DRIVER 2 20th Anniversary Retrospective | minimme
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- Following up an instant classic is no easy task!
My retrospective of the first game: • DRIVER 20th Anniversar...
My review of the first game's GBC game: • DRIVER's impressive Ga...
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music:
The Elevator Bossa Nova - www.bensound.com
Ocean - DeeTunez
FREE BEAT 2014 - DeeTunez
Back In Town - Silent Partner
Fly With Me - LAKEY INSPIRED
Warm Nights - LAKEY INSPIRED
Watching the Clouds - LAKEY INSPIRED
LAKEY INSPIRED:
/ lakeyinspired
/ @lakeyinspired
DeeTunez:
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video credits:
PSX Longplay [223] Gran Turismo 2 (Arcade Mode)
played by MadMatty
• PSX Longplay [213] Gra...
PSX Longplay [006] Final Fantasy VIII (part 1 of 4)
played by RickyC
• PSX Longplay [006] Fin...
PSX Longplay [416] Crash Team Racing [Part 1/2]
played by Mad-Matt
• PSX Longplay [400] Cra...
PSX Longplay [368] Spyro 2: Riptos Rage - (Part 1 of 3)
played by NPI
• PSX Longplay [354] Spy...
PSX Longplay [356] Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
played by RickyC
• PSX Longplay [342] Ton...
All above videos from CZcams channel World of Longplays.
www.longplays.eu
Driver 2 Trailers:
• Driver 2: The Wheelman...
• Driver 2: The Wheelman...
Vortex's Driver PL gameplay
• Driver Parallel Lines ...
Stuntman Trailer:
• Stuntman Trailer PS2
Research:
drivermadness.net/forum/viewto...
au.ign.com/articles/2000/05/1...
au.ign.com/articles/2000/03/1...
au.ign.com/articles/2000/09/2...
imgur.com/a/q56i0
docs.google.com/document/d/1l...
• Driver SF Coverage: VV...
web.archive.org/web/201109140... - Hry
I really regret not mentioning this - but for the 20th anniversary Driver 2 music composer Allister Brimble redid all of Driver 2's music and it's glorious: allisterbrimble.bandcamp.com/album/driver-2-20th-anniversary
Didn't you also mention The Driver Syndicate in the DRIVER 1 video?
They've managed to collect enough money together to have Allister compose original tracks for that game - super awesome! 😁
I think he kind of messed up Chicago night's guitars, sadly. I like the variations of the others, though.
Epic
Which emulator do you use and how exactly, ? tnx
Stuntman had the best graphics and physics for it's time. The campaign was the hardest game ever for me as a kid and I only ever beat the first mission. I would be in the Stunt editor having so much fun, the follow up to that game was such a downgrade.
I spent HOURS trying to find guns in Driver 2. There were so many rumors about being able to find weapons to use, all because Tanner's shadow made it look like he had a pistol in his hands.
Omg me 2 100%
Me too lol
Probably best they decided against them. We all know how having weapons turned out in Driv3r.
Same, I wasted countless hours free driving with my neighborhood friends.
Same here spent months for sure
This is the reason why I'm subscribed.
It's for games I know nothing about and for the cursed thumbnails.
You mean theres other reasons to sub?
Of all his videos you post this in one about Driver 2, a well recognized title.
@@weed75black35 yeah what and insult 😂
That's a zoomer take if I've ever heard one.
nice archie Shadow picture
I'm brazilian and I remember how awesome it was to have Rio de Janeiro in the game. This series is also one of the reasons why I love GTA IV's driving.
BR ENCONTRADO!!
BRs assistindo minimme, brabíssimos
hey look everyone it's a brazilian on the internet mentioning he's from brazil
Lmao so I guess enough people said "COME TO BRAZIL" to Reflections and they listened
PLEASE COME TO BRAZIL jajajajajaja
Whenever there is a car thumbnail it's always the best thing ever hahaha.
Man, this game still looks gorgeous. I'm a sucker for that low-poly PSone style with "realistic" textures.
That's not what I remember. I think the graphics were some of the worst I had ever seen for a PSX game. The rushed development and downgrade compared to the first Driver explains so much about that.
