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10. Driver: San Francisco<\/h2>\n

\"Driver:<\/p>\n

First entry in today\u2019s top ten is a vehicular game called Driver: San Francisco<\/a>. The game takes place in a minimalistic version of the city, with the same name (duh!), after the events portrayed in the prequel, Driver 3, where you play the role of John Tanner, a detective that tries, along with his partner to take a little vacation after they captured one of the most wanted criminals, Jericho.<\/p>\n

But because this is the starting plot, you can simply guess that things will change, and not for the better. An escape plan, placed in motion by one of his mercenaries, succeeds with a grand explosion. After your fears come true regarding Jericho, you take it upon yourself to pursue him.<\/p>\n

Unnecessarily, the game allows you about 10 seconds of gameplay where you just drive forward then another cutscene follows where you end up extremely wounded after an encounter with a truck. Miraculously you wake up in your own car, and not long after that you discover that you’ve got yourself a new superpower: the ability to transfer your soul into another body that\u2019s behind a wheel, and control it like it\u2019s your own. From then on I\u2019ll let you discover it…<\/p>\n

Gameplay and Features<\/h3>\n

As aforementioned, a new (and possibly unique) feature makes its way into the game, called Shift, where you have to possibility to control *any*<\/em> car in the game. Upon viewing the city in Shift mode once you hover with the reticule over a car and you can receive its model and stats.<\/p>\n

The story revolves around the Shift feature with several options available, like fast teleportation between your last used vehicles, which proves extremely useful during chase or race sections. Due to the multitude of new features, each new unlocked feature provides a quick tutorial on how to use it and will sometimes show you what you can use it for.<\/p>\n

\"Driver:A bit later in the game, you get access to a golden bar on the HUD which can be considered a \u2018mana\u2019 bar since it\u2019s usage differs based on what do you want it for. It can activate nitrous or perform a ramming maneuver, the latter option damaging the enemies\u2019 car at the risk of some damage to your own.<\/p>\n

The game contains lots of side-missions, which are needed to be completed in order to continue the main story, dares and challenges spread across the city for an extended gameplay length. The types of side-missions can differ from simple races to pursuits or even doing stunts. The dares contain simple objectives, including keep the speed above a certain limit for an amount of time and jump with your car using the hills to reach a total jump height.<\/p>\n

As for the challenges they are a bit longer which require you to complete a certain type of race (my favorite is the relay race, will be covered a bit later) or a time attack while brutally attacked by the police force. From all of the mission types you receive credits which can be used to purchase new vehicles and garages.<\/p>\n

Each new garage bought will unlock a certain number of cars. So as you’re not left guessing, each garage shows the player what vehicles it will unlock, thus giving the user the choice to buy the respective one or search for others. The players can also purchase upgrades to the ram, nitrous and power bar.<\/p>\n

The vehicles and rest of aforementioned things are not the only unlockables, as the city itself unlocks bit by bit after completing several main-story missions. With the increasing size of the available area for cruising, it becomes harder to Shift through the map so you have the ability to zoom out and cover a wider area than at the beginning (the ability to zoom out growing with almost each increase of the map, in the end covering almost the entire city at once).<\/p>\n

\"Driver:My favorite race mode (Though there\u2019s only 1 and is unlockable only by purchasing the Deluxe version of the game) is the Relay Race, a 3 lap race where at the start of each new lap, your vehicle transforms into another. From a sports car, through to a truck and finishing up with another 4-wheeler.<\/p>\n

Being a quite old game already, the multiplayer is almost dead, however you can still play with your friends in one of the numerous gamemodes like Tag or Trailblazer. In the gameplay below there\u2019ll be shown a multiplayer race between a friend and I on the Tag mode. Basically it follows the rules of a normal game of Tag.<\/p>\n

An NPC car glows at the beginning, the first to ram it takes that glow. Other players have to try and steal the glow by touching your vehicle and hold onto it as long as possible. The glow is lost if an opponent takes it, you enter shift mode or completely crash your car (which forces you into shift mode \u2013 as you\u2019ll see in the video). First to 100 points, wins the game.<\/p>\n

Cars and Map<\/h3>\n

There are 140 cars available for purchase, of every kind available: Muscles, exotics, family cars, drift cars, trucks, ramp trucks from makers like: Ford, Audi, RUF, DAF, Fiat, Lamborghini, Dodge and so on. Each car has different stats, some of them being more tied to the asphalt while others borrow the behavior of ice-skating professionals.<\/p>\n

