VIDEO: Watching Tommy Wiseau play ‘Driver: San Francisco’ is pure bliss

Matt Hawkins Contributing Writer, Video Games

Lo and behold, the Tommy Wi-Show keeps getting funnier and funnier. With episode 5 easily being the best one yet, and featuring the director of The Room on the virtual streets of SF.

I’m flat out shocked that the comedy quotient of Wiseau’s internet show has managed to slowly get stronger, let alone last this long. Though when I heard he was doing the latest Driver, I began to wonder if its luck would run out. Why? It’s not so much that it’s the hardest game he’s tackled yet, but also the most different.

For those who aren’t aware, Driver: San Francisco is just a strange (but very awesome) game. I initially wrote it off, for various reasons (never cared for the previous installments, I find Ubisoft’s offerings a tad bit overrated, etc). But then all of a sudden, a bunch of buddies of mine, all sharing the same sentiment, all basically said this same thing…

“Oh God, dude, you really to check this game out… So get this: you play a ghost, and you’re constantly possessing the bodies of people driving the cars… One of the main thrusts is how you’re constantly jumping back and forth between different drivers in the same scenario… So, like, you’ll be driving along, and for whatever reason, you can switch to the person driving behind you, and then rear end yourself!”

… And so forth. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to check it out (it’s definitely on my must play list), but at least I know well enough to know that it’s rather complex, conceptually speaking, and given how Wiseau can’t even figure out spatial relations, I wondered how things would go.

Well, perhaps not surprisingly, he doesn’t even touch the whole body-swapping mechanic. Cuz he can barely control his car in the opening mission. But dear God is it hilarious. Of all the episodes, this one features the most amount of uninterrupted gameplay, and batsh*t insane rambling. I’m guessing the editor couldn’t figure out where to stop; the dude is going a mile a minute, either going “ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok… ok” or making fun of Chinese people…

… I also like to imagine his constant need to argue and insult was perhaps similar to what went down while making The Room. Anyhow, bonus video time; it’s not as enthralling as the actual episode (due to the lack of the alien’s presence, who as you’ll discover actually enhances the proceedings, another miraculous revelation), but is a fun watch nonetheless…

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