DRIVER 20th Anniversary Retrospective | minimme

The sinister black cars are not the secret service, they are Castaldi's men, trying to kill the President.

i played this game for 6 years straight. And most of the time i was driving around, parking like i would do in real life, stopping at red lights etc. This game was soooo good.

Finally, a review of Driver that isn't just a bad joke video of them failing the tutorial for 20 minutes.

This game was EPIC - countless childhood hours spent on this bad boy

This game is 20 years old? Dammit. I'm really starting to hate this aging crap.

"I unironically like Driver 3" - Minimme

I couldnt beat the training mission because I didnt know what a slalom was. Years and years later I randomly decided to read the manual and to my surprise, it told me how to accomplish it. Then I was finally able to continue the game. It was amazing. Felt like a Christmas gift to myself.

Driver 1 and 2 were awesome games. Enjoyed playing them on Ps1 especially with my same age cousins when we were 6-8 years old. Now im 27, time flies... I liked the Driv3r too.

Driver is the one game I can play through the entire story mode in one sitting every so often and it never gets dull. One of the defining games of my childhood.

Any Parallel Lines fans here? Such a great, but underrated game

Driver 4ever. I grew up on this series. No matter how much it sucks at times, it will always have a special place in my heart. Great video man.

I like how weighty the cars felt when you slid them around corners and the director mode was cool. Also it had a dedicated burnout button.

"maybe i'll give you a call when I need a ride to the grocery store" is a line I heard wayyyyy to many times, but man the feeling I got from beating the first level after probably days of trying.

"I unironically like Driver 3" Glad to hear that other people like this game too, I got it originally on my Xbox and still have it to this day. I also recently bought a copy of Driver 3 for my PC and its so much fun to play for the nostalgia sake and dont regret it at all lol.

Thanks for the flashback. My experience with the Driver series is a little different. I was a game designer/artist for the Gameboy Advance version of Driver 2. Now, a “3D” driving game was WAY beyond the capabilities of the Advance. My partner Joe engineered a ray-casting renderer which just barely pulled it off, with a lot of caveats (square grid city map, 16 colors for all building textures, buildings were only one plane like paper facades). So it’s a bit more similar to Driver, with orthogonal streets and so forth. But we worked FOREVER on getting the car physics to feel just right...

Driver is probably one of my all time favourite game franchises ever. I spent so many hours as a kid playing the originals on the PS1, then DRIV3R came out and I loved that so much that I rented it from Blockbuster twice before I bought it, even Parallel Lines was amazing (probably my favourite, especially in the 70s era) and extremely underrated, one of my old friends who was also a big Driver fan didn't even know Parallel Lines existed until I told him about it years later. The majority of my youth was spent playing Driver games and I still play them as an adult. I love all of them.

I love the driver games cuz its one of the only car related games with simple UI, the game doesnt treat you like a baby, no intrusive menu desing, no microtransactions, you unlock content by playing it. And most important of it all, you wanna play freeroam, the game simply drops you into gameplay with a header "just drive" and refuses to elaborate any further, you're left with your imagination.

Best bit is the President's voice in the finale level. "Where we goin' son?"

Series is 20. And almost 10 years since the last game. Thats quite sad.

You have no idea of how much is Driver important for me. Thanks for this amazing video. May Tanner bless you.