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Driver 2: Back on the Streets review
Platform: PlayStation, Gameboy Advance
Release Year: 2000
Developer: Reflections Interactive (Ubisoft Reflections)
Publisher: Infograms, Ubisoft
Genre: Driving, Action-Adventure
► Music (in order):
"Grant Green" by Josh Lippi & The Overtimers
"Hold Down" by Lish Grooves
"Intro Cutscene Music" from Driver 2 by Allister Brimble
"James River" by DJ Williams
"Big ALs" by Josh Lippi & The Overtimers
► Gameplay, audio and images from:
20th Century Studios
Activision
Atari
Infograms
Kojima Productions
Konami
Neversoft
Polyphony Digital
Radical Entertainment
Rockstar Games
Rockstar North
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sqaure Enix
THQ Nordic
Ubisoft Reflections
Ubisoft
Volition
Warner Bros.
Wikipedia
► UA-cam videos used:
"Driver 2 Advance (Gameboy Advance Gameplay)" by GameplayPS9
• Driver 2 Advance (Game...
"PC Longplay [903] Driver: San Francisco (part 1 of 4)" by World of Longplays
• PC Longplay [903] Driv... - Ігри
I loved the feature that allowed you to drive casually around cities as a tourist. You couldn't do that in other games back then. I spent more time there I think than the storyline.
Best thing about Driver 2
You could sit in chairs
I have wanted this feature in every game since. Almost always met with crippling disappointment.
@@SoulOfLightning - With the action button (same button you use for the garage doors)
I have this thing about pointless features in video games. They make me happy and I don't know why lol
@@adamdavis1737 Agreed. I mean there are lots of equally great things but sitting down is so important in games and rarely included...
you sit next to a cop and the chase music plays but you're both just sitting there sipping coffee
Let’s be real, we were all too excited for this
Despite all it's flaws, I freaking loved this game, used to play it with my grandfather
I love Driver 2 too.
Same here man, my grandpa and I spent hours on this game
Just a reminder that if you're a fan of the GTA reviews on this channel, I've started a gameplay commentary series with Grand Theft Auto IV, a let's play that's basically an extended review of the game at heart with a few funny moments. Part 5 will be out soon...
Noted. By the way what the next video gonna be?
@@MrMaskYT Project Gotham Racing 3
Its badass, do a saints row gameplay too! Bet you guna enjoy it more as entertainment. Anyways, just my advice, id personally enjoy longer vid reviews, or the gta 4 gameplay be maybe a bit longer, 30-40min? Just a thought. Anyways keep it up! One of my top youtubers
Your reviews are so good i dont skip commercials lol
Are you planning to do a Mafia 2 review anytime soon?
I remember playing this as a kid and I barely got any missions done but I just loved roaming around, exploring and trying different vehicles...there was something about this realistic style on the ps1 that's almost dream-like...big pixelated plazas, bright white in the fake sunlight...those kinda images are still burned deep into my brain
I YELLED “LETS GOOO” when I seen this!!!!!!!
Honestly me too
Dude I'm gonna say that when he uploads his gta 4 part 5
SAME HERE BRO ! the memories
Same. This is my favorite in the series
This game has a lot of technical issues ... but it's absolutely brilliant all the same. The maps were no joke! Havana & Vegas are still some of the most atmospheric, memorable levels I've played and have some damn addictive missions.
Deja-Review hell ya man feel you there and the music I love as well
Havana was awesome.
@@charlesenebeli9217 same,is my favorite of all Driver. And the expirience of Havana in The Driver Syndicate oh my god,is so nostalgic.
Not gonna lie, I think it's also the nostalgia. We're at least around 30 years old, am I right? 😄
@@Scrpzr yes sir. Lol grew up playing this game when I was 10-12 .. great times
Ah the memories I have of this game. I remember not being able to play the Undercover mode when I was a kid and just played take a ride, driving around and finding the special car in Chicago and Havana.
Then when I was a little older I managed to beat the Undercover mode and find the special cars in Rio and Las Vegas. Don't ask me to replay the Undercover mode again anytime soon though 😂
Havana had the Mini! I remember getting mine to pull wheelies 😂 great fun
@@IndiBrony Yeah the area where you find the Mini is so damn cool. Always parked the car I used to get there on the edge of the platform so it gets smashed between it and the ground above. Might damage the mini but worth it to see the physics freak out 😂
My story went the same... But I never made it even trough Chicago. Untill one day I remembered, I got a demo cd from a magazine containing 100% save file of Driver 2. Only after that (years after release of the game) I could play Las Vegas and Rio. Good times.