Something I have learned from beating Driver 2 several times: there are actually two types of "stop the vehicle missions."
The first has the AI vehicle follow the rules. When you hit them, they get pushed around and take damage based on your speed and angle of impact.
The second type (used in missions such as stop the truck) gives the AI crazy handling and acceleration plus infinite mass. However in this type of mission damage is simply based on contact, not speed/angle, so if you pull along side them and just hold your vehicle aganst theirs, they will get max damage in pretty short order.
Another trick if you predict where they are going you can get ahead of them and let them run in to you. czcams.com/video/eWCiHFTlwcc/video.html
12 year old me never came close to finishing it (not even got to the disc 2) even though this is the game ive put most time on, i tried it for nostalgia some years ago and it still was so frustrating, but most being how bad the game glitched and it was never fixed.
@@jonnyblaze4065 I tried that in the Havana mission where you have to chase Jericho, pulled across his path just as he turned into an allyway. The front and rear of my car were aganst the buildings blocking the alley, but since he had basically infinite mass, when he t-boned me it basically sent my car to space, lol!
I couldnt remember how I did the Jericho one. It looks like i did that one the old fashioned way probably for that reason. czcams.com/video/5w6iBsxJYAQ/video.html
yeah it's contact. I remember winning a fair bit of those missions by making my car like a pinball between the side of the road and the vehicle to stop.
Unfortunately, I hit a wall with the Gunner chasing mission in Rio and by the time I was able to beat it after hundreds of retries, my interest was more on free ride mode and my interest was driven away.
I remember a strange bug in free roam Chicago whenever you flew over the drawbridges. The game would spawn vehicles around corners in such hellish manner, you'd swear Godzilla was throwing cars down the street.
Still, as glitch-ridden and infuriating as the difficulty might have been, I still adore it to this day. Solmon "you'll wish you never met me" Caine and twin sawn offs Jericho remain two of my favourite game villains of all time.
That was me and my brothers only reason for playing the game.(think we only had a demo though)
Get out of the car on the drawbridge, and see your car fall trough the road ahead and try to stay alive as long as possible.
I don't remember that, exactly. I recall that if you went straight in free roam in Chicago over the bridge and then to the first intersection after the bridge, the cars would fall through the intersection.
Long Live DRIVER!
'Don't be a square, be a driver!'
My uncle lended me Driver and MGS for the PS 1 and he's been favorite family member ever since.
Me: is about to go to bed
Minimme: *NOT SO FAST!*
Same, I have to wake up early... But minimme has uploaded a new video! 😱
everything as it should be
me go bed, me is sleepy.
Not so fast due to slow frame rate
The low draw distance (and by extension the slowdown) was probably a memory leak or other problem late in development. See the playable demo for evidence of this - the draw distance is much higher and there's no slowdown to speak of. With cheats, you can even explore the entirety of Havana (including the secret area that at that point was a missile launch site - maybe the plot had a cuban missile crisis beat at one point!).
Wait it has further draw distance? Seeing as how the draw distance is hard coded, I wonder if any code from the demo could be used on the retail release to have better visibility across distance...
@@BFKAnthony817 I hadn't even thought of this - brilliant! I just checked, and even though the camera has a wider fov, you can definitely see more than 10 car-lengths farther in the demo version of the quick chase. See imgur.com/a/H1rPMMO for my unscientific test (if yt lets us post links!).
@@C.I... Wow that is definitely an improvement! I will take any improvement we can get at this point! I think we should try and figure this out. The draw distance is always my main sticking point as to why it is so painful to go back to playing it all these years later. I just wish PSX games were hardware rendered on the PS3. I play PSX games on that and my Dreamcast now. Even though Driver 1 and 2 have graphical glitches emulating on the Dreamcast, the hardware rendering works wonders on this game! Are you a modder at all? I am but looking at the inner workings of PSX game code is not really my strong point. I am mostly a PC game modder.
Perhaps there needs to be a thread about this over at Driver Madness forums? I am sure somebody there would be able to look into the feasibility of getting this code that controls view distance in the demo added to the main game. Hell, maybe it could lead to being able to increase the draw distance exponentially if we can see the values from both versions?
