Glimpses

  Driver San Francisco is a superhero game on wheels.  That’s the most apt description I can think of. At first glance it looks like a normal driving game in which you chase criminals and bust them with your car, but after the prologue the game turns into something else, something bigger. Mild spoilers follow, but it’s something the game itself reveals quite early on, and it would be quite pointless talking about Driver: San Francisco without revealing this harmless piece of information. It would be like talking about Spider Man without mentioning his web slinging abilities. Got what I was saying about this being a superhero game? In Driver: San Francisco we play a cop named John Tanner who possesses extraordinary driving skills and has played an instrumental role in the capture of Charles Jericho, a dangerous gangster. Jericho is able to break out of prison, however, and Tanner takes this personally. He makes a desperate attempt to catch Jericho again but fails, and meets w...