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Review: Left 4 Dead
Page 1 | By Laz | 24/11/2008 - 16:31:37 | Views: 2652
   
It was a cold and dark night. Distant shrieks of pain echo between the eerie concrete apartment buildings, The Penetrating scent of decay fills our lungs. There's 4 of us, and thousands of them. One way or another we'll have to try and reach the other side of the road. Looking down from the rooftop, staring at the endless masses of infected, grunting, searching, It becomes hard to find the courage. Looking the other way, hearing some horde closing in on our location, leaving us no option. We have to keep moving...
We kick in a door, and start running, Our flashlights revealing the secrets of the darkness. Blood splatters have become a familiar sight, but the smell is something no-one could ever get used to. We hear grunting in the far end of a dark hallway, and as we point our flashlights down the hall a door breaks open and spews out countless infected, running, screaming, wanting to have dinner. We greet them, guns blazing, the infected corpses pile up quick.
As we are finishing off the last few, we get hit in the back by another rushing horde, but a Molotov tossed in the right direction works wonders, a flaming wall appears, yet the infected still rush through, murder on their mind. The few that do manage to get through the fire, stumble a couple of paces, as they burn to a crisp. That's one side covered.
As more infected close in on us, one of us is grabbed by the 40ft long tongue of a smoker, constricting him, dragging him away from us. I try and catch up to him, wanting to knock him free, yet as I came closer, the flames stop me dead in my tracks. I see my friend getting dragged through the flames, screaming for his life. I feel helpless, sad, I feel .... "TAAAAAANK!!!!!", no time to stand here and feel sorry, We hear the thundering footsteps of a giant approaching.
His fists are in for a party, and we're all invited. as he rounds the corner, we start running, the flames have died down, and as we run out, I can still see the smoker chewing down on my now lifeless friend. As I blast him to hell, he explodes in a fine mist, reeking of an intriguing mix of vomit and tobacco.
The tank is still approaching, we try and make a run for it, and the tank hurls a massive chunk of concrete towards us, hitting 2 of us in the back, I ... I think my back is broken, I can't move my legs, I can still see the tank running after the last of us, who is making a desperate run for it. As I see hordes of infected running towards me, and I grab my pistols and try to take down as many as I can, I will be dead soon...
No this is not an Intro movie, a back story, or fan fiction. This is one of the many stories I went through the last few days, playing Left 4 Dead.
Left 4 Dead is a 4 player coop game, where you, and 3 of your friends team up, and try to escape the jaws of death. You play as 4 people who have survived(so far) the big zombie apocalypse, and you shoot zombies. That is L4D in a nutshell...
More After the Jump
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| On: 13/02/2009 - 12:39:13 | |
Arianai | I've been playing left for dead for quite some time now and I feel drawn to it. Mainly because it's so freakin' fun. The only game mode I do is versus, because I just luuv to be a Zombie 
I've found out some incedible places to snare ppl, great place to vomit on ppl and my new favorite... Fireball Hunter. Yeah, light yourself on fire and jump on top of a suspectless victim, oh the joy. I just hope they don't spoil the game with achievements that you have to unlock to gain something (like they did in TF2). That would make the game too unbalanced between those that play more than those that play less.
Anyways, on from the whining. I would suggest to anyone that enjoys good old teamplay forcing type of game play to try Left 4 Dead out because at least the versus mode is purely that.
You have no chance of succeeding without your teammates. Either they are your distractions as you race against the safe room leaving your teammates to die or by playing together and making the most of it all. The same goes for the infected side. You can kill them all unless you are a tank and even a tank alone doesn't mean sure victory, since there are various ways to get out of his reach.
The good part is, that if you can play CS:Source, you can play this game as well (no need for that "high-end" super rig).
Well, this is me saying "eat your face when I see ya"
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Edited by: Arianai |
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