Ahh Zombies. You gotta love 'em, from there decaying faces all the way to their shambling little feet. Zombies have been used in pretty much everything by now, but its nice to sit back and play a Zombie game every now and again, and whats more cathartic than smashing a Zombies head in with a sledgehammer? Running their undead arses over in a big car!
Zombie Driver HD is an HD re-release of a top down, vehicular based, Zombie apocalypse game, in which you choose from a range of eight vehicles to plow through legions of the living dead. This is all explained through between mission newspaper clippings and various support characters gabbing into your Walkie-Talkie, telling you what a good job you've done. Apparently there was some sort of biochemical accident or government project that's has gone wrong and turned the residents of whatever city you're in into Zombies.
Honestly, the story doesn't matter, If you've played any other Zombie games, i'm sure you get the general gist. Time to run some Zombie bastards over!
Like I said, Zombie Driver is presented from a top down perspective, like the old Grand Theft Autos (GTA), and it suffers with the same problems. You don't have that much range of vision, limited to the square around you rather than looking in front of you. This game isn't graphic intensive though, looking like a flash game at first glance, and thus doesn't need to show you the super detailed Zombies as they slowly advance with intentions of helping themselves to a mouthful of you.
Throughout Zombie Driver, you will be tasked with missions ranging from clearing out certain areas filled to the brim with Zombies, to rescuing NPCs that have held up in a hospital or shopping center, the obligatory Zombie apocalypse trope.
The annoying thing about most missions in this game is making sure you have gotten rid of every single Zombie, which can be difficult. You drive up to the red circle to rescue some NPCs and start massacring Zombies left, right and center, but more and more Zombies keep banding together and attacking from all angles. When you think you've killed them all and you're waiting for the people trapped inside to get into your car, low and behold there was one lone Zombie slowly making his was towards you, but you didn't notice, and by the time you have noticed, ten more have turned up for a brain sand-which and rendered the "soon to be rescued" party trapped once more.
When you do finally rescue them and get them back to the safe house, most of the time this will result in new cars to try out for future missions, or unlocking new weapons to find and attach to your car while you're driving around the city.
The cars are all relatively similar in regards to steering and weapons, but differ when it comes to passenger capacity or how much damage they can take. The capacity of the car is what I found myself focusing on the most, mainly because you often find yourself having to rescue a fair few people from various building scattered all over the city just to complete the mission. The weapons that I mentioned earlier are nice and varied, a simple machine gun or even flame thrower to gleefully spray as you roll through the streets, or, if you have somewhere to be, you can use the nitro boost to rapidly mow through the shambling remains of the once inhabitants.
Between missions you can upgrade any of the weapons you have found to increase the damage they can do or the duration you can use them for. You do this by collecting money either in a mission while driving around the city, or as a result of how well you did in the mission once completed.
All in all, I had fun with Zombie Driver HD and I think there could be a nice idea in this; a similar game in a sense that you drive around to kill Zombies but maybe from a third person perspective to give you more field of vision to work with. Its a cheap game with simple mechanics and a great way to burn a couple of hours and who knows, some day we might even see a Zombie Driver 2 from Exor studios in the future.
Keep checking back to Game Changers for more updates and news.
Zombie Driver HD is an HD re-release of a top down, vehicular based, Zombie apocalypse game, in which you choose from a range of eight vehicles to plow through legions of the living dead. This is all explained through between mission newspaper clippings and various support characters gabbing into your Walkie-Talkie, telling you what a good job you've done. Apparently there was some sort of biochemical accident or government project that's has gone wrong and turned the residents of whatever city you're in into Zombies.
Honestly, the story doesn't matter, If you've played any other Zombie games, i'm sure you get the general gist. Time to run some Zombie bastards over!
Like I said, Zombie Driver is presented from a top down perspective, like the old Grand Theft Autos (GTA), and it suffers with the same problems. You don't have that much range of vision, limited to the square around you rather than looking in front of you. This game isn't graphic intensive though, looking like a flash game at first glance, and thus doesn't need to show you the super detailed Zombies as they slowly advance with intentions of helping themselves to a mouthful of you.
Throughout Zombie Driver, you will be tasked with missions ranging from clearing out certain areas filled to the brim with Zombies, to rescuing NPCs that have held up in a hospital or shopping center, the obligatory Zombie apocalypse trope.
The annoying thing about most missions in this game is making sure you have gotten rid of every single Zombie, which can be difficult. You drive up to the red circle to rescue some NPCs and start massacring Zombies left, right and center, but more and more Zombies keep banding together and attacking from all angles. When you think you've killed them all and you're waiting for the people trapped inside to get into your car, low and behold there was one lone Zombie slowly making his was towards you, but you didn't notice, and by the time you have noticed, ten more have turned up for a brain sand-which and rendered the "soon to be rescued" party trapped once more.
When you do finally rescue them and get them back to the safe house, most of the time this will result in new cars to try out for future missions, or unlocking new weapons to find and attach to your car while you're driving around the city.
The cars are all relatively similar in regards to steering and weapons, but differ when it comes to passenger capacity or how much damage they can take. The capacity of the car is what I found myself focusing on the most, mainly because you often find yourself having to rescue a fair few people from various building scattered all over the city just to complete the mission. The weapons that I mentioned earlier are nice and varied, a simple machine gun or even flame thrower to gleefully spray as you roll through the streets, or, if you have somewhere to be, you can use the nitro boost to rapidly mow through the shambling remains of the once inhabitants.
Between missions you can upgrade any of the weapons you have found to increase the damage they can do or the duration you can use them for. You do this by collecting money either in a mission while driving around the city, or as a result of how well you did in the mission once completed.
All in all, I had fun with Zombie Driver HD and I think there could be a nice idea in this; a similar game in a sense that you drive around to kill Zombies but maybe from a third person perspective to give you more field of vision to work with. Its a cheap game with simple mechanics and a great way to burn a couple of hours and who knows, some day we might even see a Zombie Driver 2 from Exor studios in the future.
Keep checking back to Game Changers for more updates and news.
No comments:
Post a Comment