My opinion is that Reflections are trying to do something different to get into the market with this new game.
The guy in the vid in this thread mentioned that they were trying to take it back to the original in so many ways.
There's a good reason for that: It was a good game.
But how many remember that game and how it played?
How many will buy this new one on the strength of that memory?
You are a games producer, you need to bring your game out to the fore, you need to make sure that anyone who hasn't played the original will want to play this new one, based on its own merits......
Give it a new feature.... something no-one has done before.... give it the ability to body swap!..... of course! the ability to body swap in a driving game! why has no-one done this before!? it's genius, it'll sell games! people will want to try body swapping and all the possibilities that that will bring to the genre..... what an awesome idea!
Ok, maybe not.
But you get my point.
Personally, I think the shift element of the gameplay sux.
I would have preferred to be driving around in the original, but with todays graphical capabilities, and some more depth of realism with the steering wheel, brake, throttle, and shifter (ahem) in the car.
I don't think it is beyond the realms of possibility for someone to take the driving physics of GT4, and marry them to the sandbox of GTA4 and give us the kind of game everyone on this forum wants.
But so far, no-one's done it yet.
These guys certainly haven't.
However, that said, I did get a distinct 70's vibe from the opening movie, and the cut scenes were perfect in terms of lip-sync and style, and I thought the Challenger at least handled a bit like a heavy muscle car. In short, it's done enough to have me interested in at the very least hiring and monstering through in a weekend sometime. If it's good enough, I'll buy it. But once the ability to free roam is unlocked; that's what I'll be doing all day.
They have brought back a lot of the original, but tried a new twist to get more heads to turn.
I think it's too far out there for a lot of us old-school, who remember the original, but are we the kids of today who play video games?
The ones who have fond and somewhat distant memories of being wowed at the replay value in the first Driver game, aren't.
The ones who have never heard of the franchise, are, and they might be happy to see the ability that they thought should have been in open world sandbox gameplay for a long time: the ability to shift from person to person like some mosquito with a fetish for 70's muscle and the odd 370z.
They're our future people, run and hide! Or shift into someone else........
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