The game received favorable reviews upon its release, with the exception of the Wii edition which received mixed reviews. The game's main story sees players controlling John Tanner, a police detective, who falls into a coma pursuing his nemesis Charles Jericho following a prison breakout after the events of Driver 3 ( Driv3r), and finds himself piecing together his plan in a dream world while it is happening in real life. The game sees players traversing a fictional version of San Francisco and the Bay area conducting missions through the use of licensed real-world cars, with the ability to shift into any car in the game's setting in most platform editions. Developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft, it was released in September 2011 for the PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows, with an edition for Mac OS X in March 2012. That especially is a hell of a trick.Driver: San Francisco is an action-adventure racing video game and the fifth installment in the Driver series. Gimmicky or not, there's a gleeful purity to Driver's action, from its lack of gun battles and on-foot action, to the way it soon convinces you that magically weaponising oncoming traffic can be as natural as a handbrake turn. With shifting, it's one of the most enjoyable racing games in a very long time. Without its shifting element, Driver: San Francisco would be enjoyable enough mediocrity, but nothing special next to other driving games. This keeps the story humming along, but makes the occasional spikes all the more noticeable when they do show up. Rarely do you come across a particularly difficult mission. You're also stuck with Ubisoft's DRM, which demands an online check when you fire the game up, though at least it lets you play offline after that.Įven with a controller, the actual driving is usually mediocre, with poor handling in most vehicles, and very rubber-banded races. The biggest annoyance, however, is that the controls are designed for a controller with analogue sticks, and trying to play with keyboard and mouse is a recipe for insanity. Graphically, it's unimpressive, and with no real options beyond switching antialiasing on or off.
This isn't a great port, starting with the fact that it quite obviously is one. It can be a bumpy one though, especially on PC.
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