It will be now possible to draw [your gun] on your adversaries while leaving your gun by the window aka pointing your gun out the window (which probably means the window of the car)

So what that basically means is we can do drivebys now? Brilliant news. It will give cars a use other than driving now.

For anyone that doubted the French translations, heres an article in plain english that confirms drive-by shootings and a lack of aquatic vessels:

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At the Liepzig Game Convention Atari revealed the official title of the newest game in the Driver franchise. Driver : Parallel Lines will be released on PS2 and Xbox, scheduled for March 2006. In ParallelLines Atari goes back in time as the setting for the game is late 70's, New York, where you play a young criminal named The Kid. Reflections seems to no longer be using the boat, but there will be about 80 other vehicles in the game, and you will be able to stick your gun out the window, and shoot while driving. Racing will take up 80% of the game, and the remainder are the on-foot missions & minigames. Unilke Driv3r, Parallel Lines will have various online multiplayer modes for up to 8 players.

Ahhh, so there will be on-foot shooting? But 80% more driving is a good sign too. They might actually get it right with Driver 4, or Driver Parallel Lines...

The title is what I'm confused about, is it "Driver 4 (Working Title)" or is it "Driver: Parallel Lines"?

How much water is there in New York to actually drive in with a boat anyways? I dont think there is much.


Edit: Also, does anyone know if there will also be split-screen multiplayer?

Well it is Manhattan Island so I'd imagine there is a fair bit of water about it.

Well that tells you how much i know about New York.

People of D4 forum. This is Manhattan!

Manhattan

Manhattan map

Thats only Manhattan. Not to mention the whole New york city.

New york city is made up of five separate districts called boroughs-Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

NYC

Ever read the Encyclopedia?

This message was edited by Comaro on Aug 23 2005.

FIRST SCREENSHOTS!!!
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.playfrance.com/ps2-Driver-Parallel-Lines/&prev=/search%3Fq%3DDriver:%2BParallel%2BLines%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Can anyone read German? As its a German Magazine. Good pics, they remind me of Havana from D2, which seems to mean they have the poorer sections of NY...

Another thanks to my friend #1theman at the Atari forums, who currently has found every bit of info we know on D4 (except the very first articles you can find anywhere)

And its officially Driver Parallel Lines

From a quick comb through a very small section of the article, it would appear we get to drive around in Manhatten, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, better than NY Driver 1.

*There will be a checkpoint race in Central Park
*A destruction derby in Bronx
*TK is a gangster

Thats all I could get out of it

This message was edited by matt__jon on Aug 23 2005.

Wow what a nice find. It looks pretty good considering it is still in the beggining stages! Because tanners picture is in there does that mean that he is in it? I really wish that i could read german. Time to start making a new banner.

The Kid seems to fit the 70's era very well. He looks like a disco dancer to me. He actually reminds me a bit of Harry Tipper from the TimeSplitters series. Very good find.

Ya he kinda reminded me of harry tipper too. Now all we need is some 70s funk music and it will be OUTTA SIGHT!!!

My friend (#1theman) who found the articles ran the text through a translator, keep in mind its still hard to read, its like translating on google:
Page 1
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1492/driver4screens5tn.jpg
Page 2
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/6449/driver4screens28hq.jpg

It confirms there are 40 licensed tracks on a radio (probably one station like most games, but we'll have to wait and see). Other than that the rest of it is pretty unreadable.

40 Licensed tracks is good, while it's not spectacular it is a massive relief to have something decent to listen to instead of all the bland crap that was on the last game.

And the guns look pretty sweet in the game. The way he holds that big gun in the screen he is aiming at the cop car makes him look like Tony Montana from Scarface.

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/644/644467p1.html New article on ign. Same stuff, but a little easier to read!!
Three times as much traffic is good to hear!