DRIVER 20th Anniversary Retrospective | minimme

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Music credits (in order of appearance):
San Francisco Day - Driver Soundtrack
Las Vegas Day - Driver 2 Soundtrack
Ocean - DeeTunez
Free Beat 2014 - DeeTunez
New York Night - Driver Soundtrack
Back in Town - Silent Partner
Video Credits:
The Golden Bolt's Spyro footage from our graphically impressive PS1 video, part 2: • 5 more graphically imp...
PC Longplay [903] Driver: San Francisco (part 1 of 4)
by World of Longplays (longplays.org, / cubex55 )
Played by: mihaibest
• PC Longplay [903] Driv...
PSX Longplay [362] Grand Theft Auto - (Part 1 of 3)
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Played by: Mad-Matt
• PSX Longplay [348] Gra...
PC Longplay [847] Grand Theft Auto III (part 1 of 3)
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Played by: krysztal
• PC Longplay [847] Gran...
PSX Longplay [256] Destruction Derby
by World of Longplays (longplays.org, / cubex55 )
Played by: Mad-Matt
• PSX Longplay [243] Des...
PSX Longplay [157] Driver 2
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Played by: Stoneworld
• PSX Longplay [151] Dri...
JuicyJuice from the Driver Madness community recorded PC footage for me and I am very thankful. His channel can be found here: / @juicyjuice5083
And finally, thankyou to legendary Driver KZbinr Olanov for letting me
use the Driver Syndicate trailer footage, which can be seen here • The Driver Syndicate T...
Bullitt, 1968. dir. Peter Yates. Warner Bros.
The Driver, 1978. dir. Walter Hill. EMI Films.
Starsky & Hutch, 1975-1979. Sony Pictures Television.
Other references:
en.wikipedia.o... (yes a wikipedia reference, I know haha. Retrieved November 2019.)

[@DMGaina]

The sinister black cars are not the secret service, they are Castaldi's men, trying to kill the President.

[@edu_moonwalker]

How could I know this? Is it from cutscenes? From the manual? 'Cause the game didn't help me for not having subtitles, at the time I played it, I was 10~15 years old and I was still learning english.

[@edu_moonwalker]

I always thought they were FBI cars smashing into Tanner's car for knowing the President was inside with him.

[@milolovedx7]

Oh man thanks for the info, I searched this answer for years !!!

[@djharry2821]

I always knew they were the gangsters you were undercover with too. I don't remember how you find that out though. I swear there's a cutscene at some point before the mission where you're in a meeting and they say that they're going to kidnap the president. Maybe I read it in a magazine because I also remember having a copy of Official UK PlayStation Magazine which had a Driver strategy guide in it.

[@benconway9010]

ah I was the same I always thought the black cars as well as the police were chasing mu to stop me kidnapping the president that mission was utterly impossible

[@jimkid1392]

This game is 20 years old? Dammit. I'm really starting to hate this aging crap.

[@xzzyyy4686]

Literally the first videogame I ever bought or played or remembered 24 now... Fuck

[@MonkeyWrenching]

Remember when they final let us get out of the car? Talk about feeling borderline Jurassic.

[@ahatch3086]

Monkey Wrenching I was so psyched about that feature on Driver 2.

[@Hamisxa]

Ok Boomer

[@alenko4763]

Ehh I don't see it like that, for me it's nice getting older because we keep getting cooler and cooler games/tech and I get more and more freedom to buy all this shit lol

[@toypop96]

Driver is the one game I can play through the entire story mode in one sitting every so often and it never gets dull. One of the defining games of my childhood.

[@Nat-jf2ge]

I like how weighty the cars felt when you slid them around corners and the director mode was cool. Also it had a dedicated burnout button.

