I grew up a few miles further down the Tyne and spent most of my satudays in Newcastle. Played hours of Driver on my ps1 when it came out too, but had no idea this level existed until now. Thanks for enlightening me!
@johnny58053 жыл бұрын
In my head, Jimmy Nail as Oz, is reading this out aloud.
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt, glad you enjoyed it!
@ethanedward72773 жыл бұрын
Same here, Durham to be exact
@Shmayd3 жыл бұрын
the engine sounds in this game are so memorable
@alexkubrat38683 жыл бұрын
And realistic
@ALFA-XL-3 жыл бұрын
@@alexkubrat3868 Nein
@pedinhuh163 жыл бұрын
You mean the only ONE engine sound in the whole game, right?
@alexkubrat38683 жыл бұрын
@@pedinhuh16 Sadly, yes
@CoyoteEnix3 жыл бұрын
Not only engine. CRASHES with glass sounds!
@jamesphillips68163 жыл бұрын
I recently started working for reflections, thanks for sharing this it's so cool to see the studios history
@pedinhuh162 жыл бұрын
Hold up, Reflections still exists?!?!?
@jamesphillips68162 жыл бұрын
@@pedinhuh16 yeah it’s been behind a few big titles in recent years, the biggest was probably the Division 2
@jetstreamdefalpha54113 жыл бұрын
I stumbled upon one of your videos last night and ended up staying up till sunrise watching as much as I can. I just woke up and noticed you uploaded. Man,,,thank you so much
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks so much for checking out my channel! Make sure you're getting enough sleep though. ;)
@paulos99003 жыл бұрын
This is really cool. I work out of a building on 1 of these streets and I can instantly pick out many of the individual buildings shown. Interesting fact.... the round guild hall building is where witch trials were conducted in the past. It became a hard rock cafe recently. I believe the down hill road at 5:50 is Dean Street (with the railway viaduct overhead). Near the bottom on the right is Milburn House where I work out of. I also recognise the brick building at 1:32 and 1:54 as Holy Jesus Hospital (never actually a hospital as we'd think of 1). A former soup kitchen among other things.... worth a Google.
@evanhanley64373 жыл бұрын
That is incredible. Fair play to Jack Couvela and the designer for discussing the game. Imagine the other things we could find out from them about the games development, the city design and cut content. I'd love to know more.
@dylc56043 жыл бұрын
Hopefully when all these restrictions are over I'll head over to get shit faced in the spoons! Cool video mate, yt recommendations are working properly
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yeah, this video seems to have spread wider than just fans of the game, to people who live (or used to live) in Newcastle! It's been great to read everyone's comments about the city.
@jamesphilipson12893 жыл бұрын
No way! Never seen this, I live about 4 minutes from here, how cool. Had no idea it was made in Newcastle either
@jamesphilipson12893 жыл бұрын
Blimey they’ve actually recreated it under the bridge. Drive that every morning, this is great
@afterburner943 жыл бұрын
Having been a foreigin student for a year in Newcastle Upon Tyne, this was a very personal video to me. Quayside was my HQ every evening when going partying.
@JustAbidTooMuch3 жыл бұрын
Saame tho I had quite a few friends in Jesmond as well so we didn't go all that often
@Fudge-picker3 жыл бұрын
It's a nice place to go out isn't it? I live in a town south of Newcastle and the quayside was actually a safer night out than my town Edit: there also seemed to be 10 women to every 1 man
@spinz5213 жыл бұрын
As of July 2021 the Guildhall is now a Hard Rock Cafe, quite interesting considering the original use for the hall.
@Niberspace5 ай бұрын
Have you gone there in person? Does everyone there talk endlessly about Driver?
@MrMrjjk33 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the Guild Hall now has a Hard Rock Cafe in. It opened in May 2021.
@Bahraini_Carguy3 жыл бұрын
I honestly wish if a proper Driver 1 and 2 remakes happened. I doubt people would be interested in that sadly.
@adamscholz53743 жыл бұрын
There's a fan made version being made called Driver Syndicate ;) look it up it's pretty neat, but still a WIP
@advsttsvda49353 жыл бұрын
they will i guess, currently there isn't any getaway/chase related games available, correct me if I'm wrong. Shame on Ubisoft they discontinued series after well made San Francisco.
