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Super Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: November 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great computer game! The cars are cool, and the citys that you can drive in are even better. The citys are Miami, San Francisco, Los Angelas, and New York. I still haven't beaten the undercover missions, which is where you can choose which mission to do, and then try to beat it. What's really fun is some of the car chases that you have with the police. There is even a place where you can see the chases in different angles! Not only can you do missions but there are some seperate little games like "Survival" and "Pursuit" which are all really fun. I think that parents that are looking for a computer game to buy for their kids this is the one! I recomend that the ages be between 12 years and up. The graphics aren't the best, but the game makes up for it. Also, in case some of you are wondering, this game does work for Windows XP. Hope this helped!

kidcritic

The best driving game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought this game to see how fun it would be, and boy I was not disappointed. This is one of the best racing games that I have ever played. Even though I pretty much play the games and Take A Drive most of the time, it is still a great game. The landmarks are detailed wonderfully and they even have a Shell gas station with gas prices. If you are annoyed by the police coming after you every time you hit a car, and wrecking you after about 30 seconds, I recommend that you use the cheats of Immunity to turn off the cops coming after you, and Invincible to turn off your damage meter. Be warned that if you just turn on invincibility and you don't turn off the cops, you will be wanted by the cops right when you start the game. Driver even has a film director where you can look at a replay of your game from a lot of cameras. I like a lot of the cars but I do not like the fast cars cheat because about 10 seconds into the game with that on, your car turns over and it's Game Over. If you like you racing games, I strongly recommend that you buy this one.

Great control, Poor AI

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Driving the car around towns modeled after famous cities is really cool, and the smooth handling of the car is sweet. You can even play movie director, and adjust camera angles to make a cinematic sequence like the old "Starsky and Hutch" car chases of the 70's.

The big problem is that the artificial intelligence behind the game is really dumb. The other cars seem to wander aimlessly through red traffic lights, and police cars will chase after you for no reason whatsoever.

Also, most of the missions senselessly require you to race across town to pickup someone (usually a criminal) within a short amount of time, which will almost certainly attract the police to come chase you, even before the real crime is committed.

Another disappointment is that after passing a pretty cool skills trial to prove that you are a worthy driver, you can never really use those fancy driving maneuvers, like the 360, to evade a police chase.

The bottom line is that this is a great driving game from the look and feel of it, but the the reality of the simulation is really, really dumb. The missions are pretty disappointing because they force you to drive like a maniac to evade the police instead of using some sort of strategy to remain low-key.

GRRREEEEEAAAAT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i used 2 have this game but i lost it i am looking to buy it cheap again and now i found it. THIS GAME IS LONG-LASTING AND VERY FUN

You ARE The ULTIMATE Wheelman On Atari's "Driver"!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you LOVE driving games, Atari's "Driver" is a MUST BUY! "Driver" has LOTS of practice games, an engaging and engrossing storyline, mission-based gameplay, and a really COOL "Director Mode" to coordinate, save, and replay the most thrilling car chases. The replays are at different angles, you can choose from three different camera modes and all are really a great bonus!

You play the role of Tanner, a criminal underworld getaway driver (and undercover COP) for hire. This game holds over 40 different missions with increasing difficulty. You're required to complete a wide variety of tasks such as escaping police pursuit, making deliveries, and chasing insubordinate employees in the "Undercover" main mode of play. You are tested on driving skills, interviewed and put up in seedy motel rooms. You get messages on your hotel answering machine for different missions you must accomplish. Nice maps and two different indicators alert you to "DAMAGE" of your vehicle and "FELONY" alerts.

Gameplay takes place across four beautiful U.S. cities--Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Miami. You can spin out, use a handbrake, complete backward 180s,360s, burnouts, power slide turning plus a whole LOT MORE! Lots of addictive minigames, from cop pursuits to metal-crunching collisions, are all included making Driver a fun, challenging and never the "same game twice" replay value!

Great and highly ADDICTIVE gaming with "Driver" from ATARI!

ATARI ROCKS and RULZ!

Happy Playing!