[@SMonkeyRacing]

They got the physics feel right into the perfect realm of fun and realistic.The cars felt heavy but the suspension was a bit extra floaty which made it so fun to slide them around and take huge jumps. The cars acted like real cars would in how gravity interacted with their weight, but the extra forgiving suspension gave you some extra leeway with small obstacles. The suspension was floaty enough that you could use sidewalks as apex curbs and it would just bump up over them and not grab the tire and fling you backwards arbitrarily. I loved just seeing how big I could jump off one of those bridges in the early area in Miami with 100 cops behind me running into each other, other cars, buildings, flying through the air, polygonal body parts perpetually hanging in the sky. This is still the most fun handling open world arcade driving game for me. This is one of the few games where I would buy a well made remake with updated graphics and nothing else touched at all. Its a pity that the series petered out after san francisco, which kept the same handling and is absolutely excellent. I'd just love to go back to these familiar maps again and battle it out with the police cars. Contrast this with the direction NFS has gone, with the (frankly) terrible and arbitrary drift initiation where it then feels like it locks you onto rails, and the finicky turning radius where it never communicates to you how much grip you've got left. They're still fun(ish) for an arcade racer and they look pretty fantastic, but driver kept some semblance of predictable physics realism that is a lot more gratifying to my eye for a non-sim pick up and play driving game. I won't even get into the replay mode, which sucked so much of my childhood happily away with my friends, trying to make cool short movies, because this is already too long. tl:dr: Bring back driver, please. With the original physics system intact.

[@trumpjongun8831]

Driver 1 and 2 were awesome games. Enjoyed playing them on Ps1 especially with my same age cousins when we were 6-8 years old. Now im 27, time flies... I liked the Driv3r too.

[@trippen4391]

Lmao shit bro I’m 25… you must be 30 by now bro 😭😭 shut time really does fly…..

[@michaelwesten4624]

man you old as sh*t

[@Mannimarco_King_of_Worms]

Any Parallel Lines fans here? Such a great, but underrated game

[@thegamingprozone1941]

On ps2 yeah

[@leyork4772]

Охуенная игра. Одна из любимых.

[@Slosten]

I always feel like the only person in the world that actually likes Parallel Lines, so I'm really happy to see this comment. I abhor Driver 3 (especially after streaming the full game on PC so my friends could watch me suffer), but I love all the other games in the series, and I feel like PL was just ignored by everyone. Even 3, as much as I hate it, has a dedicated fan base that will always show up in Driver discussions to defend it, but no one ever brings up PL. The shooting segments were terrible, I won't defend those, but the driving in that game was so incredibly good and to this day it still holds its own against any modern arcade driving games. The story was cliche but still done well, and the time period aspect still feels extremely unique. It's an underrated gem in my opinion and I can't wait for minimme to give it a retrospective (assuming he's doing the whole series).

[@Blueflag04]

I love that game, but that mission where you have to lure the cops to the hideout is brutal

[@PointReflex]

@@Slosten The thing I loved the most of Parallel Lines is the first plot twist in wich we see a time transition and the main character counting years, months, hours, minutes and seconds. :D

[@Streetw1s3r]

Driver is probably one of my all time favourite game franchises ever. I spent so many hours as a kid playing the originals on the PS1, then DRIV3R came out and I loved that so much that I rented it from Blockbuster twice before I bought it, even Parallel Lines was amazing (probably my favourite, especially in the 70s era) and extremely underrated, one of my old friends who was also a big Driver fan didn't even know Parallel Lines existed until I told him about it years later. The majority of my youth was spent playing Driver games and I still play them as an adult. I love all of them.

[@Dirvinator]

Finally, a review of Driver that isn't just a bad joke video of them failing the tutorial for 20 minutes.

[@allistergraham6704]

Failing the tutorial all of my childhood

[@Anex952]

"Maybe I"ll give ya a call if I need a ride to the grocery store"

[@coleredmond8459]

It's not even that bad. I think youtubers are just blowing it out of proportion.

[@isaacster5027]

On goddd

[@Blueflag04]

There is a 20 minute video?

[@thexspikes]

One of my fav things bout driver was nailing that tutorial mission, never knew it was so hated till seeing peoples reviews years + later..

