Driver is a 1999 action / driving game developed by Reflections Interactive (now known as Ubisoft Reflections). In the screens and video below, you can notice an early version of the game, with various differences: in the beta the Miami city main car was yellow with a black stripe (a kind of vehicle that is only used in Driver 2), an early pause / debug menu and the car resists to more damages than in the final version.
The HUD wasn´t complete and the map color is green instead of red. Some cars seen in the beta Newcastle city were not used in the Playstation version, but they can still be “unlocked” with gameshark / AR codes. The PC version of Driver could be considered as a director´s cut since the city and the unused cars can be normally unlocked in the game.
Super Slav has made us to notice that in the beta demo you coud drive your car into the water as there are no barriers to stop you in some parts of Miami area. Also some of the boats do not have textures.
Thanks to Vicente and Super Slav for the contributions!
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2 Responses to Driver [PSX - Beta]
Vicente
July 17th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I noticed o difference with the PC version, the original released in fall 1999, come with the soundtrack, but the re-release came without the soundtrack.
Dallas
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:55 pm
So THAT’S why in San Francisco when you glitch your way into the water you actually float, it was originally meant to be able to be driven into!