Zombie Driver is an incredibly fun and exciting game. The graphics are amazing and the controls are smooth and easy to use. The missions are challenging and the upgrades to your car make it even more enjoyable. The map of the location is also great, as it helps you find the best routes to complete your objectives. Overall, Zombie Driver is a great game that I would highly recommend to anyone looking for a fun and thrilling zombie experience.
Zombie Driver is a driving/action game for Windows. In the setting of the game, a chemical accident has turned the whole population into brain-lusting zombies. Your goal throughout the game is to kill as many zombies as you can while rescuing survivors. The game puts you behind the wheel of a taxi first. But you can upgrade and even buy new cars with the money that you get paid by killing zombies and rescuing people. There are cash bonuses all over the maps as well.
Graphically, Zombie Driver has well-crafted maps and it shows a top-down view of you driving through the city. The city maps have plenty of buildings, streets, highways, and shortcuts. The zombies roam through the street and they look very undead. Killing them in large quantities results in very big spots of blood.
The game consists basically in killing zombies. And for killing them you get points (cash) that you use to upgrade your car. At first, you can only kill the zombies by running into them, but you later get machine guns and even flamethrowers for your car. If you don't run them over fast enough when there are large quantities of zombies, they will slow you down and destroy you. So you want to make sure you can outrun them at any time.
All in all, Zombie Driver is a nice game that doesn't really have much depth. Once you max out all the upgrades, you will probably get bored. But for $10, the game is very fun to play and offers some value.
v1.2.7 [Nov 17, 2010]
- fixed briefing audio for missions 12 and 13
- fixed missing agent audio in mission 17
- changed sound volume for character speech in some missions where it was too quiet
- added voice over audio for all mission briefings and character dialogue in story mode. Male voices played by Tori Kamal, female voices by Sara B. Moore
- added French, Italian, German and Spanish language support
- added 1 second of invulnerability after respawn in Blood Race
- improved bot AI behavior
- tweaked car engine volume
- tweaked bus handbrake
- sports car alternate skin is unlockable for completing the Beginners'Tournament in Blood Race
- alternate taxi skin is now available from the start
- fixed possible crash bugs during map reload
- fixed respawn exploit in Blood Race
- fixed potential crash after completing the story mode
- fixed misc. sound effects not playing properly in menus
- fixed modified content warning message in Slaughter mode
- fixed global leaderboards screen showing Slaughter mode highscores under Blood Race
- fixed car wrecks gathering pick-ups
- fixed menu UI stretching in wide screen resolutions
- fixed tournament rewards being displayed incorrectly after completing the Zombie Drivers' Tournament in Blood Race
- added Blood Race game mode
- added new Muscle Car for the Blood Race mode
- added new Slaughter Train Station map
- added a second car paint for every vehicle (unlockable in Blood Race mode)
- added new vehicle destruction system with destructible 3d car parts
- added car respawn key
- added Polish localization
- new positional sound system
- new improved smart camera with longer view distance and smoother movement
- enhanced car physics to allow full 3d motion e.g. turning over
- added support for full story voice over
- added startup menu sound device selection option
- added startup menu sound disable option
- added startup menu gamepad disable option
- added particle effects when gathering repair pickup
- added sparks when a car collides with an obstacle
- added ambient sound playing in background
- added highlight and camera shake on player death
- added misc new envinronment models for the story mode
- new translucent water shader
- new main menu background
- new collision system for destrucible props
- tweaked car physics script
- tweaked car speed upgrade
- improved vehicle audio
- improved zombie audio
- fixed a few collision problems on the main story city map
- fixed skidmark texture mapping
- tweaked volume parameters for most in-game sounds
- removed option to post highscores to Twitter (caused by a Twitter authentication API change)
- lots of small tweaks and fixes
- improved HUD and menu text readability
- small menu layout fixes
- added build version info in main menu
- updated particles library to a newer version (improved game stability)
- improved game stability on some system configurations
- added support for non-english letters in Twitter messages
- fixed car selection in story mode
- Changed sound card initialisation method (fix for some Sound Blaster sound cards)
- Changed order of sorting cars in the Slaughter mode menu to match Story mode
- Fixed master volume not being saved
- Added Steam leaderboards modified content warning
- Added new "Slaughter" game mode
- Added five new arena maps for the "Slaughter" mode with different environmental effects
- Harbor - bright midday
- City Center - foggy noon
- Park - bright dusk
- Midtown - night with projected headlights
- Suburbs - early dawn
- Added specular highlights to most shiny surfaces and all cars
- Fat zombie explosion kills are now added to combos
- Fat zombies emit toxic fumes for better visibility
- Car explosions can now kill zombies and are added to combos
- Car explosions can chain from one another
- Added new combo names and particles
- Money is now awarded for destroying all props
- Updated static camera and is now set as the default camera
- Adjusted story mode pricing
- 21 new achievements (Steam exclusive)
- Online leaderboards for the Slaughter mode (Steam Exclusive). Local High Scores for all other SKUs
- In-game Twitter support for posting High Scores
- In-game Facebook support for posting High Scores
- Switched zombie bone animation to hardware
- Ogre3D Engine updated to version 1.7
- minor tweaks and fixes
- updated shaders to support most Intel 900 & 950 series graphics cards
- fixed problems with some unique combinations of special characters for user installation path in Windows
- fixed start up crash bug with diacritical signs (special characters) for user installation path in Windows
- added memory dump logging after each crash
- Added game pad support
- Added two new camera modes - "static" and "free look"
- Added Pixel Shader 2.0 support (fixed white textures problem)
- Improved performance on low end graphics cards
- New graphics options for low end systems
- Fixed a few misc start up crashes
- Fixed some sound card compatibility issues
