Exor Studios’have recently announced that you can now download and play a demo of Zombie Driver. The demo consists of the first 3 levels from the game.

You can download the Zombie driver demo from the usual download sites (FilePlanet, Gamespot, BigDownload.com) as well as Steam.

Zombie driver is out now for the PC

The latest game from Exor Studios’ is Zombie Driver. A game that appears to be solely based on that tried and tested combination of zombies and cars. It’s not exactly original, but looks fun none the less, and its got zombie dogs. Grrr arrrgghhh woof!

According to the website, Zombie Driver will feature:

• 17 story missions with sub quests and bonus objectives
• Huge, free roaming city, infested by thousands of brain hungry zombies
• 6 different cars including an unlockable super car
• 9 different upgrades for each car
• All cars can be mounted with miniguns, flamethrowers and rocket launchers
• All weapons have 3 upgrade levels which come with unique features
• Dynamic combo system with tricks and hordes of zombies to try it on
• Many vicious zombie types including even zombie dogs

Here’s a trailer showing your typical Zombie Driver gameplay. Drive car, splat zombies. Awesome.

Zombie driver is due for release on the PC in Nov 2009

“Another Zombie game, so what?”, I hear you cry. Yes, we are spoiled with Dead Rising and it’s squillions of zombies (and squillions of way to kill them) but coming later this year is this little tasty take on the Zombie FPS genre.
Ok, on first look at Left 4 Dead’s feature list it’s kinda your basic, generic, done-to-death survival Zombie game:

• Location – Contemporary America (yawn).
• Playable survivors – 4.
• Survivors to include a Vietnam vet – Yes, sir. All present and correct, sir.
• Do you have to survive by killing lots of Zombies – Yes.
• Any Zombines? – No, silly they are in Half-Life: Episode 1.
• Virus-induced Zombies then – Yep.
• Multiplayer – Yes.
• Single player - Yes. The game’s AI will control the other 3 characters.
• Graphics engine – Source engine from Valve.
• Playable Zombies? – Yes. 4 of them!

See that last point about playable Zombies? It is this single, oh so overlooked, feature alone that sets Left 4 Dead apart from all other Zombie games. Finally, you get to play as a Zombie and kill all those damn, annoying survivors.

As a Zombie, which quite frankly I’m always going to be, you can’t use weapons but you can do stuff like vomit blood on everyone. The other 3 classes of Zombies have other abilities which we get to find about when the game is released.

Stealth and cunning are the way of the Zombie (rather surprisingly, unlike the Zombies in Shawn of the Dead who were really dumb!) if you want to survive, err, continue to be dead. Full frontal attacks on well armed survivor groups = lots of Zombie death. However, attacking when they are out of ammo or re-loading = lots of survivor death. If you do happen to be killed by any of the survivors (boo!) you respawn back into the fray after a short time.

See you all online then. I’ll be the Zombie muttering “fresh brains” most of the time and vomiting lots of blood everywhere.

Release date: First half of 2007 (PC), Winter 2007 (Xbox 360).

Related links:
Left 4 dead website
Steam – Valve’s software distribution platform