Sound: 1
Gameplay: 1
Replay Value: 0
Reviewer's Tilt: 1
Overall: 1.2
Driver 2
has such choppy framerate
you swear you're going slower than a snail.
If you buy this game you may receive
a virus in the mail.
I don't care if you liked the first
This game is crap,
worse than Fred Durst.
Don't even consider wasting your cash
Because deep down, this game
is worse than rehash
Buy it just to burn it, then you'll see
How well this makes better firewood then game, hehe!
Oh, the best part about this game is, you can get out of the car! But who the hell cares? It's not like getting out of the car is actually useful. You can't shoot people, you can't run from police (you can't get out of the car when getting pursued by a police car! WTF?) Sure, you can steal another car, but unless you're into pink Christopher Lowell-mobiles, then why would you want a different car than your own?
The framerate runs at about 6 FPS or lower, but if you are lucky it will hit 9 FPS. Sometimes the game will freeze! If you are the only car on screen, you hit 8 FPS. If you put a single pedestrian on screen, the game goes down to about 2 FPS. Cram another pedestrian on the screen, and the game freezes! Oh, don't you just love this game's framerate? Yum yum.
Oh, don't forget about the constant glitches. This game can't go a single 5 seconds without glitching (and freezing), and you'll see so many different glitches that you can write a book on it. You have the disappearing pedestrians glitch, where the peds will just vanish into pixelated air, cars disappearing, and my favorite--cars driving in the sky glitch! It's really amusing to see cars driving in the sky, or once in a while you'll see a car disappear into the highway like it were quicksand and come crashing down from the sky! Oh, of course--you can't forget the glitch where you disappear into a wall and you die, saying "You drowned". Wow, I didn't know I could drown from disappearing into a wall! There are countless other glitches in which you get stuck in an unescapable death. Or you crash into an invisible wall in the middle of the highway. Speaking of the highway, in Havana, the main intersection isn't finished! Look in the holes in the road to see....the sky? What??!!
The missions are not even fun because every single mission requires you to do something in a certain period of time! Every mission is timed, taking all the fun out of this game. Also, when you're playing Take a Ride mode, which I always did, you are supposed to have fun messing around. But you can't! It takes forever to load the damn level, and there's so much disc swapping just to get to either of the four levels (yeah, four...ugh), yet the game's only on two discs. I've seen less disc swapping with Riven, and that's five discs!
You never get any sense of exhiliaration in this game. You seem to be going about 10 mph the entire game, even when you know you've got to be going at least eight times that. Yes, I played this game over a year before GTA3 came out, so don't think that this game was played after GTA3 just to bash it. I didn't even have a PS2 back then, and I wanted this game to die. This is a joke from Infogrames that's not even remotely funny. Unless of course, you need some firewood.
I'm tired of talking about the worst game ever, so let's talk about something more exciting: Burning it! You need a lighter to burn it. Take it somewhere and start the instructions on fire. Then, once you have a nice fire going, insert the jewel case and CDs into the fire. Watch that thing burn down to a puddle of plastic! Then light the plastic on fire, and sit for a few hours, remembering all the hell this game put you through. You'll feel so much better when it's done.
Okay, there is one thing that's good about Driver 2. It's driving cars off the pedestrian bridge in the Las Vegas level. Now that's a fun time! Hey, if that's as high as your standards go for games, then grab this game!
Don't believe me that this game is so terrible? Well, play it. Of course, the gameplay won't be fun because it's not easy to drive a pink car in slow framerate, which takes any possible fun out of this game. This is the lowest score I've ever given any video game, yet it deserves it in every way possible. Can I think of anything good about it? No I can't. If I said this game isn't a complete failure, I'd be lying.
