Driver

The player is John Tanner, an undercover cop who try to take advantage of his own excellent driving skill in order to infiltrate a criminal organization. In the storyline, the player has the chance to drive…

95 25 June 1999

Racing Simulator Action

Driver is a racing developed by Reflections Interactive, released 25 June 1999 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and Mac.

Verified 14 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Driver is

Driver is a racing game developed by Reflections Interactive and released in 1999. It was published by GT Interactive Software. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

NYPD officer and former racing driver John Tanner is sent undercover by his boss Lieutenant McKenzie to discover the intentions of a crime syndicate led by Castaldi. McKenzie instructs Tanner to go to Miami and meet a pimp named Rufus. After arriving in Miami, Tanner uses his driving skills to prove himself to some gangsters in a parking garage, allowing him to become their getaway driver. Tanner carries out jobs for various gangsters before meeting Rufus, who tasks Tanner with rescuing Jean-Paul, one of Rufus's associates. Rufus is later shot by his girlfriend Jesse. Needing more information for his investigation, Tanner apprehends Jesse and takes her to the police station, where she…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Driver holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Players rate it 86, 9 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Driver launched on 25 June 1999, within three weeks of Mario Golf, Outcast, Vandal Hearts II and Persona 2: Innocent Sin. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Mario Golf, Outcast, Vandal Hearts II, Persona 2: Innocent Sin.

Cheats and codes

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