Ubisoft trademarks 'Driver: The Recruit'

uggh Driver stopped being fun yeeeeears ago, but i hope its not just another GTA clone

Maybe Tanner won't run like a crab suffering from diarrhoea ravaged haemorrhoids. That would be a good start on the road to relevancy, huh, Ubisoft.

Unless it's updated graphics/remake of the first game, not interested...

Better still be based in the 70's.
That funky music from the first one was awesome.

The first Driver was a lot of fun and one of my favorite PS1 games. If they can focus on what made that good, and not on GTA, maybe...

Driver 2 part 2 plz. That was the best of the bunch. Driver 1's blocky roads annoyed me after a while.
Remember that glitch that if you hit a wall hard enough you go through it?

How does this series keep putting games out? Every single one after the first two have been total turdballs.

Hello! Burn out button anyone. When I was a kid thats all that was important.

My first thought: Why bother?

In my experience, the first Driver was an awesome game on the PC when it came out. It looked and played better than any other game of its type that I'd been exposed to. I poked and prodded the graphics settings until I got the most out of it, and it was a beautiful thing. Being chased by cops in the rain and then directing a cinematic replay of it consumed many hours of my life.

Some time later came Driver 2, and I was pretty miffed that it wasn't out on PC, because I was excited to play it. Eventually, I ended up with a PS2, so I rented Driver 2 to find out what I'd missed. In all honesty, the experience was crap. It looked, felt and played so much worse than the PC version of Driver had, that I quickly gave up on it. The tiny draw distance alone made it feel pointless. It just felt, comparatively, like a clumsy mess.

I vaguely remember mixed reviews for Driver 2 (as opposed to the glowing ones of Driver), and as far as I can tell, there hasn't been a Driver game that's revived the series, or a good reason to check them out.

The strength of Driver was the execution (especially relative to games of the time), not the concept. If they're actually developing a driving themed game that's worth making, why tie it in with the Driver series at all? Would anyone out there actually take interest specifically because it's Driver? The opposite seems more likely true given the decline of the series.

That's how it looks from here, anyway.

Driv3r had some great choices of location though, especially Nice and it's hillside locale. I'd love to see that recreated in 1080p. I just played free-roam, so it didn't bother me that the missions were pish.

i liked the Driver series because i was doing missions for a good cause unlike the GTA series where you're beating hoes so you can get your money back. Driver1 was awesome Driver 2 was awesome and so was Driv3r but i lost a little faith when parallel lines turned out to be a GTA sort of game and it didnt even have Tanner(the most important part of the series), the peoples' problem is today is that they are to dumb to follow with a real story that not even GTA series can do...(GTA series can kiss my @$$)