Watch Jalopnik Astral Project in Driver: San Francisco Live on Twitch at 4 PM ET

There are many mission-based driving video games, the place your job is to drag elaborate heists or cease them, with all of the bombast and sometimes not one of the appeal of your Hollywood franchise of choice. Driver: San Francisco, launched in 2011 and developed by the Ubisoft staff that will later go on to make Watch Canines, shouldn’t be like these video games, as a result of it just about eschews all sense of actuality. And we’ll be reveling in its absurdity right now at 4 p.m. Japanese on twitch.television/jalopnikdotcom.

I gained’t give an excessive amount of away, however Driver: SF turns the everyday good-guy-versus-bad-guy chase the wrong way up by permitting you — that’s FBI agent John Tanner — to body-swap with any driver on the highway at any time. Besides your nemesis, as a result of he can body-swap too. The sport wouldn’t be very lengthy or compelling if he couldn’t, proper?

Driver: SF has been one thing of a cult hit because it got here on the scene greater than a decade in the past, and happily you’ll be able to nonetheless purchase it for Xbox One and Sequence consoles. However this was the final entry within the sequence, and its progressive on-line multiplayer modes — assume vehicular tag, however with the entire car-swapping factor — shall be shut down in rather less than a month. Frankly, Ubisoft deserves credit score for preserving them up for this lengthy.

I’ve by no means performed this curious open-world thrill journey, however I’ve heard improbable issues, and I’me excited to sink my tooth in. Your common forged of Jalops will be part of me to see what insanity we will create with the whole thing of the Golden Gate Metropolis’s visitors patterns at our disposal.