Nice game, if you don't care about some real problems
Driver: Parallel Lines (D: PL) was a game that I was looking from this angle, successor of a disaster. I wasn't the most enthusiastic player in the world for this game.
The game starts from 70's, and continues to our time. We control a wheel-man, as we can understand from the first in-game video. He says that he is the best in job, then a robber comes to our car and we start to drive. Driving is fun in the game, but it games boring when you have to drive from one side of New York to the other side to get a mission. All the fun finishes when you jump out of the car or the bike. It just doesn't give you the feeling GTA gives. Ah yes, GTA. The game smells GTA from everywhere, but can't compete with it. You collect tokens by jumping off the ramps. There are some other missions in the game except the scenario, but some of them are really stupid. I can understand that you can go to an agency and kill the guy who doesn't give you the money back, but I just don't understand how can we get 2000$ just by smashing a doughnut stand and losing the cops. You can't do taxi missions with all taxis! When you find that taxi, you don't get money when you drop the fare to where he wants! There are lots of more mistakes too. When I was playing the game earlier today, I was going to a mission when I saw that a cop was coming to me. I started to drive like a normal citizen, and there were three more cars in front of me. I stopped and looked at the lights, what did I see? Green! I was wondering why the cars weren't going, and in a second the light turned red. Both three cars started their engines, so I started my engine too. Then what I see, that cop chasing me, even though my speedometer was showing a bit higher than 10. He chased me because I passed on red light!
Another interesting one is that you don't earn any money if you are doing scenario missions. You have to do the side-missions to earn some cash.
There are some good things about the game too. Especially driving aspects. All this car chasing things are fun, as driving is fun. Some of the missions are fun too, my favorite mission is Slink's Air Mail one. You get a bike and try to get the packages before the cops. The last package makes you feel like a motocross champion.
In overall, Driver: Parallel Lines is a fun game that you can spend some time. It is not a definite classic, or reminding the original Driver game, but it promises you some fun hours. If you like driving (and drive for like 15 minutes), want some decent action, this game can entertain you a bit.