If there's anything that pisses me off about gaming discussion amongst other things, is when somebody tells me that any game can be described as a clone. Examples include how Battlefield: Bad Comany 2 is a Call Of Duty clone, how Saint's Row 2 is a Grand Theft Auto clone, and how Driver:San Francisco is a Need For Speed clone. I'm guessing next they'll tell me how Catherine is basically japanese Q-Bert.
Of course I was defending D:SF at first because I was a particular fan of DRIV3R(Driver 3 for the less hip crowd still playing Commodore 64 games on their Windows 98) because it was a driving based game with the option to switch vehicles GTA style. And I helped my argument while playing the demo with the major point of "This is not that similar to NFS. For example, it's a lot easier to turn the car without spinning out into oncoming fucking traffic in NFS."
I was feeling more comfortable with liking Driver:SF when the protagonist was cracking jokes everytime I was in one of the demo's missions. Whether I hit a pickup truck at 85 mph sideways 'cause the goddamn handling is so bad, talking to my partner about male pregnancy in a completely heterosexual way, or when I was in another person's body driving a Porsche off of a car hauling truck. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. HE'S A FUCKING GHOST NOW!!!!
Ahem. Disregard that last statement, but it's very similar to the case in D:SF. You play as a cop who recently was in a huge automobile accident. How he managed that considering the game takes place in cars? No one knows. But the crash put him into a coma where he believes he has made a full recovery with the new ability of "shifting". When Tanner(Protag)shifts, he transports himself to the body of another driver of almost any vehicle he sees. Basically, he's doing what every kid who played GTA wants to do but are too lazy to learn how to drive or actually hijack someones vehicle.
I find this kind of annoying. The fact that you could roam the streets on foot for another vehicle was the main drive for DRIV3R. Now we've gotten so lazy that we don't even wanna leave the car in fucking video games anymore. What's next? You pop the disc into the tray and the game plays itself!? Because we already have those. They're called movies.
Anyway, to sum it up, I did seem to have difficulty explaining how these two are different. But let me tell you something. I will have my vengance against my brother when I explain to him how I can't tell the difference between his girlfriend and Benincio Del Toro. THE WOLFMAN LIVES!!!
Of course I was defending D:SF at first because I was a particular fan of DRIV3R(Driver 3 for the less hip crowd still playing Commodore 64 games on their Windows 98) because it was a driving based game with the option to switch vehicles GTA style. And I helped my argument while playing the demo with the major point of "This is not that similar to NFS. For example, it's a lot easier to turn the car without spinning out into oncoming fucking traffic in NFS."
I was feeling more comfortable with liking Driver:SF when the protagonist was cracking jokes everytime I was in one of the demo's missions. Whether I hit a pickup truck at 85 mph sideways 'cause the goddamn handling is so bad, talking to my partner about male pregnancy in a completely heterosexual way, or when I was in another person's body driving a Porsche off of a car hauling truck. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. HE'S A FUCKING GHOST NOW!!!!
Ahem. Disregard that last statement, but it's very similar to the case in D:SF. You play as a cop who recently was in a huge automobile accident. How he managed that considering the game takes place in cars? No one knows. But the crash put him into a coma where he believes he has made a full recovery with the new ability of "shifting". When Tanner(Protag)shifts, he transports himself to the body of another driver of almost any vehicle he sees. Basically, he's doing what every kid who played GTA wants to do but are too lazy to learn how to drive or actually hijack someones vehicle.
I find this kind of annoying. The fact that you could roam the streets on foot for another vehicle was the main drive for DRIV3R. Now we've gotten so lazy that we don't even wanna leave the car in fucking video games anymore. What's next? You pop the disc into the tray and the game plays itself!? Because we already have those. They're called movies.
Anyway, to sum it up, I did seem to have difficulty explaining how these two are different. But let me tell you something. I will have my vengance against my brother when I explain to him how I can't tell the difference between his girlfriend and Benincio Del Toro. THE WOLFMAN LIVES!!!