Pennysillin' had a great suggestion about a DRIVER TAG MODE, where you bump a car and a chase begins, either you chasing them, or them chasing you. You could tap as many vehicles as the game would allow, ending when you evade them or take them out of commission.

It could be started by pressing pause, selecting TAG MODE, then CHASE or EVADE. It could also continue ON FOOT, where you're pursued by any pedestrians you tap, or you have to chase them down.

It's a great concept for Driver's open city, what do you think?

Question:
Would you like to see a TAG MODE in Free Roam? Tap a vehicle (up to 10 or more) and start a chase, like a game of "your it".

Choices:
Yes
No. Explain.
Maybe.

 

I say yes. It would have to be a mini game though, because it would be annoying to happen all the time. This could make for some awesome carnage.

Now, the big question, on foot, should people chasing you have weapons? Its a hard question, the cops with weapons ruined survival mode on D3, but thats different from this game.

It'd be good if a rare few people had guns, though the rest could have a bat, club or just use their fists if they catch you. But depending on how far Driver's ON FOOT develops this time around, some great gun fights could erupt.

And yeah, it would start only when you select "TAG MODE"(chase/be chased) in the pause menu. The rest of the time, normal free roam gameplay.

I can imagine chasing down a thug on the street, "Blade Trinity" style(even though that movie kind of sucked), where Blade's chasing Drake through the city streets on foot, running through halls, up staircases, leaping through doorways, off rooftops, crowds, to finally grab onto the thug and pound him/her into submission.
Or a chase/gun fight could take place John Woo's "Hard Boiled" style.

fire escapes, rooftops, power lines, it'd be cool if you could use a power line as a zip line like the military, or just climb across it (or tight-rope walk, try to balance). Bring back the grapling hook idea, be able to use that as a zip line too.

Or, running from an angry mob, grab a tree branch and swing into the tree gymnist/monkey style

Make Tanner, or whoever the next character is, very agile, however unrealistic that may be. It'd be a bit funny too, when setting up the story, it says "Tanner has a background in racing and gymnastics." haha

Agility is the right word, as Tanner and TK were pretty stiff characters with clumsy, limited abilities. Give us an atheletic character like Altaiir from Assassin's Creed, anybody who can really move well including climbing. Climbing is one of the best options for any on foot character.

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Originally posted by InsaneDriver06:
Agility is the right word, as Tanner and TK were pretty stiff characters with clumsy, limited abilities. Give us an atheletic character like Altaiir from Assassin's Creed, anybody who can really move well including climbing. Climbing is one of the best options for any on foot character.

I think a Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) type character would be cool but if we are being serious, If any of you have ever seen Cats the musical then you will now what I mean in this next line.
I want a flimsy, accurate, skinny, moderate height character.

Tanner in D2 was like a match stick, Tanner in D3 was a cigar, big and un sightly. TK in DPL looked really good in 1978 bit of the game but had clumsy, $hity, un imaginative actions. His swagger was silly but I think a style of walking is needed. An obscure, stealth, walk would be funny and cool. And was it just me or was TK a cross between Jack Sparrow and Brad Pitt from fight club.

All buildings should allow for interaction where you can either jump up onto ledges or climb ladders, stairs. I know it's not a Spider-Man game, but it helps the on foot reach another level, pun intended.

TK definately sounded like Johnny Depp, and he looked like him (in "Blow")

I didn't like old TK, he looked like an old mexican, I have nothing against mexicans, but how does he go from looking like johnny depp to looking like a mexican?

You should be allowed to turn tag mode off at anytime, so if you're in a chase, just press pause to shut it off. Or would it be more exciting if, once a chase is started, it had to be finished?

it would be more of a challenge, fo sho, but it would be annoying if you weren't trying to get into a big chase, especially if theres reason to explore. If not, I'd leave the mode on all the time.

In tag mode, I'd like to be leading a chase with 20 cars behind me, hit the drawbridge at the right angle just before the bridge got too high, then watch the cars behind me fall into the water.

Pursuing cars should be able to perform all the stunts you're able to, such as hitting ramps, 360's, reverse 180's, etc.

Reminds me of the Driver 1 training mission checklist in the garage. Frustrating, but a useful list of all the skills possible.

Interesting point, it would be cool if pursuers were top notch stunt drivers, or maybe that would coincide with the difficulty level

PURSUIT CAR SKILL LEVEL:

The worst kind of pursuit is when the guy chasing you crashes into every wall and pole the second you turn, or smashing into traffic without any level of avoidance skills, like a moron behind the wheel.

The pursuit car should be skilled and tough to shake. So how would you shake a tail? Through some great driving stunts and skills and near miss situations, like just getting by a train/cross traffic, while the pursuit car gets smashed from the side. And hitting a ramp to the other side of the wall, while the pursuit car falls short and smashes into it. Those situations should present themselves during any chase often.

