Yesterday I saw Driver: Parallel Lines lying on the shelf of a certain store, for €59,99 €29,99 so I thought ”Sure, why not?” so I bought it and took it home. I started playing it and I was already impressed the first 10 minutes I played it. But I’ll talk about the good and bad stuff later in this post, first let’s talk about what the game is about and it’s story.
You can compare this game to GTA or any other Criminal Freeroaming game like The Godfather, Scarface etc. but to keep it simple, I’ll compare it just to GTA, also because I don’t even have The Godfather or Scarface. Anyway, you can kill anyone you like, jack any vehicle you like and pretty much wreak havoc anywhere you want, pretty much like GTA, however, in GTA when you kill about 3 people the cops will be after you, in Driver, on the other hand, the cops will only come after you if they think you’re driving too fast or if they see you jacking a vehicle or attacking someone, which is in my oppinion a better cop system than in GTA, you also have 2, yes 2, wanted levels, one for your car and one for yourself. If you’re driving too fast, running people over etc. the cops will come after you, but since they haven’t seen you in person yet they’ll only be able to recognize your car. So if you’re fast enough you can hide with it in an alleyway and ditch it and move along like nothing ever happened, but if you’re wanted yourself they will recognize you and to lose them you’ll have to hide for a while untill your wanted level is gone. What I personally really like to do is shoot while the cops aren’t near you, but are close to the same street, they’ll hear the gunshot and come to investigate, it’s fun to watch these pigs hurting their brain over what exactly happened. Onto the story, you’re an 18 year old boy named TK and you’re an excelent driver, and you need to do certain requests from people like testing out a car on speed, handling and acceleration, you have to pick up some people, scare some off etc. I haven’t done very much missions yet but when you’re about halfway trough the game you’ll go from 1978 to 2006, too bad it isn’t by time travel though, but it just speeds up 28 years (I wish I could skip so many years, damn school) there’s not really much else I can tell about the story since I need to advance trough it first myself, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s pretty interesting.
So onto the good and bad things.
Good: Awesome wanted system, excelent driving, ability to do a drive-by yourself while driving, great aiming thanks to the Wii remote, awesome graphics for the Wii and nice effects, cool soundtracks from the 70’s only there’s just a few of them, car customisation has many, many options from bullet proof glass to paint jobs.
Bad: Not being able to swim, getting hurt for about 10% when bailing out of a vehicle, only drivable vehicles are cars, bikes and things alike (like bulldozers and tanks), you need to hold the nunchuck a certain way to be able to actually move forward with a car, sometimes you’re accidently holding the handbrake because of this.
Graphics: 9/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Story (so far): 7/10
Sound/music: 7/10
total: 8/10
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) well the game starres dal the relative of a king of a place on earth the story starts that a dragon named valthorion (or however you spell it) defies laws of the dragons and interferes with mankind helping them acheive peace bu the dragons of dark corrupted the kinds mind all but one who lost it eventuelly and joined them together they used a spell and stripped valthorion of all his power and his body breaking him down into 5 peices one is obtained by the 1 king who now himself again runs and hides over the years he had tried to free valthorion but never succeeded and he eventuelly hid the sword away and died. (im not gonna say anymore i don’t wanna ruin too much story)