[@alessandrocwilliam]

You have no idea of how much is Driver important for me. Thanks for this amazing video. May Tanner bless you.

[@bradbrown8759]

The replay mode was amazing. The last level of the potus in the limo run! I watched the replay a hundred times. The impossible misses were legend.

[@stevesan]

definitely some of the most fun i've had with a driving game.

[@NovaPrima]

I still vaguely remember the TV ad for this game: 'Don't be a square... be a driver', but the phrase doesn't turn up a thing on Google. Maybe I dreamt it.

[@ReodorF1]

I remember i got Driver 1 when i was a kid and felt like a pro driver then my dad watched me play the game and asked me if it was a drunk driving simulator lol i loved this game

[@daniel.holbrook]

idk why I unironically find those taillight reflections on the road impressive

[@AchiragChiragg]

Me too. For a 20 year old game that's impressive as all hell

[@zoominnboomin]

Soon as I read this comment he said "taillights on the road" lol weirdly its happened more than a handful of times on youtube.

[@primtones]

The developer was called Reflections, so...

[@VexAcer]

Because the effect is unironically actually really fucking good, especially for PS1. Like the effect is obviously faked (as in not a modern real time reflection), but their implementation of it is super good. It also has some great attention to detail to it. Like how busted out head/taillights will no longer cast a reflection on the ground.

[@justinandout]

Thanks for this video, such a good memory. I'm proud to be the lead programmer of the team who ported Driver onto the iPhone. What a time it was!

[@ItDaBiz]

"And what went wrong" In case the accompanying footage didn't make it clear, the answer is the framerate.

[@minimme]

It’s kinda sad that Driver 2 never got ported to anything

[@martinweizenacker7129]

Yeah, the frame rate is a big issue with Driver 2. But if you play it on an emulator, you can overclock the emulated PS1 CPU and thereby drastically improve the frame rate to a steady 30 fps! Watch this comparison: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZ3CnWh7rs-No7s

[@Charles_Anthony]

I can careless about the framerate. I bought last year, played it with my younger brother and had a blast. Edit: first video I ever put onto youtube. XD

[@C.I...]

@@minimme A bloke called Soapy is porting it to PC as we speak. Pretty cool.

[@sables5663]

@@minimme driver 2 is on gba as well

[@JakobKlys]

This is so nostalgic to me. My grandpa bought the best pc that was available at the time, and also this game. played it every time we were visiting. Great memories!

[@Olanov]

This was fantastic! I hope in the future we'll see more things Driver, too. 👀

[@stover77]

The replay editor was amazingly ahead of it's time! I would spend hours making "film worthy" car chase replays. I still have them saved on a memory card somewhere.

[@calebbaugh9579]

This is my favorite driving game series of all time. I love the first 3 Driver's and spent many hours on each one.

[@JakeGreen86]

Remember that red car you had to drive miles without damaging it. Was a nightmare. When I was a kid

[@TheJrr71]

Loved this game on PS1! Used to have a few friends round, each taking a turn on Survivor, if you lasted less than 60 seconds (which happened a lot 🤣) you got another go. If you made it past five minutes (a rare event) you could do a replay edit and get to really show off your "skills". Deep nostalgia feels. Great video.

[@solidwisdom8749]

This game was best driving game back in the day. I remember playing it the first time and was really impressed how it was open world and 3d. Definitely a classic

[@jonbourgoin182]

0:44 I didn’t know a racing game outsold FFVII, MGS, and RE2. Wow.

[@aboriginalmang]

Driver would probably beat a big chunk of them if wikipedia included european sales in the statistics too (3.2 million us sales only)

[@Tokyoracer247]

Jon Bourgoin And it basically did it twice.

[@Blueflag04]

Gran Turismo did

[@SmallBlogV8]

*WAETCH THEH THREARDS MEARN!* My dad and I had this on PC and I remember being *obsessed* with it. But I never got near the final mission and mostly mucked about in Free Run. The game's intro, however, was and is outstanding.

