While every developer handles third-person perspective action games their own way - I have yet to see the perfect third-person camera - Reflections does a reasonable job with the camera behind TK's head and more importantly, his combat mechanics. It gives you a safe house with guns and health packages in it, a set of garages in which to customize, repair, upgrade, stylize or store your car, and it's improved the out-of-car experience, while adding some new tricks to the in-car experience. Parallel Lines presents players with an in-game training mode that you won't even notice, starting you out right away in a cop chase. It's taken some hard knocks and come back with a better game. But Reflections has learned a lot from its third outing.
It's still Driver, replete with its distinct handling, physics, trial-and-error missions, and the uncanny ability to create great car chases in the bat of an eye.
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The pre-rendered cutscenes are a blast to watch, and what they do, they do well, but once they end and the game begins, you'll recognize that same old Driver resting underneath the pretty package. Once you get into the game proper, things look a little different. The English development team re-creates the rich, fast-paced city life of New York in 1979 and puts players back in time to relive that orgy of excessiveness without a hitch. As beginnings go, Driver: Parallel Lines offers one of the best beginnings any videogame has ever had. Presented with a distinct cinematic flair and a fantastic sound track comprised of songs from artists at the time (David Bowie, Blondie, Parliament, Marvin Gaye, War, etc.), the game's pre-rendered cutscenes show an uncanny resemblance to Martin Scorsese's mafia film, Goodfellas, with TK's life starting off pure, decadent and sweet, but taking a twist for the worst, all told from the first-person voice of TK. The story and lead character are all new, and the setting is all new too.
Driver: Parallel Lines follows the story of a young New York driver, TK, who makes his living driving gangsters, pimps, criminals, and lowlifes in and out of trouble, using driving skills and street smarts to make money and live the good live of sex, fast cars and perhaps even drugs. Who knows? One thing we do know is that this latest effort is a healthy, respectable rebound from the third outing and it puts Driver back into the saddle again.
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Did Reflections wave a white flag? Or did Reflections simply follow the natural evolution of the Driver series and this is the latest stage in that development? Maybe Driver 3 didn't sell all that well, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sold like gangbusters, and Atari and Reflections made business and creative decisions to improve Driver: Parallel Lines along avenues that previously had been rejected or dismissed.
Certainly, the GTA/Driver rivalry has given us much to talk about over the years. Perhaps the press just likes a good healthy fight in similar games and we're just imagining all this stuff about how Driver does this better and GTA does that better. The result is good, even if somehow it feels like a white flag was waved somewhere along the lines. Instead of a story mode and a half dozen exterior mini-games, or a Director mode, or even the great Survival mode, Parallel Lines delivers a single story mode with everything packed inside it. The fourth game in the series is less like the previous iteration and more like Grand Theft Auto than any game in the careening series' history. If the reception to Driver 3 was a revelation for the good folks at Reflections, the result produced a major shift in the way you play Driver: Parallel Lines.
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