The trailer shows a glimpse of things to come and it looks like there's going to be a breath of new life in the franchise.
Steam’s deal of the day for September 27th is Driver® Parallel Lines. Also the sale will end in 24 hours, hence the “deal of the day”, so you have until 1pm EST or 10am PST tomorrow to grab this deal. Below is a description on the game as well as some important information.
I like the way these articles are approved only a few hours before the deal ends.
Better than no approval though, I guess.
Booth from Fangwheel gives us the background on Driver, leading up to Driver: San Francisco.
Like Grand Theft Auto, the Driver series of games have always embraced the fast cars/cops versus robbers dynamic to varying degrees of success. Previous outing Driv3r suffered from poor 'on foot' missions and the unfair speed advantage the cops had when it came to catching you.
Parallel Lines does take bits and pieces from Driv3r but mostly things have been improved, with the game concentrating more on the driving (makes sense seeing as that's what the series is called). This time there's no sign of undercover cop Tanner though, as you play a cocky young getaway driver called TK (The Kid).
I hope it's good. I bought the orig driver for the PS2 and thought it was awesome. I could never beat the last level though...I'd always get killed about 1 mile from the end.
I don't see the 'fresh air'. It looks just like the version I played on Xbox. Good game though, highly underrated if you ask me.