Driver Pulls Up to GBA
It may not have been very good on consoles, but Atari is hoping to do it better on Nintendo's portable.
It's been over a year since Driv3r was released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, which is just about long enough for the acrid taste of disappointment to have left your mouth - or at least that's what Atari is hoping. The company revealed this week that it is working on a Game Boy Advance version of the much-maligned game.
It won't look quite as good as this thoughDespite the middling-to-poor reviews, though, Driv3r sold more than 3 million units, which provided more than enough incentive for the company to give it another go.
The game casts you as an undercover cop named Tanner who works his way into a seedy underworld of crime and corruption. What follows is a tale of guns and mayhem as Tanner struggles to bring down the baddies.
The developers of the Game Boy Advance version are working hard to include as much of the freeform gameplay of the original as possible - a task made that much harder by the meagre specs of the aging portable.
This version is, understandably, cut down relative to its console and PC siblings and features only two cities: Miami and Nice. Still, the developers have tried to include the elements that make Driver Driver.
Driv3r will be out for Game Boy Advance this September.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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