Driver 2 - Secret and Beta Cars 

I want a new driver game sooo freaking bad. These games just have a certain flavor that GTA doesn't. The music was on point and I loved the driving physics, such a shame no one has picked up where they left off :(

I love how in the trailer they still showed the school bus, with broken textures on the back, they just did not care and thought no one would notice or probably they didn't notice themselves and i'm over analysing a single school bus clip where it shows a broken texture on the back.

I haven't played this game, but I enjoyed your video. Is it possible in the future to slightly lower music and game volume when you speak? Sometimes they are too loud.

I still love that first Havana car. Those awesome tail lights and angry looking front.

The grey Dodge Coronet esque car is in the final game. It's in a mission where it's in a weird roadblock along with 2 police cars and the flatbed truck. Funny enough, if you gently tap the police cars in the roadblock, you can actually get out of your car while they ram the car you hit them with. Mission 6: Get to the docks.

Playing with glitches was so much fun back in the day. I remember playing it as a kid and falling through the roads and drowning! LOL

Anyway, LOVE that you did this video. I love learning about beta versions and alternates of games, even old favourites such as Driver 2.

Thank you for bringing up these changes from the beta version and final game. It's part of the history of Driver 2. I read the review in the PlayStation magazine over and over again while sitting in a resturant with my family, just waiting to get home and play the demo. Then my parents got me the full game for Christmas. I can't count how many hours I spent with this game.

The favorite thing i love about you is this kind videos. Well done on making this.

Havana is still pretty much the same to this very day, it's a Heaven for vintage car lovers :) luv it!

Great and informative video Matt, all these changes are so interesting to see :)

ur videos are so detailed and well made, subscribed :D

I waited this video for ages :> Good Job Matt!

I never would have guessed that Driver 2 had this much altered/cut content. Thanks for the video!

Very well put together compilation. Informative, and accurate! Good job doctor! :D

We've come a LONG way... Thanks for the upload!!

@MattJ155 3:19 - This also comes in a Rare Yellow colour that I have only ever seen when you spawn the car from the menu as your starting car 5:27 - This car spawns in "To The Docks" in a Roadblock just after the tunnel 7:10 - Oddly enough, this also spawns in "To The Docks" but I cannot recreate it, I have just assumed it was my Emulator glitching 14:44 - This spawns on the missions (Bank Job, C4 Deal and the last mission in Las Vegas) 16:55 - Much like I mentioned earlier, I have seen this car spawn in the mission "Caine's Cash" I however again cannot recreate it and believe it might have been a glitch on my game. [EDIT] 14:29 - I found out that this car is used in "Driving Games - Survival - Las Vegas" 16:08 - This is used in "Driving Games - Gate Racing - Copacabana" 7:10 - This is used in "Driving Games - Quick Getaway - Necropolis de Colon" 5:27 - This is used in "Driving Games - Quick Getaway - Capitolio" I truly believe that all these extra colour schemes do exist in the game and do spawn in missions only, but what missions and where they spawn is still unknown. After watching this video, I was certain I had seen some of these colours before, so I just spent 4 hours testing missions and locations and found the times above. What is really odd for me is 5:27's car. You get off the Ferry, drive through the tunnel and then if you keep heading straight, you run into a roadblock with 2 Police Cars, a Truck and the Grey Cadillac. And Although I couldn't find the other colours shown in this video, I reckon that if they are still in the code for the official release, they would be in a mission somewhere, since so many other hidden colours are used.

i remenber a secret but some of you know as well in one of the missions in Havana there was a "secret" weather to play freely and you would turn it like Take a Ride whinch you ll have to go to the ferry area within time limit if you aproach the ferry when it says something like to "make a jump to the ferry" ( sorry been along time ) the timer disappears and dont jumping to the ferry just let the ferry go and dont worry the mission wont fail/restart ( it does of course but if you want to do the trick and turn it into Take a Ride mode so no prob ) then we could freely take a ride with a rainy weather as a secret weather :) btw its recomended those who never played to finish the mission 1st that once you finish and repeat you have more fun with the "secret" weather

this game had left a mark on me so many years ago . thank you for reviewing this

This video was very well made. Good job.