@raudalhazazz3 жыл бұрын
@@advsttsvda4935 they did unfortunately
@DrMcMoist3 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the hell out of the Xbox 360 Driver game where you could possess the drivers in other cars. It was a great game.
@advsttsvda49353 жыл бұрын
@@raudalhazazz i'm not counting mobile mess about boat racing, they just had to put any random name for this game, can't believe connecting this to Driver series was intentional
@danielj35943 жыл бұрын
One of the coolest, if not the coolest secret level of all time...
@H53.3 жыл бұрын
I didn't click expecting a history lesson.
@isaacsrandomvideos6673 жыл бұрын
But I didn’t mind watching said history lesson!
@dylanthomas99073 жыл бұрын
Its such a shame we didnt get a full game set in the uk especially the North East during the 70s. It needs to come back as I miss the Driver series
@adampatterson26822 жыл бұрын
Im from newcastle and am a geordie so this is amazing to see, I never knew this game had anything to do with up here. More landmarks include in Newcastle: The Millenium Bridge St. James' Park (Newcastle United FC Stadium) The RVI Hospital Newcastle University The Spiral Carpark is a bit of a famous place in anither famous place the Haymarket The Baltic Flower Mill (The Elevator is pretty rapid in there) And many more this was just an FYI I love it when my local area and us Geordies get a nod or mentions 🙂
@c.coulter64523 жыл бұрын
we need a new driver game with the whole of newcastle in it!
@charaznable28593 жыл бұрын
I mean samebi live in newcastle and we would sure be interested but the rest of the people whonplayvthevgame are from America or other foreign places and wouldn't be as interested
@Fudge-picker3 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I used to imagine by 2021 we would all be playing an online game like this but different developers in different areas make their own map. So the game is basically a giant map of the world made by different people everywhere
@charaznable28593 жыл бұрын
@@Fudge-picker oh in the game minecraft people are making a life-sized version of earth so you can visit every town and city in the world There'll be newcastle
@Journalsays3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Newcastle so this is really fascinating to me. Funny enough a friend of mine who is part of a group called the dust junkies done the theme music for this game too.
@violenceisfun9913 жыл бұрын
Dust Junkies; their song 'Fever' is also in Driver 2 during the first Vegas cutscene right?
@TheUKNutter3 жыл бұрын
Brings back a lot of memories. I’ve never seen my hometown on a video game until now. Makes me wish that there were more games set in England as opposed to everything being set in America. Always annoys me when that happens
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
Give Test Drive 5 or Test Drive 6 a try as well - they both feature a racetrack around Newcastle. :)
@TheUKNutter3 жыл бұрын
@@MattJ155 I’ve played Test Drive Unlimited 1 and 2 on the Xbox/PC, but not those games - I’ll look after work tonight! Do you know where I can find a list of other games where you can drive around England? I know of Forza Horizon 4 (Ambleside isn’t true to life, I lived near there for a while), and BeamNG maybe has some mods that showcase the UK but I’m unsure
@chrismcgee83933 жыл бұрын
Great insight Matt. The handling of the cars in this game still haunt me!
@DavidMcmenemy3 жыл бұрын
Damn, this is weird. I was born and lived in Newcastle my whole life but I never knew about this despite having Driver on the PS1 as a kid. Thanks for the video, appreciate it.
@Niberspace5 ай бұрын
My condolences (for having to live there)
@banksarenotyourfriends3 жыл бұрын
If you could go down the 'closed' street where The Cooperage is, you're only about 10 mins walk further along the quayside from the business park where the studio was. I managed to do a couple of days beta testing with Reflections on Driver 4, it was a real treat getting to see 'behind the curtain' at such an iconic studio.
@BOABModels3 жыл бұрын
I had no idea this was in the original game - then again, I wasn't very good at Driver so never completed it! 😅
@crmedia78683 жыл бұрын
Newcastle... The greatest city on earth
@DatShepTho3 жыл бұрын
This also made me go to street view to see how the Test Drive 5 and 6 Newcastle Track compares to real life. I'd say it's not too shabby. Only inaccuracies are where the tunnel after the start line ends up, the major incline and decline, and the extra long length of the footpath section before the riverside straight
@DatShepTho3 жыл бұрын
@@KemonoGamer75 Hehe, yup!
@whatbrettdid3 жыл бұрын
The draw distance is better than it is in real life. P.s. this is amazing by the way, I am local to the town and this is really cool, I had no idea!
