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The Driver series is a series of driving games developed by Reflections Interactive (now Ubisoft Reflections). The original Driver game was released in 1999 for the PlayStation platform and sold more than 3 million copies.

Overview

The series main protagonist is usually Officer Tanner, an undercover cop who most do missions behind the wheels, but sometimes on foot as well. Other protagonists include TK and Ray. Most of the missions consist of pursuing another vehicle, ramming in another vehicle, reach to a certain location before a certain time, deliver a car to a certain person under a limit of time, etc.

Since Driver 2, the series has implemented an on foot option to give more freedom to the player. So if example, the player car's wrecks, he/she will have the abiity to get out of it and steal another. And since DRIV3R, the player can use weapons, ride bikes and boats.

Main series

These are considered the main games in the series.

Driver: You Are the Wheelman

The first game in the series, the game features Officer Tanner. Formerly a race car driver, Tanner becomes an undercover cop and is given the task of infiltrating the Castaldi family, a dangerous organized crime family in United States, as a getaway driver. He first must prove his skills in an interview in a garage. After this, he starts working for various gang members in order to discover what the family's true intention is.

Driver 2: The Wheelman is Back/Back on the Streets

Some years later, Tanner with the help of his parner Tobias Jones, must find a man named Pink Lenny, a money man who formelly worked for Solomon Caine, but he later joined Caine's rival, Alvaro Vasquez.

DRIV3R

DRIV3R takes Tanner into a more current world, and only 3 cities. The story goes that Tanner, along with Jones, must stop the illegal shipment of 40 cars to Russia. The game's antagonist is Jericho.

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