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Another was a bike race round a park circuit. While there will be plenty of story-driven missions that involve delivering cars, ditching the cops, driving people to destinations and so on, Reflections is also working on a range of mini-games that take the form of street and circuit races, demolition derbies, hitman contracts, stealing to order - that kind of thing.

There will be some that involve getting out of the car, but Edmonson says you'll mostly only do this to switch rides.

If you get held up on a particular mission, you'll find the mini-games build up your cash stocks. Reflections expects people to spend per cent of their time on these, and the cash earned can be invested in tuning. In the garage, you can see your car's felony rating, its current top speed, damage and equipped nitros, and then add decals, spoilers, or more direct engine enhancements to push it harder. And if you're still stuck despite the faster car, Edmonson points out that you'll almost always have more than one main story mission available to you.

Visually it's not as dramatically detailed as some areas of Driver 3, particularly as it was on Xbox, but it's certainly comparable to Grand Theft Auto - like a less toonified, slicker version in fact.

The frame rate looks consistent, and pop-up is far less pronounced. In the section said to be closest to completion, draw distance was excellent. The cars themselves mash up nicely, and visual effects elsewhere all contribute healthily - shadows lengthen as the day and night complete their cycle, nothing just pops up ten feet in front of your car, and during his demo Edmonson would continually hurtle down alleyways swatting clutter out of his path and not once snagging on a concrete arch or pointless obstacle.

He did hit the odd ramp, mind you, revealing the game's cutaway thrill-camera now so familiar to fans of the genre, but ramps are a good thing. At the start of the demo, Edmonson said Reflections had given Driver 3 an extensive post-mortem, deciding to chop or change anything the masses were unhappy with, and that the clear objective was to make a totally new game. In a broader sense, this clearly isn't a totally new game.

It's familiar, homely; it's about lurching between startled cabs and dithering U-hauls, striping the pavement with tyre burns as you try to lose the heat on your tail. It's between alpha and beta now, we're told, so the physics need tweaking and there are some graphical issues, like tyres merging slightly with the road surface and unfinished cut-scenes.

But it's much more exciting a prospect than I'd expected. The fact that Reflections' last game was Driver 3 provokes scepticism in everyone, but right now Driver 4 certainly looks fun. When it parks up, we'll be there waiting. Sometimes we include links to online retail stores. If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our policy. Jump to comments Contributor tombramwell.

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