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Most 3D, character-driven video games

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can be pretty easily placed[br]into one of two categories:

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either first person or third person.

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In a first-person game,[br]you see the game world

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through the actual eyes[br]of the player character

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as though you were that character,

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and in a third-person game,[br]you see the player character

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from the outside - often[br]from behind their back

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or from a fixed isometric perspective.

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But the existence of[br]these two perspectives

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begs a question:

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if this is what a[br]first-person game looks like,

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and this is what a third-person[br]video game looks like...

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what exactly would[br]second-person look like?

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Now, I'm not the first[br]person to wonder about this -

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the question of whether or not

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a second-person shooter[br]could actually exist

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is one that has plagued[br]video game message boards

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just about as long as[br]the Internet has existed.

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It's also served as the premise

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for some pretty good comedy[br]sketches over the years,

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like this one from Mega64:

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- [Announcer] Introducing the world's

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first second-person shooter.

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(video game music)

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(rock music)[br]- No no no no!

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- And this one from The Onion.

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- To enter second-person shooter mode,

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you just simply adjust[br]the narrative slider

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from first to second.

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- You are walking down a long corridor.

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Suddenly, a Nazi leaps out[br]from around the doorway

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and unleashes a hail of machine[br]gun fire in your direction.

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- But to help us actually figure out

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what a second-person game would really be,

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I think it would be helpful[br]to look at this grammatically.

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In written language, the term "first person"

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denotes any writing[br]where the point of view

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uses phrases like "I" or m"y"

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to tell the story from the[br]perspective of the protagonist.

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Third-person writing, on the other hand,

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uses third-person pronouns -

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for example, "he went this way,"[br]"she went that way," et cetera -

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to talk about characters[br]from an outside perspective.

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Now, second-person writing does exist,

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but it's kind of a weird one -

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in second person, the[br]primary pronoun used is "you."

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"You do this," "you go there," et cetera.

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The second person is[br]actually a lot less common

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in narrative writing,

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and it's actually something[br]you're more likely to encounter

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in, say, a list of instructions

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or a choose-your-own-adventure book.

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Now, the analogous video[br]game camera perspectives

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for first and third-person[br]writing are obvious -

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but what about for second-person?

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We know what an "I" game looks like

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and we know what a "he" game looks like,

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but what about a "you" game?

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Strangely enough, I actually[br]found the answer to this

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before I even came up with the question,

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and, believe it or not, it[br]came to me courtesy of a game

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you may have heard me[br]talk about once before -

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and that game is Driver: San Francisco.

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See, for all the interesting missions

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in Driver: San Francisco -[br]and there are plenty of them -

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there's one mission in particular

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that I swear to God I[br]think about all the time.

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The mission in question[br]is called "The Target"

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and it's the final mission[br]of chapter six of the game.

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In the game, you play as[br]a cop named John Tanner

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who, for reasons I won't get into here,

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basically has a superpower that allows you

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to take over the bodies[br]of any other driver,

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and has begun using that superpower

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to foil a possible terror plot

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from a gangster named Jericho.

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Over the course of the game Tanner decides

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that the best way to[br]unravel Jericho's plans

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is to do it from the inside,

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and in order to do that,[br]Tanner takes over the body

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of a low-level henchman named Ordell

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and uses his driving skills

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to help move Ordell up the ranks.

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The final mission in this story arc

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sees you inhabiting[br]Ordell's body one last time

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to complete a major assignment[br]from his boss Leila,

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who is this international assassin

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and Jericho's second-in-command.

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Tanner's plan?

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Warp into Ordell's body and,[br]without arousing suspicion,

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drive Leila and Ordell[br]directly into police custody.

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Now, the mission begins as normal

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with Tanner and his partner Jones

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driving their iconic[br]orange Dodge Challenger,

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and soon enough, you[br]warp into Ordell's body

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with Leila in the passenger seat

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where she gives you some[br]clarity on the mission.

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(car engine roaring)

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- [Leila] Ordell, I need[br]nothing but your best today.

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- [Tanner] What's going down?

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- [Leila] Jericho's got[br]a problem he wants fixed.

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Get me to the target and I'll fix it.

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- So you drive to the destination

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she's given you, closing[br]in on your target,

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and as you get close, this happens:

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(car engine roaring)

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- Slow down.

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We should acquire the target any time now.

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(car engine roaring)[br](tires screeching)

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The yellow Dodge, up ahead.

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Stay close but don't be obvious.

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- ...that's my car.

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- What?

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That's the cop that's[br]been getting in our way.

