in this mode.

[@Jesta_Chesta]

"Driver had insane physics for its time" The insane physics: 3:29 Jk guys, i love this franchise as much as GTA and Mafia

[@GHOST-FACE594]

Driver 2 and driver San Francisco would be cool to watch you play

[@sonoradrift]

PS1 didnt have the glitchy sidewalks, dissapearing building interiors, or "boat popping in and out of existence". Frame-rates would drop but quickly come back without issue. I still have the first demo disc available from PSM(PlayStaion Magazine). I was obsessed with this game when I was little and was too poor to own a PS1, so had to bring the demo disc to my friends house. 60 seconds "Getaway" in Miami and you could get to a bridge and do the jump if you were fast enough.

[@slowboiracer1611]

thank you algorithm

[@darkvader5473]

15:30 this is how I play all games on my emulator. If it doesn't come with a save feature though thats when I use save states (i.e. most NES, SNES, Sega, and arcade games)

[@gerardgeer642]

Heck yeah let’s do some more

[@MuscleCarLover]

I'm just here to say I once drowned a car in Miami in this game. I have absolutely no idea how either, or rather, I don't remember. I must've gotten airbourne on one of the humpy roads in just such a way that I was able to clear the wall barricading off the water. And yes, there is "car sinking into water" physics

[@MuscleCarLover]

I also somehow managed to lead police into a rooftop parking garage in Driver 2's Havana, far enough to where I was able to hop out of the car and run away to the edge of the roof. I then proceeded to absolutely die of laughter when I then saw the cop car slowly pushing the car I was just in

[@CrazyInWeston]

My first EVER game on the PlayStation 2. Christmas 2001. (Never had a PS1, my mum didn't understand the diff between PS1 and PS2 so it was lucky that the PS2 was backwards compatible)

[@John-pe7nf]

I remember stopping at a stop light and the cops rolled right past me and my brother and dad were mind blown i got away from a chase that way

[@BlazingGex]

beat the game!

[@BobLazier-zk8gi]

We use to have a computer class back when I went to school.. I don’t remember doing anything but playing driver.

[@thinkeightsix]

There was a bug in the game that during a replay, it would be slightly off and the car would crash into something making the replay completely different from the actualy gameplay. If you watched a replay after a mission, the replay bug would cause the mission to fail and you would have to repeat it even if you completed it prior to the replay.

[@aminemokhtari128]

9:22 it happened to me too genuinely thought that i made a legendary clutch (i made a photo and everything) but it seems it's just a bug 😔

[@slyonerz]

Flooby

[@pablocristian7266]

You should play the survivor mode of the Driver 1 and 2. Lots of destruction.

[@stevenhinkle6957]

I want to see this game remade...