@glennnoble45723 жыл бұрын
My Australian Art teacher, her partner may be friend worked on this game she knew me and a few friend were into videogames so asked us for suggestions, my suggestion was The tyne bridge it ended up in the game. 4 of us received a collectors edition of the game. Hi Miss Todaro *waves*
@MickR0sco3 жыл бұрын
The number after the XJ doesn't have any bearing on the looks on these old jags really. It just refers to the engine. XJ6 straight 6, XJ8 V8 and XJ12 V12.
@theinkysquid76613 жыл бұрын
I never knew this. So happy my home city is featured in a video game!
@Robert-Downey-Syndrome3 жыл бұрын
@4:00 the white building with the Tudor style is an old pub called the cooperage. It's been closed for a few years now. Vic and Bob filmed their Geordie Jeans sketch in there.
@jdraver3 жыл бұрын
I use to talk to the reflection lads and ladies on my break I use to clean the building there were housed at good group of people.
@YControI3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant vid mate, I've often wondered about that end credits level nice one, subbed 👍
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@gallowaygaming753 жыл бұрын
Wow seems weird seeing my home town on this game. Thanks for sharing mate nice to see the Tyne Bridge 👍
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I'm glad you liked watching it!
@term0s2 жыл бұрын
The Getaway prototype ;)
@jonnywalker32083 жыл бұрын
How the hell am I just learning about this now!?
@Gravetacular3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if also this map was a response to GTA's 1969 London game that came out around that era of the late 90's, and perhaps it being cut from the game was a move made because they didnt want to copy Take Two/Rockstar at the time (since back then being original with ideas for games was cool lol). Just speculating here
@antonylaws65543 жыл бұрын
Okay... I'll subscribe. I went in four or five of those pubs when I lived in the Toon.
@VortexStory3 жыл бұрын
Only took 4 years since the original comment to make a video out of it! The Driver Madness forums are not very active these days so I guess you meant the Driver Discord instead. The secret landmarks part is really well made however. #ReDriver
@pedinhuh163 жыл бұрын
Pretty much every website related to the Driver game series is dead nowadays because it seems that there's no interest in making another game for the franchise.
@VortexStory3 жыл бұрын
@@pedinhuh16 The Driver Discord has 4000+ members and is very active!
@DomPeriod3 жыл бұрын
@@VortexStory Can you shoot over a link?
@viejos10003 жыл бұрын
I know it can’t happen but the 80s and 90s are making a come back. Maybe Driver should get a reboot or a Remaster
@BondTheOGYT3 жыл бұрын
We need another game with Newcastle in it 👍
@NorthernShark893 жыл бұрын
The new Hard Rock Café is just below the Tyne Bridge now next to the Swing Bridge
@stevenprofit833 жыл бұрын
It looks better in the video than real life the whole quayside under the Tyne bridge is covered in seagull shit 😂
@JustMitchyNo.9 Жыл бұрын
Ah my beloved toon is just as beautiful pixilated 😂
@The1Scraf3 жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in Newcastle I'm surprised I didn't know about this
@praveenm57233 ай бұрын
Im living in Newcastle for a year now and randomly got reminded of this level :3
@emileboucher-cloutier35293 жыл бұрын
Super nice video!! I think you're right with the Lotus Elan, but maybe it's the +2? It's longer than the original Elan, like the model in the game :O
@dylanarcher73163 жыл бұрын
3:23 is the sambucas 😂
@drobbo873 жыл бұрын
From Newcastle here Remember going with school to the studios when they was making the 3rd game what a cracking lot good to talk to
@UnwiseWings09733 жыл бұрын
Very cool video, great work!
@Tank09YT3 жыл бұрын
How long ago when you made Driver videos? Since the beta of Driver or Driv3r? You should do more Driver content like Secret & Beta Cars, Secret Roads, and missing & removable car colors from the PS2 console, maybe comparisons for all missions from different platforms.
@Robocop_19873 жыл бұрын
Great video dude, I've hit the like .
@BANE81support3 жыл бұрын
I'm a Newcastle lad and didn't even know this existed until now 🤣 this is quality 💯 I recognized loads of stuff whilst watching. I'm guessing one of those duplicate bridges may have been Scotswood Bridge, the 2 are very similar in appearance
@PvtJLS3 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic. Thank you.