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- Do we follow him to the target?

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- ...he IS the target.

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- [Narrator] It's you.

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You've been assigned to kill... you.

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(music)

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Now, after that cutscene ends,

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you are back in Ordell's[br]body in the first person

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with Leila sitting to your right.

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But then... you press the[br]throttle to accelerate,

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and the car in front of you moves.

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You steer to the left and to the right...

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and the car in front of you moves

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to the left and then to the right.

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And then, quickly, it sinks in[br]that the car you're controlling

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is actually the car you're following.

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Your perspective as the[br]player is entirely separate

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from what you're[br]controlling as the player.

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In other words, you're pursuing... you.

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Now, as you can see, the[br]car that you're sitting in

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is moving, too - but, crucially,

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you're not the one who's[br]controlling that car.

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The car you're sitting in[br]is moving automatically,

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seemingly operated by[br]an AI-controlled driver

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who's tailing the car[br]you're actually controlling.

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It's basically like a chase[br]mission in any other video game

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just like you've seen[br]countless other times -

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except for this time,[br]it's flipped on its head.

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This time, you're the one being followed,

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while simultaneously seeing it all unfold

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from the perspective of the[br]car doing the following.

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And while it's hard for me to guess

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how well this comes across on video,

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all these elements[br]combine to make something

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that is very, very odd to play.

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There's something[br]shocking and disorienting

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about seeing a first-person[br]perspective on your screen

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but also not controlling that perspective

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while remotely operating[br]the car that you're tailing.

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It's the closest a video[br]game has ever gotten

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to feeling like a true[br]out-of-body experience,

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and it's an experience[br]that has stuck with me

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ever since I first played[br]this game back in 2011.

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Now, when I first played[br]Driver: San Francisco

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eight years ago,

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I kinda just played[br]through this mission once,

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start to finish, marveling[br]at the unique perspective

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that this mission granted you,

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but then moving on to[br]the rest of the game.

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But I've always felt like if[br]I ever came back to this game,

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I'd wanna pick this mission apart

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and see what makes it tick,

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and that's part of what[br]I hope to accomplish

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with this video.

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See, as cool as this mission[br]is, it's also pretty linear.

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The whole thing takes[br]place with you driving down

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this completely locked-down race course

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with no exits or detours -

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pretty much just a[br]straight shot to the exit.

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I've always assumed that[br]the developer Reflections

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designed this mission this way

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due to the technological limitations

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of this weird second-person camera

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that they built just for this mission.

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Perhaps there was no way[br]for them to get this camera

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to behave properly in[br]the actual open world

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with all the various streets, elevations,

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and alleyways you could dip into -

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not to mention the other street traffic.

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And on top of that,[br]they built this mission

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with a pretty strict countdown timer,

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forcing you to hit the[br]checkpoints in rapid succession -

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something that I've always[br]assumed was placed there

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to keep you from ever[br]veering too far off the path

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and breaking the game somehow.

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Still, I've always wondered about

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the actual limitations of this mission,

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and I knew that this time[br]around I wanted to test out

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whether or not there[br]was any way to escape -

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so before finishing the mission, I paused,

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started it over, and then this time,

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instead of starting the race as intended,

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I swung the car into a 180,

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driving the car backwards[br]in the wrong direction.

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Now, when I do this, the AI driver

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immediately begins panicking,

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rapidly spinning the steering wheel

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trying desperately to[br]keep my car visible in frame,

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and then eventually, it[br]turns around 180 degrees

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to reveal what looks like[br]the entire open world

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of Driver: San Francisco -

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seemingly 100% accessible to the player.

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Now I drove away from the[br]racetrack and began exploring,

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and I kept bracing myself to[br]hit some kind of invisible wall

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or failure state for going off course,

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but it never happened.[br]It all actually worked.

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I merged into traffic

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and the second-person camera followed me,

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immaculately bobbing and weaving

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through the other cars on the road.

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It was around this time that[br]I noticed...

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there was no timer.

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It turns out that Reflections

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had generously designed this mission,

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intentionally or unintentionally,

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so that the mission countdown timer

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doesn't actually begin until[br]you reach the first checkpoint -

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meaning that if you never[br]hit that first checkpoint,

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you can drive around forever.

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(car engine roaring)

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(car passing on right honks)

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This led to what I can only describe

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as a transcendent video game experience.

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It felt like I was seeing something

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that I was never meant to see.

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This ability to explore the[br]city as much as I wanted to

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all from this wholly unique,

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extremely surreal second-person viewpoint:

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it felt like a magical experience

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and one that almost nobody else

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has experienced for themselves.

