From Idea Cabin, the same publisher/developer masterminds that brought the Steam world the achievement-filled Employee Recycling Center, comes another cash grab attempt of a game; this time in the guise of an "early access" title. Drive-By Hero is a zombie themed on-rails shooter, meaning that any movement not pertaining to the gun is automatically done for you.
Right now there are three short, but ridiculously difficult, levels that all look the same. Your military jeep, or tank, or whatever you're in, drives down a tree-lined street as the same three zombie models spawn in hordes and you pick them off one by one with your gun; at first you'll have a pistol, then it upgrades into a machine gun. There's also no sound except for some generic zombie growls and really bad shooting sound effects.
The first level is easy enough, but the end of the second level and the entirety of the third is far to difficult, to the point of becoming infuriating. You can only take four hits before you're forced to restart the entire stage, and on the aforementioned levels at some points zombies spawn in such big and frequent packs that it's impossible to kill them before needing to reload your weapon. It's only by sheer luck that you end up pulling through.
Even for an early access game, Drive-By Hero is pretty awful. There's not even a start menu, the game just throws you directly into the "action" before you can even grasp what's going on. There's also no save feature, so if you do manage to get past a certain difficult area and need to leave or close the game, too bad for you. This title is just more achievement spam fodder to line the developer's pockets, it's doubtful if they have any true intention of improving this mess.
Rating: 0.5/5.0 - Abysmal, avoid it like the plague.The Horror Network
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