[@captaindreadnought212]

underrated gem in this series, parallel lines

[@santimaci]

Captain Dreadnought pretty enjoyable game

[@RPKGameVids]

I love Parallel Lines!

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

Something just felt off with the vehicle physics in Driver PL. At high speeds cars tried to wiggle all over the place, but otherwise the cars drove like they were on rails, or at least compared to the previous 3 games. Map felt pretty boring too, big, but rather samey in its road layout.

[@Blueflag04]

I enjoy playing that

[@andycole366]

Those 90 degree turns on the freeways make me laugh looking back at them now🙄 oh the memories.

[@MattBerrymotorsport]

I barely remember this game as a kid, until I watched this video I completely forgot about the damage and felony bars, the arrow over the car, the smoke off the wheels whenever you turn and the crap visibility haha what a great trip down memory lane

[@jonathank5841]

Sublime video, Minimme. I wasn't aware of Driver Sindicate's existance!

[@minimme]

thankyou!

[@chaaseisstupid2036]

This looks like fun to try out for the georgeous ps1 graphics alone

[@Charles_Anthony]

It was definitely ahead of it's time. The problem is they never improved upon the graphics until Driver Parallel Lines.

[@rolandthompson8771]

This channel inspired me to go play and beat Driver (PC) after having touched it for a bit years and years ago. Something I'm really surprised nobody talks about is that Driver 1 is a lot more akin to a stealth game in a car than any other driving game. Cops have explicit vision cones, and you have the ability to "sneak" past them by either staying out of sight or by not driving dangerously in front of them. If you pull heat, your only option is to break line of sight either by speeding away as fast as you can, diving into alleyways, or exploiting their AI to crash into other cars or obstacles: anything aggressive and you'll only make things worse for yourself, upping the chaos until you're basically forced to let Jesus take the wheel. A typical mission would start with me staring at the full map to figure out the fastest route to the location, and then start carefully trying to thread the needle between driving fast and not taking unnecessary risk. My eyes would be constantly flicking around between the minimap to see where cops are and the road itself to make sure I don't accidentally crash or do something suspicious. When I had no choice but to pass by a cop, I was always ready to hit the cruise control to leisure roll by, gunning the gas the second I was out of range to make up for lost time. But if the timer was too tight or if the mission seemed like cops were inevitable, I took calculated risks in accepting a little heat so I could keep driving fast with my jaw clenched, knowing every single bump would lower my health and increase the felony meter, and thus the resulting chaos of cop cars. It's kind of a double unicorn: there not only aren't really any driving games like it, but there aren't even really any stealth games about handling escalating chaos like it (except a highly slept on indie game called The Marvelous Miss Take). It really is a stroke of genius.

[@38.peemapontasanaset17]

I’ve always thought that it is neat that you have to think like an actual wheelman while playing it.

[@rolandthompson8771]

@@38.peemapontasanaset17 That's an interesting point. You're not exactly racing, but you're not exactly free to do whatever; you're not exactly being a safe driver, but you're not exactly being reckless. You're just relentlessly committed to getting from point A to B in as efficient a manner as possible, constantly calculating and recalculating the best ratio of speed to safety. I'm no getaway driver myself and I haven't watched The Driver or Drive or other wheelman movies, so I don't really know what a wheelman thinks like, but it makes sense.

[@mcsmash4905]

Damn i remember having to first use 1 cd to start then game and then take that cd out while the game was still running and then put another cd in the ps1 to start playing the game itself , fun times

[@TheRockStar04261999]

Driver came out in 99 when I was born, played it all the time growing up on our family PC with my cousins just driving in free roam. still one of my favourite driving games and something I go back and play every once in a while

[@batin1014]

Thank you for your complete and comprehensive training.

[@N4CR]

One of the most underated driving games on PSX. They nailed the driving feel and made it fun considering the slowness that was Playstation!

