Driver (Mac)

Rating:
Summary: good game
Review: One of the best most fun games you will ever try. The only problem is if you are under about 550 MHZ you may experience some slowing in the game like longer loading and pausing in the game to finish the loading sequence.

Rating:
Summary: Fun, but poorly written
Review: The game has nice graphics and usually acurate physics models, but it was very poorly written. It demands more out of my system than Unreal Tournament (thats a lot for you non-UT players). I have a 300 MHz G3, 128MB of RAM and an ATi Rage Orion, but the game runs like a wet brick. I have all but the ESSENTIAL extensions turned on and the graphics quality dulled, and I still get no sound. I'll get a *chirp* on occasion from the action going on on the screen, but that's it. In heavy traffic the framerate will quite often slow to maybe one or two per second. That's like driving at 80 mph into on-coming traffic with someone behind you playing "peek-a-boo" with you. Sometimes the ground will suddenly disappear along with the road boundaries leaving you to work out a "Marco-Polo" scheme to get around by moving in one direction until you crash into something you can't see. Unless you can somehow discern which way all the cars seem to be going, you're screwed and lose time on timed missions and often the police (who obviously CAN see the road) ram you into a corner and pummel you, all very frustrating. And since when are small saplings as strong as brick walls when you slam into them at 70 mph, but public phones, mailboxes, and fence rows are like paper maché! Another complaint is that the drivers of the other vehicles are STUPID. I'm going into on-coming traffic and they just ride along like lemmings. And when police sirens are going off, they don't care. They have accidents WITHOUT my help 1 time out of 10. And WHY can't I hit people? ... But they just dart out of the way at the very last moment. Hitting one is like trying to push together the same poles of two magnets. I had one cornered once and all he did was run <i>through</i> the wall!

Rating:
Summary: Fun, but poorly written
Review: The game has nice graphics and usually acurate physics models, but it was very poorly written. It demands more out of my system than Unreal Tournament (thats a lot for you non-UT players). I have a 300 MHz G3, 128MB of RAM and an ATi Rage Orion, but the game runs like a wet brick. I have all but the ESSENTIAL extensions turned on and the graphics quality dulled, and I still get no sound. I'll get a *chirp* on occasion from the action going on on the screen, but that's it. In heavy traffic the framerate will quite often slow to maybe one or two per second. That's like driving at 80 mph into on-coming traffic with someone behind you playing "peek-a-boo" with you. Sometimes the ground will suddenly disappear along with the road boundaries leaving you to work out a "Marco-Polo" scheme to get around by moving in one direction until you crash into something you can't see. Unless you can somehow discern which way all the cars seem to be going, you're screwed and lose time on timed missions and often the police (who obviously CAN see the road) ram you into a corner and pummel you, all very frustrating. And since when are small saplings as strong as brick walls when you slam into them at 70 mph, but public phones, mailboxes, and fence rows are like paper maché! Another complaint is that the drivers of the other vehicles are STUPID. I'm going into on-coming traffic and they just ride along like lemmings. And when police sirens are going off, they don't care. They have accidents WITHOUT my help 1 time out of 10. And WHY can't I hit people? ... But they just dart out of the way at the very last moment. Hitting one is like trying to push together the same poles of two magnets. I had one cornered once and all he did was run through the wall!

Rating:
Summary: Fun, but so-so graphics
Review: The game was fun though the graphic was disappointing because of negative distortion. The other thing is that the box claimed that each of the cities are familiar, it should have been none of the above. First of all, the police vehicle marking is all wrong- the San Francisco Police vehicle is black and white- though the rear is black, not white as it is shown here in the game. The other thing is the badge. The star with the SFPD logo is not placed since the marking may have been unknown. The other thing, the MUNI buses, the street cars and the other San Francisco landmarks are missing, misplaced or poorly designed.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best games for Mac!
Review: The JUMPS, the CHASES, the ACTION it's ALL GOOD!
I bought this game one year ago and have been playing it everyday since. I LOVE getting hit by the cops into the sky and watching it over and over on the replay. I LOVE raming into the other guy in front of me. There is so much I love about this game but there are a few reasons why I couldn't give it five stars.
There aren't enough slots to save your replays.
Very hard missions. I still can't get to New York after one year of playing.
I can't save during or after some missions! Very annoying.
But, that's just the mission mode. There are other modes you can play wich are vey fun. Such as pursuit where you try to ram someone, and a whole lot more. This game can be annoying sometimes but overall it is a very FUN game. It's definitely worth the price.