The game was also described as a 'return to the roots' of the series as the ability to get out of the car, which was introduced in Driver 2, was removed and replaced with the ability to Shift (teleport) into other cars, as the developers felt that too many games had this kind of feature already and 'it wasn't desirable to just copy that exact mechanic'. One of the inspirations for Shift comes from Google Earth. For the first time in the series, the game features licensed cars.Ī new feature is Shift, which allows Tanner to teleport from one car to another without discontinuing the mission. In San Francisco, the player can switch to another car at any time using the 'Shift' ability. A mini-comic series was released which provides plot details of the events between Driv3r and San Francisco, with the game receiving a collector's edition that includes additional multiplayer vehicles and single-player events.

The game received favorable reviews upon its release, with the exception of the Wii edition which received mixed reviews.

The game's main story sees players controlling John Tanner, a police detective, who falls into a coma pursuing his nemesis Charles Jericho following a prison breakout after the events of Driver 3 ( Driv3r), and finds himself piecing together his plan in a dream world while it is happening in real life. The game has players traverse a fictional representation of San Francisco and the Bay Area, conducting missions through the use of licensed real-world cars, with the ability to Shift into any car in the game's setting in most platform editions. Developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft, it was released in September 2011 for the PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows, with an edition for Mac OS X in March 2012. Driver: San Francisco is an action-adventure driving video game and the fifth installment in the Driver series.

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