@@C.I... Ok I went ahead and posted a thread about it there. Hope you don't mind me using your images and text below them in the thread. It was the best way to show it off.
drivermadness.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5332
By the way, where can I get that demo from? I am having troubles finding it.
@@BFKAnthony817 Great! Maybe someone will be able to make a gameshark code or something. I would say it's an unrealistic goal, but folks from there managed to reverse-engineer the level format, so anything's possible.
I think I got it from emuparadise, who unfortunately don't link them on the game page anymore.
I remember when I first found the hidden car in Chicago it totally blew my mind. I'd go back there every time I played free roam in that city. That I somehow I beat this game blows my mind too. I loved it so much
Looking forward to a Driv3r retrospective, another jank-ass game I loved
I found the secret car in Havana but for some reason couldn't get the platform to come down, at the time 3 year old me thought I've only had one keycard for each run so I thought I've run out
@@triple-oe4hw3 year old you?! You found the mini at 3 ??
@@-na-nomad6247 neighbor told me where
Driver 2 came out the same time as the PS2 in the UK, So I remember it being a lot less choppy playing it on a PS2.
Does the ps2 run ps1 games at an overclocked speed?
@@aboriginalmang no? but like i think it uses some kinda emulation, i know it has at least the main processor for the ps1 for retro-compatibility, but some stuff are emulated so idek
I might try it on PS2 and check since I have it all plugged in - and to answer your last question no doc holiday yet sorry larry!!
minimme two of my fav youtubers touching in the comments i am more than okay with this.
But, HELLO YOU. 😋👋
@@aboriginalmang I don't think so, but the PS2 hardware can help out for the PS1 games a bit.
Like if you toggle the options in the BIOS you can enable texture filtering and faster disc speeds for PS1 games. Results vary of course which is why it has to be turned on manually.
For a 8yr old kid at the time, this was my whole day for a whole year or two. I just didn't see anything bad with the game, good memories.
Looking forward to Stuntman content. I never finished it because it’s hard as tungsten but I got up to one of the last stages. I still think about Toothless In Wapping from time to time.
What baffled me when replaying this recently is that the game becomes so much easier once you get to Vegas and Rio. The missions aren't necessarily easier, just the cars you drive are so much better, and the maps are more open.
As a kid I'm not sure i could even get past Chicago as the cars had such terrible acceleration, and the map had so many tight corners.
After like 15 years I finally managed to complete it as an adult, but not without quicksave haha
True to this vid, chasing down Jericho the first time was the point I gave up. I'll take your word that it gets (somewhat) easier as it goes on.
@@optiquemusic6204 yeah that's what I thought, i haven't seen many other people say that though so it's possible i just got better through the endless retries. The cars definitely do drive better later on though. A couple of the missions in Rio are hard as nails, but there's also a few you'll pass in one or two tries. Just some serious difficult spikes in this game.
Damn, I totally forgot about the Director mode... I used to mess about with that a LOT when I was younger, and kinda explains my personal history and enjoyment of things like Photo Mode these days!
Can't wait for the Driver 3 video.
I remember watching my dad play it a lot when I was a kid, and sometimes playing myself and being really bad at its driving.
From what I recall, mine and my sister's favourite activity in the game was going around shooting people who didn't use their indicators.
The Thumbnail be like
" *Tony Hawk Pro Driver 2* "
@@birdsofdestiny6816 i see u everywhere but ok
I always thought I had a bad disc or PlayStation when it’d slow down randomly when you went fast. Never realised it was just inherently flawed.
Driver 2: *_Chase The Gunman Level_*
10 y/o me, after 54 restarts, to my PSOne: *_I' M GONNA POP YOUR NECK WITH MY HANDS._*
In reality, Driver 2 was underratedly a difficult game. Very nostalgic. Good video! 😍
I wouldnt call it good i wasnt around when it released but ive played so many games of this era anf liked even if they show their age but man this game is hard to get into
Why is it the only game with a open world brazilian city?