I remember getting that yellow car at the stadium in chicago
Bruh I didn't even know this game had Rio and Vegas 😂😭. As a kid I just explored and got into police chases.
My name is Solomon Caine...Youll Wish You Never Met Me.
Man you pick the best games to review. The nostalgia is real with every video you upload.
The best, most underrated video-game critic returns.
I hope you'll do driv3r too, its such a controversial game and i'd love your opinion on it
Jaffacus - Personally speaking, I did not think the on-foot controls were clunky. Everything else you said though I can agree with.
People had vastly different experiences with Driv3r. Some people played through it with no issues and others were bombarded with bugs. I was one of the lucky ones that didn't have any issues. It wasn't a good game but I enjoyed the time I spent playing it.
Clayton Luce
I played it on the ps2 not too long ago...
The driving is fantastic, but i couldn‘t bring myself to play through it because of the on-foot controls! They are just a pain in the ass!
@Jaffacus On-foot controllers are decent IMO, better than GTA by virtue of working manual aim, the aiming sensitivity is screwed though and you'll definitely have to tinker with it in the pause menu because of how way too sensitive it is, I don't actually mind auto-aim shooting, it's just that aiming with the analog sticks in the PS2 GTA games was borderline unusable with the sensitivity that you couldn't change, in Driv3r I can at least change it.
As for missions, well, on the one hand, some oof them are still PS1-Driver -style "Single mistake and it's all over" annoyances however unlike Driver 1/2 since traffic is scripted during chase missions, there's actually no luck element to it, they're still too hard IMO (They should have maybe added difficulty settings,) and you need a lot of practice to be able to beat them but there's no random factors anymore.
Combat isn't terrible IMO, it's basic but not offensive, I'd take it over any of the boring "Crouch behind waist-high walls every single gunfgiht" games.
Don't get me wrong, it's not amazing and it was clearly rushed but it is an enjoyable time IMO, which only makes it hurt more since if it was finished it could have been amazing.
i played that one a lot. luring cops and other cars onto drawbridges, then opening the bridges to see them fall into the water without gaining any wanted level was the most entertaining thing i did in any driver game.
classic game. I remember feeling so happy when I finally beat the "chase the gunman" mission.
Hijack the truck is more difficult.
This and GTA IV's driving is satisfying.
Driver 2 is my childhood
Midnight Club Still Cancelled Soz frrr!!! The best thing about the driver games is you feel like a driver. Every move you feel off feels professional and calculated
Bruh you're literally everywhere
The driving in both is an acquired taste. Course I'm one of the people that loved the driving physics in those games!
@@scottthewaterwarrior yeah it gives more control. 4 feels real cause your actions have impact. You have to put more peddle to the metal or brake accordingly
The Chase the gunman mission, must be one of the most difficult missions in video game history, my god!!!
Hijack the truck is worst.
@@sergiomendoza5165 I had forgot about the truck one until he played the intro clip and it a came flooding back. I remember having to attempt it 50 times at least lol
The thing I miss the most about Driver and I think Driver 2, was the police coming after you if you ran a red light, speeding, or even skidding a little while maneuvering.
Yeah they were real sticklers in Driver 1, where you cross as line on the road and they ram you into submission. I remember being sad they kind of altered that in Driv3r.
This game definitely deserves a PC port.
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Yt Chnnl me too 😅👍
@@retrozvoc6189 y R a complete m. -or,on!
@@Don_Ramiro Sez sum1 hoo duzznt no how 2 spell correctly.
No, really, what's the big idea?
@@retrozvoc6189 I was censored multiple times, that´s why I had to write it like that. About why I called you that, you should already know.
ALOT and i mean ALOT of memories playing this game, i spend hours just driving around.
"Chase the Gunman "
When People ask how I broke my stick.
Hardest mission in the game for me, ONE mistake and mission failed
Man, the color grading in the cutscenes is beautiful.
This channel is everything I want, like any 1990 baby, took me ages to find you too but I love it!
One of the hardest driving games I've ever played, but have a ton of good memories with it.
I really liked that touch with the developer quotes in "retro lo-fi font". Very cool.
And a nice review overall, as always.
Thank you.
I've always had a soft spot for the Driver series, as they laid the groundwork for the GTA series.
Sort of .
What do you like about the series, and the third game?
@@TheWayoftheSith - Big 3D maps, driving-focused missions, interesting plots... The only thing Driver took from GTA was the stupidly-hard police chases
@@TheWayoftheSith Driv3r is a broken gltichy mess, but it is a broken glitchy mess with a replay editor!
