Comparing Driver 3's Nice to Real Life

"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12) 10/03/2019 at 18:41 • Filed to: None

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I’ve long wanted to do this with some game. But most games are set in or based on cities in the USA, and I’ve not really been there. Recently I want to Nice in France, so here’s my chance to dig up a 15 year old game and do some comparing. Apologies for the quality of some of the pics and comparisons, I’m doing this for me as much as anyone else

Kinja won’t allow me to put text between the pictures because it’s a fucking terrible piece of software. So I’ll use captions or something.

In all of these, the Driver screenshot will come first. Note that I did visit all of these places, but I don’t always have good pics for comparison. So I relied on google streetview a bit.

The famous Negresco hotel, realized in surprising detail! I guess they really went for this one given its fame. Note they left off the “Le” on the writing up top.

This is just a nice little park, down the south-west end of the boulevard de anglais, on the way to the airport. It is featured in the game, and in fact its hills make for plenty of jumpy fun

Gare de Nice-Ville, the main train station. You can see the shape of the roof, the color of the bricks is the same. Ish

The courthouse, the Palais du Justice, with obvious similarities. The real one has a fountain off to the left that the game lacked.

A view of Castle Hill from the East side. Not a great pic from real life, but you can tell they’ve tried to make it similar particularly in some of the buildings.I drove up there in the game, when you’re there it lacks a *lot* of the detail from real life. The waterfall, the castle ruins, etc.

WWII monument to those Nicois who died, just under Castle Hill. Definitely similar.

This is facing the wrong direction compared to the real life shot. But the point is that the big fountain that’s at the end of this wide road is completely absent in game.

This is a shot of the hotel Le Regina. I did quite a large walk on my last day to visit this one, pleased to see it made an appearance in game.

Two very poor shots of the beach-facing seats Nice is famous for. Definitely in the game, not a coincidence.

A word of warning. This game is old. The physics are pretty robust, but sort of flakey at the same time. I fell through the ground once and died. Thankfully that didn’t happen to me in real life Nice.

For Sweden > Nauraushaun 10/03/2019 at 19:01

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Nice

Longtime Lurker > Nauraushaun 10/03/2019 at 20:11

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Driv3R

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Nauraushaun 10/03/2019 at 21:13

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Wait, I've never played a driver where you get a gun

SmugAardvark > For Sweden 10/03/2019 at 22:44

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Reeeeeeaaallll Nice...

Nauraushaun > For Sweden 10/04/2019 at 04:43

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Yes that is right, Nice the city in France. That is the city I was in

Nauraushaun > SmugAardvark 10/04/2019 at 04:43

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That’s right, given that Nice is the name of the city it’s probably the most Nicois city in the world.

Nauraushaun > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 10/04/2019 at 04:44

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I guess in hindsight it’s odd that only 3 gave you a gun. I think they tried to go down the GTA route of making it a proper 3D action game. But 3 was mostly awkward and weird on foot.

Parallel Lines was better but still...

Hence, San Fransisco had that weird teleport mechanism

Nauraushaun > Longtime Lurker 10/04/2019 at 04:44

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driv three rrrrr