And really, were it not for the fact that all your actions are performed from the seat of a weapon-equipped vehicle, there wouldn’t be much to separate Zombie Driver: Immortal Edition from, say, Housemarque’s Dead Nation. It boils down to 31 bite-sized missions that, while brief, feature a range of tasks like defending key targets, transporting randoms back to base and taking down bosses. The original story mode remains intact, casting you as a taxi driver who is forced to help other survivors in need of a lift amidst the zombie outbreak. Opting for ‘Immortal’ as a subtitle not only references Zombie Driver’s insistence on never going away, but also acts a smart way of suggesting just how much of your time its likely to suck up, thanks to the amount content on offer here. Taxis, Limos or Lorries, – whatever your vehicle preference Zombie Driver doesn’t disappoint. Now available on Nintendo Switch as Zombie Driver: Immortal Edition, this petrol-fuelled indie hit has aged extremely well, delivering a healthy mix of speed, blood and apocalyptic destruction.
To be fair, it did originally release in 2009 – a time when there wasn’t a constant assault of indies launching each week, Xbox Live Arcade doubled up as a great curator, and games didn’t have to work so hard to be seen. Other than sounding like a phrase that would work wonders for SEO, Zombie Driver is a game title on a level of blandness that really doesn’t do this anarchic, vehicular-based zombie kill-a-thon any justice.
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