The map is just a fraction of the real San Francisco but the developers tried to add the most recognizable locations and landmarks like the Russian Hill <\/a>or Golden Gate Bridge<\/a>. While the asphalt dominates the terrain, there are sections where you can drift across the dirt with buggies or other racing cars.<\/p>\n

Pros:<\/h3>\n

– Decent part of San Francisco with most of the known attractions integrated into the game<\/p>\n

– High amount of cars, every type being available<\/p>\n

– Decent story<\/p>\n

– Shift Feature<\/p>\n

– Cockpit View<\/p>\n

Cons:<\/h3>\n

– The AI doesn\u2019t seem rubberbanded but still limited by top speed, making the races quite easy.<\/p>\n

– Some of the challenges are plain hard (One of them took me around 20-30 tries)<\/p>\n

Release Date: PC\/PS3\/Xbox360\/Wii \u2013 Sept 2011, Mac OS X \u2013 March 2012<\/p>\n

Genre: Racing, Action-Adventure<\/p>\n

Developer: Ubisoft Reflections<\/a><\/p>\n

Price: 9.99$\/\u20ac<\/p>\n

Steam Store Page:\u00a0Click\u00a0Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Score: 4.3\/5<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MpyJMS4VvKA<\/a><\/p>\n

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9. Crysis<\/h2>\n

\"Crysis\"<\/p>\n

Onto the remote parts of the world, Crysis<\/a>\u2019 story takes place on the exotic fictional islands called Lingshan near the Philippines. Set in 2020, the main protagonist, Nomad, along with his Special Op Team, is inbound for a rescue mission where a group of scientists have been captured by the North Koreans. Though the initial objective sounds quite easy, especially when you wear a nanosuit, at the drop-off point several unpredicted elements derail the initial plan and the need to adapt becomes crucial.<\/p>\n

Gameplay and Features<\/h3>\n

The game introduces the notion of the nanosuit, a special armor that allows the wearer to perform superhuman actions like travel at extreme speeds, become hulk-like strong, jump several meters high, become invisible and of course, as armor against enemy projectiles. Each of the mods can be activated by simply using the mouse. Crysis also contains a power bar, like in Driver: San Francisco, which is used by all of the above-mentioned functions.<\/p>\n

Its depletion is mostly based by the action and its usage. For example, if you choose to go invisible, you can prolong the time available, by standing still or at least moving as slow as possible. Running whilst invisible depletes the power bar quite quickly. Also shooting any weapon causes the power bar to insta-deplete leaving you vulnerable for a brief time.<\/p>\n

The game allows extended weapon customization like types of scopes, accessories (laser sight, flashlight), silencers and so on. Those weapon elements can be unlocked by picking up weapons that already have them integrated. The unlocked parts will be available every time you pick up the same weapon. It is also possible to use some of the unlocked parts on other weapons, like the sniper scope can be placed on the AK-47.<\/p>\n

\"Crysis\"Fast transportation units are available covering all 3 ways of traveling: Earth, water and air. Some earth based vehicles contain turrets which can be controlled with the mouse. All the vehicles have a turbo system, which it\u2019s pretty self-explanatory as to what it does. The vehicles have a damage mechanic integrated, allowing you to die if driving too reckless.<\/p>\n

The Lingshan Islands<\/h3>\n

The Lingshan Islands provide a gorgeous landscape<\/a> to explore with different elements of nature and technology, from forests and jungles and lakes, from simple huts to oil refineries and shipyards. The game isn\u2019t open-world, more like semi-open, since even if the maps are huge they are loaded separately after their specific story missions.<\/p>\n

Pros:<\/h3>\n

– Gorgeous game, a reference point in computer benchmarking for a long time due to its system requirements on extremely high settings<\/p>\n

– Medium weapon-customization<\/p>\n

– Koreans shouting like rock\u2019n\u2019roll singers at you<\/p>\n

– Possibility of stealth kills<\/p>\n

Cons:<\/h3>\n

– It can become a bit repetitive.<\/p>\n

Release Date: PC \u2013 Nov. 2007, Xbox360\/PS3 \u2013 Oct. 2011<\/p>\n

Genre: First-Person Shooter<\/p>\n

Developer: Crytek Frankfurt<\/p>\n

Publisher: Electronic Arts<\/a><\/p>\n

Price: 14.99 $\/\u20ac<\/p>\n

Steam Store Page: Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Score: 4.6\/5<\/p>\n

Similar Games: Crysis 2\/3<\/p>\n