Zombie Driver HD - EXOR Studios
Hello Everyone,
This is Pawel Lekki from EXOR Studios. We are happy to have finally published Zombie Driver HD on the OUYA. For those of you who are not familiar with the game it is a top down, zombie squashing game with a robust Story Mode in which you save survivors from a zombie infected city, a Blood Race mode in which you race against AI opponents - again squash zombies and blow stuff up and finally with a Slaughter Mode for killing endless hordes of zombies with your car. As you can see by this horrifically long and bad written sentence it will work better if I show you some pictures:
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and here is the official game description and feature set:
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Fight your way through the streets of a zombie infested city to save the survivors of a disastrous chemical accident that changed most of the city's population into mindless brain hungry monsters. Time is the enemy and your car is a weapon as you race through the streets smashing everything on your way including fences, phone booths, street lamps and hordes of zombies. If you get tired of rescuing people, take part in the Blood Race tournament. Chase other cars and take them down without mercy on special racing tracks populated with the zombie horde. Earn loads of cash while you progress through the events, unlock new rides and purchase weapons of mass destruction to become the ultimate Blood Race leaderboard champion. If the car chases and speed runs are not your thing, jump into the Slaugher mode where your objective is to survive as long as possible while ramping up enormous kill combos and annihilating endless waves of zombies on specialy crafted arenas.
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- Story mode with 31 missions, sub quests and bonus objectives in a huge, free roaming city, including:
*Epic Boss fights with enormous mutated zombies
*Defending key targets against huge waves of zombies
*Racing against time to rescue survivors
*Transporting dangerous cargo
*Spraying anti-zombie repellent around town
*13 different vehicles to drive including a firetruck, bulldozer or even a tank
- Blood Race mode with 30 unique events offering the best arcade racing experience in 3 distinct game types:
*Race - classic racing spiced up with guns and loads of zombies
*Eliminator - take down as many vehicles as you can before the time runs out
*Endurance - there is a bomb on your car and its ticking. Race through checkpoints to extend your time
- Slaughter mode with 7 survival arenas featuring enormous killing sprees and a dynamic upgrade system
- 9 different upgrades which can transform even an innocent Taxi into a Chariot of Death.
- Miniguns, flamethrowers, rocket launchers or even dual railguns.
- Vicious zombie types including even zombie dogs.
- Advanced, dynamic combo system with tricks and hordes of zombies to try it on.
- PhysX by NVIDIA
http://www.zombiedriver.com
A bit of a back story:
Zombie Driver HD is actually a 2012 console remake of the original Zombie Driver that was released on the PC in 2009. Zombie Driver HD is actually more than two times bigger than the original 2009 version PC version, with added boss fights, new mission types, more cars etc. The game was also released on Android as Zombie Driver THD with lower graphics settings than on the PS3/Xbox360, but with the same amount of content.
Zombie Driver HD for the OUYA
We decided to put some extra effort into the OUYA version and we have actually made a few important improvements over the first Android version. Thanks to the fact that OUYA is running the Tegra 3 chip at its full speed (mobile devices have lower CPU speeds) we were able to customize all of the missions and include more zombies than in the mobile version. We have also re balanced the Blood Race mode by adding more AI bots for extra mayhem and thrown in some extra zombies in the Slaughter mode. On top of that we added a few extra touches like a better water shader, anisotropic filtering on textures (makes a big difference on large screens) plus a few smaller tweaks.
The most important fact however is that the vehicle controls and physics are exactly the same as on the PC/Console. It is not a template port of the mobile version, but a real console game that was actually made with physical controllers in mind.
I hope that the OUYA community will enjoy our efforts :)
P.S.
At the time of writing this post Zombie Driver HD is not visible on the dashboard yet (I pushed the publish button a few hours ago), but you can find it using the search function.
