Driv3r

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Description

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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Alternate Titles

• "车手3" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "Driver 3" -- Informal title
• "Cheshou 3" -- Chinese title

Part of the Following Groups

• Driver series
• Games made into comics
• Genre: Open world / Free-roaming / Sandbox action and driving
• PlayStation 2 Platinum Range releases
• Setting: City - Istanbul
• Setting: City - Miami
• Setting: City - Nice

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)

Critic Reviews

GamesFire	Xbox	Aug 26, 2004	87 out of 100	87
4Players.de	Xbox	Jun 22, 2004	84 out of 100	84
PGNx Media	PlayStation 2	Jun 30, 2004	7.7 out of 10	77
Fragland.net	PlayStation 2	Jul 13, 2004	75.5 out of 100	76
Extreme Gamer	Xbox	Jul 09, 2004	7 out of 10	70
Gamesmania.de	Xbox	Jun 28, 2004	70 out of 100	70
PC Action	Windows	May 03, 2005	64 out of 100	64
GameZone	Xbox	Jul 05, 2004	5.7 out of 10	57
Jolt (UK)	Windows	Mar 30, 2005	3.5 out of 10	35
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Xbox	Jun 23, 2004	3 out of 10	30

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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

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)