Shaft is on the road..
Despite it's age, you can confidently say that it is a classic. If you compare it to the following installments of this release.
Although you cant get out of your car in this game.. it is way superior to Driv3r, for instance, by lengths..
The physics of this game absolutely convinced me. You notice best when cruising around the San-Francisco streets with nice possibilities for big jumps.
The mission design is sweet.. very fast-paced and demanding. But not too hard, although you might have to try several times in some of the missions.
The graphics and sound are very suitable.. and i was impressed by the quality at the time when this game was released.
It's a pitty that this developer team did not stick to their own ideas.. they tried to approach GTA by making it possible to walk out of the car and shoot your enemies, which was a big mistake. Specially with the awful gameplay which was noticed in Driv3r when not being in a car.
I assume the Engine is just not suited for "Outdoor" Action, and i am pretty sure that they would have been very succesful with the latter releases.. if they would not have let themselves being influenced by the masses.
It would have become some kind of "market hole".. it's really sad as i liked Driver alot and was always waiting for a good succesor.
At least we've still got the possibility to try Driver 1.
Give yourself a bump and try it out. ;)