Driver

Skinheads, Mopeds,, Punk, Rock, CB Radio. Dungarees-symbols of the Seventies that pale alongside the greatest icons of all: Starsky, Hutch, Huggy Bear and a red Ford Grand Torino with a white stripe across the roof. Driver successfully recreats that retro cop show feel with big cars, big hair and Seventies grooves.
You play the part of Tanner, an undercover cop whose whose job it is to infiltrate nationwide crime ring by posing as a hired driver. Bank jobs, cover-ups, trips down the local Kwik-E-Mart-you name it, you do it, all at breakneck pace and withabsolutely no regard for traffic regulations or road safety. This may sound like a hoot, but what it actually means is that you're constantly up against the local constabulary. Them cops don't like you bumping up the kerb and scattering pedestrians while you take a shortcut over thecentral resevation. They don't want to find you careering across an intersection before slewing the wrong way up a busy freeway. And they absolutley hate it when you go picking up bank robbers from outside banksand then cart them across town to locations unknown.
This makes your life rather difficult. At almost every turn, there's a partol car with a Roscoe P Coltrane behind the wheel waiting-no, yearning-to flick on the sirens, leap on the gas and head off in your direction with howling tyres and manic grin on his face.
And they're tenacious buggers to a man. Like Need For Speed and Midtown Madness, they'll unthinkingly make daredevil lunges across several lines of traffic, two kerbs, a hotdog stand and three of it's customers in a desperate effort to run you off the street. Jump a red and you'll be whammed into the nearest lampost before you've put 50 yards between you and the lights. Going the other way? No matter, they'll swerve into your lane and nut you head on. Wallop! Furthermore, they seem to have X-ray vision and are hugely difficult to shake once on your tail. This gives the whole law enforcement side of the game a slightly unhinged feel, which in turn eats away at the realism.
This title is good for those car luvers but if not then buy it for the sake "I did".