DRIV3R

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User Score
3.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 109 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 109
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 109
  3. Negative: 69 out of 109
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  1. wrexmer
    Aug 17, 2012
    4
    I was so hyped about this game after the success of Driver 1 and 2. But what a letdown. It did not felt like a driver game anymore. They made this look like another GTA clone, but worse in every possible way. Only cutscenes were amazing though.
  2. adyneghina
    Jan 3, 2014
    1
    Awful and buggy graphics awful and weird physics
    Despite it's got an interesting story and continues the first two games' story it still can't be playable
  3. kanefriessner
    Jul 27, 2012
    1
    It is only a joke I think! The graphics are extremely bad. The controlling is much worse. The main menu is a big crap. The whole game is very boring. It's a big bull crap, don't buy it.
  4. DolanDak
    Jul 8, 2017
    1
    This has to be one of the worst games ever made, the words cannot describe how bad the game is.
    The driving in the game is acceptable, slightly arcade-y (if that is the word) but its fine , its the city that is your biggest enemy i when i say city i mean lampposts and trees, they are designed to make your life miserable and every mission is either you chasing someone or someone is chasing    This has to be one of the worst games ever made, the words cannot describe how bad the game is.
    The driving in the game is acceptable, slightly arcade-y (if that is the word) but its fine , its the city that is your biggest enemy i when i say city i mean lampposts and trees, they are designed to make your life miserable and every mission is either you chasing someone or someone is chasing you, and every time you accidentally hit a lamppost (and believe you me, you will ) its basically game over and you have to restart the mission, the only good thing about the game is that the protagonist is voiced by Michael Madsen (the dude who voiced daud from dishonored) so the story is meh the game designed is horrible and the lamppost are the responsible for basically everything.
    i revisited the game for nostalgia and it backfired........big time.
    this game is the digital embodiment of evil    … Expand
  5. eilhanz
    Jul 27, 2019
    0
    Constantinople your dreams are obvious. They tried to infuse us with slanders, but they failed. Have a thousand middle fingers come to you.
  6. Morphine_Child
    Feb 2, 2020
    3
    A 3 for Driver no 3. Was inferior to GTA in every way imaginable. But, all the flaws on the technical side would mean nothing if the game was any fun... which it wasn't. Shame, first two are classics...
  7. DonnieY.
    Mar 23, 2005
    2
    A shame.
  8. LiamR.
    Mar 29, 2005
    1
    Its a shame to see the driver series fall like this, considering that GTA copied the 3D format and made it so much more fun, you would think that they would have made a best seller and made imoprovments over the GTA series but nope the had to bugger it up. my advice is stick to the GTA series and never think about touching this game even if you see it in a bargain bin for 99p. 1/10 is Its a shame to see the driver series fall like this, considering that GTA copied the 3D format and made it so much more fun, you would think that they would have made a best seller and made imoprovments over the GTA series but nope the had to bugger it up. my advice is stick to the GTA series and never think about touching this game even if you see it in a bargain bin for 99p. 1/10 is being generous.… Expand
  9. SpeedyJ.
    Mar 31, 2005
    1
    Could've been a big hit in 1994. I think todays rendering applications are faster (and more fun) than this game.
  10. [Anonymous]
    May 1, 2005
    0
    Unbelievably even worse than the console versions. Pathetic.
  11. Gamer4life
    Nov 3, 2005
    0
    Wow, this game's recipe is: Take a load of crap, mix in a load of crap, and finally sprinkle it with..you guessed it, crap.
  12. MarkW.
    Mar 21, 2005
    3
    Very poor GTA wannabe. Waste of time and money.
  13. EvilC
    Mar 22, 2005
    3
    This game deserves to be universally panned. I LOVED driver 1 on the PC and similar titles such as GTA3:VC but this is a joke. It is the worst possible example of a conversion. The graphics are awful and look nothing like the screenshots on the site. It runs dog slow. It needs a vertex shader (ie GF4MX NOT COMPATIBLE) but looks like a software rendered game. The worst criticism, however, This game deserves to be universally panned. I LOVED driver 1 on the PC and similar titles such as GTA3:VC but this is a joke. It is the worst possible example of a conversion. The graphics are awful and look nothing like the screenshots on the site. It runs dog slow. It needs a vertex shader (ie GF4MX NOT COMPATIBLE) but looks like a software rendered game. The worst criticism, however, is reserved for the controls. There is a 30-40% deadzone on joysticks / wheels which is not changeable. This game is utterly unplayable with analogue joysticks / steering wheels and DOES NOT SUPPORT digital pads. meaning car control is keyboard only. The on-foot controls do allow mouse but the mouse sensitivity setting seems to be ineffectual. Even on "0" sensitivity mouselook is too sensitive. Whilst mouselook is activated by default, LMB is not bound by default and must be manually set (eg to fire weapon). There is NO force feedback, but the setup has a setting for "rumble" which DOES NOT EXIST on PCs. These things are possibly fixable with a patch but seeing as the PS2 version came out in June 2004, I cannot see how they wasted an extra 9 months and STILL got the QA process so horribly wrong.… Expand
  14. MinäV.
    Apr 3, 2005
    2
    The game just simply sucks.. The Graphicengine is taken from driver 1 (stright) and it really sucks and i DONT recommend it do anybody!
  15. Johnny.D.
    Apr 18, 2005
    3
    I gave this game a 3 because i got it for free and still feel like being ripped off. Well, now i've just wasted some hours i would've wasted on something else anyway. Peace to all, and for the responsible of Driver3, rest in pieces.

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Metascore
40

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 11 out of 15
  1. IGN
    54
    Almost all of the much-touted style evaporates as soon as the introductory movie is over and we're met with stiff animation, blurry textures, popping geometry, a dated engine, underwhelming vehicle sound, a stale world, kryptonite light poles, bouncing parked cars, forgettable on-foot action and only passable vehicular dynamics.
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  2. ActionTrip
    32
    This game's no fun to play at all. And it's frustrating, too, in a bad way. It's as simple as that.
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  3. CPUGamer
    46
    The driving physics are pulled from "Carmageddon 2," the on-foot control is pulled from "Ultima Underworld," the driving was pulled from the Sega Genesis version of "OutRun." There is a reason why all the games I’ve listed are five, ten, fifteen years old. . .because Driv3r plays like a game from a past generation.
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