Driver San Francisco is the latest in the Driver series, and the basic premise is that the city's biggest baddie is on the loose: Charles Jericho – and there's only one man who can stop him. That's you, by the way.

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Game captures that magic the first 2 driver games had and mixes it with faithfully approximated version of SF together with great presentation that maintains 60fps most of the time. And for an open world game that is constantly filled with moving cars and pedestrians, this is awesome.

I could go on and on about how the VW Scirocco sounds just right and the dashboard gauges are actually modeled on their real-world counterparts, but I think I've made my point. If you're a petrol-head, then you'll be pleased with the selection and treatment of the cars in Driver San Francisco .

Car selection; focus on driving over realism

You'll need to accept the disconnect from reality

I have no idea who was experimenting with lucid dreaming over at Ubisoft Reflections, but whoever it was, I thank them. Instead of continuing down the road of Driv3r and Parallel Lines-a road strikingly "similar" to Grand Theft Auto-and ensuring the IP's (seemingly) well-deserved demise, they did...

Fantastic racing made possible with a unique mechanic; hilarious dialogue

A few sound glitches; the city doesn't feel alive

All in all, Need for Speed: Rivals is a fun meshing of ideas from Most Wanted and Hot Pursuit to create a unique new take on the series. The seamless integration of multiplayer into your single-player world is very well done and really does add a lot to the experience if you want it to.

Nice presentation; single-player / multiplayer integration is well done; fun handling; interesting progression system

Not much customization; dumb story; glitches; gotta pre-order to get a GTR ..

More like Need for Speed than Driver

After the abysmal and controversial Driver 3 , Ubisoft Reflections' high-speed Driver series took a drastic fall from the gaming limelight. Its stylish world of brutish muscle cars, Bullitt inspired car chases and emphasis on unadulterated 70s style driving went from being a jewel of the PlayStation...

Longtime fans of the Driver series should breathe a sigh of relief, as Ubisoft Reflections has managed to produce a largely successful reboot. While the narrative is completely laughable, it does pave the way for the shifting mechanic, which is well-handled.

The Driver series has had its ups and downs but never has it been as crazy as the latest game in the series, Driver: San Francisco . This is a Driver game that is once again all about the driving, removing the on-foot sections and going completely back to its roots, but who'd have thought that the...