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@chrisg4rr3773 жыл бұрын
I never knew about this. This is cool
@ianhill201013 жыл бұрын
Its such a secret i never even seen it before
@shisah55443 жыл бұрын
Omg…that really is the quayside! From newcastle here and I used to play this game as a kid, I never knew this!!
@JHorkan3 жыл бұрын
Learned a few things I didn't know and I'm a local too 😅 cooperage was the only place worth going in the late 00's
@froggusan3 жыл бұрын
Me suddenly a Newcastle man seeing this video on my recommendation : 👁👄👁 Perhaps the government is tracking me
@heavenlanes55983 жыл бұрын
Huh, the right lane driving in Newcastle? I was playing NFS Porsche Unleashed on the ePSXe a few months ago and two courses featured traffic driving on the left side. The game was built on the engine carried over from V-Rally 2, because the two were developed by Eden Studios. I didn't wonder how the guys managed to code one traffic path for Germany, France and USA and the other path for Scotland and Japan into the PS1. GTA 1 London expansion series have the same thing.
@heavenlanes55982 жыл бұрын
@@Dave_Albright You didn't need to lecture me.
@isaacsrandomvideos6673 жыл бұрын
You know what, I really wouldn’t mind a U.K. based gta game, set in the mid-late 80s. (Personally a very familiar era for me)
@Hillzy_Eighty73 жыл бұрын
What about GTA London:1969?
@CharlieFoxtrot3 жыл бұрын
The Getaway? sorta
@hairglowingkyle45723 жыл бұрын
I dont mind a satirical james bond plot, sounds really fun
@isaacsrandomvideos6673 жыл бұрын
Hillzy87 aeeehhhh
@isaacsrandomvideos6673 жыл бұрын
Charlie Foxtrot sorta, since the early 2000s UK might as well have still been the 80s.
@MS-sw6kx3 жыл бұрын
ah i remember getting really drunk at the spoons just past the guild hall which is now a hard rock hotel cafe
@prlysis Жыл бұрын
Love this game.
@Mr.Skizamanops2 жыл бұрын
You can play this level on driver 2 If you have two controllers. It's a Coop feature i thank
@GVGames19863 жыл бұрын
Jack Couvela there is obviously a parody of the character from Carmageddon (see his picture)..
@F40LM3 жыл бұрын
Have you ever seen the the mobile remake of Driver made by GAMELOFT, please make videos on that version Maybe there is a London on the GAMELOFT Variant of Driver :-)
@IamRobotMonkey2 жыл бұрын
I've always thought this level was also something of a nod to the mighty Michael Caine (et al) film "Get Carter".
@tilburg86833 жыл бұрын
Anyone else noticed that the join feature is gone?
@XPinkPantherX3 жыл бұрын
I lived there near Blaydon in a village called green side. Rockwood hill estate. That's mad flashbacks I reginise all the buildings aye fucking loved it
@MrNelliboy3 жыл бұрын
I worked at Offshore and had many a drunken night in Jimmy's
@Henry-fd1tk2 жыл бұрын
What is the cheat code for Newcastle for the PSX??? Is it the same kind of code like the others or is it something you have to basically hack the game???
@LukeThompson28-A3 жыл бұрын
i'm from newcastle and watching this there rn lol
@haranyan54203 жыл бұрын
Holy crap the bar my aunt and uncle used to own it and their house was in the building connected to it I remember staying there once when I was young maybe 6-7 but I could never remember where it was they only owned it for a few years and sold it so I only visited it once
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing! I love reading all these stories from people who had connections to the locations in the video.
@DANLi_3 жыл бұрын
Is it just me, or does Stuart Dobbs (one of the devs) look like Chad Kroeger (singer of Nickelback)?
@CycolacFan3 жыл бұрын
They did all that in a week? Fair play.
@satkinson82812 жыл бұрын
Crazy that driver1 first gave us 5 cities, then driver2 gave us 4, ... Driv3r Gave 3 cities, then Driver Parallel lines gave you 2 cities/era's.... And last of all Driver San Francisco gave us just 1 city... 5,4,3,2,1, Woop Woop🎉🎊🥳🙌...!!!
@RETR0JOE3 жыл бұрын
The first traffic car i think is a mixture between an AC 428 and a Jaguar XJ-S :)
@lewisarthur67783 жыл бұрын
I live just 20 miles along the A69 from Newcastle, can confirm that after having 10 Stella's and 5 Newcastle brown ales, this is exactly what Newcastle looks like. Up the toon. Go magpies.