TAG MODE revisited. While TAG MODE is activated, or whatever Reflections wants to call it, you can tap any vehicle or pedestrian while in a vehicle or on foot, and they will chase you, or if you choose, you have to track them down and chase them, putting them out of commission by whatever means you can find.

ON FOOT: Imagine 20 pedestrians chasing you up ladders, over rooftops, through shopping stores, across freeways... Or you chasing them.

IN VEHICLE: Imagine 20 skilled drivers trying to ram you off a shaky bridge, off a cliff, chasing you at every turn if you can't shake them.

TAG COUNT: Depends how many vehicles/pedestrians you tap. Be careful who you bump into while in TAG MODE.

This would keep the game fun for a very long time, and increase UBISOFT/REFLECTIONS sales figures

I forgot about this idea. Building on it, obviously you hit lots of cars in free roam, maybe for them to chase you you should beep at the same time you hit them.

And sort of in a similar vein, the Timmy cheat in Miami, D3, I'd like to see that again, only with full semi trucks that are faster than a normal semi (and are still faster when you drive them). Only instead of being silent, they should beep their horns periodically

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Originally posted by J_Frumpleberg:
I forgot about this idea. Building on it, obviously you hit lots of cars in free roam, maybe for them to chase you you should beep at the same time you hit them.

And sort of in a similar vein, the Timmy cheat in Miami, D3, I'd like to see that again, only with full semi trucks that are faster than a normal semi (and are still faster when you drive them). Only instead of being silent, they should beep their horns periodically

Yeah, that'd be cool to see the Timmy's return, they were like the only bad guy in free roam besides the cops.

TAG MODE itself is a nice expansion of the idea of tapping a cop car and the chase begins, but expanded to every vehicle you tap and maybe beep your horn to at the same time, which would keep things under control rather than just tapping.

But I'm sure Reflections and Ubisoft will overlook such an awesome play mechanic in free roam.

I'd like varying difficulties to pick from too, so it'd range from easy, med hard, insane, selectable in the options mode.

I've had some more driving game ideas. [edit]I'll put them in quotes to better seperate them.

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BOMB TAG
Its sort of like tag mode, only with more on the line, in this one, one car has an explosive charge set to 10 seconds, when you tag another car, they get the charge and the count starts back at 10. You'd see a little bomb icon over the car with the bomb, if you don't tag somebody within 10 seconds, boom, you're gone.

BUT, the game keeps going (I always hate in Driver games where you fail and have to reload), not sure how you respawn, maybe like MarioKart where it just brings you back to the middle or what.

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DESTRUCTION DERBY
Held in the streets (closed curcuits bore me), where suddenly every car you see is in play (except parked cars). Just wreck the other guys car. If your car gets totaled, jump out and try to get another one without getting hit.

Maybe after you're totaled you get spawned outside the action Halo-style, and a menu pops up where you can select from any car in the game. Get points for more damage, unlock more cars that way? All points from all games can be used anywhere in the entire Driver game to buy stuff???

Anyway the action doesn't stop until you end the game manually (or maybe a set timer at the beginning)

Basically I like taking ideas from old Driver minigames and making them more free roam style. I like Vigilante mode in GTA, where as soon as you stop one criminal you go after another. The only change I would make for Driver's Pursuit mode is that you can change vehicles anytime.

All minigames should be accessable in free roam, like DPL, but from the pause menu instead

I'm also thinking about taking regular sports like football and soccer and applying them to cars, set it in the streets, as usual.

Yeah, those are good sub-modes for TAG MODE. They'd help keep the game exciting months after buying it.

Survival TAG Mode
Expanding on the tag mode idea, imagine driving down the street, but rather than having to tag each car you wanted to chase you, every car in sight began chasing you, almost like GTA's zombie mode but with cars/bikes/trucks instead (and would also expand to on foot when you get out of your car).

There could be a target point across the map you'd have to reach with just a single car (Survival TAG Mode). Once you reach it, you could gain new cheats, like "DROP A RAMP" that allows you to drop a ramp 50 feet directly in front of your car, so you could avoid large numbers of oncoming attackers by jumping the ramp.

DROP A RAMP: With the press of a button, a ramp instantly appears ahead, giving you the choice to jump or avoid it. You could adjust the height angle with 3 preset positions with the tap of the same button. Low, medium or high angle jumps. Why? Because hitting ramps in a Driver game is a blast most of the time, and there aren't enough opportunities for catching air.

Yes, now the conversations getting interesting! Survival Tag mode sounds like fugitive mode in cars.

I also like the target point idea, gives some more purpose to the game, like a mission without really being a mission.

Yeah, the target point could be random each time, to keep you moving to new locations, if you can get there in one piece.

I noticed in Driver 1 and 2, when the cops started chasing you, away went the option to exit your vehicle, forcing you to really use your skill and luck to lose the tails, increasing the tension.

The only change I'd make to that is to allow you to exit once your vehicle wrecked, so you could continue the escape in another vehicle.