# Help me ID this game!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 4, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752 "2008-12-04T21:33:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/1 "2008-12-04T21:33:09Z")
This is driving me to the edge of madness. It might be two games. I may just have imagined the whole thing. Theres a mission where you have to chase an amulance and make it crash (its not GTA SA btw). Another mission which involves driving up to a ghost town at the top of the map. Also theres an airport in the south. I remember there being lots of bridges over the streets, and that you could drive up the bridge ramps and perform jumps. I know it sounds like a GTA but really don’t think it is. Please can anyone help before I have to resort to water-boarding my badger for information. Thanks! Edit: I think theres also a mission set in nevada where you have to plant a bomb at a casino. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/2 "2008-12-04T21:37:23Z")
Sounds like one of the Carmageddon games. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/3 "2008-12-04T21:55:36Z")
Seconding Carmageddon. (For a minute, I thought it might be Intestate 87) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/4 "2008-12-04T22:22:31Z")
Not Carmageddon: it was all “death races” not missions. There are quite a few GTA clones out there now. Does Saint’s Row or Crackdown ring a bell? How long ago did you play this? Free driving or set stages? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/5 "2008-12-04T22:24:28Z")
> [@Just\_Some\_Guy](#): > > Not Carmageddon: it was all “death races” not missions. The third one had missions (one of which involved blowing something up) between races, and I think the second did as well. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/6 "2008-12-04T23:01:33Z")
Maybe one of the “Driver” series of games? The bit about taking out an ambulance sounds a bit familiar… ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/7 "2008-12-04T23:15:38Z")
> [@samarm](#): > > water-boarding my badger I love it when you talk dirty. ---
**Author:** ![Claptree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/8 "2008-12-04T23:27:59Z")
Everything you’ve described is in GTA:SA, IIRC. (Except possibly the bomb in the casino. There’s a casino job in the game, but I don’t know about a bomb.) Which makes it real hard for me to think outside that particular box. Is it a third person game like GTA? What system? ---
**Author:** ![Claptree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/9 "2008-12-04T23:33:41Z")
In the casino mission in San Andreas you have to blow up some generators at a dam, and a few more at the casino. So some blowing up of a casino is involved. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/10 "2008-12-05T01:55:31Z")
I still think that the ambulance mission sounds a bit like [Driver 2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTdgGmjliOo) and the casino bomb missions sounds like [mission 3](http://guidesarchive.ign.com/guides/14153/w3.html) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/11 "2008-12-05T02:14:59Z")
Damn. I remember that now. I loved those \*Driver \*games. It’s amazing how dated they look now after playing _GTA IV_. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/12 "2008-12-05T02:32:26Z")
Yah, it’s definitely Driver 2. It even had a [ghost town](http://www.gamespot.com/ps/driving/driver2/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-40253530&pid=913685). (Although I think Driver 3 did too). I never played them much myself (tried once, hated the lack of precision in the controls), but my roommies in college did and that why the OP rang a bell. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-game/475752/13 "2008-12-05T06:09:11Z")
Yea! Driver 2, thats it! Thanks guys. What a game. 🙂