Driver 2
Developer(s)	Reflections Interactive
Publisher(s)	Infogrames
Designer(s)	Martin Edmondson[1]
Platform(s)	Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance
Release date	PlayStation NA 2000-11-13 PAL 2000-11-17 Game Boy Advance PAL 2002-10-04 NA 2002-10-22
Genre(s)	Driving, Action
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen PEGI: 12+
Media	CD (2)
Input methods	DualShock

Driver 2 Take A Ride screenshot in Chicago (PlayStation)

Driver 2 Take A Ride screenshot in Rio de Janeiro (PlayStation)

Driver 2 Mission screenshot in Chicago (PlayStation)

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Gameplay

Driver 2 expands on Driver's 3-D, free-roam structure, as well as adding the ability of the character, Officer Tanner, to step out of his car to explore on foot and commandeer other vehicles.^[2] The story missions are played separately from the take-a-ride mode where the player can explore the cities on his own time. Driver: You Are the Wheelman, better known as Driver, is a 1999 video game developed by Reflections Interactive, who had earlier hits with Destruction Derby on the early years of the PlayStation. ... Officer Tanner is an undercover police officer and player-controlled protagonist in Driver, Driver 2, and DRIV3R but not appearing in Driver Parallel Lines due to his presumable death with his enemy, Jericho. ...

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. ...

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Synopsis

Setting

The story in Driver 2 follows Tanner, an undercover police officer, and his partner, Tobias Jones, as they track a man named Pink Lenny. Lenny is portrayed as a weasel in the intro, where he is in the Red River Bar bragging to a Brazilian about scaring somebody with his handgun. 'You shoulda seen the look on this guy's face', Lenny tells the Brazilian. Then a couple of real hoods walk in and shoot everyone in the bar, while Lenny cowers and prays in the back by the pool table. Lenny escapes out the back door and the chase is on. Lenny is a former money man for a gang lord named Solomon Caine, but has sided with Caine's rival, a Brazilian gangster dubbed Alvaro Vasquez. Gang wars are erupting in Chicago, and Tanner must find Lenny before the violence boils over. The game features a cold blooded hood named Jericho, with his twin sawed-offs.

Characters

• Tanner - An undercover cop and the protagonist of the game.
• Tobias Jones - Tanner's partner and another undercover cop.
• Pink Lenny - the main criminal focus, and the man whom every other character in the story wants to find. He is also a former henchman of Solomon Caine and is rumored to work for Vasquez.
• Solomon Caine - a gangster with a nationwide criminal empire.
• Jericho - Caine's main hitman, lieutenant and bodyguard. He is most noted for his twin sawed-off shotguns and black trench coat. Most of those folks unlucky enough to face him usually don't live to tell the tale. Jericho is a minor character in Driver 2 but becomes the main antagonist in the sequel, DRIV3R.
• Alvaro Vasquez - A mysterious Brazilian mobster and Caine's rival.

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Cities

Driver 2 includes four cities which are notably larger than the original game. The cities are Chicago and Havana, which are both immediately open for 'TAKE A RIDE' mode, Las Vegas, which can only be accessed once missions are complete for the first two cities, and Rio de Janeiro, only accessible after completing the Las Vegas missions. The cities all have secret cars hidden within them, which become available once the player finds the buttons to unlock the entries to where the cars are located and then approaches the cars to unlock them. The cities include many of their respective landmarks, such as the Navy Pier and Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Havana's Plaza de la Revolución and El Capitolio, recreations of the hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, and the Corcovado and some other known landmarks of Rio. Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ... For further information, see Las Vegas metropolitan area and Las Vegas Strip. ... This article is about the Brazilian city. ... The Navy Pier seen from the John Hancock Center Navy Pier is a 3,000 foot long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. ... For the former ballpark in Los Angeles, see Wrigley Field (Los Angeles). ... The Plaza of the Revolution and the Ministry of the Interior as seen from the base of the José Martí memorial Plaza de la Revolución (Revolution Square) is a municipality and a square in Havana, Cuba. ... A stue in front of El Capitolio, shielding the Sun The National Capitol Building or El Capitolio, in Havana, Cuba, houses the Cuban Academy of Sciences. ... The south end of The Strip; approximately one third of the entire Strip is represented here The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) is an approximately 4 mile (6. ... For the song by Antonio Carlos Jobim, see Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars). ...

