I just beat this level yesterday!
It becomes easy... Once you know what the tricks are supposed to be, which the game doesn't tell you at all.
For me, these were the tips I needed:
- There's a dedicated button for burnout, which makes it super easy to do the 360
- the slalom only counts if you do the pillars on one side of the garage BOTH WAYS
- To do a backwards 180, drive backwards, then push one direction, then halfway through push the other direction.
Supposedly the PSX version also has a video in the options menu which shows you a dev completing the course, with button prompts on screen.
Oh, and there's a cheat code in-game to skip this level entirely.
I managed to pass this as a kid and a friend invited me to his house so I could pass it for him. That was my peak and my life has gone downhill ever since.
Mad respect.
I'm sure the game does tell you. There's a way for you to watch what a perfect run looks like iirc. Been a while since I've played though.
What a memory this unlocked!! The physics of this game made you feel like you were 100% driving a real car. I almost want to play it again now, but honestly I bet that not being able to actually drive as a kid was half of what made it so mesmerizing.
Now it might just be like driving to work :(
I love my emulators and I have to say that whilst the game has obviously aged, there's still something a little satisfying about throwing the car around in these games.
That said, the map - which looks like it was designed on graph paper - leaves a bit to be desired nowadays. It does get a little boring.
Driv3r really should have been the pinnacle of the series, but it just stands as a testament to why you should never rush your game out. San Andreas was quite possibly the most hotly anticipated game of all time; they were never going to beat that.
Driver San Francisco is the pinnacle in my opinion
I dont really remember much about the first game besides the mission in the post, but i do remember driver 2 being really difficult game.
That one mission where you have to hijack the truck or something like that, and the car that is pursuing you will just kill you 5seconds into the mission if you slowed down for a turn lol
After 50 resets of the mission i just desided that i will not even try to follow the truck if it takes 2/3 possible paths, just reset and hope for easy route and then T-bone the truck hoping to complete the mission in the first 10seconds.
Or the mission that asks you to take out like 3 cars across the map, with a really strict timelimit, and sometimes the car you hit takes 50% damage per hit, sometimes 5%.
I was definitely going insane at some point in the playthrough.
Also ReDriver 2 PC port of driver 2 exists and is fully playable.
It really did have an incredible driving model
Oh man this was rough. Virgin GTA player vs chad Driver player.
Driver (1-3) taught me skid and spin recovery so well that it allowed me to recover through a full 360 on an off ramp without incident...other than my heart beating out of my ears.
My gta5 high speed driving through traffic saved me from having a head on collision, there's a spot on the highway where 2 overtaking lanes pass each other, I was over taking on my side, then a car was overtaking a car that was over taking a car and was half on my side, I went full Franklin, slowed time and passed between them like a glove.
My brother and I were, like, 7 and 10, respectively, when we played this. Some things on the list were obvious, others (the heck is a "slalom"?!) we had to guess just by doing every possible thing you could do with a car. A couple day's work, bada-bing bada-boom.
People definitely would've given up nowadays.
Completely untrue. They would watch some loud obnoxious guy on YouTube teach you how to do it in a clickbait video that’s 10 minutes and 5 seconds long with a sponsor.
When you have rented the game for 24hrs and the tute takes 3 of them.
Was there more to the game than this?
If you can dodge a wrench, you dodge the pillars while slaloming.
I had a shitty non FFB wheel. So much easier. The 180 was almost impossible with keyboard
Even though I could skip it, I couldn't let a TUTORIAL beat me.
It beat me.
I cut my teeth on Interstate 76.
Taken directly (sounds, too) from The Driver (1978)
I still can hear this picture!
Luckily you could skip it, so I was able to play the rest of the game.
Later a gaming magazine had a guide with an optimal route, that helped me to finally beat it. (after hours of practice)
I remember trying to figure out what slalom meant for so long lol
never understood why a driving game needed a tutorial in the first place
This shit was SOOO hard!
I honestly had to use a Gameshark code to get past it.
I had no trouble with this as a kid, seeing people always complain about it is wild. I even picked up the game again last year on emulator to try it again and best it first try once I fixed input lag issues
You wanna talk impossible?
The actual last mission of this game on the hard difficulty might as well be RNG for now fucking hard dodging the NPCs that spawn are, as they're faster than you
Holy fuck, that last level! Dude, you have unlocked some deep seated trauma.
I get GTA flashbacks. This was definitely boss level.
Bro, I played this for years not knowing what half the things were and had no goddamn idea there's more game after this!
Based tutorial
That was easy. Knocking down pedestrians. Even harder.
Couldn't believe the intro.
I loved the driver movie as a kid.
To this day I have not beaten that level.