@@scottthewaterwarrior And it's a broken glitchy mess with a hell ton of good times i had with this game. One can say Driver 3 is a bad game. I would not disagree with it. But for me Driv3r is my favourite along with Driver SF just because of the incredible attention to detail Driver 3 had. The vehicles suspension were altered to their original country, the cities were so damn well made, you can detect every single landmark you see, hell even the car horns were different for every car you drove.
And i have a book about Driver 3 itself, it's Undercover mode (which is hard but hella fun), and even it's making-of and the general history of Reflection, telling you so many little secrets about the game and the studio.It really is a ton of information.
A good tip: the game FPS are greatly improved while playing on an emulator PSXfin helped a lot.
Keep doing these reviews brotha! Cant tell you how many times ive listened or watched your vid reviews of gta, saints row etc lol keep it up!
I love your channel bro keep up the good work it was like you was born to review games and review the games I grow up I am gonna go on your patron absolute great content
I really enjoy your videos. I think you make good analysis and your presentation feels like a combination of a retrospective and one of those nostalgic early 2000's video game shows like X-Play. Really good stuff. Keep up the good work, buddy.
Amazing video as Always im still waiting for a mafia 2 review now that there's a définitive edition too.
Good Luck for all of this work and keep the good stuff
I actually subscribed to your channel a couple of years ago because I liked your Driver review and you were one of the only reviewers giving this old school franchise some love. So keep up the great work man!
Care to review 1NSANE? It’s an awesome PC game from that golden PC era.
Dude i Dont get it that you're not a huge channel. your content is amazing and deserves alot more attention. great job man i really like your content! thankyou for all the uploads!
This game has some of the most rage inducing missions ever made still love the game for some odd reason though.
The truck in Rio...
Jordan Schroeter I’m still just stuck on the bomb truck in Havana 😩
I found some tricks for the chase missions in Driver 2. There are two different types of chase missions:
Type 1 is the most common and has the AI follow a preset path and essentially have unlimited mass. But the damage is based on contact, rather than force, so if you pull along side and just lightly rub against the other vehicle, the damage meter will go up.
Type 2 has the other vehicle take more damage the harder you hit them and they will get pushed around based on the angle you hit them.
Both types use sort of a reverse rubber banding, where your car slows down the closer you get to the other vehicle. This means that in missions such as the bomb truck in Havana, if you drive on the opposite side of the road from the vehicle you are chasing, you will go faster and can gain distance on them.
@@scottthewaterwarrior thanks bro this should help a lot 🙏🙏💯
@@isaacster5027 The bomb truck uses contact based damage. Drive on the opposite side of the road from the truck till you are about even with it, then turn towards it and carefully bump the side of the truck. Just keep your car against the side of the truck for 5-10 seconds and you stop it! Just make sure you don't hit the side of the truck too hard, or you will bounce off rather violently.
Bro i randomly looked up driver 2 revirw and saw your review today. Talk about to load the video suring it . Great content
This is one of those games that even though it may seem crap from a technical pov specially today, it still is one of your top 5 games of all times if you played it growing up. It was brilliant.
The Driving in this game still better than most games with driving in them.
11:58 The cliff chase mission literally made me cry, it so messed up !
Not gonna lie, I have more than 200 subscriptions, but the only videos that I'm really excited about are yours
Love your videos, dude, keep it up!
Last time I played this, I was stuck years ago on a mission in Havanna where you had to take out, I believe, four cars in a certain time limit! But, either way, this game still has one of my favourite lines from a video game, for some reason: "I'm Solomon Kane, you'll wish you never met me!" In fact when I hear dialogue hinting regret at meeting someone, I still hear that line in my head and I haven't played Driver 2 since before the 360 existed! Yeah, that long!
Yes. I haven’t seen 30 seconds of it yet but YES
Incredible driving physics, great damage model - awesome game back than.
Keep up the good work on your videos, ive watched most of them and ejoyed each one especially the Gta IV review
Real entertaining video, loved to see driver 2 again
Sounds about right. The winds of time have not been kind on this game. I remember at the time when I had a PS1 and had this game, I thought it was really cool and graphically nice compared to some other titles, but I found this game so freaking hard that as a kid I just drove around in free-roam and swapped cars. I thought being able to get out was such an awesome mechanic that was lacking in many other games.
But yeah, the police are brutal and some of the missions are so stupidly hard that I don't know if they didn't play-test or just didn't care. Nonetheless, the cutscenes and story were enough to keep me coming back to find out more.
My new favorite youtube channel
Awesome video as always man :) also may younplease review import tuner challenge on the 360? I just got it and its amazing after i got used to the handling lol
Would love to see a review of the Test Drive series. I grew up playing TD4 on pc, and while realizing now how bad they were, still brings back tons of nostalgia. Twisted Metal Black or TM2 would be another great choice, even if they’ve been done on other channels, would still be interested in your opinions.
