Driver: Parallel Lines
Diverging from previous Driver games, Parallel Lines takes place in just one city, New York, instead of multiple cities, but in the middle of the story you change to different eras of the city - 1978 and 2006…
Driver: Parallel Lines is a racing developed by Reflections Interactive, released 14 March 2006 on Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What Driver: Parallel Lines is
Driver: Parallel Lines is a racing game developed by Reflections Interactive and released in 2006. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
T.K is a 18-year old kid who just arrived from the countryside to New York City, "looking to make good". Using his driving skills, he becomes known in the underworld as a wheelman and a getaway driver for robbers assaulting "nickel and dime" stores. He lives with his childhood friend Ray, who himself arrived in 1975 and after a short career as a wheelman, set up Ray's Autos tuning garage. T.K spends his time relaxing in Ray's room, racing and doing various odd jobs around town, stating that "after a couple of weeks, it felt like home." Ray, wishing to move on up the criminal ladder, introduces T.K to Slink, owner of a popular club in Harlem, and he proves himself to him by doing some work…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Driver: Parallel Lines holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 38% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 59 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 33 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon, 256 MB of RAM and 64 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant supporting Shader Model 1.1(*see supported list). At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Driver: Parallel Lines launched on 14 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Driver: Parallel Lines yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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