Since 1999, the Driver series has been entertaining us driving game enthusiasts through the medium of carnage, twisty streets, bumpy streets and car chases and since it was one of the first video games I ever owned, I thought why not pay a little tribute and take a look at not only how the game has developed it's story but how it's graphics, characters and interactivity have developed across 12 years.
This video pays a small tribute to how it has changed and developed and you will notice differences between each game as well as showing a psp exclusive and a nintendo 3ds exclusive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ind7ZQ6UpM
Now I'm sure many of you will have played one of the games from the Driver series at some point between 1999 and today, if not here's a brief outline of the game.
You play a wheelman, a driver if you will, and you complete missions which involve you driving very erratically all over the world (primarily in the states) to capture the baddies and save the day in a cloud of tyre smoke. Pretty simple and boring huh? But these games have developed into something much more as the game and story develop and creates a very engaging game series that has a loyal following of fans.
Let's take a look at the characters:
This is about as much as you see of the character in the original game.
This was obviously a low budget production game although it sold exceptionally and is still the best selling game in the series to date. The graphical capabilities were obviously limited by technology available at the time as the playstation was still a brand new product.
These games have become a world reknown phenomenon and have a place in a lot of our hearts (me included).
Released in 1999, Driver was a first of it's kind... Racing without racing. It featured the aspects of a racing game but without you competing with other racers for the most part anyway. You raced from mission to mission, took out the badies cars with your own. Also featured was the free roam aspect which was something that hadn't been explored deeply before Driver. You had the option of 'take a ride' which set you out in your choice of four cities to roam around at your own will. You could still get the police to chase you around the city you're in.
Driver had a pretty straight forward story line with you working as an undercover, maverick detective.
