The game's New York City is also more «life-like» compared to previous games in the series: vendors sell donuts, NPC pedestrians talk rather than simply grunting and screaming, and numerous side jobs (such as cab driving and car towing) are available. The game's Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, and New Jersey consists of 222.5 miles (358.1 km) of roadway, larger than the combined total of all three cities (Miami, Nice, and Istanbul) from Driv3r.

Instead, the game presents a smaller but more stylistic version of the city that includes all the boroughs except Staten Island and parts of the New Jersey shore.

The interpretation of New York City in Parallel Lines is not GPS street-accurate like True Crime: New York City's Manhattan. The game also featured a new in-car menu on the bottom left hand side which featured a speedometer, a meter denoting how much nitrous oxide was contained in the car and an odometer which showed how many miles the player has driven in-game. Also, swimming and jumping abilities from Driv3r, were removed. For the Wii version, the felony bar has been replaced with Grand Theft Auto-esque «stars» which light up when the player attracts police attention. It can be reactivated, though, by spending too much time in the sight of a police officer, who will eventually recognize the player as «wanted.» The same principle applies to out-of-car activities, such as weapon use, and allows the player to holster a weapon in order to lose police attention until spotted committing illegal acts again. If the player attracts police attention on foot or in a certain vehicle and then loses the police and enters a «clean» car, their wanted level will be suspended. Many changes have been made from the previous game, including visible blood when someone is shot, a money system, fully modifiable vehicles, environment destruction (i.e., lamp posts can now be run over and fire hydrants can break, spewing water into the air), and a new felony system that differentiates between personal felony and felony «attached» to vehicles the player has used. Instead of choosing minigames from a menu as in previous Driver titles, minigames are now accessed from the in-game world. Driver: Parallel Lines takes place in an entirely open world environment.

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