A Gaming Diary
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Driver (iPhone)
Dec 11th
Still stuck on the same mission. The cop cars just batter me and often leave me looking like this:
Once they hit me so hard I actually flew out of the level entirely:
I’m still trying, though.
Driver (iPhone)
Dec 10th
I appear to be stuck. I’m on a mission where I have to get from A to B and then to C with a full felony rating and no magical car-repairing checkpoints along the way. I keep getting battered about by the police and my car dies before the end of the mission.
This normally wouldn’t be a problem, but this is the least interesting mission so far, mostly taking part on long, flat straight bits of road. Hopefully I’ll get past it before too long.
Driver (iPhone)
Dec 9th
I’ve really been enjoying this, though a couple of times I’ve had to repeat missions due to hitting the wrong menu options. Still, live and learn. (Continue seems a better bet than Load Game to getting back to where you were.)
It’s great fun barreling down the streets and screaming around corners. The music’s great, too, with three different radio stations to listen to.
But, you know, what’s up with the cut scenes?
There’s moody and then there’s just plain too bloody dark. The way they asterisk out mildly rude words in the subtitles but leave them uncensored in the voiceovers is a bit facepalmy, too.
Driver (iPhone)
Dec 8th
In 1999 I sold my Playstation, moved to the USA and promptly bought another Playstation. One of the first games I bought was Driver, an excellent, if difficult, car chase game set in a series of free-roaming cities.
In 2009, I’m back in the UK again, and have just bought Driver again, this time for my iPhone.
And what a difference a decade makes. Not only does Driver cost £3.99 instead of fifty bucks, or whatever I paid at the time, but it’s now in the palm of my hand, the difficulty has been smoothed and it looks much better than it ever did before.
It’s really quite fantastic. Oh, there’s the same old trial and error to some of the missions I have a hard time believing that the cut scenes were ever acceptable, but it’s got the same muscly handling, lots of traffic, a perfect adequate draw distance, decent load times and a framerate that behaves itself for the vast majority of the time.
This isn’t a cut-down handheld version of Driver, this is a full, upgraded version of the game. Brilliant.
Okay, so it did crash once at the end of a cut scene, but when I restarted the app it had auto-saved at the beginning of the cut scene, so that was okay.