Despite the technical issues and difficulty, this is my all time favorite game. The Driver series is exactly my kind of game.
This guy needs more subscribers
I could never understand why folk made such a hardship out of the car park intro of the original Driver...I am no game guru but once learned its never forgot...I would put money that if I had this game today I would still be able to do it (after a few refresher runs)...It wasnt that difficult!
I don't get it either, it wasn't hard at all...
I was 9 years old at the time and remember it bening really hard at first because I wasnt exactly sure what each thing on the list even ment
Because I was 8 and didn't know what a "slalom" was lol. Guess how I solved it. I read the game manual lmao.
TheY brought it back in Driver: San Francisco lmao. Had to do it for a PS3 trophy.
Nice review. Will you be reviewing Driver: Parallel Line's or GTA Chinatown Wars? 👁️
I honestly haven't heard of Driver series, until very recently. So I checked out your first Driver review, before watching this one.
I love when u upload
I played Driver San Francisco and I found it really fun. The mechanics they introduced for that game are real awesome. I hope you'll review that one day.
If you completed this game in your childhood, chances are you are a driving god at racing games now
They should remake this for iOS and Android except fix the fps and have the draw distance set to infinite.
It would be fixed by itself running natively. PS1 is just a bit too weak for what they threw its way in some cases.
Still waiting for the Driver: San Francisco review, that game was hard yet enjoyable, cars felt slippery at times depending on which place you were in (i.e dirt, normal street roads) and variety of cars to choose from and dares and challenges were hard as hell, and there was the Movie Challenges which were taken from the movie like Bullitt. It's story mode was quite fun with the part where Jericho takes control of Tanner's dreams and the Shift ability also added more playability to the game.
Imagine shift in a burnout game. Now that’d be interesting.
@Subi_fan still have memories of me driving the Ruf around the off road tracks
@@shnubdawg7730 means more crashes and more fun unlike dangerous driving
Omega Playz yeah, dangerous driving to me just doesn’t have that charm that burnout has.
@@shnubdawg7730 it's like the devs thought that crashing was the only thing in Burnout but there were other elements like stunt events, marked man and many more and the sense of speed felt amazing
At least the sound didn't glitch out and looped the police sirens :P
And as a kid, I hate those truck missions in Havana. Dear lord, I don't know how much time I've spend with those and I guess that today, I wouldn't have the endurance to try them that often.
All in all, I think you did a fair review of the game, with all the pros and cons it has.
4:59 love that music in the background. This other youtuber called civvie uses it as well
there was a bug in chicago after jumping through a bridge, cars sometimes could fall through the road
as a kid i played havana only, never did any mission never touched the second cd, this game made me love the aesthetic and mood of havana and the cars
Man, back when it came out me and my brothers went crazy when we realized we can get out of the car in Driver 2. You just don’t get that type of excitement from modern games. Which I understand of course considering that gaming has sort of plateaued over that last decade.
I just love the ironic levels of editing in these videos.
Still one of my favs games that graced this planet
Seeing that blue bomb truck again gave me ptsd .
Idk if it was specific copy’s but my copy has a glitch where in free roam you can somehow trigger cars to fall under the map and destroy them. I use to trap the police cars with it. Also the bridge that raised up was fun to jump, was blown away when I found out you could get out of your car.
I just like they hide the "non existent" door opening animation
This game is my childhood but you're right, even my dad who used to be better than me on car games had really hard time finishing the campaign. Still, being able to get out the car to walk in the streets and steal cars in a 3d game was a living dream for the kid I was. And I think it's thanks to this game that my interest for funk and jazz music grew.
This is one of the first games I remember playing never got past the first mission tho because I was so young and didn’t know what I was doing
eagerly anticipating the mafia definitive edition review
This game was challenging but fun. This and the Italian job game I used to play allot.
Loved it❤❤
You should review Flatout 2 that game is legendary
I always used to play this for the free roam.
For a second I thought this was another review of minimie and then it was just as good but different!
YES, YES, YES! My favourite in the series.
I heard that someone is porting Driver 2 to PC. The progress on it has been going well, cars now load and you can drive around each city.
One of the benefits of a PC version would be the draw distance, I've seen the cities whole in a 3D program and it looks really good.
Great review! Cant wait for hot pursuit 2!! (ps2)
I just picked up Driv3r yesterday!
This game was amazing, I finished it as kid. Dunno how, but I remember finding Toy Story 2 being harder.
Finding the secret Cars was a blast.