We got a PS1 in March of 1998 after my brother got insurance money for a broken leg. We used to play Driver all the time and when Driver 2 came out we were mind-blown! I used to play so much, as I'm sure many of you here did, that I started driving around the city, stopping at the red light etc. One day, and I swear on my life this is true, I was driving around Chicago and I got to the Baseball stadium. I drove around it and saw the "Tickets" writing above the door. I got out of the car, approached the door and just for the fun of it pressed the triangle. What followed was a loud scream and the revelation like I've never experienced in a game since. I discovered the hidden car in Driver 2 by accident.
Have you heard of Driving Syndicate? It's supposed to be a close homage to the first drivers developed within the Driver community.
Yes he does, he's covered that in his driver 1 review.
yep! and since my first review development has ramped up. I'm thinking after I go through the main series I'll do a dedicated video on Syndicate
@@minimme Cool! Then you should lobby for GBA port to fully ensure it can be a true minimme video. Love your vids, keep it up!👍
@@minimme Curious but when you say go through the main series does that include: Renegade, the Wii version of San Francisco, LA Undercover, Vegas, and Speedboat Paradise? (I think these last 3 might not be possible.)
Damn, 1999 was a great year for the PlayStation
But DRIVER 2 was released in 2000
96-00 is where it all started
In the spanish dub instead of saying "I'm gonna pop your neck with my hands" he says "te voy a romper el pescuezo con mis propias manos", and that really stuck into my brain even so that I recognized the frase in original dub without ever hearing it
This used to be my old mans favourite game back in the day.
Still have the scratched to shit discs.
Even though it was a technical blunder it still holds a place in my heart.
One of my best memories ever was discovering 2 player mode of this game at a friend's sleepover when I was about 13. His parent had a giant CRT. There was 8 of us and we took it in turns for what must have been 4 or 5 hours, winner stays on, we had heaps of fun, yelling and laughing etc. We were supposed to play N64 Goldeneye (4 player), but it literally got cast aside in favour of this instead, which was a big call for sure. Good times
I still go back and watch the cutscenes here on CZcams from time to time. I love the dialog and voice acting. I also remember playing this game as a little kid, and randomly discovering you could get out of the car. My jaw dropped.
Its funny hearing that Driver 2 was more difficult than the first one because I beat it. Which was something I didn't do often in those days but couldnt get pass the first mission in Driver lol.
Driver 2 is probably my favorite driver game, and it truly is infuriating that it's a technical mess. Even more infuriating than the incredible difficulty that some of the missions present. (Chase the Gunman in particular, but Hijack the Truck was ridiculous too!) I'd love to see a straight remake one of these days!
As always, this was another excellent retrospective video, and I can't wait for the look into Stuntman!
You have no idea how nostalgic all this is to me. This ps1 era was my childhood dude. I had all the games you mentioned.
I remember playing both games growing up and it still amazes me how good the games looked back then, I mean there not a lot of ps1 games where you can see car damage
That truck mission in Havana... "All you had to do is follow the damn truck, CJ"
I remember playing the ambulance mission for well over 4 HOURS, when I first Got Driver 2 new.
I was never the type to throw / brake a controller, but damn if I didn't close on that level.
Would have been great on PC as you can tell the PS1 struggled with this ambitious title (The draw distance is painful). Even if they waited another year and made it for PS2 then it would have maybe out done GTA 3!
Nah, it wouldn't out done GTA3. People liked blowing up stuff on foot too much when it was initially released
@@slodekslod9337 maybe it wouldnt outdo gta but people would at least remember it as the dark souls of gta like games. It would be a slightly niche title with a loyal cult following.
I just admire that they managed to make it even that playable on a fucking ps one!!
google redriver2 ;) it's on pc now! :D
Well his shadow DID have a couple pistols...
Best line in the game...
Jericho-“It’s okay, I’m gonna shoot you in the head”
That alone is 10/10 for me good sir.
Edit okay good you showed it lol 👌 👌
Driver 2 was my introduction to the series and despite playing almost all the other games in the series including Driver 1 it’s still my personal favourite.
I'm glad you said that about the Cuban chase the truck mission. I completed Driver 1 back in the day by having to cheat on the President's Run last mission, but I gave up on Driver 2 at this mission as not only was it completely unfair, I didn't know any cheats at the time (I bought them both new).
I still remember the secret car in one of the cities, you had to flip a secret invisible switch in a sports stadium and you can go inside. IIRC it was the same car from driver 1 that you drive in Miami. That car was really fast.
