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stuntdriver · Starting Member Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 4 Location: US

This is a GREAT topic and I cannot believe I am able to keep up, I had to read 17 pages to start and everyday I log on 5+ get added. Superb discussion and I will be following it all the way,

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Solo · Experienced Member Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 1875

BOR007 · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:37 am Post subject:

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TheJ... · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:11 am Post subject:

2.5 Mill' havn't yet been sold, simply how many shipped worldwide.
Tho' I don't doubt they'll sell that. We had an initial stock of 135, and the majority have sold already. Relase date isn't till... today!
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therockett · Starting Member Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 42

From XboxGamer news section concerning Driv3r

phAnt0m buRn · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:07 am Post subject:

The thing is, Atari will get away with all of it because casual gamers basically show no initiative. If they see a sticker on the case saying 9/10, or read an obviously biased (lightly speaking) review that gives it 9/10 and sees nothing wrong, they'll buy the game being none thewiser to what is happening on the internet.

No matter what we do the game will sell like hotcakes because of these shady reviews.

I was thinking about this on my paper round, and it seems suspicious that Atari are staking pretty much their whole business on this one game, and that it gets reviews that imply the game is absolutely flawless. Lest we not forget the week early release. It has never been done with any other game that I know of, so why Driv3r?
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OctogenarianPussy · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:09 am Post subject:

Please. If any sequal is made then Atari will be forced to create a driver4 thread on their website.

That sort of self inflicted pain is something no one alive needs.
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banjo_ted · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:36 am Post subject:

Love it!

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marvelharvey · New Member Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 56

Sorry, skipped to the last page from page 18, hope I didn't miss much.

I hardly post here on GR, but this topic got me going. I just want to get a few facts out into the world... (I'm a games developer BTW)

1) Sending out unfinished review code is normal, we all tell the magazines the bugs we know of, what we're fixing and what's staying in. The magazines usual take what we say with a pinch of salt as they know that we can't do much in the final two or three weeks of development (even though I've witnessed 'turd like' games suddenly all come together in the final few days and become brilliant due to a few code, design or art changes)

2) I've seen lots of underhand tactics when it comes to games reviews. One of the games I worked on got a bad score on a leading game website, 2 hours and one phone call from our publisher later, the score goes up 2 whole points! I've seen magazines told that unless they review one of our games very favourably, they will never recieve review code from us again... we got a good review.

3) Driv3r is sh*t

4) I haven't bought a games mag for about 2 years, thank you internet!

So I'm unsure what exactly happened with the driv3r reviews, maybe the answers are on pages 19-30 which I will read later. Don't be alarmed by anything that goes on, it's nothing new, this has been going on for many many years, but I've NEVER witnessed lies and deception on this scale before (apart from the british government - but thats another post in another forum Wink

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space doubt 3 · Experienced Member Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 1126

Edge score 3/10.
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