Cities and Road Designations

• Chicago, IL

In "Take A Ride", you start out on the West Side of Grant Park at the Intersection of East Congress and South Michigan Ave.

The City limits is shadowed by Interstate 90/94 Expressway to the west and Lakeshore Drive (US Route 41) to the East.

At the North Side in Wrigleyville, the 90/94 Express merges into West Irving Park Road (Illinois State Route 19) and reconnects to the 41.

As for the South Side, Route 41 (Lakeshore Drive) merges onto Interstate 55 (Stevenson Expressway South) and merges back onto the 90/94 Expressway where it would head North and follow this guide again.

Soundtrack

In a move similar to the first game, Driver 2 featured a soundtrack reminiscent of typical 1970s car movies, containing instrumental funk and boogie tracks as well as more popular songs by artists and composers, to further emphasize the retro feel of the game. For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ... Boogie is swing blues rhythm (Burrows 1995, p. ...

The songs featured in the game are given below:

• Sitting Here Alone by Hound Dog Taylor- The opening scene of the game at the Red River bar.
• Help Me by Sonny Boy Williamson- Tanner arrives back at his apartment and confronts Jericho.
• Fever by The Dust Junkies- The first cutscene in Las Vegas with the trucks pulling into the gas station.
• In the Basement by Etta James- in a bar in Las Vegas where Tanner and Jones shoot pool.
• Lacrimosa (Requiem) by Mozart- The climactic scene in Rio at the base of the statue of Christ the Redeemer.
• Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)- Plays over the end credits of the game

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Background music

Background music for each city seems to match both with the car-chasing movie music and the predominant music styles of each city, for example, Havana BGM seems to be influenced by the Son cubano, Vegas BGM sounds with influences of North America's Western music and Rio BGM is influenced by samba and bossanova. With roots on the island of Cuba, Son Cubano is a style of music that became popular in the second half of the 19th century in the eastern province of Oriente. ... Poster from the Western Music, directly related to the old English, Scottish, and Irish folk ballads, was originally composed by and about the people settling and working in the American West and western Canada. ... This article is about the music Samba. ... Bossanova was the Pixies third studio album, released in 1990 through 4AD Records. ...

It has also been noted that one of the background themes for the Chicago missions is a note-for-note copy of Tekken 3's Paul Phoenix theme^{[citation needed]} Tekken 3 is the third installment in the Tekken fighting game series. ... Paul Phoenix is a video game character from the Tekken fighting game series. ...

Cars in the levels themselves have approximately 5 or 6 seconds of looped music, in Chicago it is Rock/Electro Beat style and in Vegas it is Drum & Bass.

=Glitches

There are many ingame Glitches like car's falling from the sky

Development

The game was first released on the PlayStation video game console and was later ported to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance.^[2] Because the game was so long, and cutscene graphics were somewhat advanced for that of the PlayStation era, the game was released on two discs. The first disc contained data for the first two cities, and the second disc contained data for the last two cities. For other uses, see PlayStation (disambiguation). ... Game console redirects here. ... For the video game system, see Nintendo Entertainment System. ... “GBA” redirects here. ... In the history of computer and video games, the 32-bit / 64-bit /3D era was the fifth generation of video game consoles. ...

Reception

Reception of the game was mixed. Some felt it expanded on the original Driver and contained enough fresh content to be a worthy sequel, with GameSpot concluding "Driver 2 is an extraordinary game".^[3] IGN described it as "one of the most disappointing games, if not the most disappointing game, of 2000."^[4] Others felt this was not enough of an upgrade, or lambasted the graphics (particularly the framerate) and almost constant slowdown whenever the action on the screen got too busy.^[4] GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. ... IGN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. ... IGN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

References

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External links

• Driver 2 at GameFAQs
• Driver 2 at MobyGames