Even when he's not reviewing the Cars games he still finds a way to scare me with that thumbnail.
Jokes aside this is a great vid, I never grew up well with Driver 2 as a kid (always found it too hard) but the splitscreen multiplayer was loads of fun, just crashing into my friends.
I thought it was nostalgia, but this game actually captured nighttime very well. It isn't bright and the car lights glow in contrast and leave a trail.
I can remember running around in free roam mode in this game. When you got out of the car, Tanner moved slower than a double peg legged pirate.
Vegas was my favorite map, that cliffside in Rio frustrated me to no end. To this very day I don't know how young me was able to even beat these games!
I recall a very tough Cuba mission where you had to find the car that was somewhere on the map carrying the bomb(?) Of course it was always the fourth one you found and you had something like three minutes to find and stop them all.
oh yeah that's the one that got me hardstuck as a kid, I beat it eventually and finished the game but I think I took like months of being butthurt and refusing to play the game lol. I'm glad that other people find this game difficult and it wasn't just me sucking ass lmao. The rio parts were worth it tho, I still remember the cliff mission and just the atmosphere of the city being really cool.
If you're still having problems with the infinite mass trucks, one trick is to scrape the vehicle instead of bashing them. Their heavy mass is an actual disdvantage since they are planted to the ground and "bounce" you off after a hit, the act of scraping means you are hitting the truck rapidly and thus the health meter goes down rapidly. As for the Brazilian one, just kill escort first before chasing the truck, it may sound hard but swiveling through oncoming traffic and poles are the easier method that I found but by no means it's an easy mission even with the mentioned tactics.
"I'm gonna pop your neck with my hands"
wow so iconic lmao
Now that there's a PC fanport (ReDriver 2), it's clearly the superior version. It's got a normal framerate that barely dips, higher draw distance (though not perfect), and you can muck about with enhanced graphical settings like fewer distorted visuals as is typical on the PSX. Also I put Reshade on it.
I highly agree on the chase missions. They're very much the worst aspect of the game. Now I will say that for me with the PC port *most* chase missions were reasonably beat within like 30 tries (I know), but Chase The Gunman takes the cake for me. Perhaps it's easier on the PSX with the lower framerate and slow motion, but it's just insane in ReDriver 2. It took me around 2 hours if not more, and possibly around 200 tries (half of the retries I did after making a mistake in the first 30 seconds). It's unfortunate how dumb they were in designing these particular infinite-mass-chase-missions missions, because the other missions - while hard - are fair and really fun. It's just the bullshit Nintendo Hard foolishness that scares people away. Of course you're rightfully punished for driving like shit in most missions (there's still a bit of luck with enemy car spawns involved but it's not too bad and better than Driver 1 in this regard), but only in these chase missions are you punished for RNG physics you cannot predict on top of the natural challenge the game offers.
But now I've beat it finally since giving up on it as a kid, and within a few days no less. And I love 90% of the missions! But I don't see myself going through those chase missions ever again. If they could tweak the fanport to give the chase vehicles less health, that would alleviate a lot of the issues I think.
Where can i get the reshade?
@@pauliewalnuts5868 just get the official latest Reshade installer. When you run the exe it asks you for which game.
I just put 'curves' (contrast enhancement), 'SMAA' (Anti Aliasing) and 'vibrance' (better saturation) on it, tweaking the vibrance setting to put the slider lower so the increase in colourfulness was more subtle. Nothing elaborate but still an improvement.
With all those framerate drops.. I love this game so much. Still playing it!
Always loved the weight of the cars and bouncy suspension in Driver vs. GTA where you have greased hams for wheels
I wish the wheels were steamed hams when you said "greased hams".
@@TheBreakingBenny "And you call them 'steamed hams' despite the fact that they are obviously grilled?"
@@proZach380 I... You know... One thing I..... Excuse me for one second.
By far my favorite aspects of this game for me was getting out of the car and the fact the shadow depicts Tanner with a gun in his hand when he really didnt have one. And ofc all those hidden buttons and secret cars were so freaking cool.
