
Driver: San Francisco is no longer playing catch up.

As of the release of GTA3, Driver because sort of a second-tier crime-sim series, always playing catch up to the industry-shattering revelations of Rockstar's signature series. The game innovates on previous installations in the series, offering greater freedom of movement and some exciting action possibilities along the hilly streets of the City of Brotherly Love. To talk about the plot too much would be to give away some amazing twists, but let's leave it at this: you play as a character who winds up in a coma with sequences taking place both in modern day and years ago before he was put into the coma. So it was quite a surprise for gamers when Driver: San Francisco turned out to be one of the greatest sleeper hits of the year. Seen by many as a too-little-too-late response to Grand Theft Auto 3, the game was mostly met with lukewarm reviews and featured lackluster action and atmosphere.

Driv3r was not the most well received game of the series.
