I dont really remember much about the first game besides the mission in the post, but i do remember driver 2 being really difficult game.

That one mission where you have to hijack the truck or something like that, and the car that is pursuing you will just kill you 5seconds into the mission if you slowed down for a turn lol

After 50 resets of the mission i just desided that i will not even try to follow the truck if it takes 2/3 possible paths, just reset and hope for easy route and then T-bone the truck hoping to complete the mission in the first 10seconds.

Or the mission that asks you to take out like 3 cars across the map, with a really strict timelimit, and sometimes the car you hit takes 50% damage per hit, sometimes 5%.

I was definitely going insane at some point in the playthrough.

Also ReDriver 2 PC port of driver 2 exists and is fully playable.