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Driver: Renegade is a racing game on the 3DS with a really bad attitude. Putting you in the shoes of driver, a cop gone renegade because he's sick of red tape getting in the way of cleaning up the streets, it's a foul mouthed, fast paced, action packed racer, in which pretty much every mission tasks you with chasing down a selection of cars and smashing into them in order to get them to blow up.
In terms of difficulty, though Driver: Renegade is something of a mixed bag. At times, it's rather tricky, while other missions can be completed in a number of seconds. With fairly simple controls, it's a game most should be able to pick up and play - if they can handle Mario Kart, they should be able to handle this, and with fully voiced cutscenes, there's not that much reading involved either - especially as pretty much every level simply involves smashing into the marked objects, be they cars or buildings. With computer controlled cars that have an uncanny ability to smash through oncoming traffic without slowing down a jot, before taking you straight into a wall, it can be incredibly frustrating, and feel very unfair at times - it's one for the older, more experienced crowd only.
Where do we begin. In terms of questionable content, Driver: Renegade ticks all the boxes bar drug use. From pretty much the moment you start up the game, the swearing comes thick and fast - there's more "sh*theads" and "m*therf*ckers" than on an episode of South Park. Intense, frequent, and about as strong as you can imagine, the language in Driver: Renegade is extreme, and very over the top.
Tanner is a man who doesn't do things by halves, and acts entirely morally reprehensibly throughout the game - not really caring if the crooks he brings to justice are arrested or killed.
Meanwhile, the game also ticks the box for sex by featuring a cartoon of a topless woman on a calendar in the one cutscene (including nipples), and references to call girls, along with a cutscene of a woman disrobing where it's strongly implied she's preparing for a sexual encounter, while the violence and gore quotient is fulfilled by a man falling in front of a train, which, while you don't see anything directly, causes the screen to get splattered with blood as there's a nasty squelching sound.
Sadly, Driver: Renegade is an entirely single player experience, bar the ability to exchange lap times and records with people you walk past using the 3DS's StreetPass functionality.
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Format Reviewed: Nintendo 3DS
