What if you could run over endless civilians in GTA with no nagging guilt and/or aggressive police response?
Turns out Polish developer EXOR Studios answered that question a decade ago with Zombie Driver. Since its initial release on Steam, the game made its way to PS3 and Xbox 360, then got remastered and ported to the Xbox One as Zombie Driver Ultimate Edition. Now, to prove that this game, like its namesake monster, just won’t die, EXOR is bringing their top-down drive-by shooter to Switch, with Zombie Driver: Immortal Edition.
This apparently unkillable version of the game will be available in the eShop on July 25th, but preorders are open now in the UK and will open tomorrow in the US. Eager zombie killers will get 10 percent off if they purchase the game in advance.
Zombie Driver: Immortal Edition includes a story mode, a speed-focused competitive mode called, Blood Race, and a survival mode, Slaughter. All the DLC that the game received in its original incarnation — The Apocalypse Pack, Tropical Race Rage, Burning Garden of Slaughter, and Brutal Car Skins — have been included here as unlockable content.
The biggest change this time around seems to be that Zombie Driver on Switch is now running in a different engine — the Schmetterling engine, thanks for asking. EXOR used this engine previously for their 2017 top-down shooter-meets-tower defense game, X-Morph: Defense.
Zombie Driver didn’t get the best reviews last time around, and in 2019 it’s directly competing against Shakedown: Hawaii and American Fugitive — both throwbacks to old school GTA. That said, if your conscience demands that you have a good excuse for running over thousands of pedestrians, Zombie Driver: Immortal Edition basically has the market cornered on guilt-free carnage.