Great graphic-wise, but lacking in afew areas.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Driver is no doubt one of the best auto games I've come across when it comes to graphics, realism, etc. etc. The cities do look like cities with your crowded streets and traffic systems. And as far as the levels being the same as the cities in real life, they DO resemble them with the streets/landmarks/etc. Plus the physics are pretty realistic as well as far as I can tell. But, lone behold, there are problems, though some people may be able to tolerate them more than others. First off, the cops DO NOT act like cops in real life! They drive more like psychopathic maniacs than law enforcers. Ever watch one of those police chase shows on TV? I guarantee you would not see the cops attempting to ram a suspect head on going at 80 miles per hour on one of those shows...not to mention if you DID hit someone head on going that fast your car would be totalled (in the game if this occurs, it takes around a quarter of your damage meter) plus you'd be dead. But I suppose if the game were THAT realistic, it wouldn't be fun, now would it? And what ever happened to keeping the innocent safe? The cops cause more accidents than I do, for crying out loud! The other cars also pretty much move at the same speed throughout the levels, even on the freeways (30 or 40 mph). Well, enuff of the complaints.

Whenever I play this game, i usually just run from the cops thru Miami and San Francisco, since I'm too lazy to even bother with the Undercover stuff. The game is actually quite challenging (bad news for me...heheh), so if you're up for it, go right ahead. I'll just say that you will probably like this game if u buy it, so if you are a fan of auto games and the sort, be sure not to miss this one if you haven't played it already!

Great Game! and Realistic too!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Driver is a realistic driving game which is a lot of fun. There are four citys, Miami, San Frascisco, Los Angelos, and New York. You are actual a undercover police officer, but only one or two people in the police department know you are under cover. So the cops till chase you. It has a good story line. You can see a lot of famous sights in the game. In San Frascrisco they have the Golden Gate Bridge. In Los Angelos you can see the Holly Wood sign. In New York they have the World Trade Center, the Empire State Builing, and the Brooklyn Bridge. They also have a lot of other sights. It works good on a joystick too. It has very good music. The music adds a lot to the game. You can also make your own car police chases in the auto director. You can make the police cars look relly stupid. When you beat the game you get a lot of cheats. They are funny because you can go relly fast and see all these cars go flying
My only Complate is it has no muliplayer options. If you want a multiplayer I think Driver for playstation has it.
This is one of the most realistic driving games I ever played. So if you want something like that you should get Driver or another good game is Midtown Madness.

AWSOME+COOL=DRIVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There is'nt much to say except Driver is AWSOME!!!!First of all you have a damage meter and if it goes all the way to the top you have wrecked you'r car.You also have a felony meter,that meter is under the damage meter in the top left corner,if it goes to the top it does not do anything it just means you have commited a lot of crimes(like runnig into stuff).The control is great and realistic,as for the gameplay it is also Great,it has a story line where you are actualy an under cover cop but you trick them and they accept you as there get-a-way driver.

Sincerily,
Snow Leapord

Wonderful

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is WONDERFUL! IF you like police chases and relistic driving, you will love this game. The damage effects and sound effects are really done well. Just some stupid things are if you are chasing after someone, they run into a wall...weird?

fun driving, hard missions

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I only got this game a few days ago, so I can't really comment on the long-term fun value of it, but so far it has been fairly enjoyable.

This game's strongest point is the feel of driving the car. The designers were going for movie car-chase style controls, and they nailed it. Even using the keyboard, it's possible to do every "advanced" driving maneuver in the book. I often go out and get in my car after playing this game and feel like I'm still playing.

The graphics look good with a decent graphics card, especially the night-driving with the extra effects turned on. I know that's more a graphics-card effect than a game effect, but I think it's nice that last-year's graphics card running with all the options on "Ultra" hides the graphics' age, and games on my year-old PC look as good as on a PlayStation2. I didn't like the fact that the road layouts could only make right-angle turns.

The missions in this game are . . . tedious. Maybe once I've gotten better at controlling the car they won't be so much, but it took a 2-hour playing session to pass the "driving test" to get into the missions, and after 3 days of playing the game, I'm still having a hard time completing the first "job". I'm not an expert game-player, but it seems like they should be easier, at least to start out with. Some hard-core gamers probably like it that way, though. (but why would a hard-core gamer be getting a 3-year-old PC game off the bargain rack?)

Oh, and I LOVE slightly-old, bargain-priced games like this one. The system requirements are 1/16 of current top-notch gaming PC's, so last year's PC still plays it like a pro. And the price is great, too!

One other thing: Wal-Mart and Target have this on the shelf for the same price, so unless you got free shipping, you might want to pick the game up elsewhere.

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