Driver: Renegade 3D

"Drive the crime out of New York City! After years on the squad, undercover detective John Tanner is taking the law into his own hands. Experience a dark and thrilling investigation. Take down your enemies in high speed car chases. Over 100 missions and challenges!"

One of the earlier games released for the 3DS and quite surprising to see on a Nintendo console at this time considering how dark the game is and the amount of profanities thrown around throughout the game. It's a far cry from Mario Kart 7 which hadn't been released yet at this point. Its worth pointing out that the games map looks suspiciously reused from VD's previous game 'COP: The Recruit' on the DS.

The game is set between the two original driver games. Tanner is presented as a cliché movie action hero with a very predictable plot. The game mainly has you driving around a a sparse New York City with plenty of destroyable scenery. The missions consist of out running the enemy, chasing the enemy and or destroying the enemy. You destroy enemies by ramming them. You can earn boost by destroying things, drifting or jumping to power up a rage meter that lets you do more damage or turbo boost. The control feels quite floaty and oversensitive which makes it challenging to get the car going in a straight line at times.

The longplay is a recording of Story mode which consists of 20 missions. There is no time limit so that's a nice relief compared with other games in the series. The car takes damage and if it catches on fire, a garage needs to be found fast to instantly repair the car before some random enemy smashes into you, killing you. It's very short overall and completing on Hard difficulty will reward you with an additional 19 cars.

00:00:00 Titles
00:01:02 Mission 1
00:04:27 Mission 2
00:09:15 Mission 3
00:12:00 Mission 4
00:15:55 Mission 5
00:20:35 Mission 6
00:23:35 Mission 7
00:33:17 Mission 8
00:35:32 Mission 9
00:38:31 Mission 10
00:42:03 Mission 11
00:46:15 Mission 12
00:49:34 Mission 13
00:54:42 Mission 14
00:59:22 Mission 15
01:03:07 Mission 16
01:06:56 Mission 17
01:12:07 Mission 18
01:17:30 Mission 19
01:22:29 Mission 20
01:28:39 Credits

Part 2 of this longplay is the career mode of the game. This is a throw away part of the game and is just added fluff to fill out the cartridge and its very short story mode. It's is made up of seven game modes each containing twelve missions for a total of eight four missions overall. Along the way extra cars are unlocked giving a total of fifty cars in the garage if story mode is completed and these cars can only be used in career mode. The opponent drivers are dumb as dirt and make some of the longer races really boring. It can also be annoying that an event wont end when you have reach the set target and continues on until time has run out. The overall score is mostly irrelevant as the only thing that matters is that you achieved the mission goal. Nothing happens when you complete all missions and reach max level leaving this mode ultimately unrewarding and pointless.

00:00:00 Freedom Racing
00:20:25 Time Attack
00:34:10 Rampage
00:59:00 Elimination
02:25:05 Killing Road
03:52:15 Afterburner
04:27:35 Demolition run
05:06:40 Unlocked Cars in garage
05:08:26 Credits