DRIVER 2

Gameplay

Driver 2 expands on Driver's 3-D, free-roam structure,
as well as adding the ability of the character, Tanner,
to step out of his car to explore on foot and commandeer
other vehicles in the game's open world environments.
[2] The story missions are played separately from the
take-a-ride mode where the player can explore the cities in
their own time.
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.
While the original PlayStation version offered a two-player split
screen play, the Game Boy Advance version introduced a four player
link option.[2]
Plot
Chicago

The game begins with an introduction showing a man named
Pink Lenny and a tatooed Brazilian talking in a bar.
Lenny is telling the Brazillian a story about how he really
scared someone one time ("You should've seen the look on the guy's face").
Suddenly, two men burst in with guns and kill everyone in the room,
except for Lenny, who slips out the back.
Later, Undercover police officer Tanner and his partner Tobias
Jones examine the body of the Brazilian at the morgue. The coroner
informs Tanner and Jones of Lenny's disappearance and of the only
witness of the attack. Tanner and Jones apprehend the witness,
who tells them that the gunmen weren't after the Brazilian but were
after Lenny, who is actually a money launderer working for Solomon Caine,
one of the high ranking mobsters of Chicago whose empire goes from
Chicago to Las Vegas.
However, Jones suspects that the Brazilian was working for Alvaro
Vazquez, another high ranking mobster who is one of Caine's rivals.
If Lenny was talking with the Brazilian, he may have switched sides.
Tanner and Jones investigate a warehouse owned by Vazquez, but it
turns out that the police were raiding the warehouse and Tanner and
Jones split up to escape the cops, though not before discovering that the
forged documents in the craters came from Cuba. When Tanner returns to his
apartment, he is hit in the face by an assailant (one of the shooters from the bar),
who escapes down the fire escape. Tanner gives chase, but it turns out it was a
trap set by Caine, who believes Tanner is a hired thug trying to take over his
business with information from Lenny. While Caine's bodyguard, Jericho, drags
Tanner away for execution, Tanner hits him in the face and escapes Caine's compound.
Caine puts a bounty on Tanner's name, forcing him and Jones to escape to Havana.

Havana

Tanner and Jones learn that Vazquez is using Havana as the

frontier for his arms operations, and plans to use Lenny's

contacts to flood Chicago with guns and take over Caine's business.

Tanner and Jones ruin Vazquez's arms operations in Havana,

and also discover that Lenny is going to be leaving the city

in a ship called Rosanna Soto. Despite Tanner's attmepts to

arrest Lenny before the ship leaves, Lenny escapes.

Afterwards Tanner learns from Jones that Jericho has arrived

in Havana, having learnt of Lenny's betrayal, and plans to kill

all of Lenny's men at a hotel in Central Havana. Tanner and Jones

follow Jericho to the hotel, where Tanner is unable to prevent

Jericho from killing the men, but nonetheless rams Jericho off

the road in a chase. Tanner and Jericho then form a truce,

hiding from the Brazilians and head to Vegas to meet Caine.

Las Vegas

When Lenny arrives in Vegas, he is greeted by Vazquez, 

who is overseeing the arms shipments and is taking over

Lenny's contacts after Lenny's failure in Havana. Tanner,

Jones and Jericho arrive in Vegas and meet Caine. Tanner

infiltrates Caine's gang by telling Caine that Jones and

him once worked for Lenny but were betrayed and want revenge.

Caine assigns Jones to track down Lenny while Tanner will use

his driving skills to assist Caine's Vega's operations.

Tanner completes the tasks given to him by Caine, including

delivering a car bomb to Vasquez's casino in Vegas and assisting

Caine's henchmen in a bank robbery. Jones, infiltrating Vasquez's mob,

discovered that Lenny has left Vegas and Tanner had to transport

him to the airport

(after shaking off a police ambush and subsequent chase).

Caine then had Tanner disrupt Vasquez's operations by destroying

his main front in North Vegas, and destroyed the trucks containing

Vasquez's weapons. Caine and his henchman brutally interrogates one

of the Brazilian guards and learn that Vasquez (and Lenny) are in Rio.

