In the game you take the role of Tanner, the undercover cop from previous Driver games, as he infiltrates a worldwide high-performance car theft ring.

Nothing is too dangerous or too risky for Tanner, and you'll be able to hop into any car, truck, or motorcycle and cruise the streets of three re-created cities with over 156 miles of roads, from Miami, Nice, and Istanbul in over 25 storyline missions. Meet up with characters from previous driver games, the story line lives on in this installment.

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Screenshots

Driv3r Windows The "reward" you get for killing 10 Timmy Vermicellis in Miami is getting chased by a gang of them in super fast semi trailers. You get a different reward in each city

Driv3r Windows You can sit in wrecked cars if you can find the driver's seat.

Driv3r Windows Timmy Vermicelli, clearly mocking Tommy Vercetti. This one seems to have died standing up.

Driv3r Windows Some of the textures don't fit quite right

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Trailer

Alternate Titles

"车手3" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
"Driver 3" -- Informal title
"Cheshou 3" -- Simplified Chinese title

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User Reviews

Candidate for worst game ever?	Xbox	Ken0x (62)
The best Grand Theft Auto-ISH game.	PlayStation 2	MegaMegaMan (2285)
Refractions messed up on this one.........	PlayStation 2	James Kitson (3)

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Critic Reviews

Console Obsession	Xbox	May 31, 2010	7 out of 10	70
Extreme Gamer	Xbox	Jul 09, 2004	7 out of 10	70
Gamesmania.de	Xbox	Jun 28, 2004	70 out of 100	70
Jeuxvideo.com	PlayStation 2	Jun 21, 2004	13 out of 20	65
Gaming Target	PlayStation 2	Jun 14, 2004	5.6 out of 10	56
IGN	Windows	Mar 22, 2005	5.4 out of 10	54
Deaf Gamers	Xbox	2004	5.2 out of 10	52
Game Chronicles	PlayStation 2	Jul 08, 2004	5 out of 10	50
PSX Extreme	PlayStation 2	Jun 26, 2004	4.8 out of 10	48
ActionTrip	Windows	Mar 24, 2005	32 out of 100	32

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Trivia

Development

Only a few weeks after selling the Driver franchise to Ubisoft, Nique Fajors, Atari's Sales and Marketing Vice President, mentioned during a press conference that the third game in the series is a half-baked product that was pushed out the door for revenue reasons.

References

As revenge for Rockstar having a joke at the way Tanner is animated in Grand Theft Auto III Reflections Interactive decided to have hidden characters called Timmy Vermicelli after Tommy Vercetti from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which you have to find and kill. To add even more insult Reflections gave the these characters inflatable armbands to take the mickey out of the fact that you drown if you go in the water in Vice City but in Driv3r you can swim. The Timmy Vermicellis even drown if you knock them in the water.
The scene in which Carlita calls Gator after the sour deal is taken almost verbatim from a scene in Heat, where Robert De Niro's character calls a businessman who has just screwed him on a deal.

Voice acting

Michael Madsen provides the voice for Tanner, an undercover cop. Madsen also voiced a character in Grand Theft Auto III, in which the main character has to kill an undercover cop named Tanner.

Information also contributed by MegaMegaMan and Sciere

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Related Web Sites

Driv3r (Publisher's game website)
IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)
Wikipedia: Driv3r (Information about Driv3r at Wikipedia)

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