In the mission when you go to Rossana Soto from the ferry, after pass the tunnel you can find a barricade of cars (mostly police cars, one truck and one gray civic car), and one of them is the first gray car. If you go on foot to the police control you can entry in that car and drive it (obviously you just can do it in the mission and not in the "take a ride" mode.

The main reason why I miss these old driver games is because they weren't afraid to explore different and more diverse locations. I mean, New york and Los angeles aren't the only cities in the world.

Awesome Matt!!! Great Work.

I think I’ve gotten the “purple” truck in Havana once with a friend of mine playing multiplayer. He had selected the truck and once the game loaded it was a gambled mess off pixels and colors including purple all over the car. I have never seen that since which was probably over 10 years ago at this point.

love your videos, i really appreciate the details

Great work, Matt!

Subscribed! Watching some of your videos I learned many curiosities that I didn't know about Driver and Driver 2. Thanks for your videos! :) Maybe you've already noticed it, but if you select the pick-up for both players in Old Havana on Multiplayer - Take a ride mode, the second player's one will have an unusual color pattern. Also, it's pretty strange that they used different wheel rims for every city except for Havana. Havana cars have the same rims as the Chicago ones. But there is actually a unique version of the rims also for Havana cars and it can be seen on the Multiplayer - Take a ride mode (they probably forgot to remove it) making the cars lose their hubcaps. I don't know why they scrapped the unique design from the final version of the game, but it's cool to see all these ideas the developers came up with through the development of the game.

Who still plays ps1/2? :)

You sir have earned a subscriber.

The second car in Las Vegas actually uses that purple color scheme in survival mode. Good video by the way :)

nice vid man, keep it up! :)

Cool! I use to have so much fun playing this game when i was a kid. I re-bought Driver 1 and 2 about three years ago. The PS1 version of the game don't look that great compared to today's games but still a joy to play.

Driver 2 was my first ever PS game. The moment I unlocked Vegas n' Río were fascinating. Miss the good old days 😂

you worked for reflections, bcz this is really specific and detailed material

Great video you have a really entertaining channel I followed. Love driver as a child :D also like the dynasty warriors stuff you out up

the car at 5:30 can be found in the same mission that the car at 9:35 can be found in. on one of the roads on the main land there is a police roadblock that is glitched with civilians instead of cops and that gray car in place of the cop car.

Nice video, wish my internet didn't suck so I could watch it all in one go.

amazing video, can you also analysing the beta maps or the buildings sort of stuff??

I love Driver series..

awesome video ;D

i love driver 2. i like bashing other cars and doing wreckless driving

the gray car at 5:44 u can find a mission where you have to get to the ferry its parked behind the police road block

12:19 WTF that ped

There is some more info I can provide you about the cars. Awesome video dude!

As you can see again ... :-P :-P Great vid mate

My childhood memories

The school bus in Chicago is a playable car, however if i'm not mistaken during one of the mission where you follow a train, if you don't follow the line on the map you will pass a school bus on it is side, once you enter it you will be able to choose itat the free play

THERE WAS A 2ND GEN F-BODY AND THEY CUT IT?!?!!?! (*not done watching the video yet. Cool stuff so far.)

I loved this game as a kid. I played it so much! Is it possible to make a secret cars video for gran Turismo 4?

We need a Driver 2 remaster version for PS4!

That cut blue chicago car that looks like a 2nd gen camaro appears a lot in cutscenes. I think that Jones drives one in one pf those cutscenes

15:43 I would have loved to have driven this 80's Cadillac-esque car in game :3

You should also do secret & beta cars on Driver like u did on Driver 2 yesterday

Thanks for showing all the cars bro :D, btw do you know how to get grey colored of the car in Havana, and play it on the take a ride ?

Chicago secret car is Driver 1's beta car.

A lot of texture mapping issues. When you would start out modeling, texturing would be quick and sometimes you would unwrap the models incorrectly and get some amount of garbled messes in the textures. Sometimes it's a geometry problem but mostly ends up being a thing with the UVs... And sometimes when you prototype these you mess up a little in the texture editing process, and then that trickles down to textures of other colors or similar kind when you raster edit these.