Thank you for the videos, you're getting me through tough times
stay strong my boi
Immense Data heard that
The original GTA. I remember getting this game when I was a little kid and my friends wanting to borrow it all the time.
I just love your Driver videos. I watch them religiously!
"I'm Solomon Caine, you'll wish you never met me."
I remember late 90s monday morning being driven to middle school, after a full weekend of playing Driver nonstop, and having a twitch in my left hand to press L1 to honk (I think) at other cars on the way.
My memories of driver 2 are weird, Jumping a bridge gap made it rain cars and I also remember trying to use a gun for ages :)
I beat this game a couple weeks ago for the 3rd time, the havana truck chases are hard but very doable, but the second to last mission in Rio where you have to chase a red vehicle in a hill area, is one of the hardest missions you will ever play in games like these.
Love the hubcaps rolling off while driving at high speed, it's the little details
What Really Drove Me Crazy When This Game Came Out is When You look at The Shadow of the Character (Tanner) You Can See A Shadow of 2 Guns in His Hands And I Remember Spending Hours Trying Everything Just To Use/Shoot Them, And Indeed Hijack The Truck Was Simply Pure Torture, Just Hearing The Game Sounds at 13:20 Brought Back The Good Old Days!
I remember reading a dev interview in a gaming magazine back in the day and they were bragging about how the game will feature roads with curves in them, and how it was such a technical challenge they were proud of overcoming.
I think that "Chase the Gunman" is the most difficult mission in the game. "Hijack the Truck" is a close second.
Main reason is the fact that in "Hijack the Truck", like you said, you get a shot at the truck IF it follows a certain path. Then, you good to go and even have a luxery to goof some times with the chasers and get back on track withut Gameover.
Meanwhile, in "Chase the Gunman", you have no choice. You must be 100% accurate and the slightest mistake result in a Gameover. And, the problem is that most Gameovers will occur on the cliffside which is near the end of the mission... so frustrating.
'I'm gonna pop your neck with my hands' That line was etched in my brain cause i had to make sure I skipped the into before parents could hear and deduce I may not be playing something 10 year old friendly.
(was pretty tame though)
Much love. This is one of my all time favourite games. You don't see the flaws as an eight-year-old, luckily.
I've never been so excited for a series on CZcams. This video was great, and I very much look forward to your future reviews!
Excellent retrospective, I really enjoy your production style and presentation, and you're very well spoken
Driver 2 was actually the very 1st game I ever bought when I bought my PSone. I worked my butt off mowing lawns as a kid, I loved the game, even recently I found the game at a pawn shop, bought it and started replaying it on my PS3...really love this game haha
Excellent work as always hoss, good to see you touching on this and many lesser known series and doing your research. your videos are fantastic.
While the Driver 1 vid gave a perfect explanation of Driver's place in the world and what makes it so unique, this vid goes for longer and yet says so much less. So many elements of D2 are just breezed over or not mentioned at all- whereas you covered (most of) the little brilliant touches of D1 that aren't immediately obvious. The D1 video was a masterpiece. This D2 one is a vid you'd watch once and then instantly forget. Also Hijack the Truck the hardest Driver mission? It's not even the hardest truck mission in that game.
We used to play the split screen mode on an emulator so much with my brothers and cousins, we had so much fun
Loved playing this as a kid. Fantastic video. I love your style so much.
Looking forward to stuntman! Played the heck out of that game!
I had so much fun with this game. I was roughly 9ish at the time and my nephew was 4. We'd spend hours playing split screen and free roam. Our favorite free roam was Chicago and going directly straight and pinning it to hit the draw bridge opening
Something fun about driver 2 physics is the kick you got from a collision was much greater if you got hit from under your car. If you got your car on its side at speed and then got hit by a cop, your car would go flying and you could get to out of bounds areas. You could also exploit this in multiplayer, one fun thing to do is to park under a ramp and have you friend try and land on your car . It was a lot of fun.
Driver , You Are The Wheelman was My Favorite Driving Game back in 2000......)
I’ve been binge watching all of your videos, THEY’RE SO ADDICTING! 😆
I like driver
If the ps5 is can play Ps1 games in 8K I'll play driver 2 first
Yeah of course 8k, while PS didnt even can handle 4k ...
