First of all, there are peds in the game...check out some of the trailers on the site (www.driv3r.com) and you'll see them... second of all this game has some of the best physics of any action/driving game including GTA...the screens of the driving footage and crashes are phenonmenal...third, i agree with IrieCat, this is a game...so in any general sense, all games are sort of pointless... but then again the general point of a game is to enjoy it and there's nothing pointless about that.