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Activision has officially announced the vehicular combat game Blood Drive, a "post-apocalyptic gladiator arena filled with zombies with attitudes and armored war machines". They had me at "blood".

In Blood Drive, contestants must use their motorized death steeds of steel in a televised game show where drivers battle each other and hordes of revolting flesh eaters in an all-out fight to the death. Face undead frat boys, cops, strippers and bachelorette partiers, each with their own special brand of death and devastation – and ways to die! While these rotting monsters wander the streets of a desert sin city craving sweet, succulent brains, your enemies have come equipped battle hardened armed vehicles, including heavily weaponized muscle cars, hot rods, and more. Amidst this gore-drenched mayhem contestants must use their head or lose it!

The game features a bunch of "gruesome" tournament-style events, as well as 4-way drop-in, drop-out multiplayer.

“Over-the-top vehicular combat and zombies are two things that go great together,“ said David Pokress, Activision Publishing. “What more is there to say?”

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, this isn't an XBLA title, but a full-blown retail release. It's rollin', rollin', rollin' out sometime in November.