Rio

Tanner, Jericho and Caine meet Jones in Rio, despite Jones

telling Caine that it is too dangerous for him to be in the city.

Caine dismisses his warnings and only concern himself to find Lenny.

Tanner still uses his driving skills to assist Caine and disrupt

Vasquez's activities, such as ramming a stolen bus into the Brazilians'

cars and tricking the Brazilians into giving Tanner cash for Caine.

Around this time however Tanner is worried that Jones's cover is

deteriorating and that Vasquez will figure out that Jones is supposedly

working for Caine. Tanner only gives Jones four days to find out the

information where Lenny is before Tanner heads off to destroy a boat

transporting Vasquez's weapons to Chicago. Jones later calls to Tanner 

that Vasquez has sent a gunman to kill Jones, forcing Tanner to save him.

Tanner arrives at Jones' place to find him wounded and the gunman still

lurking around. The gunman flees and Tanner rams him off the cliff of the

coastal route.

With time running out and Vasquez losing, Caine finally found out that

Lenny is attempting to escape Rio. Tanner is forced to pick up Jericho before

heading to Lenny's location. The two manage to shoot down the helicopter

Lenny is in when Tanner reveals his true colours to Jericho.

Leaving Jericho behind, Tanner chases Lenny's helicopter through

the streets of Rio while evading Caine's henchman. The helicopter

finally crashes and Tanner quickly disarms Lenny before beating

him to submission.

Ending

Tanner escorts Lenny back to Chicago and handed him over to the

coroner seen at the introduction. When the coroner asks Tanner

what was the connection between Caine and Vasquez, Tanner only

replied "Took me a long time to figure that out".

It is revealed that the two had been affiliated in the past

and are shown to have reconciled with each other before the

statue of Christ of Redeemer in Rio. As Tanner drives away from

the airport, a mystery car starts to tail him...

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,

Christ the Redeemer and some other known landmarks of Rio.

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.

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.

Cars in the levels themselves have approximately 5 or 6 seconds of looped music,

in Chicago it is Rock/Electro Beat style and in Rio it is Drum & Bass.

The licensed songs featured in the game (as listed in the credits) are given below:

=>"Fever" by 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.

=>"Help Me" by Sonny Boy Williamson- Tanner arrives back at his apartment and

confronts Jericho.

=>"Sitting Here Alone" by Hound Dog Taylor- The opening scene of the game at

the Red River bar.

=>"Just Dropped In" by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition- Plays over the end credits

of the game.

=>"Lacrimosa" by Mozart- The climactic scene in Rio at the base of the statue of

Christ the Redeemer. . . . . . . . . . . . .

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.

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. However Official PlayStation Magazine gave the game

10/10 and stated it was better than the original and proved to be just as, if not

more popular with fans than its predecessor.[4]

PlayStation Reception

Reviewer	Score	Comment
GameSpot	8.2 / 10	Driver 2 is a great sequel[3]
IGN	5.0 / 10	Go get the first one, it's a better game[4]
PSX Extreme	5.2 / 10	Driver 2 is just a plain disgrace[5]

Cheats

1.TOPDOWN

2.Top down view

3.HANGOVER

4.Hazy screen

5.REPEL

6.Cars stay out of your way

7.DOUBLE

8.All tracks available

9.CARTASTIC

10.All cars available

11.OUCH

12.Battle mode available

13.RUBBER

14.Bouncy crashes

15.MOVIE

16.Funny crash

17.HIGHJUMP

18.Light gravity

19.HANGOVER

20.Fuzzy horizon

21.SKINNY

22.Wheels only

23.SKATES

24.Double the speed, stopping power, and traction.

25.GIRDLE

26.Ill-proportioned environments

27.TIMEOUT

28.Full distances

29.TECKLOCK

30.Unlock extra track

31.FASTBOY

32.Turbo on

33.MINICARS

34.Small cars with top down view

35.TRIPPY

36.Psychedelic mode

37.ICCKLE

38.Tin cars

39.POSHKID

40.No points needed for championship mode

41.OUTTAKE

42.Commentary

43.CMFORD

44.Mondeo only

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