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    Driver: San Francisco

    Game » consists of 18 releases. Released Sep 06, 2011

    Tanner returns in this new Driver sequel. Set in San Francisco, the game actually takes place inside his coma stricken brain. This allows him to bend the rules of the road... and reality!

    deactivated-61abb009b221e's Driver: San Francisco (PC) review

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    City of One

    Ever since Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, the idea of hotswapping never died down for me as an exciting concept. Modern Combat did the best it could to provide that feeling of playing as an "Army of One," but clunky controls and confusing camera perspectives detracted from the potential experience.

    It is my pleasure to write that Driver: San Francisco is the spiritual successor of hotswapping, and it's improved and much more fun. Forget being an "Army of One," you are now playing as a "City of One." The entire traffic of the loosely constructed replica of San Francisco is at your disposal to accomplish a variety of tasks.

    You could win a race fair and square. Just race down checkpoint after checkpoint, avoiding traffic and passing opponents one by one. Or, using Driver's "shift" ability, you can embody yourself into another car in traffic, one that's not even participating in a race, and head on collide with your foes. Or better yet, shift into a semi truck with cargo on the same lane and make a generously wide wall to stop the street entirely while you slip away ahead. Needless to say, this is one of the most fun and exhilarating experiences I have had in a video game.

    If you can get past the driftastic physics and a campy buddy cop story as Jeff stated in his original review, then you're set to hotswap like a motherf***er in this uniquely entertaining game.

    Other reviews for Driver: San Francisco (PC)

      DRIVER: SAN FRANCISCO IS OK 0

      Yep, it's alright. The overarching concept is really interesting - the ability to jump from car to car at any moment. But, I felt like it wears a little thin. I seemed to be doing the same thing in every game mission or side mission. Start mission - warp into oncoming vehicle - crash head-on into target vehicles - repeat until you win. The variety of missions also seems a little thin. Less than a few hours into the game you will have played the same 3 or 4 scenarios over and over again - Race mi...

      1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

      Mending the Wounds 0

      I didn’t buy Driv3r, but I have on pretty good authority that, that game is garbage, so when I heard about Driver: San Francisco I laughed...hard, after all, what hope could there possibly exist for a franchise that had been so thoroughly destroyed in its last big outing? So hanging on to my great memories of John Tanner’s adventures in Driver 2 I quickly dismissed Driver: SF, proving my idiocy. It took me watching the GB quick look to see that Driver: SF was not the same crap as Driv3r, but it ...

      0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

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