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Violence ignites Chicago when a U.S. crime lord's bookkeeper, Pink Lenny, cuts a deal with his greatest rival, a Brazilian gangster. Tanner and his partner, Tobias Jones, go undercover to defuse it. They realize that Lenny's deal, whatever its details, unsettles the balance of power in the crime underworld in the Brazilian's favor. Tanner disrupts the Brazilian's shipments coming in via Havana and tracks down Lenny. The U.S. crime lord, Solomon Caine, is also hunting for Lenny, who's sighted in Vegas. In Vegas Tanner and Tobias Jones use Caine to get to Lenny, and begin working for the crime lord, helping him resist the Brazilian's onslaught. When Lenny is sighted in Rio Tanner and Tobias Jones head out with Caine to capture him from the Brazilian who's still protecting him. Tanner double-crosses Caine and captures Lenny himself, thereby restoring the balance of power and the equilibrium.
Features:
- Four New Cities - Realistic recreations of Chicago, Las Vegas, Havana (Cuba), and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- More Realistic Streets - All cities now feature curved roads including life-like on-and-off freeway ramps and twisting mountain roads, allowing for a more realistic and challenging driving experience
- Greater Interactivity - Players can get out of the car to perform tasks on foot including setting detonator timers, unlocking doors, and flipping shutter switches
- Commandeer a New Ride - When walking around the environment, Tanner can commandeer buses, fire trucks, muscle cars, and more
- Enhanced Storyline and cut scenes - Driver 2 will feature graphically enhanced cut scenes with full character lip-syncing, improved model detail, and a gripping storyline
- 40 New Missions - Wide variance in mission objectives and strategies including getting out of the car to perform tasks inside buildings, changing vehicles to elude the bad guys, and more
- Multiplay - Driver 2 will feature a two-player split screen mode with its own unique driving area and games (Undercover mission mode not available in multiplay due to massive size and freedom in cities)
- Life-like Pedestrians - Greater range of pedestrian actions including sun bathing on beach, sitting or standing and chatting, walking in and out of buildings, and much more
- New Driving Games - In addition to some old favorites, players can look forward to new driving games including classic racing, and a slalom-style beat the clock
- Adrenaline Pumping Soundtrack - Complete soundtrack assembled in conjunction with Polygram/Universal
Developer: Reflections Interactive
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| Platform | Release Date | Ave Rating | |
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Playstation | 13 November 2000 | 7.3 |
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Driver 2: The Wheelman is Back (named Driver 2: Back on the Streets in Europe) is the second installment of the Driver video game series.
Gameplay
Driver 2 expands on s 3-D, free-roam structure, as well as adding the ability of the character, Officer Tanner, to step out of his car to explore on foot and commandeer other vehicles. The story missions are played separately from the take-a-ride mode where the player can explore the cities on his own time.
Missions in the game are generally vehicle-oriented, and involve trailing witnesses, ramming cars and escaping from gangsters or cops. A cutscene is shown prior to almost every mission to help advance the storyline, and thus the game plays rather like a Hollywood-style car chase movie. Although Tanner can leave his car and interact with certain elements of the environment, all violence takes place during pre-rendered scenes.
While the original PlayStation version offered a two-player split screen play, the Game Boy Advance version introduced a four player link option.
Synopsis
Setting
The story in Driver 2 follows Tanner, an undercover police officer, and his partner, Tobias Jones, as they track a man named Pink Lenny. Lenny is portrayed as a weasel in the intro, where he is in the Red River Bar bragging to a Brazilian about scaring somebody with his handgun. 'You shoulda seen the look on this guy's face', Lenny tells the Brazilian. Then a couple of real hoods walk in and shoot everyone in the bar, while Lenny cowers and prays in the back by the pool table. Lenny escapes out the back door and the chase is on. Lenny is a former money man for a gang lord named Solomon Caine, but has sided with Caine's rival, a Brazilian gangster dubbed Alvaro Vasquez. Gang wars are erupting in Chicago, and Tanner must find Lenny before the violence boils over. The game features a cold blooded hood named Jericho, with his twin sawed-offs.
Characters
Tanner
Introduced in: "Introduction/Hospital Scene"
Tanner is an Undercover Cop in the Chicago P.D. and is told by his boss that he must work undercover with his new partner Tobias Jones to track down Pink Lenny.
Tobias Jones
Introduced in: "Introduction/Hospital Scene"
Tobias Jones is another Undercover Cop who works with Tanner in trying to track down Pink Lenny. Alvaro Vasquez sends a hitman to try and kill Tobias later in the game while he and Tanner are in Rio De Janiero, but survived as he is seen in DRIV3R.