12:45 THAT. TORTURE. OF A MISSION. I remember it like it was yesterday. Car already having felony and damaged from the start, time limit, police won't give up even when you're getting close to arrival point. Once I was on the edge of throwing the controller out of the window when I was few seconds from time up, managed to wreck last chasing police car with a few pixels left of health. I turn around, try to reach the arrow but OH NO there's a civilian car approaching! I stop to try going around, but it starts honking. But not with any intention to really stop, oh no. Honk honk! And casually touches me at walk speed. "You wrecked the car." Right next to the arrow. I believe 10 years old me of that time begun to cry out of frustration that time.
I love Driver 2, I played it again not so long ago and I remembered that some of the missions are borderline impossible... But! It was a fun game.
Hi dude, can you please specify the music that you use in your videos, in the description section. Thanks, keep up the good work.
Used to play this a lot growing up and would go back to it on occasion to free roam even after GTA 3 came out. Good and honest review though. The "Chase the Gunman" mission in Rio is one of the most absurd things I've ever faced in a singleplayer game and I remember looking up exploits to try and pass it, one of which involved getting yourself in front of the enemy car and letting the AI's infinite mass work against itself. Good game apart from the sadistic mission design.
I absolutely bashed the hell out of the driver games back in the day
But after watching your reviews I see what you mean about them a new perspective on them
I tried to play them recently and I couldn't do it
As an 11 year old, I got this game for Christmas and stayed up *all night* playing it nonstop that night. I was in love with it.
can't wait for the best video game title in history.
"driv3r"
Best game reviews around
Love your reviews man!
By the way! Search for ReDriver 2!
It's a PC port of Driver 2!
Oh I remember this game and how many times I had to put it down to calm down and try again a few weeks later I think I was 6 at the time.
Let's see the most rage inducing missions to me were the Havana bomb truck, chasing Jericho when I couldn't flip him over, stealing the cop car in Rio, chasing the helicopter, chasing the gunman in Rio (I usually tried to get him before getting to the cliff and if we got there restart) and my most hated was that get inside the car before it gets hit by the train. Oh the car bomb in Vegas was also very maddening to me.
Is John Tanner the protagonist in all driver games? Also Jericho too? I know them from Driver Francisco.
I would like a review of Interstate '82, it is a game published in 1999 and the player is a "vigilante" in an alternative 1982, the game features more than 30 cars and a lot of weapons to put on them, the player has the ability to exit from a car and enter into another one, and there are more than 15 missions in a lot of different maps. The fact that the player can take any car he finds on the road and put an enormous number of weapon on them means that every time you start the story mode you can complete it in a different way, i.e. every time with a different car and a different weapon setup, thus changing the game experience every time you play it. I don't understand why Interstate '82 is so unknown despite having an enormous number of features compared to Driver games.
bridge jumps were the high light of the game for me
Someone made an unofficial PC port of this game called "ReDriver 2." It still requires the original ISO of the game but the cool thing is that the game is NOT emulated. The installation involves extracting the contents of the ISO using a utility from the GitHub (where you also download ReDriver 2) and then the executable will use the assets from the ISO file to play the game. No more frame drops!
Cool. I was not aware of this.
Driver 2: Come to Brazil
Whoa you still make videos!
i agree it had some bugs and glitches, and it is a difficult game, the two missions that broke me were 'find the clue' and 'chase the gunman', but the concept of the game was way ahead of it's time, playing driver 1 and 2 in that era was astounding, no game matched them at that time, also at the end of driver 2's credits there is an easter egg referring to driver san francisco, i hope ubisoft reflections remaster or remake this game and also continue the series
Driver San Francisco is my favorite in the series, it's an underrated gem, I remember the older psx/PC games being tough as nails
I played Driver 2 briefly when it first came out, and finally picked it up a few years back, tried to play the first one before diving into the second and decided I'm never playing either one ever again. Now they just take up space in my PSone collection. At least I have fond memories of the first one...only because I used gameshark codes. Lol
the final mission with the president limo was a truly nightmare
Oh man.. The days of booting this up to play Take A Ride for hours, the joy of finding a new alley or a car is irreplaceable. The soundtrack was the icing on cake, I still remember the music without playing it. I was too young to play the story, games back then was difficult so I wait til my dad unlock Las Vegas and Rio so I could play more. Nowadays games are so easy it's insulting, there are unskippable tutorials about walking and camera rotating then it turns out the game is easy anyway a 5 year old can beat it if it is healthy to let a 5 year old play for hours.
Also, Tanner checks his watch if you leave him standing idle.
YES!
I like your gta 4 videos keep it going
Same
You should review all the driver games (Apart from the boat one we don't talk about that one)