the_undrtaker89
I really want to buy this game, ive heard plenty of good things about it and i've heard more bad things like it being almost unfinished. So can someone who owns the game tell me out of ten what you give and why? Thanks.
Before I start my rant, I'd like to let you know that I
rented it on
XBox.
[rant]Well I haven't played through singleplayer, but I can tell how it will be like going through single player. The missions I did were very lackluster and I had no idea why I was doing them. The worst part about this game IMO is the controls. The control scheme isn't bad, but they're unbeleivably sluggish. Even with the look sensitivity at 100, the crosshairs crawl across the screen. If you've ever played Halo, a look sensitivy in DRIV3R of 100 is equal to about look sensitivity of 2 in Halo (1 below normal). On a related note, auto-aim doesn't work, either. Also, when driving, the control stick is too sensitive. It feels like your using the digital pad. You have to stay in control if you need to dodge traffic. Also, the main character is stupid. You tell him top enter a car and he sometimes just doesn't do it. On a few occasions, I told him to enter a car that I was using and he just starts running into it like he's trying to get to the other door! There is a usable door (an open, usable door, mind you) on the side he's on! That really annoyed me. Also, the guy jumps like a p*ssy and can only jump over walls <1 ft high..
The best part of the game is the graphics. The cars look better than Vice City's cars, but there are fewer of them. The cities don't look all that bad, either. My favorite part of this game is the blowing up cars. The blow up in a fireball, which rips the car to shreds. What's great is that the wreckage actually stays there until you leave the vicinity of the "accident." Also, the wreckage varies from each car. The car actually breaks up into pieces. If you find the part of the car where the driver seat was, you can actually sit in it!

Can't go anywhere, though, since the engine is 100 feet away!
A few more pet peeves, cops chase you for no reason and are dumba$$es, there is the occasional glitch, cars have very slow top speeds, the ford GT is as fast as a crotch rocket, and they crawl past normal traffic, and using custom music (XBox only, obviously). The soundtrack resets each time you die/quit game/start mission/restart mission. e.g., if Faint is your first song in the soundtrack, you'll listen to it a
lot. Plus, in order to change the soundtrack, you have to go to the main menu. [/rant]
6/10