Each mostly consists of driving through the same city and completing the same objectives over and over - generally picking up survivors and taxiing them back to base. The main “story” (and I use quotes as there’s not much to it) is broken up into 30 bite-sized missions. Shortly after, the enjoyment ended and the monotony began. Once they introduced weapons and I could burn and shoot the massive hordes, it got better thanks to blood spattering and bodies flying. When Zombie Driver started, I found myself in a bright yellow taxi, running over zombies with bone-crushing sound effects. I doubt anyone boots up a game called Zombie Driver with the idea they’re getting something that will cause them to think about life or the human condition, but I was bored within the first 15 minutes, and honestly, the beginning was the most interesting part. Jumping into the driver’s seat of Zombie Driver: Immortal Edition, I had hoped for an entertaining diversion where I could blow up, drive over, and destroy zombies - a title that would be mindless, yet still give me interesting and creative ways to kill the undead to my heart’s content. WTF Why is all in-game dialogue unskippable?! That said, the Slaughter mode always starts on ZERO weapon upgrades and the longer you live the better the upgrades you find on the map.LOW One can only run over zombies so many times and not be bored. The money and upgrades from the Campaign mode do not carry over to the Blood Races nor the Slaughter arenas which means that you will have to play the game quite a bit here too if you want your cars to be souped up. The Blood Race is basically Micro Machines with a twist where you get various types of missions like Racing, Endurance and Eliminator and there are ways to get money and so on at the same time like by killing Zombies in the road and so on. I mostly want to recommend the game based on my experience from the campaign part of the game but yes there are two more modes in the game that will make the game last a bit longer too, neither Blood Race nor Slaughter mode is bad or boring to play but it is a bit more of the same. The car handling and general playability of the game are quite good but also a bit of a struggle as you just have to decide what kind of vehicle suits your driving the best, small sports cars handle like an untamed lion but a big lorry can be way too slow for you and I found myself using a bus a lot on the rescue missions as that had pretty good armour and could hold a lot of passengers at the same time which meant I could drive slower and more tactical and pick up all passengers in one single trip instead of driving back and forth all the time. You will only need to upgrade weapons once as they carry over to every car in the game (even if you unlock them later on) but armour, speed and ramming upgrades have to be done to every car individually. The weapon and car upgrades won’t disappear when and if you die but some of them are only obtainable by doing certain missions (like side missions) and yes you will have to grind your way up to the best upgrades by replaying missions or whatever. The missions can be timed or they can have a certain target that can get lost or die as well as general “kill X” or pick up a car etc but all in all the missions are short and won’t take too much time to do although some are harder than others and yes there are times that you will beg for mercy for sure but yes there is always a way and in this game that is a weapon and car upgrades. Zombie Driver is a very typical old school type of game with some very strange mechanics and so on, the base of the game is an overhead drive em up, a type of game like we saw so many of back in the Amiga and PS1 era and luckily it ain’t an open world or whatever but there is a rather huge map towards the end where you get a single main mission and a side mission for each level. The Developer Exor Studios certainly has milked the game for a while now but then again if it had not been for that then I would never have seen the game in the first place and yes to top it all off they even GAVE the game to me for FREE* many moons ago with the Playstation+ monthly PS3 games subscription scheme ( October 2013) and that ownership even transferred over to the new version released on PS4 last year. Zombie Driver got re-released in 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as Zombie Driver HD which then eventually got re-released again for PlayStation 4/Xbox One/Switch in 2020 as Zombie Driver: Immortal Edition. Yup, the game I am on about is a PC drive ’em up a title from 2009 called Zombie Driver. The Games We Never Talk About (But Should) ( TGWNTABS) is finally back again here on the blog and this time around it is to talk about a game series that is actually still running today and as crazy as it might sound all 3 releases since 2009 till now (11 years)never ever popped up on my radar.
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