Murray
Well-Known Member
We have zombies. We have cars. We have weapons. There's no way you could possibly go wrong, right?
Wait a minute there are tremendous ways to go wrong. Blood Drive takes Twisted Metal and mixes it with the very first part of Dead Rising to create a hybrid that should be gold. However, this game is mechanically unsound, a failure at any story, and for how much I hate to say it...completely uninteresting!
Lets get down to it.
Blood Drive pits you in a vehicle of your choice, with the driver of your choice to fight other cars in a twisted metal style arena. Everything is much more light hearted and the quips are less violent. To add to the madness, there are zombies all over the arena and your car will take damage as you hit them or you can use them to strategically fight your opponents.
However, for how awesome this should be the game seems to be lacking any tightness to the controls. The cars control poorly and the mechanics of the levels, cars and weapons are all lacking. You can try to go left and you'll find yourself sticking in place or going so far left that you have to correct yourself. This isn't a mechanic in place that you get use to either. You find yourself constantly over correcting, getting frustrated and being killed somewhat unfairly because you can't simply control your vehicle, or complete an objective that should be simple enough.
The idea is that your'e going through a grand prix of events that are all related to the arenas, zombies or destroying your opponents. Killing zombies, making it through rings in the levels or getting the most kills are the objectives that you find in front of you the most. Good freaking luck.
Graphically the game is nothing to write home about. There's not a lot of polish and its a missed opportunity this late in the dev cycle for the 360. You have a chance to have narley explosions, body parts all over the place and gallons of blood. This is freaking Blood Drive come on!
There is a co-op mode but I wasn't able to convince one of my friends to pay the $7 to get the game and play with me. I would assume that you are either pitted with each other to do team tasks that are similar to the single player or you might be doing a sonic and tales sort of race environment. There's also head on play.
I'll spare you, this game had so much potential and it could have been really really bad ass and started an awesome franchise.
Instead, I would just burn the damn thing.
A 1 out of 5
Wait a minute there are tremendous ways to go wrong. Blood Drive takes Twisted Metal and mixes it with the very first part of Dead Rising to create a hybrid that should be gold. However, this game is mechanically unsound, a failure at any story, and for how much I hate to say it...completely uninteresting!
Lets get down to it.
Blood Drive pits you in a vehicle of your choice, with the driver of your choice to fight other cars in a twisted metal style arena. Everything is much more light hearted and the quips are less violent. To add to the madness, there are zombies all over the arena and your car will take damage as you hit them or you can use them to strategically fight your opponents.
However, for how awesome this should be the game seems to be lacking any tightness to the controls. The cars control poorly and the mechanics of the levels, cars and weapons are all lacking. You can try to go left and you'll find yourself sticking in place or going so far left that you have to correct yourself. This isn't a mechanic in place that you get use to either. You find yourself constantly over correcting, getting frustrated and being killed somewhat unfairly because you can't simply control your vehicle, or complete an objective that should be simple enough.
The idea is that your'e going through a grand prix of events that are all related to the arenas, zombies or destroying your opponents. Killing zombies, making it through rings in the levels or getting the most kills are the objectives that you find in front of you the most. Good freaking luck.
Graphically the game is nothing to write home about. There's not a lot of polish and its a missed opportunity this late in the dev cycle for the 360. You have a chance to have narley explosions, body parts all over the place and gallons of blood. This is freaking Blood Drive come on!
There is a co-op mode but I wasn't able to convince one of my friends to pay the $7 to get the game and play with me. I would assume that you are either pitted with each other to do team tasks that are similar to the single player or you might be doing a sonic and tales sort of race environment. There's also head on play.
I'll spare you, this game had so much potential and it could have been really really bad ass and started an awesome franchise.
Instead, I would just burn the damn thing.
A 1 out of 5