@@just-fun-stuff6753 they said 8k bro
Shame this series is kinda dead.
I think Driver is a series that would benefit alot from a "proper" difficulty selection, a bit like Fire Emblem/Forbidden siren 2 where the actual level layout/scripts change, so for instance maybe a "A to B Level" on normal is rather mundane while Hard mode adds icey weather and a strict time limit, so Normal is for regular players while Hard is for those Driver fans who love the ultra-hard challenge for the first two games. (and 3 also kept to an extent.)
Just get rid of the outright RNG missions like "Hijack the truck." as well as altering vehicle stats like trucks just because the AI is driving them, for as much flak as Driv3r gets, at least it's missions can be generally consistently beaten if you know what to do.
I haven't actually finished 2 yet due to this stuff because while I love the game, I do take a quite long break after enough attempts on one of the unfair missions.
Also I guess do Driver 76' on the PSP when you do Parallel lines? I guess use an emulator for it if you don't have a PSP.
agree with all of this - and yeah I'll find a way to do 76
Even bigger shame bc driver san francisco was so damn good
@@rmiah Never was a fan of it.
@@minimme what about Driver Renegade 3D???
@@jbiehlable objectively shit taste
I'd love it if you did a video on GTA San Andreas. Your laid-back narration and solid analysis would be such a treat. I would love to see how you analyse a game that everyone remembers as flawless.
"Failed you lost him."
wow they're even punishing you with bad grammar
But that's the charm of the Driver games.
YEAH BRO IT WOULD BE LESS INFURIATING IF THEY SPOKE RIGHT!! Why did every game back then have shitty grammar in the instructions, actually games today still do
@@isaacster5027 has to be non english speakers writing it, or being in charge of picking the person writing it
I remember one of my favorite SEGA Genesis games being super polished and high-quality but it had the sentence "Your welcome" in it and it ruined my life. I like bad grammar in good games in particular. It's definitely part of the charm.
@@TheSektorz forreall!!! It kills the whole vibe of polishednesss
I finished both Driver and Driver 2 back in the days and I don't remember the car chase in Driver 2 being that hard. If I remember correctly you could easily damage the car if you managed to get ahead of them in a turn and basically brake in front of them until they racked up damage. The one missions I remember having trouble with was where you had explosive crates in the back of a pickup.
Thanks for unearthing the trauma I had of the truck mission. I also remember having quite some trouble with the final helicopter chase.
I loved this game though, the cities with the secret cars pre internet were amazing to explore because you never knew if there were secrets left to find.
Oh yeah, Rio had a secret truck no? good times
One huge caveat that should go with the criticism of the story twists, assumed knowledge of the characters and the choppy frame rate is that, as least in my case, 12 year old me ABSOLUTELY did not care about these things. The story was long enough to let me start to feel actively involved, the changes in location with actual story elements in each one made it feel like I was watching a movie or multiple episodes of a TV show, and the choppy frame rate to my memory was actually not a huge thing in my case. I have memories of it happening but I also remember that it didn't happen often and when it did it was usually predictable and was easy to drive around until it stopped. I just accepted it as something I couldn't change. The assumed knowledge of the characters and the feeling of being dropped into something already in progress made it somehow feel more important to me; like it was a TV show that I'd missed a few episodes of but I was still very interested in what was going to happen so that just made me pay attention that much more closely. The first game was very much about the driving. This game flipped the focus to the story and using the driving as a vehicle to advance it, which maybe made it easier to forgive as a kid.
Still can't believe I managed to finish both Driver 1 and 2 as a kid.
I do remember getting stuck for ages at the first mission in D1 and all the missions you mentioned in D2, and also adding the final helicopter chase. That took me a while lol
Yessss man! I searched for such great videos of Driver series for a long time and... I must say this is it... home.
At that time was no internet so all information about secret areas and cars we talk outside with friends. And when u discover something new damn feels good 😂 good times
I remember being so thrilled when I beat this game for the first time. That final mission where you chase Lenny in the chopper drove 8 year old me insane because of the enemy cars that would ram you into a wall, deal you 3/4 damage and make you lose Lenny. In retrospect, yeah, that truck mission in Havana is probably more frustrating because of the narrow streets... It's weird, I never really thought of the draw distance as an issue back in the day. I definitely noticed it, not to mention the slowdown, but it never really bothered me, probably because of the time.