[@onceuponatimeonearth]

The first mission in this game, that I got stuck on for a long time, eventually did teach me how to drive cars in videogames. A skill still useful 20 years later. Thanks Driver. L1+triangle cornering ftw

[@artemmorozov5966]

Man, that time was so cool. late 99, my ps1, school with no problems but homework, stone cold as the wwf champion.. i miss that so much

[@vixslayer4110]

Video: Uploaded 38 seconds ago. KZbin comments: posted 9 hours ago. Hmmm....

[@izzieb]

Become a patron.

[@eliphas_vlka]

Time travelers i think

[@gregorycomey]

@@birdsofdestiny6816 Why

[@True_Outlaw]

And i still have it in my collection 20 years later. One of my all time fav games.

[@akufromthefuture7159]

I remember as a 7 year old in 99 playing this game being blown away by the fact you can use your turn signal in the game. Now, i had played metal gear solid, discworld, oddworld, tomba, gta 1, gta london, and gt2 around this time, give or take.. But being at a full stop and using a turn signal made me feel like games had FINALLY done something big. Honking your horn, getting cops on your butt for speeding, etc.. it all blew me away back then. Lol

[@supervitz7178]

"Maybe I'll give you a call when I need a ride to the grocery store" The number of times I heard that phrase before I gave up with the story mode... Only to work out what you really had to do with my friends and revisiting it months and years later to complete the game. If GTA3 hadn't come along, this would've been the defining game of my childhood. A frustrating, difficult but addictive and amazing game.

[@PSXDRIVERPLAYERBSTH]

First shows a Platinum case but a bit later puts the disc of Driver from the 2 GAMES set to a PS1. Hmm interesting continuity Also I'll say that the first mission is somewhat easy, with a couple of moves that might give troubles. But luckily there's that replay and the manual detailing that out for the player. (Japanese version of Driver didn't even care if you did well or not, it did let you advance anyway.) And finally, I actually liked playing the Undercover thing over and over again, occasionally changing to mini-games and Take a Ride.

[@kieranmcelhill1899]

Loved Driver one. It was the only driving game I was actually good at. So much love for that game

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

Driver games 1-3 (for me, but mostly 2 and some of 1) has a big impact on me. I played them around 8/9 years when the first two came out on the PS1. I credit this games into getting me into cars and car video games ,which is something I still to today. This game also devolved my early taste in cars and now 60s/70s cars give me a special feeling when I see them in real life. Time moved so slow as a kid and the few years I played these games seemed like forever. I loved the attention to detail in the first game, and the ambition of the second. I played the second one the most because it had the most after game content, between doing the extra stuff built in in was fun to explore the map. Being able to get out of the car and switch cars aided in exploring. Also the physics in the second game where the most janky and finding new ways to brake the game was fun. I switch to GTA games whey they became popular but I will always love Driver

[@chrisb1978]

In 20 years I could never properly explain why that game was so good to people who don't know. You sir, nailed it.

[@HauntedAbysss]

I LOVE DRIVER. This video is essentially how I feel. I must of beat driver 1 and 2, 5 times over. . I loved the music, the ambiance. The glitches and oh game shark had tons of cool codes like reflection and Insnae mode. The 70s feel and korny story was great. I even remember the day buying both Driver and driver 2, and 3. 20 years later.🥺 Which is wild. I feel so old but this makes me feel so young. Keep up the amazing work and thank you ♥️

[@adrianm7960]

I don’t even need sound of music in a gameplay of Driver, all stayed in my mind forever. Specially in that impossible mission. You know which one.

