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Ubisoft revives Driver, starts new title
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 19th June 2008
Can a new Driver game overcome the faults of the old series? Only time will tell...
Perceptive readers will have noted the the careful wording there - 'has been revealed to be working' - because although this news is based on footage from a visit the BBC paid to the studio, Ubisoft spokespeople claim to have no knowledge of the game according to Eurogamer.
Regardless, the video looks authentic to us and the presenter in question clearly reveals that the Reflections studio, which is best known for the other Driver games, is owned by Ubisoft and is working on a new game in the series.
The footage from the report has brief glimpses of some of the cars currently being designed and seems to indicate that the series is being designed with more of a cartoony and less-realistic feel to it.
It's definitely known that Ubisoft owns the rights to the Driver franchise, having bought the game from Atari back in 2000 as CEO Yves Guillemot wanted to get Ubisoft into the racing game genre, but until now nothing seemed to have been done with the license other than that Sony hinted a PS3 version was in development a few years ago.
Would you be excited to see another Driver game, or did Driv3r leave a sour taste in your mouth thanks to poor spelling and awful handling? Let us know in the forums.
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Wasn't Driver canned after that abysmal Driv3r thing?
We already have GTA, and Mafia. Mafia II will come out in early 09 and piss all over GTA IV and this 'saints row' thing, we don't need another crappy sandbox car GTA clone game.
unless it is relatively fun... then bring it on!!!
I totally wanted to go to Reflections to do my Work Experience for School (in 2004), since I live in Durham, but I ended up going to my mum's office at the council. :(
Oh boy, Mafia was the dogs danglies.
Yea, I hated how they ruined it with random injections of running and shooting. Didn't really work did it.
Ubisoft however seem to be intent on re-inventing quite a few franchises, so I'll reserve judgement until some of them surface. PoP is the main one I'm keeping an eye out for.
Yes. Totally and utterly 100% agree. The original Driver was awesome. I loved that game. What was really hilarious was that my grandmother liked playing it! :D
So what about Ubisoft's POD racer then?
no guns, no walking and no crappy bikes. just cars and cars!
ohh, by the way, for driving games, me wants TopGear test track to be featured in a game
but non-driving parts are garbage, IMHO, driver should stick with what it says on the tin: driving.
Gran Turismo 5 will have it next year. :)
Will it be artificially flooded to simulate wet tracks?
GTR2 has it already, and can simulate rain/dry/cold/hot with any car you can find for it ;)
You have the coolest grandmother ever.
Oh ya, I remember reading about that being made by someone. That was a long time ago. The guy had been working on it for a long time. Or is this included with GTR2?
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