Fan of Driver series will enjoy this game, for other try this at your own risk.
Let’s find out what made this game so hateful. And for this you don’t have to wait long. What about this - every time you start the game you have to select language! And after some enter pressing you will find yourself in game menu. From there you can select missions, change settings and do other common tasks.
There are three game modes in this game – Undercover, Driving games and Free ride. In driving games you can choose between 6 available types of driving games – Quick chase, Quick Getaway, Trail Blazer, Survival, Checkpoint Race and Gate Race. I think I shouldn’t have to tell what free ride mode is. Using this mode you can roam around three cities – Miami, Nice, and Istanbul – last one unlocks after you have access to Istanbul missions in undercover mode. This free mode is kind of similar to GTA.
Underground mode is the heart of this game. You need to finish a series of missions in each city to complete the game. Most of the missions are pretty much similar and chasing vehicles is the main goal of those missions, there are missions where you control Tanner – the hero of this game, and this game works like 3rd person game and not a bright aspect of this game. Tanner’s movement and jumping all looks awkward and controlling car isn’t that easy too and you have to use cars those have awful handling that make some chasing missions freakishly hard.
Let’s focus on sound and graphics. You will see some amazing cut scenes throughout the game and those are one of the best I ever seen in any games. Graphics of Driver 3 isn’t anything special and most of the case visuals look ugly, character models often look out of shape, for example if you look on tanner’s head; you will see some grids! Otherwise three vast areas of this game offer many things to look at and building structures, cars physics looks really good. Sound tracks are really good and odd sounds of car’s engine somehow break that nice experience.
In underground mode you don’t have much freedom unlike GTA, if developer integrated this huge open world with missions this game could be as good as GTA. Though in free ride mode you can do that but that’s not as much fun to do. In that mode you have access great number of cars from bikes to truck to boat. There are some hidden areas to find and ten Timmy Vermicelli (If you've played GTA III you may remember a mission in which you had to chase and kill a guy called Tanner. This was Rockstar's tribute to the Driver series. In return, Reflections have a section in Driv3r in which you have to hunt down and kill a character called Timmy Vermicelli, named after GTA: Vice City's Tommy Vercetti. He's dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and is wearing inflatable armbands because he can't swim!) to kill in each city in order to unlock various extras.
After playing this game I realized it’s not that bad like what people thinks or making it. So if you are driver fan and don’t mind some problems here and there, go for this game.