[@UnclaimedDonut]

Driver was my childhood. Must have played hundreds of hours of it. TBH, I think the game helped me with reading maps and directions, as I was constantly pausing the game, searching and memorizing the best routes to complete timed missions. Had a Gameshark Pro which really opened up new ways to play the game, besides invincibility you could play the LA level in the daytime (looks better at night honestly), drive with Nitro Boost that literally lifted the car to do awesome wheelies as you jetted past the cops, to even driving on the unplayable end credits European level. Nitro boost was the best, especially in Miami and SF with it's Long streets and ramps, since you would be going so fast, the game couldn't keep up and the draw distance lagged even more, so you would absolutely demolish cars that spawned in front of you and sometimes crash/glitch through walls, making you drive out of the map boundaries, unable to get back in. You could then watch the cop cars commit suicide as they repeatedly rammed into the walls trying to get to you. Great video! I'm pretty sure the "New York Nights" song took lots of inspiration from Chicago's "Saturday in the Park" song. Go check it out when you can!

[@axemanracing6222]

2:40 instantly I got this feeling of hate back again seeing a random car crashing into you for no reason.

[@shelvoyt1565]

My favourite franchise as a kid. Loved it when driver San Francisco brought back those iconic missions and put it in the game. E.g. the presidents run and the iconic garage mission

[@cazanu4209]

I remember playing this game in 2000 and being blown away by the graphics and atmosphere

[@hidookunderground2001]

Driver was my first video game and I still have great memories of playing it on ps1 when I was 4. I will be honest, I used to be able to get past the first mission with no problem as a kid but now as a adult I cant beat it.

[@GabrielOnuris]

I'm playing it right now on Win10, and let's say I spent more time making it work than finishing the game itself. To make the soundtrack work is another can of worms, but it TOTALLY WORTH IT.

[@zombiewarrior225]

I remember playing Driver 2 so long ago on the PS1. One of the first games I ever played so I have really early memories of it. And they are good memories

[@Ericonamor]

I only got to play the game as a kid, and I've only ever beaten the first mission... twice. But I really can only think fondly of the game. This video captures the experience pretty well.

[@crisnenu]

What an awesome game... My dad and I used to play Driver 2 a lot, I've got some really good memories

[@HelvecioGomes]

I loved Driver 2 back on early 00's. Played it a looot. Ost is amazing. The memories...

[@EricTheBroBean]

Ahhh.. This brings back memories from my childhood ❤

[@holyboy1]

There's a scene in The Driver movie, the scene featured in your video in the underground car park in reference to the 'tutorial' mission, the sound effect from the crash in the movie is I swear, ripped and used for the SFX in the game. It's identical!

[@RetroKevin]

As a kid I found the first level of Driver 1 had to be by far the hardest. After mastering that (which took a lot longer than any first level should) the rest of the game was a cake walk... albeit a very fun one. Honestly now that I'm an adult and have more than one game to play I don't have the patience nor the skill to complete the first level, this game will forever live in the nostalgia part of my memories.

[@ozzyg82]

Loved the original so much! So fun making massive crashes where your car flies wayyyy in the air, then having the ability to direct a film of it too! Fun times.

[@TollusRollus]

oh my days, I thought I'd never played Driver before until I saw that damn parking lot with the list of manoeuvres to pull off and remembering I never got through it

[@PlasmaBurns]

The intro to Driver was the hardest intro of any game ive ever played. Having to get all those tricks done in the time limit was rough.

[@Xegethra]

I love Starsky and Hutch, I sat down once and just watched the whole series over a couple of months. Driver is one of my favourite games, and series in general. All of them, from 1 to San Francisco. Another similar game is World's Scariest Police Chases, where you're the cops. The city in that is fictional but just as big.

[@SP-qo3pd]

Some of my greatest memories are to Driver 1 &2. I would jam out with my CD walkman to a few Korn albums while I played. I don't care what reviews say, I had a blast with all of them.