@johnpatmore71693 жыл бұрын
I met Cheryl Cole in chase when she was first on pop idol and just remember how small she was
@lightcaptianguy75703 жыл бұрын
Driver was a great game Great video matt
@froogsleegs3 жыл бұрын
rip to all those that didn't make it past the "tutorial" level and get to see Newcastle
@accidentalpatient41523 жыл бұрын
There's actually another bridge further down too
@hesalovelybuoy59443 жыл бұрын
They did a good job on the big buildings
@otacon56483 жыл бұрын
Holy shit I never knew this! Amazing!
@isaacsrandomvideos6673 жыл бұрын
Driver had a U.K. map? I’m looking for all the car games based in the U.K., got a good list of them? I know the getaway and stuff.
@SuperGeronimo9993 жыл бұрын
As he said, it was only a ending cutscene in the final credits... made playable with cheats. And damn, i'd love a reboot of "The Getaway".
@robet0073 жыл бұрын
Project Gotham Racing had some London based circuits I remember
@isaacsrandomvideos6673 жыл бұрын
robet 007 way ahead of ya mate, loved that series for years.. specially 4
@cloudstrife19833 жыл бұрын
Where do we find the cheat so we can try it ourselves?
@krashd3 жыл бұрын
The Internet?
@Bullwinkle393 жыл бұрын
Credits quickly press l1, L2, r1, R2, l1, R1, R2, L2, R1, R2, l1, L2, R1. My a-z cheatbook from 2002. It doesn't have the code to drive in Newcastle though
@مشاريالعتيبي-خ2ح3 жыл бұрын
how is opin new castle city on ps 1 pleas
@WretchedHero3 жыл бұрын
I was todays years old when I learnd about the New Castle level.
@adammc71703 жыл бұрын
Not many games with Newcastle in like if any but glad to see it at least one.
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
Hi Adam. Newcastle also features in Test Drive 5 and Test Drive 6, so you might want to check those out too!
@SiStockbridge3 жыл бұрын
Ha! I used to work at Chase. Awesome as a gamer to see this
@gianpablito74223 жыл бұрын
Fantastic game subbed and superlike👍👍👍👍👍
@garethbattersby3 жыл бұрын
They probably couldn't do this today because they'd need 12 different contracts of permission to feature the real city and real buildings. More trouble than it's worth
@MrPolicekarim2 жыл бұрын
Same with a reboot of the Getaway Games!
@Guerilla_G3 жыл бұрын
2nd traffic car is a Triumph Acclaim
@stephenturnbull2753 жыл бұрын
The open sewer is actually called Sunderland, bruh 😛
@MattJ1553 жыл бұрын
HAHA
@Mashmarriner693 жыл бұрын
Holy Hell. I'm from the north east. Had no idea this was in the game..😯
@StigDesign3 жыл бұрын
Love this Stuff :D 6:05 am Actually making a 3d Racing game and i do try to include personal unique stuff, i loved it in the older games where the developers etc had passion for the project and didnt do it youst for the money, Driver, Test Drive 4&5 etc had Personal stuff added :D i have made several stuff as a Homage/Respect (i think its called). VW Golf Mk3 vr6 `95mod based after Chris`s Beast that was in TestDrive 5,Bomber BFS NeedForSpeed2SE, AND now i have made the Suzuki Cultus GranTurisimo2, maby i do some thing for Driver too :D
@robertoshigeeda19443 жыл бұрын
Which bodykit does the "Chris beast" have? Kamei?
@StigDesign3 жыл бұрын
@@robertoshigeeda1944 am not sure, i think it`s basic Mk3 Golf, it might be some specific Boddy-Kit but am not sure :)
@StigDesign3 жыл бұрын
@@robertoshigeeda1944 i searched and it might actualy looks like a version of Kamei Front Fender hehe :D Thank you for the Tip :D
@acecombatfan04832 жыл бұрын
How to play to this ? Need hack?
@WolfsmithXP3 жыл бұрын
Didn't know games had levels in chavland
@abdullahal-azmi26803 жыл бұрын
Thanks I hope you help us for cheats coz not work on ps some of them specially when our cd different version country
@dnf-dead3 жыл бұрын
This game needs a reboot
@Lonezewolf3 жыл бұрын
The video made me want to watch Kitchen nightmares (Europe Edition)