Driver: San Francisco Dated

Good news for driving fans today as Driver: San Francisco has been given a UK date of November 26th. The news has come from Ubisoft via GAME, which is one of the games two official pre-order partners.

In a year full of excellent driving games, is there anything that makes Driver: San Francisco stand out from the crowd?  Well yes there is, but it’s a bit out of the ordinary.

As we have already mentioned, all on-foot sections have been scrapped in favour of the ‘shift’ mechanic.  After a particularly nasty accident, the games protagonist Tanner is in a coma – which is where the game plays out.

Shift allows you to leave your body and take control of another person in a car further up the road – sounds handy if you are lagging behind the chase.

In all honesty I have not paid much attention to Driver: San Francisco, so this new gameplay mechanic came as a total surprise.  Is it enough to make it stand out in a month that also sees Gran Turismo 5 hit the shelves?  We shall see.

Source: Eurogamer

17 Comments

  1. If it works as smoothly as the hotswap feature did in that old battlefield that I can’t remember the name of then it should work well. Not too much interest in the game though as I never played any of the others much.

  2. Woah, Nov 26th.. That’s my birthday!

  3. Looks interesting from what I have read.
    Open world with a sandbox design.

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