[@cd-rommasterclass19]

Man, Driver was the stuff! I still, can't believe the series fell down this hard in popularity... One can tell, that this industry, used to be a very different place, way back in the day. Back then, a single messy game, could mean the end of an entire franchise... and so it did for the Driver series, unfortunately. These days however? Games release as unfinished and glitchy as Driv3r, and get a pass, on top of it all! Driv3r, of all things is a masterpiece of programming, when in comparison to some modern day, over budgeted, underdeveloped, AAA crap... That, and Devs/Publishers these days, can literally tell their fanbase to flock off if one dares come up with any sort of criticism... but that ain't exclusive the gaming industry, sadly. Man... I'm gonna be honest here, and I know this is the wrong video, but... Do you know, way back when Driv3r was a thing? I loved the crap out of it! Shiz, nowadays, I can tell where it all went wrong, but, I still find the damn thing to be quite the ride; Its cutcenes still sport some of the raddest voice acting and coolest style, that I've experienced in gaming! It's gameplay however, was severely lacking in the shooting sections. Unlike most at the time though, I thought the controls on foot were spot on, animations needed a few tweaks, yes, but running around, aiming in third person shooter style? That, was as smooth as butter! ...the problem stemmed from enemy NPCs and their lack of AI in my point of view; That's something that might have actually been in its early strages of development, when it came out... Which makes me wonder... were these sections planed from the beginning? Could it've been, that the devs might had it forced on them the tastk to slap a shooter on a driving game at the last minute? Or should have simply skipped Stuntman all together, prioritizing the third Driver in the process? Shiz, bizarre man, I still can't get my head around it even after all these years... Cause in all honestly, besides the lack of proper shooter AI; Everything else was just as spot on as the previews games! Man, Driv3r was sporting even crazier, more fun than ever physics and absurdly impressive damage models for such an old game running on such limited hardware. Not to mention it looked unbelievably good, and it never got enough praise for what was achieved graphically. Still remember how impressed I was with all the dynamic shadowing and stuff; How did they pull that off on PlayStation 2? Shiz... If that wasn't impressive enough, they slapped a dynamic time of day in Parallel Lines and kept all that 3D, dynamic lighting, improving draw distance and all; which is even more impressive...

[@01Zipang]

The starsky and hutch game on PS2 and GC was actually pretty good. Even had light gun support. One player drives, the other shoots.

[@senormarston]

I wish more open games had this driving physics, the last one I remember and played was GTA IV and I loved it. Hope to see it again

[@dansmoothback9644]

Driver for PC was great. My brother and I found the audio files and had a fricken blast with some insane engine sounds (and literally every other sound).

[@daesplays8737]

Yep, driving in Driver is def not an annoying way to get from point a to point b. Really fun driving mechanics, always loved driving on ice.

[@therealjuralumin3416]

What great video! Driver will always have a very special place in my heart, it was my first video game as a kid, and began my love of car chase movies and stunts. If you haven’t played it already, Stuntman on the PS2 (also by Reflections) is one of my absolute favourite driving games of all time, it was designed as a tech demo for Driver 3, but it stands alone really well. It's one of a handful of games i've ever actually bothered to 100%, it takes that same thrill you get in Driver of completing a mission just in time, and cranks it up to 11!

[@minimme]

Thanks! I’m gonna cover Stuntman too - such a fantastic game that gets overlooked

[@DeluxHippopatumus]

I used to love this game when i was a kid because u could drive around like a pedestrian and try not to allert the cops if u didnt use turn signal or ran a stop sign they would chase u. Also me and my brother found a couple spots to get out of the map and we went all over the place

[@mariomadison7390]

It was AWESOME i remember blasting around corners and the jumps

[@maggotswamp]

My dad had this game for his ps1 and I was basically raised off of this game it made so many childhood memories and the best memories with me and my dad and the soundtrack is a bop

[@stevo271]

I think in the PC version there was a ghost car tutorial of the 1st mission. You could practice by following the car and imitating its moves. Helped me a lot and I was able to pass it fairly quickly. Idk if the PS1 version had that.

[@NEGFrostiexakakinmB]

I loved the first driver. I finished it in a day and couple nights. Its cool seeing it again. Brought some memories for sure. It had some cool cheats to that changed the car.

