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Driver 2: Back on the Streets

Driver 2: Back on the Streets is an open-world driving and action game developed by Reflections Interactive and published by Infogrames in 2000 for the PlayStation. It is the sequel to Driver and follows…

50 14 November 2000

Driver 2: Back on the Streets is a racing developed by Reflections Interactive, released 14 November 2000 on PlayStation.

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What Driver 2: Back on the Streets is

Driver 2: Back on the Streets is a racing game developed by Reflections Interactive and released in 2000. It was published by Infogrames. It is available on PlayStation only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Driver 2's story takes place across four different cities: Chicago, Havana, Las Vegas and Rio de Janeiro. Tanner and his partner, Tobias Jones, are working together to capture a moneyman who has double crossed a crime lord. The moneyman is known as 'Pink Lenny' throughout the story, and he is portrayed as a weasel in the opening cutscene. Pink Lenny has double crossed Solomon Caine, and is now working for his enemy, a Brazilian known as Alvaro Vasquez. Tanner must find and capture Pink Lenny, as Solomon Caine wants to kill him for double crossing him. Lenny has also been responsible for causing a large gang war in Chicago through his actions. The elusive Avaro Vasquez, head of the tattooed…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, open world and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Driver 2: Back on the Streets holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 22 points below the year average. Players rate it 61, 11 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Driver 2: Back on the Streets launched on 14 November 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike and Escape from Monkey Island. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island.

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Quick answers

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When did Driver 2: Back on the Streets come out?
Driver 2: Back on the Streets was released on 14 November 2000 for PlayStation.

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