Crime drama abounds in the latest “Driver” game, which takes the open-world driving series to the streets of San Francisco. A few months after the events of 2004’s “Driv3er,” Detective John Tanner is back behind the wheel and on the hunt for the evil Jericho, who has escaped from prison.

A horrific crash early on puts Tanner in a coma. There he gains the ability to shift — moving his mind into the bodies of other drivers. This mechanic throws an interesting wrench into a number of the challenges, as you can take over other cars to help you complete tasks, such as forcing an oncoming truck to run into a car trying to make a getaway. Shifting also makes navigating the City by the Bay much easier. At any time, you can leave a car, zoom out to a map view, then pick another car to shift into anywhere else in town.