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Now, revisiting this mission

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and managing to escape the confines

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laid down by the developers[br]all those years ago,

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I really wanted to try and[br]push this thing to its limits.

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I couldn't resit trying[br]to break things a little:

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I drove the car off ramps, into[br]upcoming traffic, all of it.

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But surprisingly, it[br]held together perfectly.

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That is, until I tried one specific thing.

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See, I haven't talked about it before,

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but this mission actually[br]does have a failure condition.

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In the lower-right corner of the screen

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there's a health meter,

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and it represents the[br]health of Tanner's car:

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the car you're chasing / driving.

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But if you get into[br]one too many collisions

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while driving this car[br]in the second person,

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you can actually run out of health,

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causing Tanner to die and[br]the mission to end in a loss.

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This is actually pretty hard to achieve

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on the default mission path they laid out,

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but driving into[br]oncoming lanes of traffic

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and ramping off car transporters

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had taken its toll on my vehicle

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and I only had a small[br]sliver of health left.

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Wanting to explore this[br]mission as long as possible,

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I gingerly pulled Tanner's[br]car into a narrow alleyway

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and then decided to try out the one thing

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I hadn't attempted yet:

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I turned around and drove[br]the car,

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in the second person,

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directly at myself.

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(music)

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This put the AI driver[br]in a weird position.

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It now had to drive backwards[br]just to keep me in the frame,

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and it was also narrowly sandwiched

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between the two walls of the alley,

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giving it almost no room to maneuver.

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I kept driving towards myself,

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putting on the pressure,[br]closer and closer, and then...

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(car engine roaring)

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(car screeching)

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(cars crashing)

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- [Leila] Nice work.

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- It broke.

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All at once, the second-person[br]vehicle shoots into a wall,

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clips through it,

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and then launches hundreds[br]of feet into the air.

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Briefly, one frame at a time,

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we can get glimpses of[br]the chaos that unfolded:

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we see the car inside the wall,

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then we see the car's[br]front console flipped over;

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we see what appears to be the ocean floor

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and then the pavement[br]as seen from underneath;

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we see rooftops, the driver's arm,

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the sky, trees, abstract geometry -

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and then the city from above,

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flooded with unloaded geometry.

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After that, we see the car[br]spinning and spinning in mid air,

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giving us glimpses of[br]San Francisco from above,

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before finally getting so high

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that nothing can be[br]seen but endless ocean.

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And then,

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black.

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(music)

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Suddenly, all at once, the[br]car snaps back to earth.

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The health meter for Tanner's[br]vehicle turns blindingly white

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and then the second-person viewpoint

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fills with an orange-yellow[br]hue: Tanner's car.

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Quickly it becomes clear[br]that the second-person car

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has somehow spawned inside[br]of Tanner's vehicle,

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dealing infinite damage to the car.

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(cars crashing)

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A deafening crash sound can be heard

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and shattered glass flies everywhere,

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and then, for a brief moment,[br]right before the mission ends,

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the camera inexplicably[br]shifts into Tanner's car

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where the car is balanced on its nose,

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its windshield shattered,

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thrust impossibly through another vehicle.

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And then, horrifically, the camera clips

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through the back of[br]Tanner's partner's head

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and shows us the backside[br]of his eyeballs and tongue:

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a truly terrifying[br]second-person perspective

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if ever there was one.

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(music)

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Shaken by my other-worldly[br]encounter seemingly brought on

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by pushing this already[br]existential mission to its limits,

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I reset the mission

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and played it beginning[br]to end one last time -

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this time careful to do it the right way,

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not wanting to disturb[br]whatever eldritch being

0:11:13.160,0:11:15.580
I'd upset by breaking the[br]mission in the first place.

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After all, I thought, I[br]know that every mission

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in Driver: San Francisco

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ends with a continue and retry option,

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so if I really wanted to[br]explore this mission again,

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I could always hit the retry[br]button to give it another shot

0:11:25.770,0:11:27.170
after running through it normally.

0:11:27.170,0:11:29.540
So I proceeded to complete[br]the mission as intended -

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a mission, by the way, that[br]ends with the antagonist Jericho

0:11:32.880,0:11:34.420
actually taking over your body

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and attempting to drive you[br]into a lethal car accident:

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(car engine roaring)[br]- You mean... Jericho!

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- [Leila] Sit back and enjoy the show.

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Not many people get to[br]watch themselves die.

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- ...a problem that[br]Tanner decides to solve

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by, disturbingly enough, shifting

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for the first and only time in the game

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into his partner Jones' body.

