Driver 3 Aims For Filmed Car Chase Nirvana

Thanks to UGO.com for their interview with Martin Edmondson about Atari's Driver 3, the PlayStation 2 driving sequel due in early 2004. He explains the point of the game: "Driver was always about the most realistic car chases possible on a computer or console and Driver 3 is very much true to that... So you can set up your car chases and then have all the cameras positioned as you choose... it should look like a car chase movie, and that's the whole point behind Driver." But the developers of the previous Driver titles and Stuntman shy away from certain comparisons: "The thing is, we're not trying to do Vice City. Driver actually started the whole city, car-chase environment, so it'd be a big mistake to say, 'Let's do [all the GTA features], instead.'"

If the developer is that excited...

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>>UGO: Could you talk a bit about one specific mission that sets Driver 3 apart from the other driving games out there?

>>ME: I guess so.

>>UGO: Do you want people to buy this game?

>>ME: I guess so.

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>>ME: And then he goes to a place in Turkey called Instanbul...

>>UGO: Not Constantinople?!