Indie game Zombie Driver unveiled News

PC News by Robert Purchese

8 October, 2009

Polish indie developer Exor Studios has unveiled a promising little PC peach called Zombie Driver, which is on the slate for November.

Presented top-down - like the original Grand Theft Auto - the aim is to plough through hordes of undead in modified cars to rescue survivors of a chemical apocalypse.

It's Death Race with zombies, basically - points are awarded for spectacular combo carnage.

Flame-throwers, machine guns and more can be strapped to cars, using cash earned from side-quests or found in unlikely places in the unrestricted, open world.

There's ample variation, according to the press release, although zombies exploding messily in fast-paced gameplay is enough to satisfy us.

Check out the Zombie Driver website for the first video.

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agparrot

08/10/09 @ 11:14

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Looks very amusing - would make a perfect Arcade/PSN title, too.

EarlBassett

08/10/09 @ 11:22

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Is there any piece of entertainment being released at the moment that isn't about zombies?

Sunyavadin

08/10/09 @ 11:22

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Reminds me of an old early 90s shareware PC game I loved.....

shotgun44

08/10/09 @ 11:26

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It would make my life if they remade Carmageddon 2 in HD with the exact same physics and damage engine. And red blood.

More on topic, this sounds pretty sweet!

secombe

08/10/09 @ 11:29

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Is there any piece of entertainment being released at the moment that isn't about zombies?

If this is half as good as Zombieland, I'm in.

MiniAmin

08/10/09 @ 11:33

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At Earl Bassett... I thought the same thing: don't Zombies ever get boring? The answer is NO.

This game has me interested...

Hobo

08/10/09 @ 11:35

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This is screaming out for an XBLA/PSN release.

Kostabi

08/10/09 @ 11:39

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Carmageddon will forever be the best 'Death Race with zombies' game.

You'd think with Eidos having crazy Japanese overlords now they'd be reviving the series.

George Roper

08/10/09 @ 11:49

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@shotgun44

Not Carma 2, Carma 1.

Get Carma 1 remade into HD. Keep everything else exactly the same, including the multiplayer modes and get it onto XBLA and PSN, with voice support and perhaps even cam support for the driver portraits.

The perfect game.

vegard

08/10/09 @ 11:53

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looks cool! i'm a big fan of crimsonland/zombie shooter and the like. if anyone has similar games to suggest i'd be a happy man (instead of the miserable man i am today!).

shotgun44

08/10/09 @ 11:56

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Ah no, Carmageddon 1 was indeed awesome, but I still think Carmageddon 2 was better. It still holds up amazingly well today, playability and graphics-wise. Carma 1 didn't look great when i last played it 4 years ago. Both absolute classics tho imo!

hidden_asbestos

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I hope they have some options for the camera.

shotgun44

08/10/09 @ 11:59

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I'd tried so hard to like TDR 2000 but the driving model was way off and the zombies were like brick walls. The last level with the futuristic police thing was a huge amount of fun, mind.

OnlyMe

08/10/09 @ 12:08

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Imagine a XBLA/PSN GTA game in this style!

*dreams*

Spanky

08/10/09 @ 12:08

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Wooo a bit of Quarantine a bit of Spy Hunter and a bit of GTA \o/

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08/10/09 @ 12:14

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Carma 1 and 2 were both fantastic... shame it all went down hill after that.

XBLA revival please!

EDIT: Trailer looks quite good actually. If the driving model is good (and slidey) and they include some epic MP/Co-op modes, this could be very awesome!

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Crea

08/10/09 @ 13:51

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Looks shit hot.

siro

08/10/09 @ 14:08

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@Sunyavadin:

You prolly are talking about Death Rally. That sure was great. One of the few PC games which hasn't ended in the attic.

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fizzyfish

08/10/09 @ 15:41

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Not the most imaginative name... although I suppose it does tell you everything you need to know!

George Roper

08/10/09 @ 17:20

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Carma 2 looked nicer but it lacked everything that made Carma 1 so good. Multiplayer modes.

I've put more LAN hours into Carma 1 multiplayer than any other game, by a country mile. One of the defining moments in PC gaming, for me. Didn't matter a jot how it looked in software rendering either. In fact, on more than a few occasions I ran it in that mode rather than using 3DFX.

Superb stuff. XBLA and PSN, you muppets. Christ, if ever a manic car racing game was built for this, it's Carma.

bumgut

09/10/09 @ 03:53

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Looks ace.

Wish they'd re-make Supercars II...

Chazmeister

09/10/09 @ 10:09

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Please, stop with the zombies already!

Zombie games have now become more ubiquitous than WW2 shooters. Yet still no one has made a good serious zombie survival game in the style of Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Isn't that the one zombie game that we all really want? Stuff your Dead Risings and your Left4Deads, I want a serious zombie survial game, and with none of these bloody mutants either.

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