Granted, I'd have to back and replay them (IF ONLY THEY WERE COMPATIBLE WITH PLAYSTATION 5!!!), but I remember enjoying Driver 2 more than Driver, probably because it offered more, despite several technical issues.
I swear I could never get off that boat at the end of the game in Rio as a child
That was the mission that haunted me forever lol
Holy crap, so many years later, so many games later, all the things I did and forgot in the meantime, yet I still remember suffering over ""Chase the Intruder", suddenly feels like I've just played it yesterday. Crazy how the brain works.
The Havana truck missions especially the one where bombs are being dropped probably made me break a few of my PS2 controllers when I was 6. Driver 2 was my childhood even with its crappy frame rate I still love this game.
Best ps1 game for me, it made so much memories with my brothers and my dad, especially when my dad did the vegas's train mission, it was so tensed for me around the age of 6. The hardest mission for us was the catching ambulance in vegas but i feel like it wasn't as hard as you played, i think the fps enhancement screw up the ai a bit.(or maybe fixed it because they supposed to have 30fps). At that time i don't understand the storyline at all because i don't understand english and I was just too young to understand, but the action itself is very good to make it the best ps1 game in my memory. (And ofc i always remember about Jericho with his dual sawn-off and wearing long black coat, such a badass).
Thanks so much for this review Minimme. Driver 2 will always be my favourite in the series. I remember back in the day I was so frustrated it never came to PC (which I played most of my games on). Nowadays with emulation being so good, it's easy to pick up and play it. For me this is the best Driver because:
CITIES
I love that I can just race around in Rio and Havana, all those other open-world racing games are mostly set in popular US cities or cities like London, Paris, and Tokyo.
STORY
It was just a lot more mature, cutscenes are ten times better than the original. Even though I like Driver San Francisco a lot as well the story is just lame and childish. This story was proper and full of intrigue.
MISSIONS
Much more variety in type of missions, and yeah I recognize the hard missions. With 'Chase the gunman' being the absolute hardest mission in videogame history. Everytime I replay Driver 2 I load an old save to skip that mission in particular.
CARS
Same as above, more variety in cars. The fact that you could even drive stuff like a bus or ambulance was brilliant. Combined with the hidden cars, oh man.
Anyway, thanks again for the review. It's too bad this game never got a remastered version or was ported to newer consoles and the PC.
This game reminds me of great moments with my friends, playing in 2-player mode. I wish I could recapture that magic and fun again.
Loved this game as a kid purely because I could get out of my car and hijack other vehicles. I sucked at it and barely made any progress but the nostalgia for this game is still pretty real. This channel is one my favourites of its kind on YT - smiled all the way through this one. Thanks man!
You can honestly only love this game if ( OR love this game only if) you played it growing up. Some of my best memories are with this game just strolling through the cities, and god almighty did shit hit the fan with me when I found by absolute mistake the mini in Havana...the game itself was really hard specially in Vegas and Rio, if you set the cops difficulty to hard..btw the first time I got to play in Vegas...wow that blew my little brain to smithereens. Definetly top 10 best games of all times in my list.
You are CRUSHIN IT brother. Great content
I also remembered discovering that on foot you can go near a chair and hit the triangle button and you would sit, if you run and hit the button you would slide and glitch into the building. Another one is walking backward into the ocean in Havana which cause the game to end and said you drown basically it show you're under the map. Another glitch is during a police chase if you lose the cop and get out then head back toward the cop something the cops still chase you and would try to ram your character on foot but just phase through you.
had so much fun playing Stuntman growing up, looking forward to that video
I gave up at the chase the intruder mission in Chicago lol, good memories. I also wanted to somehow start up disk 2 without finishing disk 1, but no luck. I did somehow “glitch” it to make it say “please insert disk 2” or something along those lines but I was too scared to put it in loll.
Thank you for keeping Driver alive 🤓
I love ALL the Driver games. Although, now you have refreshed my memories, my nightmares have been given new life regarding those bloody hard missions!