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Yes, that partner.

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- [Jones] What the heII is going on?

0:11:55.820,0:11:57.520
- Anyways, I[br]go to finish the mission

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the normal way, staying on the path,

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fully expecting the restart option

0:12:00.290,0:12:02.190
that appears after most[br]missions to show up.

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Instead, I get to the end of the mission, and -

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for some reason that[br]I still can't explain -

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the only option was continue.

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The reset option had vanished.

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Panicked, I quickly hit[br]ALT+F4 and existed the game,

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hoping I could load up my save file

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and play through the mission[br]again, but it was too late.

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It had already autosaved over my file

0:12:18.770,0:12:22.854
and the mission was gone with[br]no way to replay it again.

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(music)

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Look, Driver: San Francisco is a game

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full of weird, interesting,[br]strikingly-designed missions -

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but, to me, "The Target"[br]has always stood out

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as the perfect example of[br]what makes this game special.

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Video games are an entire medium

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built around taking over others' bodies,

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and Driver: San Francisco[br]is a richly existential

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and metatextual reflection of this idea.

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This mission in particular[br]brought these ideas to the fore

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in a way that I wasn't fully prepared for

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and that I'm only now beginning[br]to wrap my head around,

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years and years later.

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Even writing the script for this video

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felt like a mind-bending exercise

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in trying to explain something

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that is borderline unexplainable.

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You really have to play it for yourself

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to get a full sense of how[br]crazy this mission feels.

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In designing this mission,[br]Reflections took decades

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of 3D video game conventions[br]and turned them on their head

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to create what feels a truly[br]out-of-body experience.

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That, to me, is an[br]accomplishment worth celebrating.

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Please play "Driver: San Francisco."

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(car engine roaring)

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- [Leila] If you're[br]here, who's in your body?

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- [Tanner] Well, no one.

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...oh God.

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(door shuts)

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(keys jingling)

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(car revving)

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- All right, so a couple quick updates

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on the "Driver: San Francisco" situation.

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The petition to get[br]Ubisoft to re-list the game

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that I mentioned at the[br]end of my last video

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is now at over 70,000[br]signatures, which is insane.

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Please, if you have any[br]interest in this game,

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please sign this petition.

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It now feels like 100,000[br]is within our grasp,

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which is crazy, and I[br]can't believe I'm saying,

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but it could happen -

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which, to me, feels like[br]an unignorable number.

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But! In the meantime, as[br]you might have noticed,

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Ubisoft has not re-listed the game -

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they have been ignoring the[br]70,000 signatures we have.

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And on a totally unrelated[br]note, not connected at all,

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Driver: San Francisco,[br]since my video last month,

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has been in the top 10[br]most downloaded games

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on The Pirate Bay.

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...totally no relationship there,

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not mentioning that for any reason at all.

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Just saying, the game is not available

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and it's also one of the[br]most pirated video games,

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and has been in the top[br]10 most pirated games

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for the past month.

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Just a coincidence.

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Also, totally unrelated to the fact

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that this game is apparently[br]very popular on Pirate Bay,

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did you know that if you go[br]to NordVPN.org/babylonian

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you can go to websites,[br]illicit or non-illicit,

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without being tracked by[br]your ISP or anybody else?

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So that means that, for example,

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if you were to go to - and[br]I'm not saying you should -

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a website that allowed you[br]to download a video game

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that is no longer available[br]and can be easily pirated

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with just a few clicks

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and you don't wanna get an[br]angry email from your ISP

0:14:53.060,0:14:54.410
saying you can't do that,

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you should invest in a VPN. (laughs)

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If you go to NordVPN.org/babylonian

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and use coupon code "babylonian",

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you'll get 70% off their three-year plan

0:15:02.580,0:15:05.500
and get one full month[br]of VPN coverage free.

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But yeah, if you enjoyed this video,

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please share it with anyone[br]you think would like it,

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and/or subscribe to my channel

0:15:11.900,0:15:13.540
if you'd like to see more[br]stuff like this in the future.

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I've got a lot of videos

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in various stages of production right now

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that I'm really excited[br]to get out into the world,

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and I can finally start[br]thinking about them

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now that this one's done.

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So yeah, that's it from me for this time.

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Hopefully the next video[br]comes out a little quicker.

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I've got a lot of ideas[br]that have nothing to do

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with Driver: SF, I just... this one

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has been on my mind for a while

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and I'm glad to finally have it done.

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So thank you for watching,[br]and I'll see you next time.

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(music)