[@cheekclappa69]

Driver was an amazing playstation game. I "wasted" many hours playing this and silent hill back in the day. I remember the pressure of being thrown into the fire on that first parking lot checklist level and how frustrating was, and how awesome it felt to finally beat it. Then you went through it all over again once the missions started, you failed by damaging your car or running out of time. It really took skill and patience to learn and get good at. I really miss these types of games. Great vid! Thanks for the nostalgia.

[@sungjin008]

Driver >>>>> The Crew

[@Z-Twinturbo]

6:03 thanks for noticing the reference. I thought I was the only Driver player on earth that noticed this :D

[@ColossalGameplays]

i remember sein' that parking/drifting/badass cutscene for the first time, ooh boy! i hope i'll never forget these memories! 20 years? time does fly!

[@JB-xp8xl]

I still have this game and its still great especially the loose the cops skirmish missions.

[@Zach-vt2ze]

this was the first game i ever played on ps2. i was 4 at the time back in 2008. still a top 5 game for me personally.

[@ROYteous]

I loved this game. I remember asking for it for Christmas when I saw the trailer for it. I remember thinking it was so great back then and it really was and even games today don't quite capture the same feel it had. I also had it on PC, which I remember it looking quite a bit better than on PS.

[@ecafracs10]

I still have all the games from the Driver series, and my favourite is Driver 2, that game is awesome, you could even get out of the car

[@IraJavier]

My experience with Driver was pretty much the same. Loved the game, that tutorial was tough as hell, and I learn the word slalom which wasn't really a recognized word in many dictionaries at the time. lol

[@MalcolmCooks]

what, you never played ski free?

[@IraJavier]

@@MalcolmCooks I did, actually! But I honestly don't recall seeing 'slalom'. I had to look it up and play it just now to believe it. lol

[@MalcolmCooks]

the intro mission must be 10 times tougher if you dont even know what slalom means D:

[@yaumbali1343]

This game has a LOT of things that make me love IT,i still do play it

[@jonnothing1169]

This game was incredible. When it came out I had never played a game anything like it. It basically set a lot of the foundation to what has become one of the biggest games of now, GTA online.

[@acoffeewithsatan]

Keeping in mind the concept of open world driving games being in its very early stages at that time, one of the very few contemporary titles at the time being Midtown Madness Chicago Edition (a PC exclusive), and that it would take years until the first fully 3D GTA game to come out, already for the succeeding console generation only, it's pretty amazing the legacy this game has.

[@raufkazemaru2687]

We have suffered a lot from police chase in this game. However, thanks to that suffering. Right now we don't have much problem with police chase from other game.

[@drummerdude476]

I dont know if anyone else ever knew, but if you hold L1 and left or right, itll lock your steering as far as it can go in that direction. It was for correcting oversteer when coming out of turns. Makes the game way easier and I wish I knew it a long time ago lol

[@remissiveslave]

Love finding glitch spots plus the monster truck tire cheat code.

[@ss_hat]

Was anybody else able to find the alleyway that glitched you out of the map? You could drive on forever as it spawned in NPCs, freaked me out a bit as a kid haha.

[@ChristinaGXL]

I spent an awful lot of time sliding around miami as a kid on my computer

[@Macho_Man_Randy_Savage]

I must have sunk 100's of hours into this game back on PS1, using the D pad! It was brutal but so addictive and I can still hear the Slalom and the 1st Miami mission music in my head. I will never forget the ass beating you got in the last mission! 😂 I thought that at the end credits I unlocked a secret city but was bummed out to find that was not the case. After that last mission, it should definitely have been an unlockable city!

[@AlanAttack]

I absolutely loved the opening Driver car park test?....It was so damn awesome!...not sure why anyone wouldn't?

[@niceshot4563]

Driver 1 and 2 were the best games I played on the PS1. First open world driving experience I can think of.

[@Russell970]

I remember talking to you via discord privately about video ideas, Good job son :)

[@evilpimp2475]

I remember being a kid and seeing driver 3 at blockbuster i had never heard of driver before so i rented it and i was not disappointed one single bit

[@kemop06]

I played this on the PC and it was awesome ...great video !!