Driv3r Ships 2.5 Million, Reviews Not So Sunny

Thanks to Yahoo! for reprinting a press release revealing Atari has shipped 2.5 million copies of long-awaited PS2/Xbox title Driv3r, with Atari CEO Bruno Bonnell reassuring: "The global Driver fan base is as robust and passionate as ever, as indicated by retail reaction in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, and other key territories." However, some of the initial reviews are decidedly mixed, in a similar vein to Atari's big 2003 title Enter The Matrix, with GameSpot lamenting of the third Driver title: "Driver 3 is full of the sorts of glitches and problems that final retail products shouldn't have", and IGN complaining that the game "...plays like a bigger, prettier version of Driver 2 with band-aids, but no real solutions to the problems that riddled it." Most of all, Eurogamer were previously skeptical about a late preview version, and are even more scathing regarding what they see as a "class-A disaster" final product. Fair, or not so fair?

Comments

Oh crap, there goes the industry

[Westacular]

Atari vastly overproducing a bad game? That's unpossible!

Flying Car

[Point_Blank]

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Good Review HOWTO

[Scorchio]

Found this gem in the eurogamer forum...

http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/driv3r.jpg

If it flops....

[kmhebert]

They can take care of it the old fashioned way.