Driver 2: Back on the Streets (named Driver 2: The Wheelman Is Back in
North America) is a 2000 action driving video game and the second
installment of the Driver series. It was developed by Reflections
Interactive and published by Infogrames for PlayStation. A port to the
Game Boy Advance, titled Driver 2 Advance, was released in 2002,
developed by Sennari Interactive and released under Infogrames' Atari
range of products.
Driver 2 expands on Driver's 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 environments.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.
REDRIVER2 is an unofficial reverse-engineered port of the Playstation
1 version. The original game was known for pushing the limits of the
PlayStation 1, resulting in performance and draw distance issues.
These have been resolved in this port, along with fixes for long-
standing bugs and other quality of life improvements such as z-buffer
support and bilinear texture filtering.
