Driver: San Francisco

Driver: San Francisco is an action-adventure driving video game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. It is the fifth installment in the Driver series and its most recent main installment to date. It was released in September 2011 for the PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows, with an edition for Mac OS X in March 2012. The game has players traverse a fictional representation of San Francisco and the Bay Area, conducting missions through the use of licensed real-world cars, with the ability to Shift into any car in the game's setting in most platform editions. The game's main story sees players controlling John Tanner, a police detective, who falls into a coma pursuing his nemesis Charles Jericho following a prison breakout after the events of Driver 3 and finds himself piecing together his plan in a dream world while it is happening in real life.

Driver: San Francisco
Cover art featuring protagonist John Tanner and his 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T (bottom)
Developer(s)Ubisoft Reflections
Publisher(s)Ubisoft
Director(s)
  • Martin Edmondson
  • Craig Lawson
Producer(s)
  • Marie-Jo Leroux
  • Chris Hadley
  • Gary Ushaw
Designer(s)
  • Jean-Sebastien Decant
  • Andrew Willans
  • Dale Scullion
Programmer(s)
  • Marie-Ève Danis
  • Michael Troughton
Artist(s)
  • Mike Haynes
  • Jack Couve
Writer(s)
  • Ian Mayor
  • James Worrall
  • David Midgley
Composer(s)Marc Canham
SeriesDriver
Platform(s)
  • PlayStation 3
  • Wii
  • Xbox 360
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Mac OS X
ReleasePS3, Wii, Xbox 360
  • NA: 30 August 2011
  • AU: 1 September 2011
  • EU: 2 September 2011
Microsoft Windows
  • NA: 27 September 2011
  • AU: 29 September 2011
  • EU: 30 September 2011
Mac OS X
  • WW: 8 March 2012
Genre(s)Action-adventure, driving
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

The game received favorable reviews upon its release, with the exception of the Wii edition which received mixed reviews. A mini-comic series was released which provides plot details of the events between Driv3r and San Francisco, with the game receiving a collector's edition that includes additional multiplayer vehicles and single-player events.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.