Driver: San Francisco, The worst out of body experience I have ever had...

I have just played the Driver: San Francisco demo on PSN.

You play as a traffic cop who can 'shift'. This means he can have an out of body experience where you control other people. In practice this means switching to other cars in the area. The first thing you have to do is jump into the car of a dangerous driver. If you could control a dangerous driver, you would just have him/her stop their vehicle, get out and assume the position so you could come over and arrest them. The game, however, asks you to drive the car over a series of ramps with no explanation.

Letting you control your adversary is the worst idea ever. They are no longer your adversary if you can control their actions. Its like playing Street Fighter against yourself. Also when you are driving one car and then 'shift' into another, who is now controlling the car you were in? Somehow your original vehicle follows you around. I don't have a problem with the game mechanics, I just wonder why the developer had to wrap them up in such a contrived and nonsensical plot.

Driver San Francisco is quite a confusing game, partly because i couldn't force myself to pay attention to the awful dialogue. Back to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit for me.