Pink Lenny
Introduced in: "Introduction/Red River Bar Scene"
Pink Lenny is the main criminal focus, and the man whom every other character in the story wants to find. He is also a former henchman of Solomon Caine and is rumored to work for Vasquez. He is caught by Tanner after he crashes his Helicopter in Rio.
Solomon Caine
Introduced in: "Caine's Compound"
Solomon Caine is the boss of "Caine's Crew", an empire streching from Chicago to Las Vegas, Solomon Caine is also trying to catch Pink Lenny. But fails to do so as Tanner manages to catch Pink Lenny and have him arrested by the Chicago P.D.
Jericho
Introduced in: "Intoduction/Red River Bar Scene"
Jericho is Solomon Caine's main hitman, lieutenant and bodyguard. He is most noted for his twin sawed-off shotguns and black trench coat. Jericho is a minor character in Driver 2 but becomes the main antagonist in the sequel, DRIV3R, who kills Solomon Caine and takes over his Crew.
Alvaro Vasquez
Introduced in: "Casino Getaway" (Or Possibly the Tailing the Drop Mission)
Alvaro Vasquez is a mysterious Brazillian Mobster and is Solomon Caine's Rival. Their rivalry ends after Pink Lenny's Arrest.
Cities
Driver 2 includes four cities which are notably larger than the original game. The cities are Chicago and Havana, which are both immediately open for 'TAKE A RIDE' mode, Las Vegas, which can only be accessed once missions are complete for the first two cities, and Rio de Janeiro, only accessible after completing the Las Vegas missions. The cities all have secret cars hidden within them, which become available once the player finds the buttons to unlock the entries to where the cars are located and then approaches the cars to unlock them. The cities include many of their respective landmarks, such as the Navy Pier and Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Havana's Plaza de la Revolución and El Capitolio, recreations of the hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, and the Corcovado and some other known landmarks of Rio.
Gangs
Caine's Crew
Caine's Crew is an empire streching from Chicago to Las Vegas and is led by Solomon Caine, they force Tanner to work for them by the time he and Tobias Jones reach Las Vegas. Solomon Caine and Alvaro Vasquez form an alliance after Pink Lenny's Arrest.
Brazilian Mob
The Brazilian Mob are led by Alvaro Vasquez and are moving into Chicago, Havana and Las Vegas. They have Pink Lenny in their pocket and are causing trouble for Solomon Caine. The Brazilian Mob and Caine's Crew form an alliance after Pink Lenny's Arrest.
Cities and Road Designations
In "Take A Ride", you start out on the West Side of Grant Park at the Intersection of East Congress and South Michigan Ave.
The City limits is shadowed by Interstate 90/94 Expressway to the west and Lakeshore Drive (US Route 41) to the East.
At the North Side in Wrigleyville, the 90/94 Express merges into West Irving Park Road (Illinois State Route 19) and reconnects to the 41.
As for the South Side, Route 41 (Lakeshore Drive) merges onto Interstate 55 (Stevenson Expressway South) and merges back onto the 90/94 Expressway where it would head North and follow this guide again.
Soundtrack
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In a move similar to the first game, Driver 2 featured a soundtrack reminiscent of typical 1970s car movies, containing instrumental funk and boogie tracks as well as more popular songs by artists and composers, to further emphasize the retro feel of the game.
The songs featured in the game are given below:
Background music
Background music for each city seems to match both with the car-chasing movie music and the predominant music styles of each city, for example, Havana BGM seems to be influenced by the Son cubano, Vegas BGM sounds with influences of North America's Western music and Rio BGM is influenced by samba and bossanova.
It has also been noted that one of the background themes for the Chicago missions is a note-for-note copy of Tekken 3's Paul Phoenix theme
Cars in the levels themselves have approximately 5 or 6 seconds of looped music, in Chicago it is Rock/Electro Beat style and in Vegas it is Drum & Bass.
Development
The game was first released on the PlayStation video game console and was later ported to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. Because the game was so long, and cutscene graphics were somewhat advanced for that of the PlayStation era, the game was released on two discs. The first disc contained data for the first two cities, and the second disc contained data for the last two cities.
Reception
{| class="wikitable"
|+PlayStation Reception
!width="45"|Reviewer
!width="45"|Score
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|GameSpot
|8.2 / 10
|Driver 2 is a great sequel
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|IGN
|5.0 / 10
|Go get the first one, it's a better game
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|PSX Extreme
|5.2 / 10
|Driver 2 is just a plain disgrace
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Reception of the game was mixed. Some felt it expanded on the original Driver and contained enough fresh content to be a worthy sequel, with GameSpot concluding "Driver 2 is an extraordinary game". IGN described it as "one of the most disappointing games, if not the most disappointing game, of 2000." Others felt this was not enough of an upgrade, or lambasted the graphics (particularly the framerate) and almost constant slowdown whenever the action on the screen got too busy.
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