Driver 2
| Driver 2: Back on the Streets | |
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| Developer(s) | Reflections Interactive (PlayStation), Sennari Interactive (Game Boy Advance) |
| Publisher(s) |
Infogrames (PS1) Infogrames (Under the Atari brand name) (GBA) |
| Director(s) | Martin Edmondson |
| Producer(s) | Kirby Fong |
| Designer(s) | Martin Edmondson Craig Lawson |
| Writer(s) | Maurice Suckling |
| Composer(s) |
Allister Brimble Richard Narco |
| Series | Driver |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation, Game Boy Advance |
| Release date(s) |
PlayStation Game Boy Advance |
| Genre(s) | Driving, action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Review scores | ||
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| Publication | Score | |
| GBA | PS | |
| Edge | N/A | 5/10 |
| EGM | N/A | 7.67/10 |
| Game Informer | 7.75/10 | 8.75/10 |
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| Game Revolution | N/A | D+ |
| GameSpot | 8.4/10 | 8.2/10 |
| GameZone | N/A | 8/10 |
| IGN | 7/10 | 5/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 3.2/5 | N/A |
| OPM (US) | N/A | |
| Aggregate score | ||
| Metacritic | 73/100 | 62/100 |
Driver 2: Back on the Streets (named Driver 2: The Wheelman Is Back in North America) is the second installment of the Driver video game series.
Driver 2 expands on Driver's 3-D, free-roam structure, as well as adding the ability of the character, Tanner, to step out of his car to explore on foot and commandeer other vehicles in the game's open world environments. The story missions are played separately from the Take-A-Ride Mode where the player can explore the cities in their 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.
The game begins with an introduction showing a man named Pink Lenny and a tattooed Brazilian talking in a bar. Lenny is telling the Brazilian a story about how he really scared someone one time ("You should've seen the look on the guy's face"). Suddenly, two men burst in with guns and kill everyone in the room, except for Lenny, who slips out the back.
Later, undercover police officer John Tanner, recruited by the FBI after arresting Senator Ballard, and his partner, Tobias Jones, examine the body of the Brazilian at the morgue. The police captain informs Tanner and Jones of Lenny's disappearance and of the only witness of the attack. Tanner and Jones apprehend the witness, who tells them that the gunmen weren't after the Brazilian but were after Lenny, who is actually a money launderer working for Solomon Caine, one of the high ranking mobsters of Chicago whose empire goes from Chicago to Las Vegas.
However, Jones suspects that the Brazilian was working for Alvaro Vazquez, another high ranking mobster who is one of Caine's rivals. If Lenny was talking with the Brazilian, he may have switched sides. Tanner and Jones investigate a warehouse owned by Vazquez, but it turns out that the police were raiding the warehouse and Tanner and Jones split up to escape the cops, though not before discovering that the forged documents in the craters came from Cuba.
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