16:51 Havana... damn, didn't know that Havana was in Brazil and Rio was in Cuba.

I wonder if the gray is just the default black and white texture and then they add color to it when generating the car. My guess it the reason why its not in game is that it looks drab.

How did you make the ammunitions truck keep throwing bombs after being stopped and hijacked?

skybox looked different too

Driver and Gran Turismo where like Food and Water when i was growing up.

12:20 this truck have a very nice stance

i would have died to know this stuff when i was younger

I might say, is there a for you to play beta on Driver 2 in all 4 cities like Driver?

7:09 idk why only seen in quick gate away and i thought also only in quick gateaway at 5:25 but also see in mission to the docks after passing tunnel

14:37 It wasn't, the only time you can use that colour sceme is in Vegas Survival mode.

16:50 "Now this car in Havana actually had a dark gray color scheme" Havana XDDDDDD

I wonder why they cut so many alternate colors and cars from the final version of the game...it couldn't have been lack of space....they did put the game on 2 dics after all...

the purple car in last vagas the second one is on single player on suvival mode if im right

You are wrong about the 1st Havana grey car not appearing, its in the driving game getaway in Havana!

I see a screen form official polish playstation magazine :)

THERE RU-vid, I WATCHED IT!!!

Soooo many changes

15:24 never seen this screenshot anywhere, and it looks like modified chicago car

las radios en español son diferentes en havana, nunca habia escuchado esos dialogos

i feel so old. i used to play driver 2 when i was on elementary school Lol hahaha

Wait,are you voice actor from Payback 2 Classic Mission

In 6:50 what's meaning out of tape? Mean the cd game!!? I still remember!??

5:43 You must've forgotten that the grey version of that car can be found on the Escape to the Docks mission from Havana

What is that mean out of tape glicth or something?

how come they could make the graphics in the cutscenes good but not in the gameplay?

15:26. That's the default grey car you get in Chicago isn't it?

No way in the world does the bus go that bloomin fast! Lol, the back of the Havana truck looks like a curtain rather than metal covering. And when does the Havana truck appear on the multiplayer? To what multiplayer do you speak of anyways?

The draw distance is better in the beta

Played it on ps1. Where can I get it for my Steam deck?

Hi Matt love your videos, but one quick question ? Why is the shadow of your dude messed up ? Looking at it I can kinda make out a guy with pale white skin. Just asking.

Can you "enable" secret car for select in menu ? BTW 3:12 Polish Magazine ^^

What's that square on the ground always following you around?

this game needs to be remastered

havana sound track " buya chalupa" get'em while there hot

Why dont they spawn the gray car

hi friend,you know how spawn or drive the boat ferry on havana? i think it is playable..maybe need secret code

Man sure is a change of stuff. Never seen a picture of Las Vegas different. Anyway, why Driver 2 hard for you?

how did you get cheats codes?

Is beta version is same as demo version? I am kind confused!

Hey Matt! I didn't work on this game, but I just want to say that I don't fully believe your theory of the Chicago secret car (The yellow Buick GSX) coming in another color scheme. The reason I say this is because the Chicago secret car is a slightly modified version of what was originally supposed to be Tanner's car during Miami in Driver 1. My evidence for this stems from the back of the original Driver's jewel case. Compare this photo (oi40.tinypic.com/1z33020.jpg ) of the Chicago secret car and this photo (www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/58726-driver-playstation-back-cover.jpg ) of the Driver 1 jewel case back cover. Notice the uncanny resemblance between the two cars, albeit with some slight modification? What Reflections most likely did was de-saturate the color scheme of Tanner's original car and modify the front to make it less obvious as to what it really is, even though it's still fairly obvious.

Shame they got rid of the Vegas car shown from 15:34 to 15:48.

***** can you please tell me how you made the graphics so good?

Why did they have betas demo how did u get them by pre ordering .

do videos on Destruction Derby 1 & 2