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#1theman
10-19-2005, 08:57 PM
This really explaines the Driver vs GTA history. Good little read if you really wnat to know.

Driver vs. GTA - the whole truth!

The thing in common between Driv3r and the fifth GTA part of San Andreas leaves itself only heavily abstreiten. Massively Action, wild pursuits, dangerous shootings etc.. And already for a long time a hot competition raves between the Gta and the Driver series. On 15 November 1997 DMA (direct memory access) Design with the 2D-Action-Game Grand Theft car created a new play experience. In the cities Liberty town center, Vice town center & San Andreas one could fulfill oneself to almost any desire. Everything which the heart of a gangster pleased, was in GTA possible. But the 2D-Optik, to which one held GTA London and the continuation GTA II also still in the ADD on, worked a little up-to-date.

That imagined also young from Reflections the Interactive and began their work on Driver . But in Driver the player takes over not the role of a gangster, but a policeman. In hot carriages could you starting from 1999 in Miami, LA, San Francisco and New York gangster hunt. The magazines titelten Driver are like GTA, only with mad 3D-Optik . Reflections had thus actually created it to bring a GTA similar play into the third dimension. But the disadvantages opposite GTA did not leave themselves to denials. Driver offered more cities and a very much improves diagram, however one was dependent on the car, steps out and to foot does not run was not possible. In it also Driver did not change 2 anything, which 2000 for the PlayStation appeared.

The GTA Macher was it now, which made the next crucial step. GTA, with all its advantages, held introduction into the 3D-Welt. In October 2001 skirt star Games with GTA III published the to date commercially most successful Action Game. Driver seemed to be the loser in the contest around the category throne. The GTA developer verhoehnten Driver even still in GTA III with the mission v-man Tanner , in which it a Undercover copilot named Tanner hunt must, which except its fahrerischen quality a considerable head be should. A more direct allusion on the missing features outside of the car in Driver could not give it.

One year after set skirt star Games with GTA Vice town center even still for one drauf. In almost any regard it succeeded to exceed skirt star the already brilliant predecessor GTA III. Also success still continued to rise and in such a way became Vice town center to PlayStation 2 play and bestverkauften Action Game of all times bestverkauften today. But Reflections Interactive could not be confused and produced meanwhile the ingenious Action Racer Stuntman for the PlayStation 2. An ingenious physics engine made Stuntman so singular. And one wanted to get now also the old course horse to assistance of these again from the stable: Driver! The new project was now thus Driver 3, and/or late Driv3r. One had learned Tanner in Driv3r from the past and thus should do not only in the car, but also to foot and to water the cities (to make more un)sicher. Because contrary to GTA there is to be equivalent three cities in Driv3r: Miami, Nice and Instanbul.

Also in almost all other points Driv3r is to exceed the GTA competition. More vehicles, importantly better diagram, more realism, driving physics and many unique features improve like the director mode. And release lies also not more in far distance, because already in June one is to come into the benefit of Driv3r. In the GTA camp it was meanwhile rather quiet. Release of Vice town center lay already about 1 1/2 year back and to the successor gave it for a long time no information.

This changed only to the electronics of this year Entertainment Expo in the last week. The first Screenshots and the first information to GTA San Andreas were published and provided (times again) for large sensation. San Andreas is not a city, but a fictitious - ajar against California - state in the USA. In this state the player in three cities can out-rave himself: Loosely Santos (Los Angeles), San Fierro (San Francisco) and read Venturra (Vegas read). These cities will be connected in addition by Highways. Here one could draw even thus already again with Driv3r. But in October the appearing San Andreas will let the Driver competitor look again old? This question cannot be answered so far, since both plays go despite large agreements still into two different directions.

While Driv3r uses a ultrarealistische Top diagram for example, GTA builds further on the proven Comic Look. In addition also San Andreas works again very covered and fed with black humor, even if one wants to be somewhat more serious this mark than with the property mood play Vice town center. Driv3r against it is a serious act ion crime film.

On the one hand one can say that GTA and Driver were more similar never before, on the other hand one coins/shapes it however both their own, unmistakable style. Therefore I believe that they will find both for the first time their own large fan municipality. Driv3r will convince in June by an exciting Story, an ingenious diagram, a realistic driving physics and a complex damage model, GTA San Andreas becomes in October by the proven GTA Flair, which can convince infinite liberties and a pfiffige Story
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albrozdud3
10-20-2005, 12:26 AM
Old, difficult to read, but fairly accurate I suppose. :bored:

I wonder what they say after what we know now(that San Andreas was a massive success and that Driv3r was a total flop).

shstubas08
10-22-2005, 10:28 AM
everytime i try to tell a gta fanboy that driver was the first to create freeroaming 3d driving, they say gta did, refering to gta1 and 2

albrozdud3
10-22-2005, 04:45 PM
Originally posted by shstubas08
everytime i try to tell a gta fanboy that driver was the first to create freeroaming 3d driving, they say gta did, refering to gta1 and 2

Well that's idiotic. Driver was the first to create 3D freeroam driving. :bulb:

john cena
10-22-2005, 05:39 PM
Originally posted by shstubas08
everytime i try to tell a gta fanboy that driver was the first to create freeroaming 3d driving, they say gta did, refering to gta1 and 2
You might be right about that, but it doesn't mean that it will always be the same. I mean eventually there will be another game that will be better than gta and driver. It happens all the time. First it was Tomb Raider who was the best series and then it became gta once they made gta3.

matt__jon
10-23-2005, 04:19 AM
I'm not sure who really did make the first 3d free roam. It doesn't matter who made the first 3d, it could be easily said that whoever made the first free roamer wanted it to be 3d but because of technical issues couldn't. I haven't played any of the older games in the free roam genre except Driver 1, thats it, and that was a damn fine game. I wish the PR guys wouldn't latch onto stuff that doesn't really matter like that. Stuff that probably isn't true anyway. "Our game was the first to do this in 3d." Who cares? Thats in the past now, why don't they hype what the current game is about? Unless you;re a hardcore gamer, you don;t really care about the prequels to new games anyway, but to make they game sound more legit and to try to escape the "clone" comments that are bound to happen anyway, they have to stick in a statement that they were the first to do this. 3D is the worst thing to use in this. Everyone wants to make a 3d game, they just can;t do it sometimes. And to pull the "we were the first to do it in 3d" card is just lame. Well, I think this rant was repetetive enough. I'll let you think about it for a while.